| | 1 | Author: | Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849 | | | | | U. S. Representative, Secretary of the Treasury, diplomat, linguist. An immigrant to America in 1780, Gallatin later served as a representative in the U. S. Congress from western Pennsylvania, secretary of the treasury under Jefferson, and U.S. diplomatic representative abroad. Gallatin had a strong interest in the ethnology and linguistics of the American Indians. He was founder of the American Ethnological Society in 1842 and an important contributor to its Transactions. | |
| | | Title: | Letters to Peter Du Ponceau
| | | | Type: | Text items | | | | Format: | Correspondence | | | | Language: | English | | | | Dates: | 20 May 1826 - 12 February 1839 | | | | Extent: | 2 letters | | | | Abstract: | American Indian languages | | | | Source: | Peter S. Du Ponceau Papers (B D92p) | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Linguistics and philology | |
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