Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 780
ISBN-13: 0691121214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 1950-11-21
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 0691045348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13: 0691187894
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Princeton University Press
Published: 1950-05-21
Total Pages: 760
ISBN-13: 069104533X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 972
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2020-02-18
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 069119985X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 0691184763
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 9: November 1785 to June 1786, will be forthcoming.