Joseph Fawcett

“ My sure opinion is, that it is a science too abstruse to be well understood by young persons, nothing short of a goodeal of experience and a ripe understanding can master it yet there are certain first principles which may be understood easily, for example you can very soon know by a little attention whether a word is a noun, a verb or an adjective that is whether the word means a certain thing, a certain action or a certain quality. ”

“ I have sometimes thought grammarians have made their subject more difficult to comprehend by too much explanation and dividing it into too many cases. so many rules subject to so many exceptions are not well calculated to enlighten the learner, but as I do not profess to be much of a Grammarian I shall leave this to Mr Taylor’s discretion. ”

“ I am very much pleased with this, your first letter to me, the hand writing, as well as composition, considering that it is among the first, if not the first you ever wrote is good, and the spelling excellent. this essay does you great credit, in My Opinion. I would however advise you to set your letters a little further apart, and to Make the Staves Shorter. You must also get Mr. ”