Letters of missionaries in the Friendly Islands to the secretaries of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in London, 1856-1875

 
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The correspondents include Thomas Adams (Vava'u), Frank Firth (Neiafu), James Moulton (Nuku'alofa), J.T. Shaw, John Thomas (Nuku'alofa, Sydney) and Thomas West (London).

At the end of the box is a bundle of transcripts of letters and journals written by missionaries in the period 1837-48 and also copies of the Tonga Government Gazette (1880) and a House of Commons paper relating to disturbances in Tonga (1887). The correspondents include John Beecham (London), James Calvert (Lakemba), George Kevern (Vava'u), Richard Lyth (Lifuka), John Thomas (Lifuka), Peter Turner (Lifuka) and Francis Wilson (Neiafu).

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