New Britain herald. [microfilm reel], September 19, 1924, Page 4, Image 4

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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER .10, 1924.
30 YEARS TAKEN
is F0RJICTI0NARY
'And It Cost Noab Webster
!;'.. 530,000 as Well
i New York, Sept. 19. A letter
Written in 19:3 by Noah Webster,
author ot the dictionary which Is
Mid to have prevented the United
State from becomlne a nation
,. (peaking many dialects, In which
the writer refers to his plans to
ecu re a reception lor his work in
England, has been given out by
John Stuart Thomson of Jersey
City.
The communication, which is de
scribed as hitherto unpublished,
was addressed to Charles R. Web
ster, a cousin ot Noah, and was
found by Jlr, Thomson among the
papers of the cousin. It reads as
follows:
"New Haven, Sept. 24, 1S"3.
'Dear Sir:
"1 expected you would call upon
me the morning you left New Ha
ven but you disappointed me and I
must wTlte what 1 want to say to
you. You must have heard that I
have been many years in compiling
a complete dictionary of our lan
guage. My researches have been
laborious and extensive, and I think
fruitful In discoveries. As I am
drawing toward the conclusion of
the work, I think of going to .Eng
land next summer to revise and
complete the work and to try to
obtain a reception of it In that
country. But my resources ar3 too
(canty for such an undertaking and
I want to avail myself of all my
extra means. I have on hand a
new book ef my own publishing,
entitled 'Letters to a young gentle
man concerning his education,' some
of which I think may be sold In
Albany. The retail price is $1.75,
the work being a thin octavo. The
sheet, price is 90 cenls and for a
hundred er more I would say SO
cents. Now, Sir. will not Webster
and Skinner assist me, by taking a
hundred or two, either bound or in
sheets; bound at $1.29 or in sheet
at 50 eente? If you will, It will
very much oblige me.
"My dictionary haH cost me IS
years of labor and about $30,000.
If I succeed I shall reimburse my
self and be ahle to compensate all
my friends for their advances. If
I should not, I shall be left in my
old age with small means for sub
sistence. "Please to r'ps,,nt our kind re
spects to Mrs. W. and other'friend3.
"Yours with affection and re
spect, "N. WEBSTER."
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blossoms only at the cost of its own
life.
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