- Collection:
- Columbia Theological Seminary Manuscript Collection
- Title:
- Philosophical Grammar, Manuscript Chapters 7-12
- Creator:
- Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861
- Date of Original:
- 1829/1861
- Subject:
- Grammar, Comparative and general
English language--19th century
English language--Grammar--Study and teaching
English language--Verb
Periodicals--Virginia--Richmond
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861--Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861--Correspondence
United States. Department of State
Washington College (Lexington, Va.)
Lexington (Va.)
Richmond (Va.) - People:
- Upshur, A. P. (Abel Parker), 1790-1844
- Location:
- United States, Virginia, City of Lexington, Lexington, 37.78402, -79.44282
United States, Virginia, City of Richmond, 37.55376, -77.46026 - Medium:
- drafts
manuscripts (documents)
correspondence - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Manuscript documents by Henry Ruffner consisting primarily of drafts of chapters 7-12 from an unpublished work entitled “Philosophical Grammar.” Also includes interspersed attached fragments and letters. General contents are as follows: Chapter 7. Of Definitives [PDF 1-5]; Chapter 8. Of Pronouns [PDF 6-17; includes draft]; Chapter VII. Of Articles [PDF 18-21]; Chapter VIII. Of Definitives [PDF 22-38 includes draft]; Chapter IX. Of the Verb [PDF 39-62]; Chapter X. Of the English Verb [PDF 63-79; includes draft]; “Remarks on the English Verb and its auxiliaries” [PDF 80-94]; Chapter [9] Of the Verb [PDF 95-143 includes drafts and alternate title, “Of the Verb, its essential nature. Division of verbs into substantive and adjective, neuter and transitive. Of the voices, moods & tenses.”]; Chapter . English Verbs [PDF 144-163]; Chapter XI. Of Abbreviations, including Adverbs and Interjections. [PDF 164-167]; Chapter XII. Of Connectives, including prepositions and conjunctions. [PDF 168-178]. Bound document also includes interspersed attached fragments and correspondence [within PDF 150-163] Letter: Henry Ruffner to the Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, Lexington (Va.), November 25, 1843. Letter: [Washington College?] Committee to Henry Ruffner, Lexington (Va.), May 20, 1843. Letter: A. P. Upshur on behalf of the Department of State to the President of Washington College [Henry Ruffner], October 1843. Includes signature by A. P. Upshur. The Henry Ruffner papers are found within the William Henry Ruffner papers, 1829-1914.
- Metadata URL:
- http://cdm17323.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p17323coll7/id/13078
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Extent:
- 178 pages
- Original Collection:
- Henry Ruffner papers
C. Benton Kline, Jr. Special Collections and Archives, John Bulow Campbell Library, Columbia Theological Seminary - Holding Institution:
- Columbia Theological Seminary
- Rights:
-
