Correspondence from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, 1930-1948 [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3457973
- Format:
- Manuscript and Microform
- Author:
- Leishman, Helen, 1902-1995
- Access Conditions:
- Available for reference.
- Description:
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- [1930-1948]
- 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Series:
- PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 1244.
- Summary:
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These letters of Helen Leishman cover the period 1930 to 1948.
- Biography/History:
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Mary Helen Margaret Leishman was born at Bunbury, Western Australia, on 17 April 1902. She died on 7 May 1995 in Launceston, Tasmania. Helen Leishman gave 22 years service to the Anglican Church's Melanesian Mission in the Solomons and New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) as both lay missionary nursing sister, then as a member of the religious sisterhood, the Community of the Cross. That Community corporately moved to the Roman Catholic Church in July 1950, after which Helen Leishman spent more than 38 years in a Carmelite Monastery in Tasmania.
- Notes:
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- After some years back in the Solomons the Sisters decided to join the Roman Catholic Church, an event described by Mother Margaret Wilson, the Community Superior (see PMB 145).
- Microfilmed from originals held at: St Marks Theological Library, Canberra.
- Reproduction:
- Microfilm. Canberra, A.C.T. : Produced for the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Descriptive list available (6 p.) and on the Internet at: http://rspas.anu.edu/pambu/
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1930-1948
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau
- Copyright:
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