Noah Webster Manuscript Dictionary, ca 1828

This docucument consists of pages 219 through 312 of a manuscript version of An American Dictionary of the English Language, V1, 1828. These pages cover the introduction and show how he edited the manuscript before publication with slips of paper cut and pasted over words and entire sections crossed out. It appears to be a final version of the printed dictionary. This volume has been digitized by Hathi Trust and the printed pages that correlate with this manuscript begin [url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435021619556;view=1up;seq=47]here[/url] with the paragraph "There are other points in grammar equally faulty," and end on this [url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435021619556;view=1up;seq=60]page[/url] at the end of the paragraph "I know of no other work in any language...".