Charles Elliot Fox Papers, 1924-0

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Charles Elliot Fox Papers, 1924-0

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Photostatic copies of papers of a British missionary who served on San Christobal in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Melanesia. Materials consist of Fox's manuscript for a dictionary, grammar, and transcribed tales of the Arosi language of San Cristobal island, ca 1924; and a dictionary and grammar of the Lau language of Malaita, n.d. The Arosi tales have not been translated. Also included is a photocopy of Fox's article "Beliefs and Tales of San Cristobal" (1915).

0.60 linear feet; (2 archives boxes)

eng,

University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.

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Fox, C. E. (Charles Elliot), 1878-1974

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The Rev. Dr. C. E. Fox was born in Dorset, England in 1878, and was educated in New Zealand. He joined the Melanesian Mission from New Zealand and was posted to the Mission's school on Norfolk Island in 1902. After being ordained in 1903, he spent some time in the Banks Group of the New Hebrides before going to San Cristobal, Solomon Islands in 1908 where he began a school and started learning the local languages. He remained in the Solomons throughout the Pacific war, living behind Japanese lin...