Guide to the Collections held by the School of Oriental and African Studies (as filmed by the AJCP)
M681-M686
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- School of Oriental and African Studies. University of London
- Title
- Collections held by the School of Oriental and African Studies (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1769 - 1937
- Collection Number
- M681-M686
- Extent
- 214 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Contains vocabularies and grammar lists from language groups found in Tahiti; New Zealand; Indonesia; Malaysia; Melanesia; Micronesia; Queensland; New South Wales; Tasmania; the western coast of South America and other parts of the Pacific Islands.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the School of Oriental and African Studies and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Ranjang poems, 1783, School of Oriental and African Studies (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla-obj-1379824672)
Archival History
Filmed at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1964 (AJCP Reel: M681-M685). Original microfilm digitised as part of the NLA AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
The following collections were formerly part of the library of the Orientalist and linguist William Marsden (1754-1836), a portion of which he presented to King's College London in 1835: MS 41645, MS 9882, MS 12023, MS 12139, MS 12153, MS 12156, MS 12892.
Existence and Location of Originals
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England.
For more information see School of Oriental and African Studies (https://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2239153] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Finding Aid Note
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
The identifiers used in this finding aid were accurate at the time of filming. They have been kept to preserve the historical context of the collection.
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 406, pp. 156-157.
Biographical / Historical
The School of Oriental Studies was founded at Finbury Circus, London, in 1916 with the intention of training colonial administrations and providing London University with a school to rival the Oriental institutes of Berlin, Petrograd and Paris. Africa was added to the School's name in 1938. The School moved to Bloomsbury in 1946.
Sidney Herbert Ray (1858-1939) was born in London and was educated at the British School at Bethnal Green in the East End. In 1880 he entered the St Mark's Training College at Chelsea and in 1884 he was appointed an assistant master at the Board School at Bethnal Green. He remained a teacher at the school until his retirement master at the Board School at Bethnal Green. He remained a teacher at the school until his retirement in 1923. His career as a primary schoolteacher was paralleled by his long career as a comparative and descriptive linguist. He became interested in Pacific languages as a toung man and his first paper was published in 1886. In 1888 he became a fellow of the Anthropological Institute. Ray relied heavily in the publications of the British and Foreign Bible Society and the pubished and unpublished writings of missionaries who had a strong interest in languages, such as the Reverend R.H. Codington and later the Reverend W.G. Ivens. In 1890 he met the Cambridge anthopologist Alfred Haddon, who remained a friend and supporter for the rest of Ray's life. They jointly published papers and Ray was a member of the Cambridge Anthopological Expedition which Haddon led to the Torres Strait in 1898. His publications included A study of the languages of Torres Straits (with A.C. Haddon, 1893-97), A comparative vocabulary of the dialects of British New Guinea (1895), Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits (vol.3, Linguistics, 1907) and A comparative study of Melanesian Island languages (1926).
William Marsden (1754-1836) was born in Verval, County Wicklow, Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He was appointed to the East India Company and sent to Benkulen, Sumatra, in 1771. He was promoted to the position of principal secretary to thr company's goverment in Sumatra in 1774. He resigned from the position of principal secretary to the company's goverment in Sumatra in 1774. He resigned from the position in 1779 and returned to England. He became aquainted with many leading scholars and writers, including Sir Joseph Banks, Alexander Dalrymple, William Herschel and Nevil Maskelyne. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1783 and was a foundings member of the Irish Academy in 1785. He had acquired an extensive knowledge of Sumatra and the Malay language and his History of Sumatra appeared in 1812. His later years were devoted to scholarly pursuits. He published A dictionary of the Malayan language (1812) The travels of Marco Polo (1818) and Numismata orientalia illustrata (1823-25), as well as miscellaneous works and contributions to jounrals. In 1835 he presented his library of books and manuscripts to King's College, London. Part of Marsden's manuscript collection was transferred to the School of Oriental Studies in 1916.
Item Descriptions
Series PP MS3. Papers of Sidney Herbert Ray, 1877 - 1937
199 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M681-M685.
