1John Waldo to Thomas Jefferson, 25 April 1814 (Jefferson Papers)
For your obliging and highly esteemed favour of August 16 th pl e ase to accept my warmest thanks. My apology for not presenting them at a much earlier period, is this; My business of teaching leaves but a little of my time unoccupied, & the preservation of my heal t h requires a great proportion of that little to be devoted to relaxation & exercise. Had I contemplated writing only the few...
2John Waldo to Thomas Jefferson, 27 March 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Having, with much care and under peculiar difficulties, written a grammar of the English languag e , my object is now to make the public acquainted with its real merits. But the present rage for publishing works of this kind, has rendered them so numerous as to destroy all curiosity to examine them; and the high repute in which Lindly Murray’s is held, has also removed all expectation of...