John R. Metcalfe - Letters, 1920-1950

PMB 68

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440589

Microfilm : PMB 68

ne microfilm reel 35 mm

The Rev. John R. Metcalfe, a Methodist missionary in the Solomon Islands for 37 years, was born in Yorkshire in 1889. He served as a home missionary in Great Britain before moving to Victoria in 1914. He became a candidate for the Methodist ministry in 1916, and after being ordained was appointed to the Solomon Islands in 1920. After a brief period at Roviana, he was appointed to Choiseul as assistant to the Rev. V. LeC. Binet. Apart from four years at Teop, he remained on Choiseul until 1951. During the war, he served as a Coastwatcher. He became chairman of the Methodist Mission in the Solomons in 1951, a post he held until he retired to Australia in 1957. He continued to take an active interest in the mission until his death on January 1, 1970

From time to time during his career in the Solomon Islands, Metcalfe wrote long, descriptive newsletters to friends overseas which he called "general letters." They were invariably typewritten. Apparently several carbon copoies of each letter were sent out. Those on this microfilm were written in the following years: 1920 (2), 1921 (2), 1922 (1), 1924 (1), 1925 (1), 1926 (1), 1927 (1), 1929 (1), 1936 (2), 1937 (2), 1938 (2), 1939 (1), 1941 (1), 1946 (2), 1947 (2), 1948 (1), 1950 (1)

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 68
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held by Department of Pacific History, the Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T.