RC (MHi); dateline at foot of text; at head of text: “To his Excellency Thomas Jefferson Esqr”; endorsed by TJ as received 25 Dec. 1817 from “Chazotte Pierre Stephen” and so recorded (with first name abbreviated as “P.”) in SJL. Enclosure: Chazotte, An Essay on the Best Method of Teaching Foreign Languages, as applied with extraordinary success to the French language; with A Table, displaying the Philosophy of the Relative Personal Pronouns, and rendering their use and syntax perfectly easy at first sight. to which is prefixed A Discourse, on the Formation and Progress of Languages (Philadelphia, 1817; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 5 [no. 212]).