Robert Maxwell McBrair,Foolah Grammar, 1853.

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  • Reference
    • GB 227 msPL8182.M2
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1853
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Fulah
  • Physical Description
    • 1 volume, 22ff

Scope and Content

Robert Maxwell McBrair, Sketch of the Foolah Grammar.

An identification of the principal parts of speech of the Fulfulde or Fula language of West Africa.

Administrative / Biographical History

Robert Maxwell McBrair (1808-1874), son of Robert Maxwell McBrair of Govan, Glasgow, a shipping merchant, and Jean Johnstone of North Leith, Edinburgh. He was born in Glasgow, studied at Edinburgh University and became a Wesleyan minister. He worked as a missionary in Africa, during which time he became interested in native languages and compiled guides to the grammar of several including Fulah. He may have been the author of An Apology for Wesley & Methodism, in reply to the Misrepresentation of S Taylor and the North British Review, published in 1852.

Arrangement

Single item

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Presented to the library by the author, 1853

Note

Call number used to be ms5151

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Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

Binding: marbled paper. Paper: 18.5x23cm

Archivist's Note

Description compiled by Maia Sheridan, Archives Hub project archivist, based on material from the Manuscripts Database

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