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letter, 17/02/1934, Harry G. Beasley, Congres International des Sciences Anthropologiques et Ethnologiques to H D Skinner, Executive Council changed its position on your previous inquiry about the acceptance of papers from absent Authors. Due to long distance, the Congress will now accept some concessions without needed the author to present their paper in person.

letter, Miss A M Betham, General Secretary, Auckland Young Women's Christian Association to H D Skinner, Thanks for clear suggestions about holding a Chinese exhibition.

letter, 22/11/1934, Miss A M Betham, General Secretary, Auckland Young Women's Christian Association to H D Skinner, Our Association in Dunedin suggests applying for a Chinese exhibition at Auckland museum. Is that a feasible suggestion and who should I apply to?

letter, 16/10/1934, Miss Hope Birt to H D Skinner, Do not know where the fish hook was found and cannot find out.

letter, Charles Begg (?) to H D Skinner (?)

letter, 09/07/1934, John Bowie to H D Skinner, Request to give a lecture to pupils

letter, 21/03/1934, Charlie Brasch to H. D. Skinner, Mentions of more Egyptian items including; some pieces of Amarna glass, two whole and one broken brozen styli, a brozen nail or rivet, a few odd beads, a small flint, a small bronze coin. The rest of the items mention are Mycenaen pottery picked up by Brasch himself, would look for them over lunch on what was known as the palace's rubbish heap. Goes on to speak of information on the Egyptian dating of Cretan and mainland sherds.

letter, 08/01/1934, Rev. F.W. Brookes to H. D. Skinner, Requested by A.H. Voyce, mentions of a parcel that has been sent including money and a shield

letter, 19/06/1934, W. Maurice Brown to H. D. Skinner, Replying to letter from 20th of April, thanks for offer of paying expenses for securing a sample of a post. Mentions of things being against trip to Urewera, has to go over the school holidays, talks of an operation to himself and an accident to his father putting the initially planned trip for May the 20th-25th on hold. Mentions of discussed posts, one in not best state of preservation and the other in excellent repair, mentions it could be hard to retrieve due to remoteness, even with horses. Weight and length of posts is quite considerable, not easy to move in dense bush, can be cut in order to be moved. Shows drawings of how it could be cut out for Skinner to choose from. Browns trip to Dunedin post-poned indefinitely.

letter, 25/06/1934, E H Bryan Bishop Museum Honolulu to H. D. Skinner, Sending 3 Easter Island pieces. Had a chat with Dunningham your city Librarian. We have had 12 out of work young women working for us. Mangareva expedition having fine collecting but rough sailing

letter, 16/04/1934, E H Bryan Bishop Museum Honolulu to H. D. Skinner, Easter Island pieces in photo semi modern steel cut type you can have 3 for $60. Emory, Dr. Cooke 2 botanists and others of on a big Sampan to Tuamotu, Austral and Society Islands

letter, 11/09/1933, A Buchanan, Balclutha to H. D. Skinner, Please enter the adzes in my son's name David Gordon Buchanan, Yarmouth Street, Balclutha. They will be left with you for a year or 2 at least

letter, 05/09/1933, A Buchanan, Balclutha to H. D. Skinner, Happy to place 2 adzes on loan to the in museum. My Father was on the Philip Laing in 1848 and the adzes were dug up on the on our farm on the Taieri Plain 50 years ago. They are greatly prized by the family.

letter, 15/03/1934, Dr Peter Buck, Yale University New Haven to H. D. Skinner, Regarding photos I took in Europe they are from my own Leica camera. The Board of Maori Ethnological Research helped with £100. Using negatives to help make line drawings. Prepared paper on images from Tonga and Samoa by Kramer. Williams reproduced engraving of a goddess from Haapai in his Missionary Enterprises neither Collcott nor Gifford ever mentioned it. I saw same form in Fuller's collection in the B.M. I have had drawings made and added some from Tahiti, Cook and Australs to compare. Paper on "Technology of Polynesian Houses as a key to Diffusion" The influence of Malinowski, Radcliff Brown and Firth obscures. I will be staying with Davidson in Philadelphia. The Academy of Science has Wilkes Expedition material in their cellars I will be examining.. Discussion on "Round Houses" The red cloak in Hongi's portrait likely for artistic purposes

letter, 20/06/1934, J W Ormiston, Secretary, Carnegie Dunfermline Trust to H. D. Skinner, Thanks for sending a copy of the Otago University Museum's 1933 Annual Report.

letter, 22/05/1934, Miss Honor Carswell to H. D. Skinner, Sorry I cannot remember the name of the place where this photograph was taken. It is an island near Tahiti. Description of native ceremony. I am being sent some photos from Bali that I can send you.

letter, 08/12/1934, Mr. Davies, Cawthron Institute to H. D. Skinner, Thanks for prompt reply to my enquiries about the Willi Fels Wing. Details and plans will be a useful guide.

letter, 07/10/1934, Miss Beatrice Chaytor to H. D. Skinner, I am sending you a stone found in Picton with some coal. It looks like a fossil egg. Enclosed with return post but if it is of value to the museum, the owner would give it.

letter, 07/05/1934, Mr N. Cohen, Dentists Supplies ( N.Z. Ltd.), Civic Square, Auckland to H. D. Skinner, Regarding price offered for greenstone. Notes that it has been valued by Mr Hovell of Waihi.

letter, 27/04/1934, Mr N. Cohen, Dentists Supplies ( N.Z. Ltd.), Civic Square, Auckland to H. D. Skinner, Regarding greenstone passed on to museum by Willie Fels. Would like this returned as sum offered is not acceptable.