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REEL LIST

PMB 1313	ROONEY, Isaac (1843-1931), Manuscript and printed material, 
1845-1915. 1 reel. (Available for reference.)

	Manuscripts
	
Reel 1	1.	Some photographs, probably copied from the publications of George Brown, with newspaper clippings many of which concerned the life and career of Isaac Rooney.	
	2.	Photograph of the 4 Rooneys, labelled “A Methodist Preacher’s Diamond Jubilee”.	
	3.	Letter, Levuka, August 25 1880, To “Dear Bro’ Rooney” – Isaac Rooney -  from Lorimer Fison. folded sheet written on four sides.	
	4.	Letter, Bau, September 7 1880, To “Dear Bro Rooney” from Fred Langham [Rooney], 2 sides of a sheet.	
	5.	Letter, Levuka, September 13 1880, To “My dear Bro Rooney” from Lorimer Fison: Includes the statement “Keep out of Sir Arthur Gordon’s way as you would avoid a lioness robbed of her whelps! He is going about roaring and seeking whom he may devour.”	
	6.	Letter, Levuka, October 14 1880, To “Dear Bro Rooney” from Fred Langham [Rooney]. I sheet, writing on both sides.	
	7.	Letter, Levuka, November 6 1880. To “Dear Bro Rooney” from Fred Langham [Rooney], folded sheet, 1 and a half sides.	
		
	Printed Books
	
	1.	A Buk Na Kelekele Ma Ra Buk Na Wetiri U Ra Lotu. Brisbane: Black, Reid & Co., Adelaide St, 1886. 20pp.  With annotation in pencil “Hymn Book, Duke of York, compiled by [?initial unclear] Rooney transl. of the Hymn by A.J. Rooney” [A short newspaper account of the founding of the Mission is tipped in; there are further annotations in the form of English names for some of the hymns]. Together  with, A No Pirawebat Ma Ra Buk Na Wetiri u Ra Lotu, Brisbane, Black, Kied & Co, 1885, 20pp., bound with the above.	
	2.	A hymn with chorus ‘Dat karikpa Jesu’ is tipped in the front, in pen with second sheet of presumed English translation, ‘Thanks to Jesus’. In a second copy of, A Buk Na Kelekele Ma Ra Buk Na Wetiri U Ra Lotu. Brisbane: Black, Reid & Co., Adelaide St, 1886. 20pp. Tipped in documents only microfilmed.	
	3.	Ai Vola Kei Vuravura.,by I. Rooney, 2nd edition. Sydney: Joseph Cook & Co., Printers. 1879. 47pp. [Possibly a geography text].	
	4.	A Kum Wewapau U Ra Pam Vuravura U Ra Tai Kuku Ma Un Iosefa… Melbourne: Mason, Firth & McCutcheon. 1886. 51pp [annotation in pencil ‘by I. Rooney’].	

	5.	Kum Wewapua U Ra Pam Vuravura U Ra Tai Kuku Ma Un Iosefa… Melbourne: Mason, Firth & McCutcheon. 1887. 51pp. [Annotation in pencil ‘Genesis to Death of Moses. Translated by S. Rooney, 1886].	
	6.	A Weupua Auakak Mareko I.A. Timui (St Mark in language of Duke of York Island, New Britain). Sydney: Joseph Cook & Co. 1882. 68pp.	
	7.	A Wewapua Avakak Mataio I.A. Tumutai (St Matthew, Duke of Yorks). Sydney: British and Foreign Bible Society. 1886. 146pp. [annotation in pencil ‘by I. Rooney’].	
	8.	Ai Vola Ni Veiyalayalati Vaou I Jisu Karisito. Sa Tabaki Mai Lodoni E Peritani 1875. 444pp. [? The New Testament].	
	9.	 Buka Ni Kera Lotu To Jisu Karasito Ta Liho Babatana Vudu ni Lauru Solomoni. By Rev. S. Rabone Rooney. Adelaide: Hussey & Gillingham. 1915. 71pp. [List of contents is handwritten in the front of the book].	
	10.	 Ai Vola Ni Meke E Na Vosa Vaka Viti. Sydney: Joseph Cook. 1877. 44pp.	
	11.	 Ai Vola Ni Sere E Na Vosa Vaka Viti. Sa Tabaki Mai Lodoni, E Peritani. 1884. 55pp. Bound in wth Ai Karua Ni Vola Ni Veitarogi E Nai Vakavuvuli Ni Vola Tabu. Sa Tabaki Mai Lodoni E Peritani. 1885, etc etc	
	12.	 A Vocabulary of the Tonga Language. Rev. S. Rabone. Vavau: Printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press, Neiafu, 1845. 217pp.	
	13.	 New Britain Mission: A Brief History. By Rev B. Danks. Sydney: Epworth. 1901 [has pencil annotations throughout]. Together with 1899 edition of Danks’, New Britain Mission: A Brief History.	
	14.	 Comprehensive Teachers Bible. London: S. Bagster & Sons. [very heavily annotated with notes for Sermons. Presented to Fred Rooney, May 3rd 1896]. Not microfilmed.	
	15.	 The Bible Christians: Their Origin and History. By F.W. Bourne. London: Bible Christian Book Room. 1905. [Tipped in is an early photo with pencil annotation “Other picture of Jonathan/ Fijian Tchr who brought us up from the Solomons”. Photograph only microfilmed.	
	Additional pamphlets.	
	What Happened to Darwin’s Evolution Theory? By Rev. I. Rooney, FRGS. [Adelaide] Hunkin, Ellis & King Ltd (printers), Pirie St, n.d., 23pp. 	
	Peake’s Commentary and the New Bible: an indictment. By Rev. I. Rooney, FRGS. Sydney, Christian Workers’ Depot, n.d., 31 pp. 	
	Peake’s Commentray. A Critique Dedicated (without permission) to Prof. Peake and the Higher Critics. By Rev. I. Rooney, FRGS. Adelaide, Hunkin, Ellis & King (printers), n.d., 19pp. 	
	Origin of Melanesian and Polynesian Races. By Rev. Isaac Rooney, FRGS. Read at the Adelaide Meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, held 1907; 6pp. 	
	Children of Britain. By Rev. W.L.I. Linggood. Sydney, Methodist Overseas Missions, 1953, 64pp., maps. 	

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