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Includes: correspondence comprising 24 letters 1909-11 from Blencowe to his parents five letters 1908-13 to Blencowe and his father, 16 letters 1910-15 in the Melanesian language; Two notebooks containing brief entries May-October 1910 arranged by village and a Mota-English vocabulary arranged alphabetically; miscellaneous documents including a list of the voyages made by Blencowe 1909-18, a printed list of Melanesian Mission personnel 1911, a report headed 'Conversations with J.W. Blencowe 26 June 1932', six drafts for speeches and letters, printed map of the Santa Cruz group of islands and newspaper cuttings about HMS Torch and HMS Mongolia; printed material comprising: Thoughts We All Share by the Rev. John Walcot Blencowe (99 p.); Home Letters by Guy F. Bury, addendum by J.W. Blencowe; My Last Voyage by Bishop Cecil Wilson, describing a journey in 1911 around the islands of Melanesia; photographs, mainly by J.W. Beattie of Hobart, of Melanesian Mission personnel, islanders and their dwellings, boats, churches, in the New Hebrides, Solomon, Torres and Banks Islands, San Cristobal, Santa Cruz and Norfolk Island.