Journals and letters [microform], 1867-1882 (inclusive) / Robert Codrington.

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Journals and letters [microform], 1867-1882 (inclusive) / Robert Codrington.

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Letters and diaries of R.H. Codrington, pioneer Pacific anthropologist and Anglican missionary in Melanesia, which describe his life and voyages, with emphasis on the Mota people, Norfolk Island, the customs and languages of South Pacific peoples, and observations on European missionaries.

2 microfilm reels.

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library

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Codrington, R. H. (Robert Henry), 1830-1922

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Robert Henry Codrington was born on the 15 September 1830 in Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. He was educated at Charterhouse, and Wadham College, Oxford (he became a Fellow of the College in 1855). He was ordained as a Deacon in 1855 and as a Priest in 1857. In 1860 Codrington emigrated to Nelson, New Zealand, and joined the Melanesian Mission; he was head of the Mission from 1871 to 1877. He travelled throughout Melanesia making the first systematic study of Melanesian s...

Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

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