1To Thomas Jefferson from Peter Birkman, 12 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
It is with feelings of respect due to the Man so dear to his country and so justly honoured by his fellow citizens, that a stranger, in that happy country, approaches to place in your hands a work composed in the U. S. which he hopes, will on examination be found in some degree useful.— The German language is becomming of more importance in the U.S. in the same degree that, a knowledge of the...
2From Thomas Jefferson to Peter Birkman, 30 May 1823 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for your chart of German grammar simplified, which I shall preserve for the use of our Univ ty whenever it shall be opened. this depending on future acts of our legislature, renders it indefinite in point of time, it has often been a subject of regret to me that I never learned the German language, now among the richest depositories of human science: I regret it particularly...