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Symposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part II: "An Irreparable Misfortune Has Deprived Me of Them": Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabularies.
Title
Symposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part II: "An Irreparable Misfortune Has Deprived Me of Them": Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabularies.
Identifier(s)
video:1040; 2010_04_003
Description
Professor Oberg talks about a newly acquired Thomas Jefferson letter to Benjamin Smith Barton. She tells the story of Jefferson's collecting of Native American language lists and how some of these lists were lost to robbers.
Subject
Ethnography & Linguistics; Native American languages; Linguistics; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Correspondence; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815, Correspondence.; APS Meeting Videos
Date
2010-04-22