• Title
  James Larmer Notebook of Australian Aboriginal vocabularies, 1832-1853
• Creator
  James Larmer
• Call number
  MLMSS 7213
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1832-1853
• Type of material
  Textual Records
• Reference code
  421853
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  0.05 metres of textual materal (1 box)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  James Larmer was assistant surveyor on Sir Thomas Mitchell's second expedition in 1835 along the Bogan and Darling Rivers.
• Collection history
  This notebook was found in the Nyngan District and presented to the Nyngan & District Historical Society by Mrs Elsie Walsh in 1989.
• Scope and Content
  A small notebook containing lists of Aboriginal vocabularies for various regions in New South Wales. It appears to be a copy of Larmer's original compilation. The first page is headed 'Larmer's Native Vocabulary transmitted to the Surveyor General 24th Nov 1853'. The last page is signed 'J. Larmer Sept 1832'.
  
  Regions for which there are vocabulary lists include Brisbane Water-Tuggerah Beach Lakes; Hunter River, Brisbane Water and Newcastle; Batemans Bay; Ulladulla; Braidwood; Yeo Yeo and Narraburra; Upper Calara or Lachlan; Junction of Lachlan & Murrumbidgee; north and south shores of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour).
• Language
  Australian languages, English
• Finding Aids
  Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D22972/a1798.pdf
• General note
  
  Microfilm copy available at CY 4275
  
  Other versions of James Larmer's vocabulary are located at CY 4355 (DLMS 256) and CYA 295/3, pp.403-419 (T.L. Mitchell papers: microfilm copy at CY 248, frames 328-342).
  
  See also: E. Stack - 'Native names and meanings', typescript, 1906: NSW Aboriginal place names extracted from notes by James Larmer, Sept. 1832 (CY 4355: DLMS 23).
  
  See also: State Records NSW (SZ 1002): Larmer's Native Vocabulary Notebook and Correspondence, 1834-53 (previously located at ML Al 95).
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823812
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Signed 'J. Larmer Sept 1832
• Subject
  Aboriginal Australians--New South Wales--Vocabulary.
  Surveyors--New South Wales.
  Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
  Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Vocabulary.
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Nelson Meers Foundation Heritage Collection - State Library of New South Wales (April-November 2009)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1050605

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