Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home, 1929- 46

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This collection comprises letters sent by H.E. and (mainly) Honor Maude from the islands to Harry’s parents, and cover both personal/family matters as well as descriptions of their life and activities. They were kept by Lady Maude and returned to Harry and Honor many years later, and were received in 1998 to assist in the writing of the Maude’s biography. Note with letters: Honor and Harry Maude's letters to Harry's parents between late 1929 and mid 1939. The Maudes left the Gilberts later in the year for Fiji and New Zealand for treatment of Harry's back at Rotorua. On returning to Fiji they were sent to Pitcairn Island, where they were marooned for 8 months owing to German raiders, hence no letters. In the meantime, Sir Walter and Lady Maude had gone to England to avoid the German occupation of the Channel Islands. Before they could return to Guernsey, Sir Walter died.

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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1940-46
(2018)
Mostly letters home, from Honor Maude to Lady Maude and Sir Walter Maude about their wartime moves around the Pacific, 1940-46, to Suva, Auckland, Pitcairn Island, Tonga and Tarawa. Also included is a letter from HEM's friend Tomlinson who was instrumental in allowing him to return to the Pacific from Zanzibar.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1938
(2017)
Letters home in 1938 from Honor to Lady Maude, written from Ocean Island, New Zealand and Melbourne. She describes the long separations from her husband, the preparations for the birth of Alaric on 19.06.1938 and the trials and joys of being a new mother.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1937
(2017)
Letters home in 1937 from Honor Maude to Lady Maude and Sir Walter Maude, plus a long letter from Harry Maude to his parents. The young Maudes are living in Pemba on Zanzibar, and depart for Ocean Island in the South West Pacific on 19 May, arriving 18 July via Colombo, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. Harry is absent from Ocean Is. for 7 weeks investigating the possible re-settlement of some Gilbertese on the Phoenix Islands while Honor goes to Nauru collecting string-figures in the meantime.
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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 progress
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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.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1935
(2017)
Letters home 1935 from Honor Maude in Beru to Lady Maude in Guernsey. Harry's health is not good and they decide to take long leave and sail to the UK.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1934
(2017)
Letters home from Honor Maude to Harry's parents in Guernsey. From Betio on Tarawa, in the Gilbert Islands, Honor describes the conflict between the Roman Catholic missionaries and the British colonial officers. Later in the year, the Maudes start to move around the islands for Harry to commence his new job as Lands Commissioner but he falls ill and is unable to start immediately. Honor made 2 sketch maps of Tabiteuea and describes their adventures there.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1933
(2017)
Letters home for 1933, relating several moves among the Gilbert Islands from Banaba to Beru to Banaba and then to Tarawa and much travel in the meantime for administration and adjudication. Honor often works with the women to learn to make and to teach them different crafts. Harry is frequently ill.
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Part I, Series J, Section 29: Letters Home 1932
(2017)
Letters home 1932 to Lady Maude from Honor and Harry Maude, describing their lives and work on Ocean Island (Banaba) and leave in New Zealand, where they research the Gilbert Islands in all the main museums and libraries.
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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.
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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.
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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.

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