The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 28
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 744
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher:
Published: 1950
Total Pages: 744
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 0691185336
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities and live the life of a farmer, spending his time tending to his estates. Turning his attention to the improvement of his farms and finances, Jefferson surveys his fields, experiments with crop rotation, and establishes a nailery on Mulberry Row. He embarks upon an ambitious plan to renovate Monticello, a long-term task that will eventually transform his residence. Although Jefferson is distant from Philadelphia, the seat of the federal government, he is not completely divorced from the politics of the day. His friends, especially James Madison, with whom he exchanges almost sixty letters in the period covered by this volume, keep him fully informed about the efforts of Republican county and town meetings, the Virginia General Assembly, Congress, and the press to counter Federalist policies. An emerging Republican opposition is taking shape in response to the Jay Treaty, and Jefferson is keenly interested in its progress. Although in June, 1795, he claims to have "proscribed newspapers" from Monticello, in fact he never entirely cuts himself off from the world. At the end of that year, he takes pains to ensure that he will have two full sets of Benjamin Franklin Bache's Aurora, the influential Republican newspaper, one set to be held in Philadelphia for binding and one to be sent directly to Monticello.
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: 1950-11-21
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 0691045348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →V. 36. 1 December 1801 to 3 March 1802.
Author: Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-09-11
Total Pages: 1106
ISBN-13: 0199840520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and enlightenment--and Jefferson's powerful role in shaping America, he simultaneously tells the story of nation coming into being.