Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1879 — Elihu Burritt. [ARTICLE]

Elihu Burritt.

Elihu Burritt’s capacity for hard work is illustrated by this extract from a letter written five years ago to decline an invitation to lecture: “I feel that lam played out as a lecturer, especially before American audiences. Then I expect to go to England next summer to see old friends once more, and to look after my books, new and old. I have just sent to London my Sanskrit Grammar and Reading Lessons, which will probably be put to press about the Ist of July, and I must be on hand to correct proofs, etc. Then lam deeply in my philological work. I have finished the Sanskrit, Hindoostanee and Persian series, and am about half way through with the Turkish, in the end expecting the four languages will be issued in one large volume, but in parts at first. Then I intend to take up the Semitic family, or Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Ethiopia, and do the same by them. Thus, you see, I am beginning a work which should occupy a long life, and I am in its evening hours.”