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<font size=3>Hi, all.<br><br>
Hoping for some potentially useful anecdotal data, I asked my
correspondent who found copies of Long and Phillips if there were any
inscriptions or marginalia within or family history associated with the
books. She replied she'd found them at an estate sale in Seattle, but did
find some things tucked inside The Chinook Book, and sent me
scans.<br><br>
One is a newspaper clipping (which she believes dates to 1945 from an
article on the back, though it could have been as late as 1960) by
Washington historian C.T. Conover, probably in the Seattle Times, a
capsule tidbit of Jargon history. I uploaded it to a temporary dir
at my Website to share here. See
<<a href="http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/chinook.jpg" eudora="autourl">http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/chinook.jpg</a>><br><br>
More intriguing is the worn and cover-less, older-appearing dictionary
found tucked inside The Chinook Book. She first sent
<<a href="http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/chinook2.jpg" eudora="autourl">http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/chinook2.jpg</a>>
(a symbol-pronunciation legend and numbers in Jargon), which might
determine the book, but was a bit sketchy for recognition, so she
obligingly furnished scans of
<<a href="http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/preface1.jpg" eudora="autourl">http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/preface1.jpg</a>>
and
<<a href="http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/interior.jpg" eudora="autourl">http://chinookjargon.home.attbi.com/view/interior.jpg</a>>
to further aid me in identifying the work.<br><br>
My first guess was that this is a Hibbens, but I haven't gone to look yet
at the page scans of the two of them I know of the Web (one at Marv's
site and one at Canadiana). Anyway, here they are for kicking
around. The printing, paper and binding do appear mid-late 19th
century.<br><br>
These are 75-200KB color .jpgs, so they'll take a while to see on a
dial-up, but due to the clarity of these scans I didn't reduce and
flatten them to contrasted greyscale .gif's as I usually would before
uploading them. (If anybody has trouble with the size, lemme know and
I'll squish 'em down.)<br><br>
Regards,<br><br>
Jeff</font></body>
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