Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 28, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 28 ; 1 January 1794 to 29 February 1796 / Thomas Jefferson; John Catanzariti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefferson, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Catanzariti, John, editor.

Series:

Papers of Thomas Jefferson ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Manuscripts.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Presidents--United States--Correspondence.

Presidents.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.

United States.

United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (733 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

GUIDE TO EDITORIAL APPARATUS

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY

1794

From George Washington, 1 January

To Horatio Gates, 3 February

From James Madison, 2 March

From James Monroe, 2 April

To Charles Carter, 1 May

From James Madison, 1 June

From Tench Coxe, 7 July

From Benjamin Carter Waller, 2 August

From François D'Ivernois, 5 September, enclosing First Letter on the Genevan Revolution, 22 August

To James Brown, 1 October

From George Wythe, 1 November

To Archibald Stuart, 2 December

1795

From Marc Auguste Pictet, 1 January

From William Frederick Ast, 1 February

From Dugald Stewart, 1 March

To Richard Hanson, 2 April

From Robert Pollard, 1 May

To Tench Coxe, 1 June

From Henry Tazewell, 1 July

To William Champe Carter, 3 August

From Anthony Gerna, 2 September

To Bushrod Washington, 1 October

From Louis of Parma, 2 November

To James Madison, 3 December

1796

From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 1 January

Deed of Manumission for James Hemings, 5 February

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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

ISBN:

9780691185330

0691185336

OCLC:

1076411017