[William Saville, notebook]

Unidentified notebook - appears to be by William Saville, containing manuscript notes relating to Mailu language, customs and beliefs. Includes index.

Archive & Special Collections CWML MSS/008 Open

Order number: CWML MSS 8
Date(s) of creation: n.d.
Level: Item
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
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scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with CWML MSS 8
callnumber CWML MSS/008
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prefix_number 008
title [William Saville, notebook]
scb_date_creation n.d.
scb_level Item
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scb_extent 1 vol (434 pp)
format Archive
scb_admin_history William James Viritahitemauvai Saville was born on 22 Jan 1873, at Huahine, Society Islands, South Seas. He was the son of Rev Alfred Thomas Saville, a missionary with the London Missionary Society. William Saville was appointed to Mailu, Papua, by the London Missionary Society, and sailed on 6 Jul 1900. He settled at Mailu in Mar 1901. He married Frances Lawes on 6 Jun 1903. He started a new mission station at Millport Harbour in 1901, but returned to Mailu in 1909. Mr and Mrs Saville pioneered among the Dimuga people, and in 1933 settled the first teachers among them. He translated the New Testament in Mailu, and published a Grammar of the Mailu language, a Papuan School Reader and a Mailu-English Dictionary. He retired in 1935. He died in 1946. Mrs Saville died in 1956.
description Unidentified notebook - appears to be by William Saville, containing manuscript notes relating to Mailu language, customs and beliefs. Includes index.
scb_access_status Open
language English
Mailu
language_search English
Mailu
scb_related_material See also CWML MSS 9 and CWML MSS 304
hierarchy_top_id_raw CWML MSS
hierarchy_sequence CWML_MSS.00008

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