Lorrain was described as kind to his pupils and hard-working; keenly observant, but an unlettered man until his death.
Hart described Shakespeare as a "mere factotum of the theatre" and a "vulgar and unlettered man".
An unlettered man of dubious lineage.
The prophet himself might be a simple or unlettered man.
Hart claimed that Shakespeare was a "mere factotum of the theatre", a "vulgar and unlettered man" hired to add obscene jokes to the plays of other writers.
Fogarty was a servant, an unlettered man who had been brought along to assist his betters, and never did either man forget that.
Himself a plain unlettered man, leaving for the day a mechanical employment to address his fellows, he possesses eminent gifts for success in assemblies so constituted.
Mr. Louis, an unlettered man, stacked lumber for a living.
No, he was alone, absolutely and utterly alone, a wanderer in wild lands, a sojourner with rough unlettered men and savages.
It was the unlettered man who had the eloquence now; it might be he who saw the truth plainest.