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J. Hammond Trumbull's partial transcription of the Gravier 'Dictionary of the Algonquin-Illinois Language' (entries Acha to Chinghiri), ca. 1860-1897
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Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains annotated books, correspondence, manuscripts, notebooks and notes, and other printed materials such as scrapbooks related to indigenous North American languages and geographical names. The collection includes large volumes of correspondence related to Trumbull’s work in developing lexicons, grammars, and indigenous geographic names throughout his life, as well as correspondence related to his publications and articles in journals on philology and early United States...
Dates:
ca. 1860-1897
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Photocopies of manuscript notebook written by Edwin James, and exhibit catalog "Middlebury's Edwin James and James's America, April-July 1984" , 1984-2000
File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The American Indian Collection is a small, eclectic collection of 18th and 19th century materials related to indigenous peoples in North America and their languages. The highlight of this artificial collection is the original manuscript of French Jesuit missionary Rev. Jacques Gravier (1651-1708), entitled 'Dictionary of the Algonquin Illinois Language' (ca. 1700), which was acquired and partially transcribed by James Hammond Trumbull (1821-1897), a noted philologist and statesman. It also...
Dates:
1984-2000
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections
Two Catholic books of prayers (includes liturgy and rituals of the Catholic Church), 1700
File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
(1) Book of prayers in Latin and Abenaki; purchased by John Pickering in Boston, 1846; (2) Book of prayers in French and Abenaki
Dates:
1700
Found in:
Watkinson Library - Archival Collections