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Box 1

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Contains 15 Results:

50 pp. typescript, includes most of what is included in a handwritten copy of journal in possession of the Archives of the Hawaiian Board, Honolulu. This handwritten copy must have been made from the originals., 1820-1824

 File — Box: 1, Reel: 3
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Filmed papers consist of four journals (1819-27, 65 ft. microfilm) dealing with Loomis's experiences as a Congregational missionary in the Hawaiian Islands, with his pioneering work in reducing Hawaiian to a written language, printing Hawaiian spelling books, hymnals, and tracts, and teaching native English and Hawaiian, and with religious instruction, sermons, and conversions; contain scattered references to native religion, child-rearing habits, polygamy, and other customs, conflicts...
Dates: 1820-1824