HMCSL Digitized Manuscript Collections
CHURCH RECORDS COLLECTION | HEA NAMES FILE COLLECTION | MARQUESAS COLLECTION | MICRONESIAN MISSIONS COLLECTION - HEA PAPERS | MISSIONARY LETTERS COLLECTION | NON-MISSIONARY LETTERS COLLECTION | THE SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION COLLECTION | THE JOURNAL COLLECTION | WILCOX, ABNER, AND LUCY COLLECTION
Below are the Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library's Digitized Manuscript Collections. See a full listing of our Manuscript Collection/ Finding Aids here. If you would like to view the rest of the collections, contact [email protected] for more information.
Church Records Collection
CHURCH RECORDS, 1823-1945 Holograph manuscripts, primarily in books, English and Hawaiian, some translations. Early membership lists, accounts of missions and churches, minutes of church and Clerical Association meetings, and some parish records. All islands. ca. 6 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. See the Church Records Collection Finding Aid here. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected].
Image N-0526 - Kawaiahao Church, 1885? Photograph.
HEA Names File Collection
This collection contains the Hawaiian Evangelical Association's (HEA) church correspondence of Ali`i, parishioners, pastors, and others. The HEA Names File Collection is part of the broader HEA Archives. See the HEA Archives Finding Aid here.
The Hawaiian Mission Houses received the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) FY2020 Native Hawaiian Library Services Grant. This project involves organizing and transcribing the letters apart of the Names File Collection of the Hawaiian Evangelical Association Archives.
Hawaii Evangelical Association (HEA), the forerunner of what is now known as the Hawaii Conference United Church of Christ (HCUCC).
View the digitized HEA Names File Collection.
View the website dedicated to the He lau nā moʻolelo: Hawaiian Evangelical Association (HEA) Names File Collection Project.
Image from John Ii Letter 4/17/1843 in the HEA Names File Collection.
Marquesas Collection
MARQUESAS COLLECTION, 1830-1900 Mission Station and general reports from the Marquesas Islands missionaries. Includes letters of the first company sent from Hawaii 1833, return 1834, and the company sent in 1852 to remain. General meeting minutes and personal letters, some in Hawaiian, originals. ca. 2 ft.
Image from N-3230 - Rev. James Kekela and family: Puamau, Hivaoa, Marquesas Islands, Oct. 1896 / photo by Annie Alexander. Photograph.
Micronesian Mission Collection - Hawaiian Evangelical Association Papers
MICRONESIAN MISSION-HEA PAPERS, 1852-1900 Papers relating to the Caroline, Gilbert (Kiribati) & Marshall Islands. Includes letters, reports, printed forms, logs of the Morning Star (missionary ship), accounts, essays, maps, and drawings. Mostly American and Hawaiian missionaries of the ABCFM and HEA. Many letters in Hawaiian, some translated. Originals and copies. ca. 5 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected]
Image from N-0599 - Church in Ebon, Marshall Islands. Photograph.
Missionary Letters Collection
MISSIONARY LETTERS, 1820-1900 Personal correspondence between missionaries in Hawaii to their friends and families in the U.S. Arranged by author with some exceptions. Originals and some copies. ca. 33 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. See the Missionary Letters Finding Aid here. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected].
Image from Chamberlain, Levi - Missionary Letters - 1783-1818 - from family.
Non-Missionary Letters Collection
NON-MISSIONARY LETTERS, 1820-1900 Letters and papers of early foreign residents of Hawaii; ship captains, traders, government officials. A few items of native Hawaiians and New Englanders; shipping and trading information. ca. 2 ft.
The only folder digitized in the NON-MISSIONARY LETTERS is "Marriage Certificates - 1865-1869." If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected]
Image from the Non-Missionary Letters.
The Sandwich Islands Mission Collection
SANDWICH ISLANDS MISSION COLLECTION, 1820-1853 Material relating to the establishment and organization of the Mission to the Sandwich Islands. Financial affairs, printing and bindery reports, general meeting property reports and descriptions of mission stations and schools, business accounts of missionaries and non-missionary Honolulu residents. Original material. ca. 8 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected]
Image from Sandwich Islands Mission Account Book 16 - 1824-1828 - Book of Donations
The Journal Collection
THE JOURNAL COLLECTION, 1819-1900 Diaries and journals of the missionaries to Hawaii, a few of the children of the mission, and non-missionary early settlers. Originals, typescript, photocopies. ca. 17 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected]
Image from the Tinker, Reuben - Journal - 1830-1831
Wilcox, Abner, and Lucy Collection
WILCOX, ABNER AND LUCY COLLECTION, 1823-1868 Letters sent and received by Abner Wilcox (1808-1869) and Lucy Eliza Hart Wilcox (1814-1869). One account book of Edwin Locke (1813-1843) and other account books, journals, and miscellaneous papers. ca. 2 ½ ft. (finding aid) WILDER, S.G. PAPERS, 1858-1881 Letters sent and received, personal and business affairs and miscellaneous papers of Samuel Gardner Wilder (1831-1888) and Elizabeth Kinau Judd Wilder (1831-1918). Some Judd and Dickson family material. ca. 2 ft.
Only part of this collection is digitized. See the Wilcox, Abner, and Lucy Collection Finding Aid here. If you would like to view the rest of the collection, contact [email protected]