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Melanesia Diocese, 1838-1958

Collection: New Zealand & Polynesian Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1838-1958    Volumes    Melanesia Diocese, 1838-1958
C/NZ/MEL. The two boxes of Melanesian files consist almost entirely of the private correspondence of John Coleridge Patteson. Consecrated the first missionary bishop of Melanesia in 1861, he died in 1871 at the hands of the inhabitants of Nukapu in the Solomon Islands, apparently in reprisal for the abduction of fellow islanders by Europeans some months earlier. In addition to a number of printed tracts and some mid-20th century letters from a descendant of Patteson, there is also correspondence by C. Wilson, one of Patteson's successors as Bishop of Melanesia, with H. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania and later Secretary of the SPG.
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Pacific progress, 1849-1949

C/NZ/MEL/2 f8. Subtitled "being the illustrated centenary book of the Diocese of Melanesia", published in 1949 by Parrett & Neves Ltd, Chatham, for the Melanesian Mission, with a foreword by...

Date:1949-1949
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f8

Correspondence of Bishop Wilson, 1894-1906

C/NZ/MEL/2 f7. This file comprises the correspondence of Cecil Wilson, who become the third Anglican bishop of Melanesia, with Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania until 1901, when he travelled...

Date:1894-1906
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f7

Accounts of Patteson's death, 1871

C/NZ/MEL/2 f6. Three contemporary manuscript accounts submitted by James Rossiter to the editor of The Wells journal, Somerset, one in the form or a letter from his brother on Norfolk...

Date:1871-1871
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f6

Press cuttings, etc., concerning Patteson's death

C/NZ/MEL/2 f5.

Date:1871-1958
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f5

Correspondence on Patteson's death, 1871-1907

C/NZ/MEL/2 f4.

Date:1871-1907
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f4

Correspondence on Patteson's consecration, 1856-1859

C/NZ/MEL/2 f3.

Date:1856-1859
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f3

Patteson's correspondence, c.1844-1855

C/NZ/MEL/2 f2. Letters from before his setting out from England to found the mission in Melanesia.

Date:1838-1958
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f2

Patteson's journal, 1838

C/NZ/MEL/2 f1. Also includes some letters from him in Apington to his father, dated 1855-1857.

Date:1838-1857
Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel2f1
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