March 11 - 3 - 1962 
Mr. Charles Brotherson 
B apt) 01 * 
Utmroa - Raiatea Uturoa Raiatea,.,. 
French Polynesia 
Dear Mr . Schmitt : 
Your Wellcome letter dated February 
18 came to hand to weeks ago, and I must confess it was a real _ 
surprise to mss Yes, Dr. Kehdex* is right abouu the niiue, tnxt is 
the" true Danish spelling, and I can not tell you why it changed to 
Brotherson, but whe stuck to dat by now. 
Yes I stil have that date in mind April 28-30, 135? ”Mareva ,! is 
the Motor yacht, and I allways have that little token you gave me, 
!! Red crab setted in plastic”. 
Now I must start to tell you the long story of my ancestor, and 
how they were settled in Raiatea^_____- — <>• let's, 
It all started in 18415 with the Australian Gold Rusn,/my 
grandfather on myx fathers side, Peter Br Oder sen by name, got 
the gold fever ,y(They boarded sh|Lp somewhere in the States, 
th&sj +*=“4 got shipwreckfc^ln the luamotus, finly 7-^fctiiear 
survived and found some ways to continue to Tahiti, and lastly 
Raiatea.. It was quite a tragic story, because two of my 
grandfather Ls friends and shipmates who came with him to 
Raiatea, *su i c 1 u efr&Msalasss a few years later, % grandfather 
was badly shaken by the loss of h±s-&z& friends found 
relief in tiapcl woi*l£ for a Gsr m&n/Ti r in $ no is making c^nuxiorce 
£«h the Islands . He married m/ grandmother, who V**/« ftc 
daughter to a ship captain by the name of Hunter. j/,e (UiCcL j 
Of that union 9 childrens was born, % father was -oo. ^ -that 
in 1888 ./ Q&w few year s l^-teP ythe is land# of Raiatea oecame 
a. French Protectorate. ~~ %e dLer<? 
f athefl At the age of 14 a was sent to s cTTb’Ol in the S*p&*es* 
stayed years. After . he finished school^ he woi’xeafirsr 
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in Iowa, and later in San Francisco. 
He was back in the Islands In 1914, and-gtrir 
L&isa- ElizaW* Horley, the daughter oi an^ njiibl-^h 
-®rid"F'~was-'-nG'' "* 
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As for myself, I have not much to say, except that I muso thaik 
God because I was born on this beautiful Island, ana x do pray 
Him that it stay this way for ever. / 
»We hav e /Ythe— v-i-s-i-t-s— ©£» many tourists j 'thifefc^sut f ® f . . 
all over the world,* Big Cinema Company, wfl’m airaia trns 
is doing 'lots of wrong to these Islands, -aad oesiaes uhdty 
politics. \.| <L i l — n fi./T 
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~v[ think "that I have told you all what you need to know, 
L; /but If you need some more information just drop me a 
j *(T ^ /a iksste .* 
My best regards to you and Br. Hehder , _ J* 
■js^m 
Ch. Brotherson 
Sincerely 
