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Title: Lorimer Fison Correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1873-1878
Collection number: MSS 0473
Extent: 0.40 linear feet (1 microfilm reel.)
Repository:
Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD
La Jolla, CA 92093-0175
Shelf Location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
May not be accessed without written permission of the Uniting Church, Commission for
World Mission, 222 Pitt Stree, Syndey 2000 (PO Box E266, St. James, New South Wales
2000).
Lorimer Fison Correspondence, MSS 0473. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
A part of the project to microfilm all of Lorimer Fison's papers held in Ausatralian
repositories, this segment contains Fison's correspondence from 16 October 1873 to 15
October 1878.
Microfilm prepared by the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Australian National University (PMB
1041).
Lorimer Fison (1832-1909) was a clergyman and anthropologist educated at Sheffield,
Cambridge, and Melbourne. He relocated from England to Australia in 1856 and later served
with the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Fiji from 1863 to 1884.
During that time he was Principal of the Training Institution for Natives at Navuloa. In
his correspondence and other writings, Fison recorded his observations of Australian
Aboriginal customs and daily life.