Some time ago, I noted the presence of some work by Charles V. Kraitsir in the Google Books archive. Here is a more complete bibliography and listing of online texts. Kraitsir was one of those eccentric geniuses championed by Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. William B. Greene was, of course, another, and the three of them all taught, according to at least some reports, at Kraitsir’s school in Boston.
- Kraisir, Charles. The Poles in the United States of America, preceded by the earliest history of the Slavonians, and by the history of Poland. Philadelphia: Kiderlen and Stollmeyer, 1837.
- —. Significance of the Alphabet. Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1846.
- —. First book of English for children, based upon the “Significance of the alphabet.” Boston: E. P. Peabody, 1846.
- [Review.] North American Review. January 1849, pp. 160-182.
- [Review, continued.] North American Review. Apr 1849, pp. 436-466.
- —. Glossology, Being a Treatise on the Nature of Language and on the Language of Nature. C.B. Norton, 1854.
- Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class. E. Steiger, 1877.
- —. “Language,” Last Evening with Allston, and Other Papers. D. Lothrop and company, 1886.
Kraitsir’s theories were also debated in the Fourierist Harbinger in Sep.-Nov., 1847, and, some years earlier, were discussed in terms of Biblical arguments for and against capital pushishment, in the Liberator and Prisoner’s Friend. [We know from references in the latter that William B. Greene was providing financial support for the anti-death-penalty movement.]
