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letter, 10/12/1932, Freda R Arapunau? to H D Skinner, Copies of Annual Report to be sent to various people. Hamilton and I burrowed into midden near [Wairau?] river. Comments about pounamu in Mauri? Collection.

letter, 23/08/1932, Mrs Lucy Churchward ? to H D Skinner, Following up request on PWD [public works department] huts. Gives info number of huts in various locations ie Clarence River, Waipapa? Pt. Advise you may need permission to dig.

letter, 11/09/1933, Registrar University to H D Skinner, Advise Mr Collier unable to attend class for 3 weeks.

letter, 24/8/, FJ Collier to H D Skinner, Article re Dr Fortune and restrictions on cannibalism

letter, 10/10/1931, D Callubuan? to H D Skinner, Travels Riviera -Levant -etc - London. Interviewed Dr Hill and Cpt Joyce of British Mus with intend to get material from dig (in Egypt?) for Otago Museum.

letter, 26/02/1933, Lily A Daff to H D Skinner, Chq received. Glad drawings will make good reproductions. Looking forward to working in Dunedin. Ideas to make exhibition interesting.

letter, 11/02/1933, Lily A Daff to H D Skinner, Invoice for drawings of Maori amulets etc.

letter, 15/12/1933, Dora H DeBeers to H D Skinner, Secured African elephant trumpet for British Museum. Please sent Museum report to her father, he is not properly acknowledged. List of lectures attended. Visit to Scotland and Pictish broch. Esmond working on notes re 17thc Rome.

letter, 11/02/1932, Dora H deBeer to H D Skinner, General comments museum party and Mr Kennedy moving. Discussion Marquesan purchase of two coronets, third not available. Working with father on his bead collection. Comments on Little Papanui dig and value of working in digging parties. Been to lectures in London. Comments fathers health, Mary and Esmond holiday and work, visits Erik Hallenstein etc

letter, 04/07/1934, Fred Delamare to H D Skinner, Request for copy of banned edition of Critic as he is concerned about suppression of free speech (notes that he has heard it probably deserved it)

letter, 19/05/1934, H Dempsey to H D Skinner, Request for a short account of his time at (New Plymouth) Central school and later career for a jubilee

letter, 16/07/1934, Unreadable to H D Skinner, Regrets Skinner is resigning from joint-editorship and concern Mr Anderson should not be sole judge of suitability of submitted articles. Admits he has been critical of some of Skinner's papers but thinks it good people don't always see eye-to-eye. Provides detailed explanation, with drawings, explaining why he thinks an artifact described in recent paper was not part of a drill but rather an ornament. concerned this disagreement is why Skinner is stepping down. Invites Skinner to visit.

letter, 17/05/1934, G F Dixon to H D Skinner, Description of a function of May 5th launching a booklet with portraits etc for VUC and account of the difficult but ultimately successful mission to get an ode for it from Seaforth McKenzie

letter, 06/03/1932, Illegible, potentially David Bull? to H D Skinner, Author has asked Skinner to encourage his/her son, whom Skinner will be meeting that week, to undertake an Honours degree after they complete their undergraduate study.

letter, 02/06/1932, Illegible, same author as previous document to H D Skinner, Correspondence regarding the author losing their position as Editor of The Press, due to a tramway strike. Mention of the need to withdraw Roger from Knox College, and have him complete his course after this year.

letter, 20/04/1935, Illegible to H D Skinner, Very long letter mostly consisting of personal correspondence - such as thanking Skinner for the wedding present he sent, mention of a friend, Elliot Smith, having suffered a stroke. Mention of Skinner's new Ethnological wing being completed and opened in the Otago Museum.

letter, 28/03/1934, Raymond Firth, Royal Anthropological Institute, London to H D Skinner, Invitation to attend and present at congress.

letter, 03/01/1933, S J Cook Sec, Pacific science congress to H D Skinner, Invitation for papers for postponed congress

letter, 02/11/1931, S J Cook Sec, Pacific science congress to H D Skinner, Congress postponed due to unsettled world events.

letter, 01/10/1931, S J Cook Sec, Pacific science congress to H D Skinner, Thank you for being prepared to write paper for fifth congress