Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 23/06/1926, Assistant curator (H D Skinner) to H D Skinner, Thanks for replicas. Request for Roman and Samoan material and anything between the Palaeolithic and 1000AD. Notes museum currently only has 3 items of early iron age and 6 of bronze age

letter, 23/09/1926, G L Southwaite? Guildhall library, London to H D Skinner, Note that all objects lent to the 1925-6 South Seas exhibition now delivered to Hallensteins for onward shipping

letter, 26/06/1926, Assistant curator (H D Skinner) to H D Skinner, Request for donation of stone adzes

letter, 03/06/1925, W J Herring to H D Skinner, Promise to contact if at some point in the future he decides to dispose of his collection

letter, 03/06/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Acceptance of offer of Colenso's papers and request for photographs of wood carvings

letter, 06/12/1926, Willi Fells to H D Skinner, Note accompanying duplicates and copies of letters re duplicates of the items from Guildhall museum

letter, 02/09/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Notice of receipt of Guildhall collection and thanks

letter, ?/11/1927, Hearley? to H D Skinner, Thanks for letter of 7/6/27, promise to send 12 celts? When he gets them back from Peking

letter, 16/02/1926, Unsigned to H D Skinner, Thanks for copy of book 'by far the bet book of its kind ever published'. Note Mrs MacDonald has taken over the librarianship and he has received a Rock-Foller Foundation travelling fellowship.

letter, 21/03/1926, Hiner G Hastie to H D Skinner, A Mr Sharp in Owaka has a very fine Maori Adze. A letter from you might prompt a gift or deposit. He told me of a cutting with heaps of moa bones. A full skeleton from there was said to have been sold to Edinburgh university for L500

letter, 08/05/1926, H D Skinner to H D Skinner, I will write to him. We would like to know the location of the moa bones. No Moa skeleton has ever been sold for L500 maybe L50. Would you come back and work for us?

letter, 29/06/1926, Assistant Curator to H D Skinner, We wish to buy the Tiki for L15