Moore, John Bassett:

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[TYPED LETTER, SIGNED, PRAISING THE RECIPIENT'S BOOK, "How to Use English"]. John Bassett Moore (December 3, 1860 – November 12, 1947) was an American authority on international law who served as a member of the Hague Tribunal and was the first US judge to serve on the Permanent Court of International Justice. Moore writes the advertising manager of Funk & Wagnalls, providing an enthusiastic blurb for Frank H. Vizetelly's book, HOW TO USE ENGLISH: "Daniel Webster was called Expounder of the Constitution. Dr. Vizetelly has preeminently earned the title Expounder of the English Language... Language may be likened to products of the ground. Unless properly cultivated, it may be killed by weeds and tares, or hybridized and rendered tasteless by promiscuous pollen. As one who shares with Dr. Vizetelly the love of our mother tongue and a deep solicitude for its future, I salute him as a great linguistic gardener...." Signed in full, in ink.

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