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"Letters exchanged between R.J. Fletcher and Edward Jacomb, 1913-1921"--Container.

The late W.E. Stober, formerly with the British Residency in Port Vila and District Agent on Santo and Tanna, prepared a book-length collection of the correspondence between R.J. Fletcher and Edward Jacomb, culled from the condensed version of Edward Jacomb's diary entitled, Successful Failure, held at the Library of the University of London. (which also holds Jacomb's complete diary under restricted access.) Will Stober points out that the Fletcher-Jacomb correspondence provides a counterpoint to the Fletcher's letters to J.G. Bohun Lynch published in Isles of Illusion: letters from the South Seas (Constable 1923). In 2004 the Journal of Pacific History published a version of Stober's introduction to the letters, edited by Deryck Scarr, together with a selection of the letters ('Isles of Illusion: letters from Asterisk to Mowbray', JPH, 39:3; 353-373).

Original: 1991.

Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, Australian National University.

PMB ; 1243

Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau.