| 1 | Author: | Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 | | | | U.S. President, statesman, savant. Jefferson held several positions in the government of both Virginia and the United States. He was U. S. Secretary of State, under Washington, from 1790 to 1793; vice-president from 1796-1801; president, 1801-1809. As President of the American Philosophical Society, from 1797 to 1815, Jefferson actively promoted geographical, paleontological, botanical, and linguistic studies in the United States. | |
| | Title: | Letter to General Daniel Smith
| | | Type: | Text items | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | Language: | English | Chickasaw | | | Dates: | 10 September 1800 | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | Abstract: | Chickasaw vocabulary | | | Source: | Thomas Jefferson Papers (B J35.36) | | | |
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| | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
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