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Letter, 12/07/1938, J Sorensen, Director, Southland Museum to H D Skinner, Forwarding two two-piece fish hooks from the Southland Museum collection, both from Haldane. No urgency for their return. Request for copies of 15 volumes to make up gaps in the set of the "Transactions".

Letter, 14/07/1938, J Sorensen, Director, Southland Museum to H D Skinner, Acknowledging receipt of two bone pieces, one being broken in transit. Request for any more similar pieces for drawing. Sending six volumes of the Transactions being some of those requested, with compliments of Otago Branch of Royal Society of NZ. Offers of advice or demontration if ever required.

Letter, 11/10/1938, J Sorensen, Director, Southland Museum to H D Skinner, Requesting a copy of the Otago Museum Constitution as an aid to establishing one for the Southland Museum as a Centennial Memorial for 1940.

Letter, 22/08/1938, E A Sorensen, Christchurch to H D Skinner, Brother of J Sorensen, Southland Museum, reporting on fine bone patu found during excavations in Southland. Detailed description of object and its location. Request for estimation of value. Invitation to visit when in Christchurch to view other items found at Birdling's Flat.

Letter, 15/09/1938, E A Sorensen, Christchurch to H D Skinner, Interest in patu but impossibility of estimating value or age without seeing it. Importance of recording all details of find.

Letter, ?/10/1938, E A Sorensen, Christchurch to H D Skinner, Reports on having met Teviotdale at the Museum in the absence of Skinner. Enclosing sketch and description of a fine nephrite pendant found near Little River in 1910. Query as to whether it was a neck or ear pendant.

Letter, 16/11/1937, Spink and Son Ltd, London to H D Skinner, The whalebone Maori mere is available, priced 21 pounds, and is to be despatched.

Letter, 04/03/1938, Spink and Son Ltd, London to H D Skinner, Description of "guri", Chinese carved lacquer, available for sale.

Letter, 16/06/1938, Spink and Son Ltd, London to H D Skinner, Regarding potential for payment plan for Chinese guri lacquer.

Letter, 01/04/1938, William A Sproat, Dunedin North Intermediate School, Dunedin to H D Skinner, Sproat denies knowledge of any arranged lecture, but seeks to book one.

Letter, 08/04/1938, William A Sproat, Dunedin North Intermediate School, Dunedin to H D Skinner, Regarding past and future plans for classes to visit the Museum.

Letter, 07/02/1938, F Stahlschmidt & Co to H D Skinner, Customs import documents for one case of plaster casts from the Greek and Roman antiquities department of the British Museum.

Letter, 09/09/1938, Dr G Lindblom, Statens Etnografiska Museum, Stockholm to H D Skinner, Regarding stone adze 35.44.25, which was from Hitiaa (in Tahiti) and brought to Stockholm by Rolf Andersen-Barnholdt.

Letter, 18/03/1938, L Steele, 10 Botting St, Opoho to H D Skinner, Quote for installation of vacuum cleaning point in the room under the stairs of the Hocken Wing.

Letter, 10/03/1938, G B Stevenson, Thames Street, Oamaru to H D Skinner, Information regarding large deposit of moa bones discovered during well digging.

Letter, 24/03/1938, G B Stevenson, Thames Street, Oamaru to H D Skinner, Regarding the construction of an unusual adze that Skinner had shown Stevenson from his collection the day prior.

Letter, 15/08/1938, James R Stewart to H D Skinner, Confirming the plan to send pottery pieces from Cyprus and explaining the delays.

Letter, 18/04/1938, Albert J Stratford to H D Skinner, Regarding the return of the monarch butterfly to New Zealand. Stratford offers to share specimens and swan plants with Skinner.

Letter, 18/05/1938, T A G Strickling to H D Skinner, Have left Fiji and are touring NZ. Have visited rock drawings at Arapuni Gorge, will possibly write a paper on return to England. Remembered your advise that most drawings were genuine and by Maori but more recently some European additions. Refers to drawings in Fiji and other sites in Pacific. Some drawings able to be understood, some are mysterious. [Hard to read]

Letter, 26/07/1938, Gordon Sykes to H D Skinner, Have posted the seal club, "it is a splendid specimen of old Maori work". Am on track of the tiki and will report back.