Part I, Series J: General Correspondence by Year: 1925-99
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Correspondence with family, friends, colleagues and other researchers, and ‘letters home’ while in the islands. 1929-99
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Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1931(2017)Letters home 1931, from Honor and Harry Maude from Beru, to his parents and Uncle Arthur. Harry is appointed deputy Commissioner, Western Pacific, Census officer and then recalled to Banaba or Ocean Island to register native land claims. Honor and Harry continue to study and consolidate their Gilbertese anthropological studies in Beru and there is a hand-drawn map of the Government Station in Beru.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 18: 1945(2017)Correspondence, memos and reports re HEM's resume re application for Resident Commissioner position GEIC, Nassau Island, Line Islands District, Father Choblet, social welfare in the colonies,GEIC post-war reorganisation and policy, 2 photos Pitcairn Island school and dispensary, Lands compensation and replanting, Native Lands Code, establishment of an HQ for colony, staff housing requirements, notes for new officers in GEIC eg clothing and recreation and progress of repatriation of 1500 Banabans, Gilbert and Ellice Islanders.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1929(2017)Letters home from September 1929, a wedding photo of the young Maudes, and descriptions of the voyage to Australia and then to Ocean Island by phosphate cargo boat via Nauru. There is a detailed plan of their bungalow at Ocean Island, an account of their duties as secretaries to Arthur Grimble and of social life on the island.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 8: 1935(2017)Letters and telegram between J.C.Barley, Resident Commissioner, and HEM, letters between HEM and Sec. to Govt., and Capt.Holland to HEM, Holland to Sec. to Govt, HEM’s History, Holland to Sec. and G.H.Eastman to HEM, HEM and C.G.F.Cartwright to Sec,. Phillips to HEM, Eastman’s newsletter London Miss. Soc., letters between Redstone and Maude re steel guitar playing and letter to Maude from Allen, Colonial OfficeItem Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1936(2017)Letters home to Lady Maude and Sir Walter from Harry and Honor Maude in 1936. They describe the route to Pitcairn Is., New Zealand and Fiji via Panama, for leave, and a stay in Hawaii where harry gives a speech about education in the Gilbert Islands and awaits a further posting. The Maudes leave for Zanzibar via Sydney and arrive at Pemba Island in Oct. 1936, where they are at first very unhappy to be away from the South Pacific.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 27: 1958 Part II(2017)Correspondence regarding research work in Suva and Honolulu, other libraries and archives, book orders, reviews, academic publishing, references on Pidgin English in Papua New Guinea..Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 24: 1950(2017)Correspondence with many of HEM's contacts from his Kiribati days:re island issues such as alcoholism, missions, co-operatives, bibliographies, literacy, books in Pacific languages, lands settlements, native businesses and banking.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 19: 1946(2017)Banaban migration to Rabi, Government Trade Scheme, Gilbert and Ellice Medical Scheme, possible construction of colonial HQ at Abemama, educational needs of Pitcairn Island, Order of precedence for GEIC, copra stores and barges, code ciphers, HEM's CV to December 1946, HEM's appointment as Resident Commissioner based in Tarawa, application of Seventh Day Adventist missionaries to practice in the Gilbert Islands.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 3: 1930(2017)How to clean coral, Cambridge UOTC, HEMs examinations request letter, exam questions and marks, request for law books, design for a distinctive tie, letters re pension HEM/Grimble, Official letters of appointment as Administrative Officer, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, and details of duties; includes letters from Arthur Grimble, then Resident Commissioner.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 10: 1937(2017)G.H. Eastman to HEM, Cartwright to HEM, Watterson to HEM, Maude’s particulars of service, HEM to Dr PH Buck in Hawaii, Gerry Heyer? to HEM, Cartwright to HEM, P.Kodanda Rao to HEM, PH Buck to HEM, Father E. Choblet to HEM, Memo HEM to Acting Sec. to Govt, Exchange of letters between HEM and AC Reekers, HEM to Miss Titcombe, Hawaii, Paddy Macdonald to HEM,Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 16: 1943(2017)Memo US Intelligence Services Honolulu to Sec. WPHC from HEM, Taylor to HEM, HEM to Capt. Holland, Coastwatchers, Treasury, Fiji, to HEM, correspondence between Col. Fox-Strangways and HEM, plus E.J.Coode and HEM.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 6: 1933(2017)HEM to Acting Res. Commissioner Swinbourne re Law exam papers , Law exam questions, To Honor Maude re flour sample and prices for rice supplies, To HEM in praise of his meticulous census work, To HEM from H.D.Skinner in Dunedin, letters between HEM and Swinbourne, and copy of letter from S. to Acting High Commissioner re the Maudes’ work with native co-op. societies, Memo from HEM to Swinbourne offering a collection of photographs to the Colonial office, letter to HEM from Swinbourne with thanks for photos, also from the Acting High Commissioner, Telegrams Kennedy to HEM and HEM to Kennedy re translations of Tarawa songs, HEM’s Colonial Service Personal Record, To HEM from Swinbourne, to Acting HC from S. and to S from HEM: requesting extra time to study for the Law exam, plus law exam questions plus letter from HEM re borrowing Law books, To HEM from Swinbourne and from High Commissioner on completion of his duties as Acting