Bibliography of the Algonquian languages . extracts from private letters ofWashington are found in volume 9 of SparkssWritings of George Washington, Boston,1835, pp. 301, 306-307: I have received your letter of the 30th ofNovember, accompanied by the Indian vocabu-lary. * * * I assure you it is a matter ofsurprise to me to find that you have been ableto complete a work of such difficulty and mag-nitude in so short a time.—Letter to Richard,Butler, Jan. 10,1788. It is with great pleasure I transmit to youby this conveyance, a vocabulary of the Shaw-anese and Delaware languages. Tour perfectacqu
Bibliography of the Algonquian languages . extracts from private letters ofWashington are found in volume 9 of SparkssWritings of George Washington, Boston,1835, pp. 301, 306-307: I have received your letter of the 30th ofNovember, accompanied by the Indian vocabu-lary. * * * I assure you it is a matter ofsurprise to me to find that you have been ableto complete a work of such difficulty and mag-nitude in so short a time.—Letter to Richard,Butler, Jan. 10,1788. It is with great pleasure I transmit to youby this conveyance, a vocabulary of the Shaw-anese and Delaware languages. Tour perfectacquaintance with General Richard Butler, thesame worthy officer who served under your or-ders, and who has taken the trouble to compilethem, supersedes the necessity of my sayinganything in support of their veracity and cor-rectness. * * * I heartily wish the at-tempt of that singularly great character, the-Empress of Russia, to form a universal diction-ary, may be attended with the merited suc-cess.—Letter to Lafayette, Jan. 10, 1788. n.
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