Post #631149 by TikiTomD on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 3:17 PM

I was fortunate to locate a copy of Some Recollections of Early Samoa by H. J. Moors at the World of Rare Books in Goring by Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom. This book is a compilation of weekly articles originally written by Moors for the Samoa Times from 1924 to 1926. It was published by the Western Samoa Historical and Cultural Trust in 1986. Recall that Moors, an old time resident of Apia, Samoa, was the American merchant who had befriended Robert Louis Stevenson. It was Moors who purchased land on behalf of Louis and then built his Samoan home, Vailima. Here are photos of the man in his youth and from later in life, both from this book...

Moors passed away in 1926...

The Sydney Morning Herald March 16, 1926

In an October 17, 1924 Samoa Times article, Moors listed from memory the early colonial settlers of Samoa...

Dr. Funk was included on the list, as seen from this excerpt...

Moors went on to say, in part...

-Tom