Secretary to the Government, To HEM from Swinbourne re Law exam questions and encl., To HEM from Swinbourne re co-op societies, To HEM from Andrew? re appointment to Tarawa,to High Commissioner Fletcher from Cunliffe-Lister re Co-op societies,to Maude from Baur? Ratieki? re prospective wife, to HC from Cunliffe-Lister, to Under Secretary of State from Grimble re ethnographical publications, and from S. to AHC re photos, To HEM from Swinbourne and from Fletcher to Swinbourne re paper on the social organisation of Banaba, to Swinbourne from Sampson at Kew Gardens re crop plants grown in the Colony, To HEM from Swinbourne and from Cunliffe-Lister to Fletcher re paper on the social organisation of Banaba, HEM - a biographical noteItem Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 17: 1944(2017)Mixed reports and correspondence: Proposals on native government, Islanders' contributions to War aid, post-war policy for GEIC and Line Islands, list of relatives seeking to join the Gilbertese evacuated to Suva, list of Banabans sent to Tarawa by the Japanese in July 1943, and letters to/from various other correspondents such as Col. Fox-Strangways, Host Greig, Cr. Cross, Capt. G.H.Eastman, Robert Christian and Trevor Johnson.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1939(2017)Letters from Honor Maude to her parents-in-law, Sir Walter and Lady Maude, regarding incipient war in Europe, Harry Maude's MBE and his movements in the islands helping the Islanders to resettle and Alaric's progressItem Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 2: 1929(2017)Letters between HEM and the Colonial Office, letters between Honor Maude and Acting Resident Commissioner Swinburne, Letter to HEM from ARC Swinburne, GEI Colony regulations for cadets, Council paper re cadetships, HEM’s acceptance letter and next of kin details, Charity deduction letter, Hand drawn map of GEI ColonyItem Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 9: 1936(2017)To Maude from Sir E. John Russell at Rothamstead Experimental Station To Maude from J.R. Gilmour, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, To Gilmour from Maude, exchange between Maude and Burns Philp, To Sec to Government from Maude, Maxwell-Anderson to Res. Commissioner, Paddy Macdonald to Maude, Maude to Sec, WPHC Suva, Buck to Maude, Telegram Maude to Sec. of State, Col. Office, London Maude to Under-Sec. of State, To Maude from Judd, Honolulu Medical reports re Maude, To Maude from G. Archey, Auckland, Maude CV written by Honor, letter exchange between Fisher and Maude, Kingsley Roth to Maude, letter exchange between Maude and Haddon, letter exchange between McElderry and HEM, Telegram from Wete? to Maude, coded telegrams, To Maude from Buck 2p., to Buck from Maude 6p., letter to HEM from E. John Maude, Maude to Provincial Commissioner, Zanzibar, Telegrams between Grimble and HEM, Telegrams between Prov. Commissioner and HEM, Elkin to the Maudes, Letter to the Maudes from Grimble, letters between Maude and McElderryItem Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 5: 1932(2017)Maude re promotion, letters from Grimble, HEM's request to sit Higher Gilbertese exam, appointment to sit exam from secretary to Res. Commissioner, HEM encloses 3 copies of an article published in Journal of the Polynesian Society, Bryan writes to HEM re publications of Bernice P.Bishop Museum, Hawaii and cheque, Extract from despatch: Grimble to HEM re acknowledgement of his work, Gilbert Archey writes to HEM thanking the Maudes for gifts to Auckland Museum, HEM writes to Skinner re publications in Journal, letter to HEM from Joint Editor Polynesian Society, Skinner to the Maudes re visit to Dunedin, letter re despatch of High Commissioner re HEM’s bravery, Dominion Museum director Oliver to HEM, HEM to Oliver, Regulations U. of Cambridge, Priestly to Maude re research student position at Cambridge, Memo to research students, Annual Report of the Board of Research Studies, letters between Hodson and HEM. HEM to Board of Research Studies, Priestly to Hodson, letter to HEM from Master at Jesus College, Maude to Bryan, Bernice P.Bishop Museum Hawaii. Letters between Skinner, University Museum Dunedin and HEM, Swinbourne (Acting Resident Commissioner) writes to to Acting High Commissioner, Western Pacific High Commission Gazette, Librarian, Public Library Palmerston North NZ writes to HEM.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 21: 1947 Part II(2017)Correspondence re positions vacant e.g. Manager for trade scheme, the possibility of using coral in building projects, bibliography of references on Fiji, W.Samoa, Nauru and stamps of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, British colonization of Pacific Islands, islands disputed by U.S., questions of land settlement in a defective land tenure system, (re)distribution of land in accordance with native customs, and possible overpopulation in some areas. Some letters concern shipping requirements for passengers and trade cargo between islands, an invitation to the Royal Wedding 20.11.1947, and a questionnaire and HEM's answers for the Commission on Church, Community and State.Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 27: 1962 Part I(2017)Correspondence of H.E. Maude (Henry Evans) with academics, librarians and publishers from Jan. - June 1962Item Open Access Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1930(2017)Letters home to Lady and Sir Walter Maude in 1930 by Honor and Harry Maude in the Gilbert Islands. As District Officer on Ocean Island, HEM is in charge of Customs, law and treasury, including Revenue and taxes, the Post Office, the Police and prisoners. He tries to avoid any clashes with the Missionaries and Rev. Eastman especially, who wish to convert the natives to Christianity and European morality. He travels to various other islands to carry out his legal and other duties.