Subjects
Blencowe, John W., Rev.; Bourne, E.; Brittain, A.; Capell, Arthur; Case, H.E.B.; Caulton, S.G.; Christian, Frederick W.; Codrington, Robert H., Rev.; Cropp, Allan H.; Drummond, H.N.; Fison, Lorimer, Rev.; Gray, William; Great Britain; Heighway, William A.; Hocart, Arthur M.; Howard, C.W.; Hunt, A.E.; Isom, Fred R.; Ivens, W.G.; King, Copeland; Lelean, C. Oswald; Malaya; Manning, G.O.; Metcalfe, J.R.; Michelsen, Oscar; Money, J. Percy; Morton, Alexander; New Caledonia; New Hebrides: vocabularies; Nicholson, R.C.; Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea: language; Ray, Sidney H.; Rickard, R.H.; Rickard, R.H.; Rivers, William H.R., Dr; Rooney, S.R., Rev.; Savage, E.B.; Shaw, O. Charles; Somerville, Henry B.T.; Steward, J.M.; Strong, Walter M.; Tinoni, A.C.; Torres Strait Islanders; Waterhouse, J.H.L.; Weigall, S.C.; Welchman, Henry, Rev.; Williams, Herbert W.; Woodford, Charles M.
Rev. E.B. Savage. Vocabulary of Daudai (ie Kiwai), Mabuiage and Mer (ie Miriam) (ms) (File 6. Box 1)
J.H.L. Waterhouse. Vocabularies from New Ireland and New Britain (ms), 1927 (File 1. Box 2)
Languages include Kuanua (New Britain), Patpatar, Susuruga, Omo and Siberi (all New Ireland).
Rev. Copland King. Vocabularies from the north east coast of British New Guinea (ms) (File 3. Box 2)
S.H. Ray. A vocabulary of the languages of Nuguria, Leuaniua (ie Luangiua) and Sikaiana (ms) (File 10. Box 2)
Includes a vocabulary of the Mo-Iki language.
C. Oswald Lelean. Fijian vocabularies (ms), 1927 (File 11. Box 2)
Languages include: Bau, Nadi (Ba), Nacera (Kadavu), Lomaiviti (Ovalau), Wailevu (Cakaudrove), Seaqaqa (Macuata), Waciwaci (Lakeba) and Rewa.
Rev. William A. Heighway. A vocabulary of Bau, Kadavu and English, and of Bau, Nandronga and English (ms) (File 12. Box 2)
Vocabulary of Guadalcanal districts (ms) (File 1. Box 3)
Languages include: Marau, Moli, Avuavu, Wanderer Bay, Vaturanga and Longu.
Rev. R.B. Comins. Vocabulary of the Bubutana language with vocabularies of Rubiana and Marovo (ms) (File 3. Box 3)
Rev. J.R. Metcalfe. Choiseul vocabularies (ms) (File 4. Box 3)
Languages mentioned include: Babatana, Tabataba, bVarese, Ririo, Seqa, Kiruqela, Roviana.
S.H. Ray. Comparative vocabulary of Oceanic words in languages of Loyalty Islands, New Hebrides and Solomon Islands, parts 1-9 (ms) (File 5. Box 3)
Volume 1: Languages of the Loyalty Islands, and Southern New Hebrides (including Tanna and Erromanga).
Volume 2: Languages of Nguna, Efate, Makura, Three Hills Island (Emae), Shepherd Islands and Epi Island.
Volume 3: Languages of Paama, Ambrim and Espiritu Santo.
Volume 4: Languages of Malekula, Pentecost Island and Lepers' Island (Ambae)
Volume 5: Languages of Aurora Island (Makatea) and Banks' Islands.
Volume 6: Languages of Torres Islands, Santa Cruz Islands and San Cristobal
Volume 7: Languages of Malaita Island, Florida Island and Bugotu [Solomon Islands]
Volume 8: Languages of Guadalcanal and Ysabel Island (not Bugotu)
Volume 9: Languages of New Georgia, Choiseul and Bougainville
S.H. Ray. Vocabularies of languages from central and eastern Papua (ms) (File 7. Box 3)
Languages include: Kokila, Udama, Keveri, Kwale.
S.H. Ray. Vocabularies of languages from mid-central Papua (ms) (File 8. Box 3)
Languages include: Miai, Gaumi, Ningori and Oiku.
S.H. Ray. Vocabularies of languages from central Papua (ms) (File 9. Box 3)
Languages include: Roro, Waima, Rapeka and Mekeo.
S.H. Ray. Vocabularies of languages from western Papua (ms) (File 10. Box 3)
Languages include: Tugeri, Merauke, Toro, Bangu, Tanjuamu, Sanana and Bugi.
