Printed material bound into one volume, with annotations: War in Tahiti (1-87); Fragments from a collection of songs, numbered 321-332; Orsmond manuscript material; Reception of the Gospel.
Tahiti, Polynesia
7 archival descriptions results for Tahiti, Polynesia
Notes and transcriptions from research in Archives Nationales, Archives d’Outre-Mer
Transcrip by Driessen pp.1-61 of the original manuscript (LMS archives, SOAS)
Printed material bound into one volume, with annotations: Te mau arioi / Tahitian Prayers (p.1-64); Beginning of expansion (development) of the London Mission Tahitian Dictionary (p1-56)
Handwritten transcription of French documents mostly of the 1840s, most with English facing translation. Heading include voyage of Pomare.
Handwritten notes on geneology in Tahite, Captain Cook. Transcription of parts of journal of J. Byron, 1764-66. Some pages excised.
Folder containing correspondence (between Dreissen and Anne Salmond), notes on Polynesian geographical knowledge, biographical notes and genealogies. Headings include: ‘Teva’ (‘the war between Teva and Te oro-pa’a, Tahiti’, with genealogies); ‘Tupaia’; ‘Tupaia and others geographical knowledge’; ‘Molyneux’s list of islands compared to Cook’s list’; ‘Tupaia & Central Polynesian Geography’, with extensive notes island by island.