Reverend George Brown papers, 1842-1917

A 1686

fonds

1842-1917

Textual Records, Clippings, Graphic Materials

942503

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32 volumes of textual material - manuscript, typescript, clippings

Dr. George Brown was a Methodist missionary in Samoa, New Guinea and Fiji.

Reference:
Short Catalogue card

Series 01: Letterbooks, 1865-1909
Series 02: Journals, 1860-1897
Series 03: Correspondence and papers, 1842, 1854-1917
Series 04: Samoan stories, proverbs, sayings, by Penisimani; collected and partly translated by Reverend George Brown
Series 05: Proverbs, phrases and similes of the Samoans by Reverend George Brown
Series 06: A Vocabulary of the Dialect spoken in the Duke of York's Islands; with Reverend B. Danks
Series 07: Memoranda, words, etc., Duke of York Island by Reverend George Brown
Series 08: Savage life in the South Seas
Series 09: Notes on Esperanto
Series 10: Notebooks

English, Papuan (Other), Samoan

Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Many of his works are published including the text, 'A dictionary of the Duke of York Is. language, New Britain group / by G. Brown and B. Danks : also a grammar of the same, and an introduction by G. Brown', Sydney, 1882, and his autobiography 'George Brown D. D. Pioneer missionary and explorer: an autobiography', Hodder and Stoughton, 1908, copies of both being held in the Mitchell Library

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