Dearest Folks

“If I had tried to tell the story of our mission experience by relying on memory, so much would have been lost. These letters are from the heart of a daughter, sister, and friend.”

In 1956, Sydney nurse Margaret Watts and her husband Horrie set out on the adventure of a lifetime: mission service in Vanuatu (then the New Hebrides), followed by further years serving the island of Bougainville in the then-Territory of New Guinea. In these letters sent home to family in Australia, Margaret gives a thorough account of daily life working as a missionary nurse in remote areas of the Pacific.