Comparative linguistics

Date: 29 Jan 1869-22 May 1910 - 31 March 1956

By: Shand, Alexander, 1840-1910

Reference: qMS-1789

Description: Transcriptions of letters mostly from Shand to S P Smith dealing with comparisons between Moriori and Maori vocabulary, and other aspects of Chatham Islands and Moriori history. There is an index at the end of the volume. The volume contains a copy of a letter written by J C Andersen in 1956, which explains the context of the letters and this volume. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Typescript (34 cm; ½ blue calf) Provenance: The original letters were given to J C Andersen, by Crompton Smith. According to a copy of a letter laid into this volume, from Andersen to the then Chief Librarian of the Turnbull Clyde Taylor, Andersen had organised for this copy of the transcriptions of the letters to be added to the Turnbull Library collection. Probably when Andersen was himself the Chief Librarian.

Date: [1940-1960]

From: McEwen, Jock Malcolm, 1915-2010: Collection

Reference: MS-Papers-6717-116

Description: Letter from Fox to McEwen re comparative linguistics of Polynesian languages; typescript of comparative vocabularies; and holograph draft of `Phonetic laws in Melanesian languages' by Fox Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1888-1926]

By: Hocart, Arthur Maurice, 1883-1939

Reference: MS-Papers-0060

Description: Papers relate to anthropological and philological researches of the Pacific. Also includes some genealogies, personal papers, unpublished drafts, literary papers, field notebooks and correspondence. Includes ethnographic notes from Fiji, Roviana, Tonga and elsewhere. Also includes literary drafts and Xerox copies of Hocart's photographs. Other - `A bibliography of A M Hocart, 1883-1939' / Rodney Needham. [Oxford, B Blackwell for the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, 1967] Relationship complexity - See Library catalogue for further A M Hocart material (PAColl-1914; qms-0963; MSX-5207; MS-Papers-1187-073; and Series-0241 in collection MS-Group-0677. Hocart was a British ethnologist who was involved in expeditions to the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Rotuma, Wallis Island, Samoa and Tonga in the early part of the Twentieth Century. Quantity: 69 folder(s). 0.70 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs, mss, typescripts, printed matter, photographs, maps (some photocopies) Finding Aids: Piece-level inventory available. Indexes to notebooks available on request. Finding aids for photograph materials is available in the Photograph Archive backfile. Comprises listings of the photographs, and a copy of the "Heart of Fiji" guide to the exhibitoin of Hocart's photographs held at the National Library Gallery in 1993.. Processing information: This record was updated in March 2019 to highlight backfile guides to the materials.