Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Retirement Series. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 ; 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818 / Thomas Jefferson; J. Jefferson Looney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefferson, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Looney, J. Jefferson, editor.

Series:

Papers of Thomas Jefferson - Retirement Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (790 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson's opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetables probably, in Minerals not impossibly." Jefferson leases his Tufton and Lego plantations to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The directors of the Rivanna Company rebut Jefferson's 1817 bill of complaint and he unwittingly ensures his eventual financial ruin by endorsing notes totaling 0,000 for Wilson Cary Nicholas. Jefferson adds to the collections of the American Philosophical Society and writes an extended introduction to the "Anas," a corpus of official papers and political anecdotes documenting his service as George Washington's secretary of state. Jefferson drafts legislation to establish a public education system in Virginia. He attends a Masonic cornerstone laying ceremony for the nascent Central College's first pavilion early in October 1817 and is greatly pleased by the passage on 21 February 1818 of a law establishing a commission to plan a new state university, raising his hopes that Central College might soon become the University of Virginia.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS

MAPS

ILLUSTRATIONS

Volume 12.1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

SEPTEMBER 1817

OCTOBER 1817

NOVEMBER 1817

DECEMBER 1817

1818

JANUARY 1818

FEBRUARY 1818

MARCH 1818

APRIL 1818

Appendix. Supplemental List of Documents Not Found

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-18519-0