Autograph letters signed from George P. Marsh, Burlington, to Richard Grant White [manuscript], 1860.

6 leaves.

Two letters dated March 13 and July 19 1860. Lengthy letters discussing the creation and reception of his Lectures (the host volume), the sale of White's "Shakespeare," American contributions to "the Dictionary," Marsh's attempts to write lectures with Mr. Coleridge on the subject of American authors, and orthographic debates between "the unanimous judgment of English and American scholarship on one side and the private interests of a knot of booksellers who have invested capital in lipogrammatic schoolbooks."

Bifolia pasted in before title page of Lectures on the English language / by George Perkins Marsh, 1860 (Folger copy PE1075 M35 Cage)

United States -- Vermont -- Burlington.

PE1075 .M35 Cage, before title page