Frederick W. Hatch to Thomas Jefferson, 19 December 1823
From Frederick W. Hatch
Charlottse Dec 19th 1823—
Dear Sir—
In closing the present Session of my school it gives me real pleasure to be able to inform you of the uniform good conduct of your grand Sons during the year past. They have all been obedient & industrious & their progress & improvement have been such as I trust will prove highly satisfactory to you.
Jas in addition to the revision of his Greek & Latin Grammar, has read about two Books in the N Testament, a part of Cicero’s Orations—Horace—The School Edition of Tacitus, Aesops Fables, & about half of Graeca Minora. He reads with a judgment which I have seldom witness’d & never seen excell’d.—
Benjamin has labor’d with all his might & with Lewis has lost no time. These boys have read & revis’d with care several books of Caesar—Phaedrus—& The Aeneid, besides the frequent revision of their Grammar & daily exercises in Mairs Introduction. With regard both to Benjn & Lewis, I can say very conscientiously that they have fulfil’d my best expectations & wishes.—
Our next Session will commence the 19th Jany, when we shall introduce a course of reading, writing & Arithmetic. The Greek Grammars are expected in a few days.—
F W Hatch.—
RC (MHi); inconsistently endorsed by TJ as a letter of 19 Dec. 1823 received a day earlier and so recorded in SJL.
jas: James M. Randolph. graeca minora: an unidentified edition of Andrew Dalzel, Ἀνάλεκτα Ἑλληνικὰ Ἥσσονα. sive Collectanea Græca Minora (Edinburgh, 1787; 1st American ed., Cambridge, Mass., 1804; Sowerby, no. 4909). benjamin and lewis were Benjamin F. Randolph and Meriwether Lewis Randolph, respectively.
Index Entries
- Aeneid (Virgil) search
- Aesop; study of search
- An Introduction to Latin Syntax (J. Mair) search
- Bible; Greek language search
- Bible; New Testament search
- Caesar, Julius; writings of search
- Cicero, Marcus Tullius; orations of search
- Dalzel, Andrew; Ἀνάλεκτα Ἑλληνικὰ Ἥσσονα. sive Collectanea Græca Minora search
- Greek language; grammars search
- Greek language; study of search
- Hatch, Frederick Winslow; and education of TJ’s grandsons search
- Hatch, Frederick Winslow; letters from search
- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus); study of search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Family & Friends; relations with grandchildren search
- Latin language; study of search
- Mair, John; An Introduction to Latin Syntax search
- mathematics; elementary education in search
- Phaedrus (ancient Roman fabulist); works of search
- Randolph, Benjamin Franklin (TJ’s grandson); education of search
- Randolph, James Madison (TJ’s grandson); education of search
- Randolph, Meriwether Lewis (TJ’s grandson); education of search
- reading; elementary education in search
- Tacitus, Cornelius; writings of search
- Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro); Aeneid search
- writing; elementary education in search
- Ἀνάλεκτα Ἑλληνικὰ Ἥσσονα. sive Collectanea Græca Minora (A. Dalzel) search