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[Grammar of the New Zealand language] or [Easy lessons in the New Zealand language]

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  • Object Type

    book

  • Name/Title
    [Grammar of the New Zealand language] or [Easy lessons in the New Zealand language]
  • Primary Maker

     Rev Thomas Kendall

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Thomas Kendall
  • Place
    [Sydney, New South Wales, Australia]
  • Date
    1832?
  • Physical Description

    pages 17-48 ; 21 cm.

  • Language
    Te Reo Māori
    English
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

    2 items in this collection. View all items.

  • Subject Category

    Maori language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

    Maori language--Orthography and spelling

  • Content
    "Proofs from the abortive 1832 effort to publish."--Binney, Judith
  • Public Access Text

    Incomplete copy of proof sheets of part of a proposed but unpublished grammar. See William's, Bibliography of printed Maori to 1900, Supplement, item 6a. Original housed in coarse blue jacket with title inscribed as "Kendall's Maori Grammar, Sydney, written 1818. The 1st Maori book ever printed." Dominion Special Service news-clipping on flyleaf gives back ground information.. Newspaper clipping, referenced on photocopy as Dominion Aug 7th 1933. Inscribed by Kendall on p.

    17 "Rev Mr Hill with the authors compliments" and on p. 25, "Rev. Mr Hill, with Rev. Tho. Kendall's compliments." Kendall uses letter "D" in Maori orthography.

  • Associated Notes

    http://acms.sl.nsw.gov.au/album/albumView.aspx?itemID=916892&acmsid=0

    Digitised text online from the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.

  • Subject Notes
    'Kendall wrote on May 24, 1827 from Valparaiso to the Rev. Edw. Bickersteth, of the CMS, on the subject of his "Easy Lessons in the New Zealand Language", which he wished to have published if the MS., which he had forwarded, was approved by Professor Lee, ands asks "if a revision of the New Zealand Grammar and Vocabulary will be acceptable to the Society." He settled in Sydney shortly after this, and was drowned there in 1832'.-- Williams, 6a supplement.
  • Collection Type
    Reserve Collection
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023
  • Language Description
    Maori and English
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