1Extracts from the Gazette, 1734 (Franklin Papers)
...the Resurrection. English Liberties. Accidences, Nomenclator’s, Cato’s, and other School Books of various Sorts. Account Books of large Demi Paper and small Paper. Beavan’s Primitive Christianity. Honour of the Gout. Greek Lexicon. Latin Dictionary. Bibles of several Sorts, and several Sorts of Histories.
2Extracts from the Gazette, 1738 (Franklin Papers)
Cole’s Latin Dictionary.
3From Benjamin Franklin to William Strahan, 19 October 1748 (Franklin Papers)
Robert Ainsworth’s Latin-English and English-Latin dictionary, entitled
4Appendix D. Inventory of the Books in the Estate, c.1759 (Washington Papers)
Dr. Adam Littleton’s Latin dictionary in four parts
A New Latin Dictionary
6To Benjamin Franklin from ——— Richard and Other Favor Seekers, 2 July 1778 (Franklin Papers)
The abbé de Pellizer announces on October 21, from Paris, that the Spanish-French-Latin dictionary he has been working on is almost ready for the press; it has occurred to him that if he added the English language to it, the American’s collaboration and protection would be of enormous value. He, the...
7John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 23 October 1781 (Adams Papers)
Adam Littleton, Latin Dictionary, 6th edn., London, 1735, now among
8To John Adams from Francis Dana, 11 January 1782 (Adams Papers)
...time. My ward is not troublesome to me. I shou’d be unhappy to be deprived of him, and yet I am very anxious about his education. Here there are neither schools, instructors, or Books. A good Latin Dictionary is not to be got in this City.
9John Quincy Adams to John Adams, 12 January 1782 (Adams Papers)
...ward is not troublesome to me. I shou’d be unhappy to be deprived of him, and yet I am very anxious about his education. Here there are neither schools, instructors, or Books. A good Latin Dictionary is not to be got in this City. Had he finished his classical studies I shoud meet with no difficulty in his future education. I wou’d superintend and direct that in the course you wou’d...
10[Titlepage] (Adams Papers)
did not bring a Latin dictionary and could not find one in St. Petersburg for several months, he was unable to continue his classical studies until early 1782. Thereafter, he translated the biographical sketches of Cornelius Nepos and several of Cicero’s orations,...