The Lure of the Whaling Journal.

Johnson, Barbara. Manuscripts 23 (1971) 158-77.
  • Whalemen's Reading

p. 162, Feb. 24, 1859: I am teaching Cooper Orthoepy and definitions for which he has generously offered me the large sum of one dollar.

Feb 8, 1859 [sic]: The Cooper has offered me one dollar more to go through the dictionary with him.