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letter, 25/05/1939, Director to Director Raffles Museum Singapore, Greatly obligated for publication of paper on Adze Typology. I need the drawing back asap.

letter, 20/07/1939, H D Skinner to M W F Tweedie Raffles Museum Singapore, Corrected proofs returned with added paragraph

letter, 03/11/1939, H D Skinner to M W F Tweedie Raffles Museum Singapore, Understand publication indefinitely postponed could I have about 50 pulls of both text and line blocks

Letter, 29/10/1937, H D Skinner to F N Chasen, Director of Raffles Museum, Singapore, Expressing regret at being unable to attend congress on prehistory of Far East, to be held in Singapore in Feb 1938. Offering paper on prehistory of Polynesia (undertaken at request of J G Anderson of Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm). Describes process of producing paper (including: making card catalogue of adzes of Polynesia in museums of Canada, the US, and Great Britain; studying adzes held in various local and global museum; work at Bishop Museum; being sent by Dr Gregory to Tahiti to secure adze data.)

Letter, 24/12/1937, H D Skinner to F N Chasen, Director of Raffles Museum, Singapore, Outlining a talk about Maori adze classification for a conference, refers to statement published of Polynesian adzes deriving from Luzon ones.

Letter, 17/12/1937, H D Skinner to F N Chasen, Director of Raffles Museum, Singapore, Response agreeing to staff reading paper and request for discussion notes.

Letter, 28/02/1938, H D Skinner to MW F Tweedie, Curator, Raffles Museum, Sigapore, Skinner's paper and his advice on illustrations

Letter, 30/03/1938, H D Skinner to MW F Tweedie, Curator, Raffles Museum, Sigapore, Advise of posting illustrations for his paper