Frederick W. Hatch to Thomas Jefferson, [23 February 1824]
From Frederick W. Hatch
Monday [23 Feb. 1823]—
Dear Sir
The cause of the Greeks I fear will derive but little aid from this quarter—I have convers’d with Mr Southall on the subject, & find him dispos’d to wait for Mr Gordon who is expected on Court Monday. I thank you for the Pamphlet & will make the best use of it when the opporty offers.
I see on the Catalogue—No 3642 the Port Royal Greek Grammar which I would like to have but must decline the purchase for the present. Should you wish to order any of these books, Mr Saml Whiting of N York, with whom I am well acquainted, would I think be a desirable agent.—
F W Hatch
RC (MHi); partially dated at foot of text; addressed: “Thos Jefferson Esqr Monticello”; endorsed by TJ as a letter of 23 Feb. 1823 received from Charlottesville the day it was written and so recorded in SJL.
The port royal greek grammar was translated into English by Thomas Nugent from the original French of Antoine Arnauld, Claude Lancelot, and Pierre Nicole, and published as A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue, 2 vols. (London, 1746; Poor, Jefferson’s Library, 13 [no. 837]).
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- Albemarle County Court, Va. search
- A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, and P. Nicole; trans. T. Nugent) search
- Arnauld, Antoine; A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (trans. T. Nugent) search
- books; on grammar search
- Gordon, William Fitzhugh; mentioned search
- Greece, modern; war of independence search
- Greek language; grammars search
- Hatch, Frederick Winslow; and books for TJ search
- Hatch, Frederick Winslow; and Greek independence search
- Hatch, Frederick Winslow; letters from search
- Jefferson, Thomas; Books & Library; catalogues from booksellers search
- Lancelot, Claude; A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (trans. T. Nugent) search
- Nicole, Pierre; A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (trans. T. Nugent) search
- Nugent, Thomas; translatesA New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue (A. Arnauld, C. Lancelot, and P. Nicole) search
- Southall, Valentine Wood; and Greek independence search
- Whiting, Samuel; as bookseller search