Papers of Thomas Jefferson. 31, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 31 ; 1 February 1799 to 31 May 1800 / Thomas Jefferson; Barbara B. Oberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jefferson, Thomas, author.

Contributor:

Oberg, Barbara B., editor.

Series:

Papers of Thomas Jefferson ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826--Correspondence.

Jefferson, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (736 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

As this volume opens, partisan politics in the United States are building to a crescendo with the approach of the presidential election. Working for a Republican victory, Jefferson consults frequently with Madison, Monroe, and others to achieve favorable results in state elections. He corresponds with controversial journalist James T. Callender. Sifting information from published rumors and private letters, he follows events in Europe, including Bonaparte's unexpected rise to power in France, and sees the value of his tobacco crop plummet as U.S. legislation cuts off the French market. Jefferson grows concerned at Federalist promotion of English common law in American jurisprudence and at proceedings in the Senate against William Duane, printer of the Philadelphia Aurora. Drawing heavily on British legislative practice, however, as well as advice from Virginia, he begins in earnest to compile a manual of parliamentary procedures for the Senate. As president of the American Philosophical Society, Jefferson calls for reform of the United States census. He publishes an appendix to Notes on the State of Virginia defending his account of the Mingo Indian Logan's legendary 1774 speech. And Jefferson consults Joseph Priestley and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours about the curriculum for a projected new university in Virginia. While continuing the reconstruction of Monticello, he mourns the death of the infant girl of his younger daughter, Mary Jefferson Eppes.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EDITORIAL METHOD AND APPARATUS

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

JEFFERSON CHRONOLOGY

1799

To Elisha Boudinot, 1 February

From Harry Innes, 2 March

From Carlo Bellini, 1 April

From John Barnes, 1 May

From George Jefferson, 3 June

Indenture for Land Exchange with Nicholas Meriwether Lewis and Mildred Hornsby Lewis, 1 July

From Elijah Griffiths, 4 August

To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 5 September

From Morgan Brown, 1 October

Notes on Sir William Scott, 1 November

From George Jefferson, 2 December

1800

To Tench Coxe, 1 January

To John McDowell, 1 February

To Benjamin Smith Barton, 1 March

From David Campbell, 2 April

From Tench Coxe, 4 May

Appendix: Notations by Jefferson on Senate Documents

Index

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780691185361

0691185360

OCLC:

1076404526