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Letter, 04/12/1936, ? J Wilkie to H D Skinner, Sending cheque for preparation of exhibits. When completed please send statement of expenditure.

Letter, 17/12/1936, Dr Beeby to H D Skinner, Query does exhibiting need to be insured on a continuous basis or only while in transit. Do museums have their collection covered.

Letter, 17/02/1937, Dr Beeby to H D Skinner, Details re comprehensive insurance cover for the exhibits. .

Letter, 23/02/1937, ? J Wilkie to H D Skinner, Please send balance of accounts and Mr Moores invoices.

Letter, 01/03/1937, Z Wilkie to H D Skinner, Cheque attached.

Letter, 03/03/1937, Dr Beeby to H D Skinner, Request to reduce insurance premiums

Letter, 24/03/1937, Z Wilkie to H D Skinner, Request for news of payment from Taranaki Museum

Letter, 19/07/1937, Z Wilkie to H D Skinner, Request for news of a likely claim for models broken in transit.

Letter, 05/08/1937, Dr Beeby to H D Skinner, Visit of Mr Frank Tose and possibility of his training Museum education officers.

Letter, 09/09/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Accountant wants to know if you have made insurance claims on plaster models

Letter, 20/12/1937, NZ Council for Educational Research to H D Skinner, Attached cheque for £100 for th agricultural Exhibition fund

Letter, 06/03/1937, Lilly A Daff Wellingtom to H D Skinner, In Wellington Museum. Mr Phillips showed me and Mr Fisher the Bollons collection. I was able to make rough sketches of 12 of them. (descriptions included)

Letter, 15/03/1937, Lilly A Daff Auckland to H D Skinner, Further notes on the Bollons drawings. No chance of us getting the Henley Canoe. Would you like drawing of the large Claudelands, Hamilton Adze? I have made notes on displays and met Miss Rutherford.

Letter, 17/03/1937, Lilly A Daff Auckland to H D Skinner, Planning return, may need more time if I include Nelson. Discussed Agricultural Exhibit with Miss Cranwell and enclose addresses of people who may help. Making notes on the displays here

Letter, 26/03/1937, Lilly A Daff Auckland to H D Skinner, Notes on return trip and time in Wellington. Sorry Miss Catherwood is leaving

Letter, 07/04/1937, Lilly A Daff Nelson to H D Skinner, Saw Knapp's collection and doing rough drawings of some pieces. Cawrthron Institute and saw Col Brereton and will spend an extra day doing sketches. Home Sunday

Letter, 18/12/1937, Miss Daff Wellington to H D Skinner, Miss Batham and I have made moulds for leaves and miniature penguins. Mr Tose is working on the staging. The men are doing a peccary (Wild Pig), Mr Tose has given us a list of books. Painting and anatomy of animals is important and if not in the library and the museum can't afford it I will buy it. Dominion museum doing Kauri travelling exhibit. Mr Dover, Miss Cranwell, Miss Rutherford, Mr Sorrenson, Mr O'Brien attending.

Letter, 17/04/1937, M Davidson, Waipukerau to H D Skinner, Declines to sell the two Maori adzes

Letter, 16/05/----, G Dempster, Apia to H D Skinner, Offer to donate Samoan adzes, and to source any article the Museum may want, on his return to New Zealand.

Letter, 08/04/1937, T W Downes, Wanganui River Trust to H D Skinner, Enquiry about pits and tunnels on the Taranaki coast. Diagrams included.