Arthur Capell. Notes on Eromaga [Erromanga] orthography and pronunciation (ts and ms) (File 2. Box 4)
Rev. R.C. Nicholson. Vocabulary of the language spoken by the Bilua tribe at Vella Lavella Island, British Solomon Island (ms), 1912 (File 13. Box 4)
A. Hoffmann. Worterverzeichnis der Sprache von Bogadjim, Kaiser Wilhemsland (ms) (File 1. Box 5)
Title approximately translates to 'Dictionary of the language of Bogadjim' and contains a comparative vocabulary with German. Languages include: Wenke, Bogadjim and Wuong.
S.H. Ray. A comparative vocabulary of Oceanic languages (File 8. Box 5)
Including languages of Malaya, North Celebes [Sulawesi], Formosa, Moluccas, Netherlands New Guinea, British New Guinea, German New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, New Hebrides [Vanuatu] and New Caledonia.
Rev. R.H. Rickard (Raluana). A dictionary and grammar of the New Britain district, pp. i-xii, 1-482 (ms), 1889 (File 1. Box 6)
Rev. J.M. Steward. A Vaturanga-English dictionary and notes on the grammar (ms, 61pp.) (File 1. Box 7)
C.M. Woodforde. Seventy words in Laumbe, the language of the Russell Island Group, British Solomon Islands (ts), July 1906 (File 6. Box 7)
Rev. C.W. Howard. Seventy words in the language of Savo, British Solomon Island (ms), October 1906 (File 11. Box 7)
Letter from S.G. Caulton (Halavo, British Solomon Islands) to Rev. W.G. Ivens with attached notes on Florida grammar, 12 May 1935 (File 13. Box 7)
Vocabulary of the language of Bugotu, Ysabel Island, from a ms of Rev. H. Welchman, 1902 (File 17. Box 7)
S.H. Ray. Outline of Mekeo grammar from notes of RR Peres Vitoli and Bouillet, (ms), 1898 (File 1. Box 8)
S.H. Ray. A vocabulary of the Are or Mukauan language, Cape Vogel, north-east Papua (ms) (File 4. Box 8)
J. Percy Money. The language of Maising, Collingwood Bay district, north-eastern Papua (ts) (File 13. Box 8)
W.G. Ivens. Grammar and dictionary of Lamalanga (ms), 1937 (File 1. Box 9)
Annotations made in 1960 suggest that the dictionary is in Lamalanga, but the grammar is Oba (Lombaha) or Bugotu.
Letter from Ray to Rev. W.G. Ivens: notes on Ivens's Lamalanga grammar, 7 August 1937 (File 3. Box 9)
Rev. W. Gray. Vocabularies of New Hebrides languages (ms) (File 9. Box 9)
Languages include: Weasasi, Sangali, Aniwa and Kwamera.
Rev. Oscar Michelsen. Vocabularies of New Hebrides languages (ms) (File 10. Box 9)
Languages include: Tongoa, Makura, Tasiko.
Letter from Ray to W.G. Ivens: criticism of Mota and Roviana Bible translations, 12 October 1930 (File 11. Box 9)
Te Talatola khai o Pasikaloa. O kakakai apen Pasikaloa: A Pilheni (Reef Island) story with Mota translation (ms) (File 1. Box 10)
Rev. H.N. Drummond and J.W. Blencowe. A vocabulary of the language of Phileni, Matema, Nukapu and Nupani, collected 1910 (ms) (File 2. Box 10)
Letter from J.W. Blencowe to Ray: languages of Reef Island near Santa Cruz, 27 March [1912] (File 4. Box 10)
S.H. Ray. Vocabulary of the language of Longu, Guadalcanal, British Solomon Islands (ms) (File 10. Box 10)
E. Bourne. Vocabulary of the language spoken by the Thogokama tribe, Laube, Russell Island (ms), 4 October 1911 (File 11. Box 10)
H.B.T. Somerville and S.C. Weigall. Words and phrases in Roviana and Marovo with their English Equivalents, New Georgia (ms) (File 1. Box 11)
E. Bourne. Vocabulary of the Bumbatana (Varese) dialect, Choiseul Island, Solomon Island (ms), 1900 (File 1. Box 12)
Letter from S.H. Ray to Rev. W.G. Ivens: Bible translations into Arosi, 24 May 1928 (File 2. Box 12)
Rev. Allan H. Cropp. Vocabulary of the Petats district, north Solomon Islands (ts and ms) (File 4. Box 12)
Letter from A.J. Dawe (Colonial Office) to Ray: proposed Fijian-English dictionary, 26 February 1937 (File 7. Box 13)
Letter from Juxon Barton (Suva) to William Ormsby-Gore, 27 November 1936 (File 8. Box 13)
Question of preparing third edition of Hazelwood's Fijian grammar dictionary (copy + attachment).
