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.

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TitleSymposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part II: "An Irreparable Misfortune Has Deprived Me of Them": Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabularies.
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PIDvideo:1040
Meeting Sequence Number2010_04_003
ASSOCIATED NAMES
ConferenceAmerican Philosophical Society Annual Meeting (2010)
speakerOberg, Barbara B.
CONTENT DESCRIPTION
AbstractProfessor 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.
LanguageEnglish (eng)
Subject (local) Ethnography & Linguistics
Subject (lcsh) Native American languages
Subject (lcsh) Linguistics
Subject (lcsh) Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Correspondence
Subject (lcsh) Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815, Correspondence.
Subject (local) APS Meeting Videos
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
TypeMovingImage
GenreLecture
Formatvideorecording
Extent00:25:59
Digital Originborn digitial
ORIGIN INFORMATION
Date Issued2010-04-22
PublisherAmerican Philosophical Society
Placepau
PlacePhiladelphia, PA
PARENT COLLECTION
TitleAmerican Philosophical Society Archives. Series X.
Call NumberAPS.Archives
URLhttp://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/APS.Archives-ead.xml
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