The journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson (1788-1866),
the Chief Protector of Aborigines of Port Phillip from 1839 to
early 1850, are a rich source of historical and ethnohistorical
information. His voluminous private papers and journals were
acquired by the Mitchell Library in New South Wales in 1939 from
the estate of his son Arthur P. Robinson of Bath, England. The
papers did not arrive in Sydney until 1949, their departure from
England being delayed by their possible destruction in transit
during the second world war. N.J.B. Plomley (1966, 1987) has
published the journals that relate to Robinson's period in Tasmania
(1829-1838), and Ian D. Clark (2000, 2014) has published the
journals that concern Victoria (1839-1852). This volume is the
second volume in a series that will publish the Papers of GA
Robinson that concern Port Phillip/Victoria. These will include
Letterbooks (1839-1848), Correspondence (1839-1852), Official
Reports (1841-49); Aboriginal Vocabularies (1839-1852); and
Miscellanea. Volume One, the Chief Protector's Office Journal
(1839-1850), has already been published. This present volume is
Volume Two: Aboriginal Vocabularies, Southeast Australia, 1839 -
1852. The entries in this volume have been collated from one volume
of Robinson's Papers (Vol. 65, Aboriginal Vocabularies: South East
Australia, 1839 - 1852). Robinson's collection of Aboriginal
vocabularies from south-eastern Australia is perhaps the largest
source of information on the languages of the area that we have,
certainly it is the most varied. It covers practically every area
of Victoria as well as some adjacent areas of South Australia and
New South Wales. Indigenous people seeking to reclaim their
languages and linguists working on these languages will now have
for the first time easy access to the complete collection
faithfully transcribed by Ian Clark.
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