F.W. Christian. Vocabulary of the language of Mokil (Duperrey Island), Caroline Islands (ms) (File 11. Box 14)
Letter from Maurice Leenhardt (Paris) to Ray: languages of New Hebrides, 27 May 1909 (File 18. Box 14)
Rev. A. Brittain (Norfolk Island). Vocabularies of three New Hebrides languages: Pentecost or Raga, Lepers Island or Opa, Aurora or Maewo (ms) (File 1. Box 16)
Letter from W.J. Durrad to Ray: sends Book of Genesis in language of Loh, 6 January 1915 (File 3. Box 16)
Letter from H.N. Drummond (Norfolk Island) to Ray: sends a Raga story with Mota translation, 5 December 1919 (File 14. Box 16)
Extract from A. Hagen and A. Pineau. Les Nouvelles Hebrides, Revue d'Ethnographie, vol.7, 1888 (File)
S.H. Ray. Native words in a comparative study of the Melanesian island languages (4 exercise books and some loose sheets) (File)
Vocabularies of languages of Solomon Islands, New Mecklenburg, Bismarck Archipelago and Admiralty Islands taken from manuscript of G. Friederici (4 exercise books) (File)
Words and phrases in the Savo language (File)
Collected by W.H.R. Rivers (loose sheets), Okahakae (exercise book), notebook of Rev. J. Palmer, Melanesian Mission, given to Ray by Rev. R.H. Codrington.
Letters, 11 July 1890 - 12 July 1915 (File)
From Horatio Hule (11 July 1890), Oscar Michelsen (New Hebrides, 18 Feb. 1891), Oscar Michelsen (Christiana, 11 Dec. 1891), Lorimer Fison (Melbourne, 29 Feb. 1892), C. Fox (Cambridge, 12 July 1915).
Papers largely relating to New Guinea and Papua (File)
(1) Admiralty islands (cover only) (2) British New Guinea: Hydrographer Range (3) Papua: central north-eastern (4) Melanesian New Guinea (5) Papua: west central (6) Papua: north-east (7) Melanesian New Guinea: supplementary (8) German New Guinea and New British (9) German New Guinea: islands (10) Netherlands New Guinea: Schouten Archipelago (11) Netherlands New Guinea: Kumara Peninsula (12) New Hebrides: Raga Maewo (13) Solomon Islands: central Isabel, New Georgia, Bougainville Straits (14) German New Guinea: mainland (15) Papua, Solomon Islands.
Fonds MS 183038. Manuscript index to Alexander Dalrymple's collection of maps, charts and plans, 1773 - 1807
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Australia; Dalrymple, Alexander; Maps, plans and charts; New Zealand.
Manuscript index to Alexander Dalrymple's collection of maps, charts and plans printed between 1773 and 1807 (File)
The third volume contains a few charts of Australia and New Zealand and many of the East Indies, New Guinea and parts of South East Asia. There is also a list of six volumes of memoirs.
Series MS 18945. Papers of Robert Dundas
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Dundas, Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Dundas (1771-1851) was the President of the Board of Control for India.
Papers of Robert Dundas, relating to the claims of officers of the 73rd Regiment for allowances due to them for service in India in 1805-1806 (File)
They comprise a letter from the officers to Lt. Col. Lachlan Macquarie, the commanding officer of the Regiment, and correspondence between Macquarie, Lt. Col. J. Gordon of the War Office, and Dundas, June-July 1808. There is also a minute of the Court of Directors of the East India Company.
Series MS 40801. Manuscripts of S.H. Ray
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Australia; Easter Island; Ray, Sidney H.
Series MS 40894. Vocabulary of the language of the Otati tribe, Cape Grenville, Queensland, 1898
2 itemsArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Indigenous Australians; Indigenous Australians: Queensland; Indigenous Australians: vocabularies; Otati Community (Indigenous Australians), Queensland; Pim, G.; Ray, Sidney H.; Seligman, Charles G.
