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Title:Peter Stephen Du Ponceau letters, 1801-1843, to Albert Gallatin
Contributor:Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844
Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849
Date:1801-1843
Description: Correspondence, largely from Peter S. du Ponceau to Albert Gallatin, regarding legal and political matters, Indian languages and linguistics, philological matters, and the American Philosophical Society. Specific topics include exchanges of publications and manuscripts between the two men; the creation of a map of Indian languages; the government's collecting of Indian vocabularies and du Ponceau's refusal to supply Historical and Literary Committee material to the government, believing that the committee rather than the government should undertake the collection and publication of Indian materials; methods of seeking data on languages, and the difficulties of sentence for testing problems of comparative Vocabularies;s both already published and in progess, such as Eliot's Grammar, Barton (1797), Pickering (1820), Hodgson on the Berber, Najera (1837), Zeisberger (1830), Gallatin (1836), Prichard (1813), several of du Ponceau's works, etc.; du Ponceau's acceptance of copies of Gallatin's Synopsis, with a jab at its Worcester (rather than APS) the fate of the manuscript for du Ponceau's prize essay: the printer bankrupt, difficulties in getting manuscript returned, and du Ponceau has no full copy; of du Ponceau's study of Chinese;s and the Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee; du Ponceau's acceptance of vocabularies on behalf of the the state of European linguistics; Pickering's alphabet for Indian languages; Carib women's vs. men's the opposition founding of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and du Ponceau's efforts to make peace by submitting his translation of Vater's Enquiry for them to publish; illnesses and deaths in du Ponceau's family; and du Ponceau's age, health, and failing eyesight. Other individuals mentioned include Franklin, Rush, Rittenhouse, Jefferson, Cass, Schoolcraft, Long, Ebeling, Adelung, Klaproth, Balbi, Humboldt, Volney, and Heckewelder. Originals at the New York Historical Society.
Extent:33 items
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/10045
Language:English
Language (ISO639):eng
Subject:Tuscarora
Seneca
Dakota
Haudenosaunee
Ojibwe
Shawnee
Miami
Otomi
Powhatan
Mohawk
Natchez
San Felipe
Nottoway
Ho-Chunk
Linguistics
Philology
Type:Microfilms
Correspondence
Type (DCMI):Text

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Citation: Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844; Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849. 1801-1843. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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