I got this email from a college prof. and thought SC lists might have some
answers. - Marian

"I was given a book called 'Cryin' In De Wilderness' by A.H. von Kolnitz.
This is
a book of  the "Sermons and Adventures of Reb're Nichodemus Ezra Malachi
LEE, of MAXFIELD-ON-SANTEE."  The author claims he is writing in Gullah.  He
also claims, "The Gullah is a pleasing, quite soft but somewhat gutteral
dialect which represents  the Low Country negro's attempts to speak our
language, but which lapses in its most primitive stages into an actual
admixture of native African roots and phrases."

The book has no copyright date.
The publisher is Walker, Evans, & Cogwell, Co., Charleston, SC.
The only date on the book is a handwritten signature of Alfred H. M. KOBRUTZ
[I think], Charleston, SC., Dec., 1936.

Has anyone ever heard of this book?  Do you know of any source I might try
to
find information about this book?

Thanks,
Yvonne Atkinson
[email protected]

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