Recent article on CJ

[David Lewis]

I did a simple search on Early Canadiana Online and found a paper that
Eells published in the American Anthropologist vol. VII.
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?id=ef55f44034&display=14946+0002

The essay appears to be a study of Chinook Jargon dictionaries, along with
a statement that he published a list about 1846 (p 302 middle). Could this
"list" be the dictionary or did he publish something afterwards. The essay
may be a study of other CJ dictionaries in preparation for publishing one
of his own. If this is the case then Eells would actually have two
dictionaries, technically.
David

At 05:49 AM 4/8/2003 +0000, Ros' Haruo wrote:
>>From: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>Reply-To: "David D. Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
>>To: CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
>>Subject: Re: Recent article on CJ
>>Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 00:29:57 -0400
>>
>>About another note in the same article -- did Eells really leave a 5-volume
>>Jargon dictionary manuscript?  Is this in the American Philosophical
>>Society library or some similar archive?
>
>I was just meaning to ask about the whereabouts of the Eells MS dictionary
>the other day. I don't know how many volumes, but Shaw clearly refers to it
>and says it's the non-plus-ultra authority (I've forgotten his precise
>words, but it's high praise). I believe his comment was in connection with
>the pronunciation section of his book, which I was looking at recently.
>
>lilEnd
>
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