Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 - 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R3,384
Discovery Miles 33 840
You Save: R243
(7%)
|
|
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 - 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818 (Hardcover)
Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
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 $20,000 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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.