MS (PPAmP); in the hand of Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge); beneath title, in Peter S. Du Ponceau’s hand: “Communicated by Mr Jefferson”; numerous words translated in right margin by Du Ponceau into the Choctaw, Delaware, Naudowessie, Onondaga, Tuscarora, and Wyandot languages, with only those not included in the enclosure to his letter to TJ of 13 July 1820 noted below. Text bound with short works by John Heckewelder and Christian F. Kampman and also a newspaper clipping, apparently from the Petersburg Intelligencer, dated 17 Mar. [1820] and entitled “THE NOTTOWAY INDIANS,” which reads “The only remains in the state of Virginia, of the formidable tribes which once composed the Powhatan confederacy, are the Pamunkeys and Nottoways with a few Mottoponies. The Nottoway Indians in number about twenty seven, including men, women and children, occupy a tract of seven thousand acres of excellent land upon the west side of Nottoway river, two miles from Jerusalem, in the county of Southampton. The principal character among them is a woman, who is styled their Queen. Her name is Edie Turner. She is nearly sixty years of age, and extremely intelligent, for although illiterate, she converses and communicates her ideas with greater facility and perspicuity than women among the lower orders in society. She has a comfortable cottage well furnished, several horses and cows, and keeps her portion of the settlement in a good state of cultivation. The ancient Nottoway or Powhatan language is only known to the queen and two other old Indians. This language is evidently of Celtic origin; and appears equally harmonious and expressive as either the Erse, Irish, or Welch. It has two genders, masculine and feminine; three degrees of comparison, and two articles; but the verbs are extremely irregular.”