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Letter, Anglican Board of Missions W.J.Durrad to H D Skinner, I handed over the curios to yesterday to the forwarding agent

Letter, 30/07/1925, J McDonald Dominion Museum Wellington to H D Skinner, Fletcher and Love Exhibition Contractors preparing 6 transparency cases Could you please inspect the first sample

Letter, 03/08/1925, Dominion Museum to H D Skinner, Regret the toki was not despatched on 24th July but last Saturday

Letter, 17/08/1925, The Vicarage Featherston W J Durrad to H D Skinner, Some of the notes on the Torres are lost. The whole lot including genealogy tables and pedigrees were sent in registered package. If the notes I sent you are ever to be printed they will require expert typesetting, I am glad you were pleased with curios

Letter, 12/09/1925, The Vicarage Featherston W J Durrad to H D Skinner, Will write to Adams and Blyth to forward the things to you as they are. Please make a list and if needed sketch and send to me so that I may identify them Sending notebook...

Letter, 16/09/1925, The Vicarage Featherston W J Durrad to H D Skinner, There is one photo of us to keep, the one with the ear-sticks. Sorry about curios of Mr Robins, They would have suited my purpose for a photo in spite of Mr Edge Partington's unfavourable report

Letter, 09/10/1925, Dominion Museum W J Phillipps to H D Skinner, Dr Thomson enquiring about pendant from Murdoch Collection no 6 5 8 No difficulty about you having this

Letter, 28/10/1925, Dominion Museum J Allan Thomson to H D Skinner, State Forest handed over control of Kiangaroa carvings You should be associated with Dr Buck's investigation. We will pay your expenses

Letter, 30/10/1925, Dominion Museum J Allan Thomson to H D Skinner, Sorry I have not been able to deal with exchanges Miss Howe's collection File missing

Letter, 26/08/1924, State Rivers and Water Supply Commission Melbourne to H D Skinner, I think your ideas on grooved implements display the easychair attitude if you take the macroscopic you also need the microscopic.. I think the evidence of local grooved implements is complete

Letter, 16/05/1925, All Hallows School, Pawa Ugi, Solomon Is. C E Dore to H D Skinner, Drawings of Melanesian tattoos so rarely described. Santa Ana people more Polynesian than The Arose or Ulawa. I think there is proto Polynesian blood in all these Melanesians Now 3 of us as Mountfort and Francis. Prof Johnson hopes to come this year, Keeper had the curios ready but Southern Cross delayed

Letter, 22/05/1924, Parnua, C E Dods to H D Skinner, Sending paper from Mr Keeper for Polynesian Journal. Santa Anna is a rich field for custom and tradition hardly touched. And Santa Catalina even better. Keeper is anxious for Melanesian mission to go there as Baptists think all folklore is of the devil.

Letter, 26/10/1923 to H D Skinner, Minutes of ethnographic committee, Approved purchases by Fels In Europe and Australia

Letter, 31/12/1923, Assistant curator and lecturer in Ethnology to H D Skinner, Request for stone age implements from the Upper Yangtze and Min rivers to complement our collection,

Letter, 01/09/1924, DIC Wellington W Simms to H D Skinner, Letter from Mr F.F.Newman acknowledge no action needed

Letter, 28/08/1924, Frank F Newman to H D Skinner, My father's collection some kept at the ?Hiton club some at Hiton some I have but never sorted. I have nothing to dispose of at this time but will communicate when I have

Letter, 05/11/1925, W G Durrand to H D Skinner, Discussing curios and their origins Some Torres curios said to be incorrectly listed.

Letter, 28/04/1924, Librarian of the Otago Institute to H D Skinner, Confirming order of Hardman's Founders of Oceanography. Returning a copy of the Philosophical Magazine.

Letter, 27/05/1924, Librarian to H D Skinner, Asking to source Kubary.J.S. Ethnogr.Heritage z Karntis des Karolinin Arch. And the logbooks of the "Lady Nelson"

Letter, 14/07/1924, The Evening Star to H D Skinner, Receipt for advertising