Scope and Contents The collection comprises photocopies of an unpublished diary (in German) by Lt Emilian von Loewenstern kept aboard the Russian ship Nadezhda on a voyage to the South Pacific in 1804, an English translation of a journal by N.I. Korobitsyn on Neva, also in 1804, as well as articles, letters, bibliographies, photographs, on the subject dating to 1981.The collection relates to Barratt's research on the Russian presence in the South Pacific, part of which he carried out at Waikato...