Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elements of French Grammar. By M. Lhomond ... translated from the French ... by an Instructer [sic]. Portland, Me.: Samuel Colman, 1830 [printed in Brunswick, Me.: Griffin's Press].
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The first of nine textbooks in French, Italian and Spanish that Longfellow prepared between 1829 and 1835 while professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College. Longfellow (Class of 1825) was the first faculty member at Bowdoin to hold the professorship of 'modern languages' and among the first anywhere in America to teach modern languages in a formal college curriculum. About this text and a second, French Exercises (published in the same year and often bound together with the grammar), Longfellow wrote: 'They are books which I use in the study of French in my College Classes; though I hope to get the grammar introduced into schools: if I do not woe is me! I shall never save the expense of printing!'
Gift: Anne Longfellow Pierce.