Official correspondence, including re control of export of specimens of native culture from the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Group. Personal and official correspondence re transfer to Zanzibar and desire to ensure a return to the Gilbert and Ellice Islands. Letters from A.P. Elkin re possible employment of Maude on his staff at Sydney University, from Auckland Museum thanking Maude for a collection of objects from the G.E.I. Group, and from Rothamsted Experimental Station and Kew Gardens re soil and plant specimens from the Islands. Letter of welcome from Grimble (then Governor of the Seychelles), and correspondence with G.H. Eastman, missionary in the Gilberts for the London Missionary Society.