[Notes on orthography]
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content: MS 3898 Materials relating to Powellʹs alphabet for recording Indian languages (part)

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 12 

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 16

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 17

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 20

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 22

Miscellaneous Philogical Materials No. 24
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content: Gibbs, George, 1815-1873
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection
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content: MS 9 George Gibbs collection / Research
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content: 13 Leaves
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content: Box 11, Folder 11
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Consists of Gibbs' notes on spelling, alphabet, and orthography, including extracts  from and notes on:

Lepsius, Richard.  Standard Alphabet for Reducing Unwritten Languages and Foreign Graphic Systems to a Uniform Orthography in European Letters. London: Williams & Norgate, 1863.

Pickering, John.  "On the Adoption of a Uniform Orthography for the Indian Languages of North America. " Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts And Sciences. 4 no. 22 (1820).

Also includes drafts of Gibbs' orthography as published in:

Gibbs, George. "Instructions for Research Relative to the Ethnology and Philology of America." Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections  7 no. 160 (1863).