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W. W. Bolton further papers with letters and photographs, 1913, 1924, 1939-1946

W. W. Bolton further papers with letters and photographs, 1913, 1924, 1939-1946

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YoldOLE9

W. W. Bolton further papers with letters and photographs, 1913, 1924, 1939-1946

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Full title

W. W. Bolton further papers with letters and photographs, 1913, 1924, 1939-1946

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Date

1913, 1924, 1939-1946

Call Numbers

MLMSS 8140

Record Identifier

YoldOLE9

Reference Code

950454
Physical Description

Contents

0.02 metres of textual material and 12 photographs (1 folder)

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Fonds

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Copying Conditions

Copyright status:Public domain

Rights and Restrictions Information : Timothy Lawson, bequeathed the documents in this donation to the public domain. Reference: Library correspondence file

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Transcript available online - http://www.mediafire.com/?a4faerq59b7mhh2#

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Scope and Contents

Contents

'Tales of a roaming Grandfather', 1939-1942, manuscript.
From August 1939 to November 1941, Bolton wrote stories about his travels in the South Pacific and elsewhere, and sent them to his two grandchildren in Victoria. There are 93 stories in Tales of a Roaming Grandfather.

Regarding his travels, contents include: In North America, Moosomin , Victoria, Utah, Vancouver Island and the Yukon. Regarding his travels from Victoria to England in 1913, he wrote about Japan, Nanking, Korea, Siberia and Moscow.
Regarding his travels in the Great South Sea from 1920 to 1925, he wrote about Oahu, New Zealand, Samoa, Tonga, Niue, the Kermadec
Islands, Tasmania, Australia, Lord Howe Island, Norfolk Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), New Caledonia and Singapore.
Regarding the period from 1928 until the last story was written in 1941, during which he lived in French Polynesia, he wrote about French Polynesia in general , the Austral Islands, the Gambier Islands, the Marquesas, Moorea , Tahiti and the Tuamotos. He also wrote about Java and the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea, which he probably visited while traveling in Australia in 1924–1925. He also wrote about Easter Island and Nauru, but apparently never travelled to either.

Black and white photographs of Tahiti, Nanking, Niue, New Caledonia, missionary graves at Papetoai and postcards of Pomare III and Grandaughters of Prince Hinoi.

Letters from Bolton to his grandchildren by his son Arthur Gerard Bolton, Jane and Patrick, and his daughter-in-law Jocelyn, 1939-1946.


Reference:
The Writings of William Washington Bolton / transcribed by Timothy Lawson, [2011] http://www.mediafire.com/?a4faerq59b7mhh2# (accessed December 7, 2011)...

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Full title

W. W. Bolton further papers with letters and photographs, 1913, 1924, 1939-1946

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Author / Creator

Contextual Information

Source

Presented by Timothy Lawson, W.W. Bolton's great-grandson, August 2011

Administrative / Biographical history

William Washington Bolton was born in Kilburn, London, England in 1858. He lived in Tahiti from 1928-1946 and conducted historical research concerning French Polynesia's missionary period. In 1935 he published 'The beginnings of Papeete and its founding as the capital of Tahiti' in the Bulletin de la Societe des Etudes Polynesiennes. From 1937-194...

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Call Numbers

MLMSS 8140

Record Identifier

YoldOLE9

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Reference code

950454

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