Tonga -- History -- Sources

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Collection includes files of general correspondence and records including, deeds, registers, court case files and probates. Work on fully listing this collection is yet to be completed for details of record sets 1-42 please see BCT 1 finding aid. For details of set 43: miscellaneous papers please use the detailed listing here.

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Collection contains general correspondence files and a small number of unnumbered files.

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I. General correspondence files, subject prefix series. 1954-1970 (1949-1970). II. Indexes and registers of correspondence. III. Inwards and outwards telegrams. 1960-1965. These records form part of the Western Pacific Archives (MSS & Archives 2003/1).

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Collection contains records created and maintained by the British Consulate in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, including completed passport applications and certificates of identity, Special and Advance Warrants, papers relating to estates administered by HBM Consul in Tonga Miscellaneous, drawings and plans and other miscellaneous records.

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These records form part of the Western Pacific Archives (MSS & Archives 2003/1).

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These records form part of the Western Pacific Archives (MSS & Archives 2003/1).

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I. Secret and confidential correspondence files, year/number series. 1922-1954 (1922-1956). II. Unnumbered secret and confidential correspondence files. 1904- 1940. These records form part of the Western Pacific Archives (MSS & Archives 2003/1).

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Collection contains the HBM High Commissioner and Consul-General for the Western Pacific's copies of deeds, despatches, correspondence and other papers relating to Tongan affairs.

Scope and Contents Tonga government letterbook, May 1873-Nov. 1874 and index; Tonga government letterbook, June 1880-June 1883, letter nos. 1-173; Premier's correspondence and memoranda out, Dec. 1933-Sept. 1936; Premier's (Shirley Baker's) letterbook, Apr. 1884-June 1884nos. 84/1-9 and notes of the Eva case; Premier's (SB's) letterbook, Sept. 1885-Nov.1886, nos. 85/1-9, 86/1-14, 87/1 and n.d.; Premier's (SB's) letterbook, Dec.1886-July 1890, nos. 86/88- 89, 87/1-179, 88/1-163, 89/1-99, 90/1-29; Premier's...

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Title: Ten years on the islands of the South Sea : from the diary of a German wife. In German. The diary covers the period May 1887 - January 1897 in Tonga and Samoa. A descriptive note by a Mitchell Library staff member is filed with the diary. Also with it are two photographs showing displays of island curios probably those presented by Mrs David to Sonderhausen, Germany (one display includes her portrait).