From James Madison to Charles Dexter Cleveland, 22 June 1827
To Charles Dexter Cleveland
Montpr. June 22. 1827
J. Madison, with his respects to Mr. Cleveland,1 thanks him for the copy of his Epitome of Gretian Antiquities.2 Such a digest, appears to have been called for, and from such parts of it, as J.M has been able to look into, he readily infers that the task has been usefully executed. The Copy will be duly deposited in the Library of the University of Virginia.
Draft (ViU: Special Collections, Madison Papers).
1. Charles Dexter Cleveland (1802–69), a Dartmouth College-educated classicist, taught at a number of schools, including the Baltimore Classical School, 1827–29. He held the post of professor of Latin and Greek at Dickinson College, 1830–32, and published a wide variety of texts and anthologies. Cleveland was a member of the American Philosophical Society and served as U.S. consul at Cardiff, Wales, 1861–64 (Ward W. Briggs Jr., ed., Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists [Westport, Conn., 1994], 102).
2. Charles D. Cleveland, An Epitome of Grecian Antiquities: For the Use of Schools (Boston, 1827; 28520).