WYM 6A Quakers: 1860s-1900 WYM 6B Quakers: 1900-1970s WYM 7A Anglicans : 1860s-1970s WYM 8A French Protestant Mission: journal, 1897-1945 Hardyman WYM 8B French Protestant Mission: books, 18915-1970s WYM 9A Norwegian Lutheran Mission: 1860s-1970s WYM 10A American Lutheran Missions : 1880s-1970s Madagascar WYM 11A Roman Catholic Missions: 1825-1980s WYM 12A Geography WYM 13A Geology classmark WYM WYM 14A Flora and Fauna WYM 15A Anthropology WYM 16A Law WYM 17A Music and Hymnology WYM 18A Arts and Crafts WYM 19A Medical WYM 20A Numismatics WYM 20B Philately WYM 21: MALAGASY LANGUAGE WYM 21A Dictionaries/vocabularies/dialects WYM 21B Grammars WYM 21C Course books: Malagasy, French, English WYM 21D Oral literature prepared for learning Malagasy WYM 22: MALAGASY LITERATURE WYM 22A Oral literature WYM 22B Folklore WYM 23A Malagasy language (general) WYM 24A 19th-century Malagasy works WYM 25A European fi ction on Madagascar WYM 26: ANTSIHANAKA (Lake Alaotra) WYM 26A General, history, Sihanaka life WYM 26B Science, development WYM 26C Mission and church Level D WYM 27A Kendall Gale family WYM 28A Miscellaneous subject librarian E WYM: Rare books held in closed access. Ordered using a requisition slip Dawn Wright (room E10) [email protected] - tel 020 7898 4158 Introduction WYM 1: REFERENCE/PERIODICALS • The largest personal collection on Madagascar in existence, donated to SOAS Library WYM 1A Hardyman Madagascar Collection in 1991 by the retired missionary, Rev. James Hardyman and his wife, Marjorie WYM 1D Periodicals • Complements the Library’s own Madagascar collections in the: WYM 1B Bibliographies - Africa Section (Level D - classmark WY): European-language material on Madagascar WYM 1E Extra-large books - S.E. Asia Section (Level C - class-mark IBI): Malagasy languages WYM 1C Encyclopaedias - Archive and Library of the Council for World Mission/London Missionary Society WYM 2: HISTORY (Level F, Special Collections Reading Room) WYM 2A General history of Madagascar WYM 2B Origins of the Malagasy/overseas links Contents WYM 2H 1810-1828 • 3,000 publications in English, French and Malagasy; also Norwegian, Welsh and other WYM 2C Archaeology languages • Broad subject range, principally church and mission history in Madagascar, history, WYM 2J 1828-1870 anthropology, Malagasy language. Smaller sections cover geography, geology, fl ora and WYM 2D 1500-1810: mainly Portuguese links fauna, law, music and hymnology, arts and crafts, medicine, numismatics and philately WYM 2K 1870-1890 WYM 2E 1500-1810: other European links Location WYM 2L 1890-1895 • Main collection. Class-mark WYM (Level D) WYM 2F 18th century: pirates/Robert Drury • Old or rare books. Class-mark E WYM: closed-access material ordered and consulted WYM 2M 1895-1910 in the Special Collections Reading Room (Level F) WYM 2G 1500-1810: internal Malagasy history • James Hardyman’s private papers: correspondence, manuscripts, research notes and WYM 3: 20TH CENTURY HISTORY photographs. Class-mark PP MS 63: closed-access material ordered and consulted in WYM 3A 1910-1939 the Special Collections WYM 3C 1951-1971 • Reading Room (Level E) WYM 3B 1939-1950 Browsing WYM 3D 1971-1990 • Main collection can be browsed on the open shelves; online catalogue enables searches WYM 4 - WYM 11: CHURCH HISTORY ; Christian missions and churches for specifi c books, authors or subjects - or for categories of material such as rare books WYM 4A Roman Catholics • Online class-mark search for WYM and E WYM will bring up all publications held in the WYM 5A London Missionary Society: general Hardyman Madagascar Collection WYM 5B LMS: Protestant history • James Hardyman’s private papers are separately catalogued on the Archives and WYM 5C LMS: 1795-1835 Manuscripts Database in the Special Collections Reading Room (Level F) WYM 5G LMS: 1900-1920 • Remote access The Hardyman Madagascar Collection (excluding private papers) is WYM 5D LMS: 1835-1861 fully catalogued online. Internet access at www.soas.ac.uk/library WYM 5H LMS: 1920-1940 WYM 5E LMS: 10-yr. reviews, annual reports Layout WYM 5J LMS: 1940-1990 •The Library has maintained Hardyman’s own arrangement of the books: WYM 5F LMS: 1861-1900 WYM 5K Misc.: Revivalists & c.