Henry Goronwy Alun Hughes,
Papers

MSS 0047

Series II. Research notes
Arranged by date of compilation (where known)
Many items are microfiche
See also Series X

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Western Samoa. Historical notes (Apia 1935) Typescript (photocopy) and microfiche copy.

Spanish notes and essays 1936-40. 11v. [extensive notes on Spanish literature, language and architecture, with a chronology in vol. 11 of significant literary and historical events from the 12th century] Microfiche.

Linguistics – general [Roneoed course notes, newspaper clippings etc on linguistics and languages, African languages etc Includes notes on the Ethnographical survey of Africa conducted by the International African Institute, catalogue of an exhibition of modern language course books from the London University Institute of Education 1947, teaching notes from Hughes time as Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies(?), and newspaper cuttings and articles 1943-49. Also typescript ‘The new school of philology: a speech delivered by II Meshchaninov at the Jubilee speech of the USSR Academy of Sciences 1945, and ‘A note on the founder of Soviet linguistics’ [Nikolai Marr] Print copies.

Bibliographies: HGA Hughes Colonial Dept. I of E London, 1948. [bibliographies on anthropology and linguistics from books and periodicals, and reading lists for anthropology courses at Northwestern and Cornell Universities] Roneoed, print and manuscript copies.

English- Gilbertese vocabulary A-C. Microfiche of manuscript (1949) and typescript.

[Pacific notes 1950-52]
The following notes were compiled by Hughes in 1951-52 on fieldwork in the Gilbert Islands and Funafuti, on visits to the American Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (Marshall Islands, Ponape and Truk) and during a linguistic survey in Western and American Samoa, with some preliminary work in London in 1950. The name of the local informant and the place and date of the transcription are given where available.

See also Series VI for manuscript transcriptions and notes made by Hughes from other sources during this period.

• Atafu texts Puasei Karamelu (1952) Microfiche
• Atafu (Tokelau) texts. Puasei Karamelu (1952) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Butaritari & Maiana stories & songs. Teng Kiang Iona (Raweai, Maiana, 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Butaritari: songs & stories. Teng Kiang Iona (1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Butaritari stories 1 & 2 Teng Kiang Iona (1951) 2 ms notebooks and microfiche copy
• Ellice stories and songs (Tuvalu, 1952) Microfiche
• Ellice texts Saulo Teasi (Tuvalu, 1952) Microfiche
• Funafuti songs and stories (Tuvalu, 1952) Microfiche
• Funafuti songs and stories Poutoa Solomona (1952) Microfiche
• Funafuti songs, stories & texts (1952) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Funafuti texts Poutoa Solomona (1952) Microfiche
• A notebook from Funafuti (1952) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Land names & garden names: land tenure - Funafuti (1951) [lists] Microfiche
• D.O. Gilberts: extracts from files [extracts from the District Officer's travelling diary, 1949-50: on local history, customs, ownership, etc. Transcribed by Hughes in 1951] Microfiche
• Gilbertese Magic Microfiche
• Gilbertese fortune telling Ten Tioti (Abaiang 1951) [p. 2-7 Gilbertese; p.8-26
• Notes on fortune-telling numerology, collected in Abaiang in 1951] Microfiche
• Gilbertese custom and tradition [texts from Te Nutipepa] Microfiche

