Collections from the School of Oriental and African Studies, relating to Asia and the Pacific, 1769-1960 [M 681-686]

MAV/FM4/3427-3432
Status: unavailable

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

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1. William Marsden collection. Includes: vocabularies of the languages of Tonga, New Caledonia, Tahiti, Prince's Island, Sulu, Samarang, New Holland, New Zealand, Savu, Madagasca, Malabar and Peru. Also includes 18th century Malay and Sumatran manuscripts and notebooks of William Dawes re languages spoken in the Sydney area ca. 1790.

2. Sydney Herbert Ray Collection. Vocabularies of Pacific languages; letters, 1891-93; and notes.

3. Index to Alexander Dalrymple's collection of maps and list of the contents of his memoirs; official documents 1808 of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville; two vocabularies of the Torres Strait Islands and the New Hebrides; C.G. Seligmann and G. Pim, "Vocabulary of the language of the Otati tribe, Queensland"

A more detailed list is available (17pp.) at Micro. Ref. Books. 2.3/100.

Copyright status:: In copyright

School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet St., London.

For Dawes material, see The notebooks of William Dawes on the Aboriginal language of Sydney. www.williamdawes.org (accessed November 3, 2011)

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.
National Library of Australia holds the microfilm masters.
Available for reference.
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M Series], Entry 136, pp.64-65.
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series: M 681-686.
Microfilm copy of originals held by the School of Oriental and African Studies, Malet St., London.
Descriptive list available (17pp.) at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/100.
Detailed description in 'Manuscripts in the British Isles Relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific', edited by Phyllis Mander-Jones, pp. 361-363.

Microfilm - MAV/FM4/3427 - 3432 (see also contents list at Micro. Ref. Bks. 2.3/100).

Microfilm - For William Dawes' material, c.1790, see MAV/FM4/3431 (frames 771 - 817) and MAV/FM4/3432 (frames 342 - 376): [AJCP - M 685 - 686].
Refer to the National Library of Australia’s AJCP Portal (https://www.nla.gov.au/content/australian-joint-copying-project) for information on Australian Joint Copying Project reels digitised in 2019/81