Otago Museum Records/Archives

letter, 19/12/1935 to, Extracts from report of Auckland Institute , school service Education Officer E.G. Jones.

letter, 27/11/1936, M. Ballantyne, Wellington to Curator, Have collection of Papuan curios and want to sell. Forwarding a list.

letter, 01/12/1936, Acting curator to M. Ballantyne, Wellington, Assume "you are connected with the rev Mr Ballantyne formerly missionary in the D'entrecasteaux group". Museum is interested in material from the Messim area. Can come to look at the collection

letter, 31/12/1936 to Dr S Batchelor, Offer from Lady Lever Art Gallery of work previously attributed to Rubens. Offered to you ? Will follow up if you are interested.

letter, 09/01/1937, F S Batchelor to H.D Skinner, Have asked a member of the Empire Loan collection to view the picture.

letter, 20/11/1936, Mr M N Bell to H.D Skinner, Query re work in Maori research. Suggest could focus on the religion and psychological side.

letter, 31/12/1936, H.D. Skinner to P.H. Buck, Director, Bernice P Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Brigham must have inserted a photo of the pataka door without the original being in your museum, we should publish in the J.P.S. to help localise it. Yes, we are short of Hawaiian material and can trade you duplicates from the Cook Islands - enclosed is a list of objects you might like, including a circular four-legged bowl from Aitutaki. I will see what can be done about the publication of localised Cook Is. material.

letter, n.d., Egypt Exploration Society to H.D. Skinner, Telegram listing Egyptian artefacts.

letter, 07/12/1936, Kenneth, Bernice P Bishop Museum, Honolulu to H D Skinner, Description of the past year, including mention of staff members: Buck, Dr Gregory, and Alfred Metraux. Also mention of Stimson and his being misled regarding Vahitahi genealogies.

letter, 31/12/1936, H D Skinner to Dr R F Fortune, 136 Sydney St., West, Wellington, Comment on Dr Fortune's job at Ling-Nan University in Canton. Advice re possible anthropological jobs in New Zealand.

letter, 17/11/1936, H D Skinner to Dr R F Fortune, 136 Sydney St., West, Wellington, Whether the salt substitute information was derived from the anthropological literature, or from observation in Papua.

letter, Undated to, Mrs Finch, Grove Lodge, Broadwater, Worthing, England, called at the museum with a note of introduction from Siegfried Eichelbaum. She mentioned a collection of Egyptian material made by her late husband; also Egyptian glass.