1Nathaniel F. Moore to Thomas Jefferson, 31 August 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
Knowing, as I do, your attachment to the cause of letters in general, and the particular interest you feel in whatever is connected with their advancement here in our own country, I do not doubt you will receive with indulgence even the little pamphlet of which I take the liberty to enclose a copy—Its subject is one, which interests so few persons in this country, that if I would have readers...
2Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel F. Moore, 22 September 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I thank you, Sir, for the Remarks on the pronuntiation of the Greek language which you have been so kind as to send me. I have read them with pleasure, as I had the pamphlet of mr Pickering on the same subject. this question has occupied long & learned enquiry, and cannot, as I apprehend, be ever positively decided. very early in my classical days I took up the idea that the antient Greek...