%0 Archive %A Dawes; William (1762-1836); lieutenant %G English %G Dharuk %T Notebooks of William Dawes %X MS 41645 comprises four parts (a-d): (a) William Dawes, Grammatical Forms of the language in the neighbourhood of Sydney, 1790 (b) William Dawes, Vocabulary of the language of New South Wales, in the neighbourhood of Sydney (Native and English) (c) Vocabulary of the language of N.S. Wales, in the neighbourhood of Sydney (d) Short Vocabularies of the language spoken by natives of Van Diemen's land, collected by the Officers of the French frigates, la Recherche and L'Espérance, in 1793 The three notebooks (a) – (c) are in the physical form of two volumes. Parts (a) and (b) have been bound together; part (c) is a separate volume. Part (d) comprises loose sheets, originally inserted into part (c). Parts (a) and (b) were written by William Dawes and they contain words, translations, snippets of conversations, descriptions and explanations of expressions and situations, and some sketchy maps. Prominently figuring in these manuscripts is a young Dharuk (Darug) woman, Patyegarang (often Dawes calls her 'Patye'). The third notebook (c) was probably not written by Dawes, and is attributed to 'Anonymous'. Part (d) comprises four vocabularies, collected by four French officers.