Series MS 41645. Notebooks of William Dawes, 1790 - 1793
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Dawes, William; L'Esperance, French ship; Indigenous Australians; Indigenous Australians: vocabularies; La Recherche, French ship.
Biographical / Historical
William Dawes (1762-1836), a lieutenant in the Marines, arrived in New South Wales on HMS Sirius in 1788. He was employed on shore as an engineer, surveyor and astronomer. He built an observatory at what is now Daves Point and it was there that he became aquainted with the Aboriginal people and made a close study of their langauge. He returned to England in 1792.
Two notebooks containing words, translations, snippets of conversations, and explanations of expressions of the people of Sydney, c. 1790-1793 (File)
4 items
Part a, 1790 (Item)
Grammatical forms of the language of New South Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney.
Part b (Item)
Vocabulary of the language of New South Wales in the neighborhood of Sydney. This notebook contains inter alia snatches of dialogue between Dawes and Patyegarang, a young Aboriginal woman, who seems to have been his main language teacher.
Part c, c.1790-1791 (Item)
Vocabulary of the language of the people of New South Wales, including names of places, Indigenous men and women, and tribes.
This manuscript was probably not written by William Dawes. It is written in at least three hands, in both rough and fair scripts, and judging from the scripts it is likely the writers were Arthur Phillip, David Collins and John Hunter.
Series MS 50494. W.G. Ivens. A grammar of the language of Pangkumu, Malekula Island, New Hebrides (ms)
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M685.
Subjects
Ivens, W.G.; New Hebrides: vocabularies.
Series MS 68121. S.H. Ray
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reels M685-M686.
Subjects
Maori: language; Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea: language; Ray, Sidney H.
Bibliography of printed books, articles and manuscripts on linguistics and Pacific and South East Asian languages (File)
Bibliography of printed books, articles and manuscripts on linguistics and Pacific and South African languages held in Ray's library
- Part 1: Collective works
- Part 2: Indonesian languages
- Part 3: Micronesian languages
- Part 4: Polynesian languages
- Part 5: Melanesian languages: Melanesian islands
- Part 5: Melanesian languages: New Guinea
- Part 6: Papuan languages
- Part 7: Australian languages
- Index to S.H. Ray's bibliography
- Title pages of vols. 2-6
- Volume 7: Philology general
- Volume 8: Anthropology, psychology, religion and folklore
- Volume 9: Biography, history of missions, travels, exploration, geography
Series Accession 38277. Vocabularies of native dialects, British New Guinea, extracted from the annual reports, 1889 - 1896
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
British New Guinea: vocabularies.
Series MS 9882. Vocabularies of (a) the language of Tonga and the Friendly Islands and (b) the language of New Caledonia, 1793
1 itemCompiled by officers of the French frigates L'Esperance and Recherche. (ms, 9 parts)
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
L'Esperance, French ship; La Recherche, French ship; New Caledonia; Tonga: vocabularies.
Series MS 12023. Daniel Solander, c.1773
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
Solander, Daniel C.; Tahiti: vocabularies.
Series MS 12139. Malayan / Sumatran manuscripts
1 itemArchival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
Banks, Sir Joseph; Malaya; Sumatra.
Series MS 12153. Sir Joseph Banks. Vocabularies of the languages of Tahiti, Prince's Island, Sulu, Samarang, New Holland, New Zealand and Savu, c. 1769-1780
1 itemSome vocabularies are in Banks's handwriting and on others Banks has written notes.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
Banks, Sir Joseph; French in the Pacific; Maori: language; New Zealand; Savu, Indonesia; Semarang, Indonesia; Sulu, New Britain; Tahiti: vocabularies.
Series M12156. Vocabularies of the languages of Tahiti, New Zealand, Savu, Prince's Island, Samarang, Sulu, Madagascar, the Mandingos, the Eskimos, Malabar and Peru, c.1770-1780
Some of the vocabularies appear to have been copied from MS 12153.
Archival History
Originally filmed on AJCP reel M686.
Subjects
Madagascar; Maori: language; New Zealand; Peru; Savu, Indonesia; Semarang, Indonesia; Sulu, New Britain; Tahiti: vocabularies.