1990, Gilbertese, English, Unpublished edition: Papers, [microform].

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Physical Description
  • 11 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Published
  • Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [199-]
Language
  • Gilbertese
  • English

Edition details

Title
  • Papers, 1913-1969 [microform].
Other Creators
  • Eastman, G. H. (George Herbert), 1881-1974.
  • Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
Published
  • Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [199-]
Physical Description
  • 11 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Series
Subjects
Time Period
  • 1913-1969
Summary
  • Reel 1: Personal correspondence, 1914-69. Reel 2: Cook Islands - newsclippings, typescripts and pamphlets, 1914-18. Mss of "Notes on Rarotongan Grammar", 1913. Personal notebook, 1918-46. Gilbert Islands Mission reports and newsletters, 1918-47. Reel 3: Gilbert Islands Mission financial and administrative papers, 1918-50 and papers on education, 1922-48. Reel 4-6: Sermons in English and Gilbertese (undated sermons at end of sequence) Reels 6-7: Research material on the history, culture and flora of the Gilbert Islands, including mss and typescript extracts and transcripts from other sources, printed and roneoed documents, notes, drafts and maps. Reel 7-8: English/​Gilbertese vocubularies 170 photographs taken in the Cook Islands and the Gilbert Islands. Reel 8-11: 48 books and pamphlets printed in Samoa and the Gilbert Islands, 1892-1978. 38 of these publications are in Gilbertese, three are in Rarotongan and the remainder are in English. A complete inventory of publications filmed is available.
Biography
  • Eastman (1881-1974) and his wife Winifred (nee Grimwade, married 1914) ran the London Missionary Society Mission in Rarotonga from 1913 to 1918 and the LMS Gilbert Islands, Mission from 1918 to 1947. The Gilbert Islands Mission, which was based at Rongorongo on the island of Beru included the Ellice Islands, Nauru, Ocean Island and the Phoenix Islands. Eastman, who was awarded an OBE in 1946, retired to Swanage, Dorset in 1949. For further information see Norman Goodall, A History of the London Missionary Society, 1895-1945 (OUP, 1954) and John Garrett, "Ways across the ocean" in Bernard Thorogood (ed.), Gales of Change: responding to a shifting missionary context: the story of the London Missionary Society, 1945-77 (Geneva, 1994) pp. 188-190. See also PMB 478 for Eastman's Rarotongan-English Dictionary, 1918.
Notes
  • Microfilm copy of original held by Pacific Theological College Library, Private Bag, Suva.
Access Conditions
  • Available for reference.
Language
  • Gilbertese
  • English
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