Fonds WMW - Papers of Walter Melville Wace

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GB 891 WMW

Titre

Papers of Walter Melville Wace

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  • [1918 - 1942] (Création/Production)

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1 folder

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Notice biographique

Walter Melville Wace was educated at Worcester College, Oxford, before serving in the Bedfordshire Regiment in the First World War. He then became a manager of a rubber plantation in Johor, then part of British Malaya. During this time he compiled this English- Malayalam Vocabulary. He spent the last fourteen years of his life in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and died in 1942. He is the author of Yolande of Johor (1929) and Wild Light (1932).

Histoire archivistique

The custodial history is unknown.

Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert

It is unknown when these Papers became part of the Society's Collections. The covering biographical note with the Vocabulary, might suggest that they were given after his death in 1942.

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Portée et contenu

"An English- Malayalam Vocabulary compiled by Melville Wace". 121 loose pages, typed, of an English to Malayalam vocabulary with extensive handwritten annotations. Also a front page with biographical details and bearing a Royal Asiatic Society stamp. The annotations and the biography have been added to the manuscript at a later date by an unidentified author who also seems to have undertaken repair of some of the pages.

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Conditions d'accès

Open. Please contact the archivist using the email address given here. The archive is open on Tuesdays and Fridays 10-5, and Thursdays 2-5. Access is to any researcher without appointment but it will help if an appointment is made via phone or email. Please bring photo ID

Conditions de reproduction

Digital photography (without flash) for research purposes may be permitted upon completion of a copyright declaration form, and with respect to current UK copyright law.

Langue des documents

  • anglais
  • mal

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    gb891-wmw

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        Note de l'archiviste

        These papers were catalogued by Nancy Charley, RAS Archivist, in 2019.

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