Melanesia Diocese, 1838-1958
Melanesia Diocese, 1838-1958
Collection: New Zealand & Polynesian Records from Colonial Missionaries, 1838–1958 Volumes Melanesia Diocese, 1838-1958
C/NZ/MEL. The two boxes of Melanesian files consist almost entirely of the private correspondence of John Coleridge Patteson. Consecrated the first missionary bishop of Melanesia in 1861, he died in 1871 at the hands of the inhabitants of Nukapu in the Solomon Islands, apparently in reprisal for the abduction of fellow islanders by Europeans some months earlier. In addition to a number of printed tracts and some mid-20th century letters from a descendant of Patteson, there is also correspondence by C. Wilson, one of Patteson's successors as Bishop of Melanesia, with H. Montgomery, Bishop of Tasmania and later Secretary of the SPG.
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Patteson's correspondence, 1855
C/NZ/MEL/1. On occasion Patteson uses the relevant saint's day from the Anglican calendar instead of the Gregorian date, a practice which he continues in later years.
Date:1855-1855Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1855
Patteson's correspondence, 1856
C/NZ/MEL/1. Some letters are out of order in the second half of the year.
Date:1856-1856Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1856
Patteson's correspondence, 1857
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1857-1857Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1857
Patteson's correspondence, 1858
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1858-1858Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1858
Patteson's correspondence, 1859
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1859-1859Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1859
Patteson's correspondence, 1860
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1860-1860Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1860
Patteson's correspondence, 1861
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1861-1861Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1861
Patteson's correspondence, 1862
C/NZ/MEL/1.
Date:1862-1862Contributor:Bodleian Library
Identifier:72306mel1862
