Item 27 - Handy: Marquesan legends

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Handy: Marquesan legends

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Handwritten transcriptions of documents, including: J.M. Orsmond, Griffin Town, to Burker(?), English translation of letter from the 2nd class of scholars at South Sea Academy in answer to Burker’s letter to the Church of Moorea, 20 Sep 1827 (AJCP mf of LMS SS Letters), 5pp.; Orsmond for Jan-Feb 1821 (from AJCP mf of LMS SS Journals), examples of metaphorical poetic speech, 4pp.; Pitman and Williams to Directors, concerning Rarotonga, 6 & 21 Nov 1827, some notes relevant to Society Islands, 3pp.; E.S.C. Handy, ‘Marquesan Legends’, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 69, Honolulu, 1930, 16pp.;  E.S.C. Handy, ‘The Native Culture in the Marquesas’, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 1923, 2pp.;  AJCP Reel 1580, PRO Admiralty, Ship Class: Ships Logs, Supplementary Series II, Short Ref. Adm.55/39, Endeavour 26 August 1768 – 20 October 1769, Log (Master’s Log), 11pp. & insert, with Adm.55/40, Journal of James Cook, Endeavour, 27 May 1769– 10 July 1771, list of islands, 3pp., and notes on Adm.55/41 & 42, 1p.; SSL Box 8, folder 3, jacket C (AJCP, LMS, M25), “a few remarks on the happy death of some Church Members 1830 & 1831 (Huahine)”, and other LMS sources, 5pp. SSL [South Seas Letters, LMS, SOAS], P.R.O. Adm. [Admiralty]’

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