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Words, phrases, and short dialogues, in the language of the Lenni Lenape, or Delaware Indians.
Philadelphia: Abraham Small, 1819
Physical Description: p. [3], 454-464, [2]; 24 cm.
Call number: DC/ A512to/ 1819
Accession number: 05478c
Notes: Lists over 300 words, expressions and sample sentences in Delaware with English equivalents.
Published as third part of Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge, vol. 1, Philadelphia, 1819, with as first part author’s An account of the history, manners, and customs, of the Indian nations, who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighbouring states, and as second part author’s A correspondence between the Reverend John Heckewelder, of Bethlehem, and Peter S. Duponceau... respecting the langauges of the American Indians .
JCB copy, with autograph of Nicholas Brown Junior on recto of front flyleaf, contains numerous annotations in either Nicholas Brown’s or Moses Brown’s hand.
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Languages: Delaware
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
