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letter, 24/05/1936, H.D. Skinner to Willi Fels, All I have gotten in London in the way of ethnographic material is a tokotoko/Maori staff. Trendall, who has offered to be our agent for purchasing vases, has been in Russia looking over Greek vases.

letter, 25/04/1936, H.D. Skinner to Willi Fels, Talks about travels, museums and historic buildings visited, receiving the Andree medal. Outlines collections of Maori material in individual ownership; Birket-Smith, and in museums; Hamburg, Dalham, Saarlander Strasse. Discusses exchanges of material. Talks about Nazi elections in Hamburg and fear expressed by Jewish staff at the museum. Arrangements for payment of accounts. Work undertaken by Trendall and acquisition of Greek pottery. Describes headless stone figure from Pitcairn. Notes there is a lack of good material available for sale.

letter, 03/02/1936 to Willi Fels, "Copy" of J. Massey list of 27 objects valued at 55 pounds.

letter, C.T. Seltman to Wili Fels, Receipt for 145 pounds.

letter, 17/01/1936, Dr Benham, curator to Wili Fels, Advises written to F? Asking for samples of moa bones.

Letter, Mr Chennells to Mr Fels, Would like to donate a model of a British war ship, The Sovereign of the Sea. Offer to repair models in the Chinese section.

Letter, 01/03/1937, H D Skinner to W Fels, Wrote to Registrar about payments to be made to various accounts,

Letter, 23/03/1937, H D Skinner to W Fels, Hope to purchase the rest or some of the bird spear points. Black collection to Napier museum hope to secure Moriori whalebone patu

Letter, 15/07/1937, H D Skinner to W Fels, List of guarantors for Chinese Exhibition

Letter, 11/10/1937, H D Skinner to Mr Willi Fels, Request for guarantee from a guarantor of the Chinese Exhibition.

Letter, 09/10/1938, J Forbes to W Fels, I am selling my Fijian and Maori collection, which includes a precolonial Fijian skiff, clubs, whale and shark teeth, necklaces, shells, korowai, chisels etc. I will accept 50 pounds for the lot.

Letter, 01/09/1937, ? to Mr. Fels, Regarding entry in deposit book for takahe at museum which suggests it is on loan, and has not been presented to the museum. Correspondence about its arrival at the museum in 1898 can not be located, but an entry notes that "this very rare bird was captured by Mr. Ross and purchased by the N.Z. Government." Will make request with Internal Affairs for takahe to be displayed temporarily in the Dominion, Auckland and Canterbury Museum.

Letter, 05/08/1921, W H Denton, estate of late George Denton, Wellington to Willi Fels, Updates on value of pataka front for sale; Denton suggests it to be worth £100 rather than £20.

Letter, 29/06/1922, H D Skinner to Willi Fels, Letters to/from Willi Fels, Mrs Ewen and Mr Simms. Mrs Ewen would like to sell collection as a whole, not just the four items Mere, K.Hoe, Mat and Paddle. Museum will not purchase the mere, paddle only if it complies with sketch as well as mat and hoe. Skinner advises paddle is not the one sketched, the museum remains interested in the hoe and the mat. Sale confirmed for the hoe and mat.