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Survey of the collection (II): the manuscripts Besides the larger manuscripts written in English and French, containing Schuver's text for his two books, Jan Schuver discovered a great many more handwritten materials in the storage place behind the wall. For example there is a black notebook containing a list of the letters Schuver sent to his uncle and those his uncle wrote to him, with a short note on the contents of each. The lists also contain details of the ethnographic objects Schuver had acquired, the photographs he purchased in Egypt, and the books found in his room in Marseille. Other notebooks contain reports on his travels, written in Dutch and English, and a survey in French of all the journeys he made from 1871 on. There were also vocabularies on a number of the languages spoken in the Sudan, meteorological observations and place locations, and sketches for future maps. Part of the content of the notebooks, together with the vocabularies, are published as appendices to the English version of Schuver's travel journals. | |
