Samoan journal, 1902-1918 (inclusive).

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Samoan journal, 1902-1918 (inclusive).

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The journal is 330 pages in a strong consistently legible manuscript. It includes detailed daily entries from 16 April 1902 till February 1904, tracing the journey of Rev. Neil and his wife from Port Broughton in South Australia to Samoa, documenting Rev. Neil's work in Samoa, the Methodist Mission's operations and policies and the lives and activities of Samoans. There are also comments on the German administration. There are intermittant entries in the journal from August 1904 till June 1918, mainly on mission policy, business and accounting matters, but also including verse in English and Samoan. The last entry in the journal is the text for an inscription on a marble table to commemorate the erection of Piula College by Rev. Neil and others 1912-1919. Rev. Neil's family do not know the whereabouts of any subsequent journals.

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Yake University Divinity School Library

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Neil, Ernest George, 1872-1957.

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Born at Pine Hut, South Australia, in 1872, Rev. Ernest George Neil had a spasmodic primary education, but nevertheless obtained a scholarship for secondary education at Prince Alfred College. He then forfeited a bursary to Adelaide University in order to undertake training for the ministry with the Primitive Methodist Church. After his ordination in 1895, he ministered in South Australia till 1902 when he was appointed to Samoa by the Board of Overseas Missions of the Australian Methodist Churc...

Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

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