| | 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 Peter S. Du Ponceau
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 30 December 1817 | | | | Extent: | 1 letter | | | | Abstract: | Indian vocabularies. Letter included with manuscript item, "Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana, its limits and bounds" | | | | Source: | Chronological series of facts relating to Louisiana (973.4 J35c) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
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