Box 1
Container
Contains 15 Results:
Volume I (original in Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library), Oct. 23, 1819-1821
File — Box: 1, Reel: 2
Dates:
Oct. 23, 1819-1821
Volume II (original in Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library), 1821-1823
File — Box: 1, Reel: 2
Dates:
1821-1823
Volume III - also, annotated typescript copy with glossary (original and typed copy in University of Hawaii Library), 1824-Jan. 1826
File — Box: 1, Reel: 2
Dates:
1824-Jan. 1826
Volume IV (original in Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Library), 1826-Oct. 26, 1827
File — Box: 1, Reel: 2
Dates:
1826-Oct. 26, 1827
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