American dictionary of the English language : AMs fragment, [ca. 1824].

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American dictionary of the English language : AMs fragment, [ca. 1824].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122525011

Two leaves of the manuscript, with entries for "banner" through "banter" and "battle" through "battologize". The text is heavily corrected, several entries being crossed out and entirely rewritten. Also present is a label, apparently from the back of a frame that held the manuscript oran accompanying portrait of Webster at the Washington Centennial Loan Exhibition in New York in 1889.

2 items (5 p.) ; 26 cm. or smaller.

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