See also SeriesI/1 Articles …Language and customs

• Gilbert Islands: extracts from published works (1951) Microfiche
• Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony: report extracts. Microfiche
• Notes on Gilbertese (1950) Microfiche
• Gilbertese recording scripts. Informant: Bauro Ratieta (Marakei) Ms and typescript pages in folder
• Gilbertese texts (Abaiang 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Gilbertese texts 1 (Butaritari 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Gilbertese texts 2 Recorded by Teng Kiang Iona, Raweai, from Nei Rawita, Na Kaiea ("King Kaiea") and
• T. Willie Teaniki (Butaritari 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Gilbertese texts by Teng Kiang Iona. Microfiche
• Gilbertese Texts. Te Kautu/Ten Tenene (Bairiki 1951) Microfiche
• Gilbertese Texts. Ten Kiang Iona (Raweai, Maiana 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• BSC colours in Gilbertese Bauro Ratieta (1950) [renderings of British Standard Colours by Tem Bauro Ratieta, based on tests with BSC colour charts conducted by Hughes, London 1950. Each colour term was discussed by Hughes and Ratieta, and was agreed as definitive] Microfiche
• Loanwords in Gilbertese. (1950) Microfiche
• Land names-Tarawa. (1951) Microfiche
• Ten Tioti : Gilbertese stories from Abaiang Ten Tioti (Abiang) Microfiche
• Te Kariki Mai Marawa. Ten Tutu (Abaokoro) [story from the southern Gilberts] MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Itinimari [Ishinimarij] of Arorae – now of Ponape (1951). Ellice songs heard on Kusai by Itinimari and written by him for H.G.A. Hughes, on Ponape 1951. 1 notebook
• Marshall Islands folk stories Microfiche
• Notes on Marshallese grammar. (Majuro, Marshall Islands 1951) Microfiche
• Notes on Marshallese language. (1951) Microfiche
• Missionary press imprints (Papua, Gilbert Islands, Polynesia) [typescript list, with copies of correspondence by Miss Irene Fletcher of the London Missionary Society, George L. Harding, Palo Alto and W.J.V. Saville of the LMS Mailu, Papua] Microfiche
• Nauruan/Eigigu. (1951) [Notes on Nauruan from informant Agoko on Ocean Island, April-June
• 1951] Microfiche
• The Nauruan language [extensive typescript notes/draft book? by Hughes] Microfiche
• The ownership of Niulakita [transcribed by Hughes from the files of the District Office, Ellice Islands, March 1952] Microfiche

See also copies of official documents 1944-48 relating to the claims in Series X

• Nui, Kiribati, Tuvalu texts (1951) [from various sources, listed on the first page] MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Nui texts (1952) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Nui customs and genealogies – after the Gilbertese occupation. Stories by Uitime and Falani. MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Notes on Samoan (1952) Microfiche
• Onotoa. Beero Naborian (Tabuarorae, 1951) MS notebook and microfiche copy
• Place names: Gilbert Islands Microfiche
• ‘Samoan Project rough notes 1951’ ‘Interviews by H.G.A. Hughes on Upolu and Tutuila 1950.’ [on Samoan language] 1 notebook
• Te Buaka i Tarawa. MS notes (3 p.) and microfiche copy
• Taian Reirei Ibukia Bureitiman N te Aba (c1950) Microfiche
• Texts from Banaba (1951) Microfiche
• Tokelau songs and stories (1952) Microfiche
• Tuvalu songs and stories Saulo Teasi (1952) Microfiche

The Sack of Rapa (=Papa Laua - Rapa Sosori), Posa and Savora (=Posa auka Savora ita), as told to Hui Rovaea, and Oa Molala, as told to Aisi Naime. Typescript (n.d.)

Notebook headed “Thesis” H.G.A. Hughes (SOAS) 1949 [includes notes on Samuel Marsden, the establishment of missions, the Samoan Mission Press, the Printing Office Leulumoega, ‘Samoan Reporter’, and bibliographical references]

Papers collected for proposed bibliography of Samoa, Tongan and Tokelau c1995-97. Print and ms copies. [Also includes lists and copies of catalogue cards of publications in various libraries and related correspondence; list of records relating to Samoa collected by Dr. R.P. Gilson and list of Pacific Internet sites as at January 1996 – microfiche copies]

Course (part) in Hausa taken by HGA Hughes in 1948-49 (teacher FW Parsons, SOAS) [11 leaves, typescript (Roneo copies).

Ms vocabularies, notes on grammar etc – various Pacific languages?

Miscellaneous notes, including ms poem ‘Arora’ by Teweiariki Teaero [in the shape of a pencil]; Transocean Song, Transocean Airlines / collected in Majuro 1950 by Amata Kabua by H.G.A. Hughes; linocut of a Pacific hut with palm trees etc