oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10045
| |
OLAC Record oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10045 |
| Metadata | ||
| 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 | |
OLAC Info |
||
| Archive: | Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society | |
| Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for OLAC format | |
| GetRecord: | Pre-generated XML file | |
OAI Info |
||
| OaiIdentifier: | oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:10045 | |
| DateStamp: | 2020-03-02 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Du Ponceau, Peter Stephen, 1760-1844; Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849. 1801-1843. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society. | |
| Terms: | area_Europe country_GB dcmi_Text iso639_eng | |