The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
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Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Presidents |
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Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 780 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691121214 |
The Retirement Series documents Jefferson's written legacy between his return to private life on 4 March 1809 and his death on 4 July 1826. During this period Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and sold his extraordinary library to the nation, but his greatest legacy from these years is the astonishing depth and breadth of his correspondence with statesmen, inventors, scientists, philosophers, and ordinary citizens on topics spanning virtually every field of human endeavor.--From publisher description.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 818 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069115323X |
This volume opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November. It features correspondence on the declaration of war by the sultan of Morocco and on the accusations making public his relationship with Sally Hemings.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 833 |
Release | : 2012-01-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 140084004X |
Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815. Jefferson is overjoyed by American victories late in the War of 1812 and highly interested in the treaty negotiations that ultimately end the conflict. Following Congress's decision to purchase his library, he oversees the counting, packing, and transportation of his books to Washington. Jefferson uses most of the funds from the sale to pay old debts but spends some of the proceeds on new titles. He resigns from the presidency of the American Philosophical Society, revises draft chapters of Louis H. Girardin's history of Virginia, and advises William Wirt on revolutionary-era Stamp Act resolutions. Jefferson criticizes those who discuss politics from the pulpit, and he drafts a bill to transform the Albemarle Academy into Central College. Monticello visitors Francis W. Gilmer, Francis C. Gray, and George Ticknor describe the mountaintop and its inhabitants, and Gray's visit leads to an exchange with Jefferson about how many generations of white interbreeding it takes to clear Negro blood. Finally, although death takes his nephew Peter Carr and brother Randolph Jefferson, the marriage of his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph is a continuing source of great happiness. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 690 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691187894 |
As a law student and young lawyer in the 1760s, Thomas Jefferson began writing abstracts of English common law reports. Even after abandoning his law practice, he continued to rely on his legal commonplace book to document the legal, historical, and philosophical reading that helped shape his new role as a statesman. Indeed, he made entries in the notebook in preparation for his mission to France, as president of the United States, and near the end of his life. This authoritative volume is the first to contain the complete text of Jefferson’s notebook. With more than 900 entries on such thinkers as Beccaria, Montesquieu, and Lord Kames, Jefferson’s Legal Commonplace Book is a fascinating chronicle of the evolution of Jefferson’s searching mind. Jefferson’s abstracts of common law reports, most published here for the first time, indicate his deepening commitment to whig principles and his incisive understanding of the political underpinnings of the law. As his intellectual interests and political aspirations evolved, so too did the content and composition of his notetaking. Unlike the only previous edition of Jefferson’s notebook, published in 1926, this edition features a verified text of Jefferson’s entries and full annotation, including essential information on the authors and books he documents. In addition, the volume includes a substantial introduction that places Jefferson’s text in legal, historical, and biographical context.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 2024-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691255202 |
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson During the period covered by the 575 documents in this volume, Jefferson advises President James Monroe on what later becomes known as the “Monroe Doctrine.” He also approves of the Greek independence movement in correspondence with the scholar and political leader Adamantios Coray. Jefferson says that the “most dangerous blot” on the U.S. Constitution is the provision under which a vote by the states in the House of Representatives decides elections not settled by the Electoral College. With his allies in Virginia’s General Assembly, he succeeds in converting the University of Virginia’s loans from the state Literary Fund into an outright grant and obtains an additional $50,000 for books and scientific instruments. He seeks advice on regulating and equipping the institution, helps to obtain its architectural capitals, and designs its gymnasia. Jefferson describes coffee as “the favorite beverage of the civilised world” and advises a namesake child to “Adore God. reverence and cherish your parents. love your neighbor as yourself; and your country more than life. be just. be true. murmur not at the ways of Providence, and the life into which you have entered will be the passage to one of eternal and ineffable bliss.”
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 972 |
Release | : 1950 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
Vol. 22: Charles T. Cullen, editor, Eugene R. Sheridan, associate editor, Ruth W. Lester, assistant editor; vol. 25-: John Catanzariti, editor, Eugene R. Sheridan, senior associate editor; vol. 29-: Barbara B. Oberg, general editor.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 069119985X |
This volume’s 571 documents cover both Jefferson’s opposition to restrictions on slavery in Missouri and his concession that “the boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.” Seeking support for the University of Virginia, he fears that southerners who receive New England educations will return with northern values. Calling it “the Hobby of my old age,” Jefferson envisions an institution dedicated to “the illimitable freedom of the human mind.” He infers approvingly from revolutionary movements in Europe and South America that “the disease of liberty is catching.” Constantine S. Rafinesque addresses three public letters to Jefferson presenting archaeological research on Kentucky’s Alligewi Indians, and Jefferson circulates a Nottoway-language vocabulary. Early in 1821 he cites declining health and advanced age as he turns over the management of his Monticello and Poplar Forest plantations to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. In discussions with trusted correspondents, Jefferson admires Jesus’s morality while doubting his miracles, discusses the materiality of the soul, and shares his thoughts on Unitarianism. Reflecting on the dwindling number of their old friends, he tells Maria Cosway that he is like “a solitary trunk in a desolate field, from which all it’s former companions have disappeared.”
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 735 |
Release | : 2018-06-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691185220 |
This volume brings Jefferson back to the U.S. from France, to become the first American Secretary of State, and marks the beginning of Jefferson's work in the Cabinet with Alexander Hamilton.