John Hall James - Correspondence and diary, 1870-1875

PMB 125

fonds

Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, [19--]

440616

Microfilm : PMB 125

microfilm reel 35 mm

John Hall James, an Australian, was born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1848. He went to Fiji at the height of the cotton boom in 1869, took up land on Viti Levu, and returned to Australia eight or nine years later after a hurricane had destroyed his crops. He died in Melbourne in 1923

The correspondence, which covers the period 1870-1875, and the diary of the Ba Campaign, May 1873, give a vivid idea of the life and attitudes of a European planter in Fiji just before and just after Cession

PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 125
Available for reference
Microfilm copy of original held in private ownership