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Research notes and translated administrative papers held at the Australian National University offer a route into Samoa’s colonial history. The university’s archive catalogue identifies material assembled by historian Richard Gilson among its Samoa-related collections. The Richard Gilson Pacific Research papers include drafts, notes and research relating to the publication Samoa 1830–1900, published in 1970. The collection also contains material concerning other Pacific islands, placing the Samoa papers within a wider regional research record. One particularly specific component concerns the German Administration of Western Samoa. According to the catalogue, these papers were translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury and collected by Gilson from Archives New Zealand. The catalogue also describes material associated with Pacific historian Davidson. Alongside administrative files are research correspondence, notes, press cuttings, articles and typescript copies of Samoa mo Samoa. Parliamentary debates from Samoa are also identified. These holdings preserve more than finished historical writing. Drafts, correspondence and collected documents show some of the evidence and working materials behind published accounts. For readers investigating Samoa’s past, the catalogue offers leads to records whose locations and research histories extend across national borders.
Research notes and translated administrative papers held at the Australian National University offer a route into Samoa’s colonial history. The university’s archive catalogue identifies material assembled by historian Richard Gilson among its Samoa-related collections. The Richard Gilson Pacific Research papers include drafts, notes and research relating to the publication Samoa 1830–1900, published in 1970. The collection also contains material concerning other Pacific islands, placing the Samoa papers within a wider regional research record. One particularly specific component concerns the German Administration of Western Samoa. According to the catalogue, these papers were translated into English by Mrs Trudi Newbury and collected by Gilson from Archives New Zealand. The catalogue also describes material associated with Pacific historian Davidson. Alongside administrative files are research correspondence, notes, press cuttings, articles and typescript copies of Samoa mo Samoa. Parliamentary debates from Samoa are also identified. These holdings preserve more than finished historical writing. Drafts, correspondence and collected documents show some of the evidence and working materials behind published accounts. For readers investigating Samoa’s past, the catalogue offers leads to records whose locations and research histories extend across national borders.
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