"Bosworth is a treasure of Anglo-Saxon learning. there is much in him valuable, and new to me. he treads indeed in the footsteps of Dr Hickes and his followers, in endeavouring to make it a language of learned construction, giving it the genders, numbers, declensions, conjug[atio]ns, and other scaffoldings of the Greek and Latin, and encumbering it with difficulties even beyond theirs. whereas, by simplifying and fixing it's orthography, we find it is old English, only one age senior to Pierce Plowman, and that it becomes, like that, the language we speak, as readily intelligible as other old English." — Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coolidge, 15 Jan. 1825

"we are greatly indebted to the worthies who have preserved the A[nglo]-S[axon] form, from Doctr Hickes down to mr. Bosworth. had they not given to the public what we possess through the press, that dialect would by this time have been irrecoverably lost." — Thomas Jefferson to J. Evelyn Denison, 9 Nov. 1825