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A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of
Thomas Jefferson Jefferson continues his pattern of returning home
to Monticello for the summer months. He makes a brief visit to
Poplar Forest in Bedford County to plan the development of that
property. James Hubbard, a young enslaved worker at Monticello,
escapes but is captured in Fairfax County. Another slave who has
fled, James Hemings, rejects efforts to persuade him to return and
disappears. Receiving news of the end of the conflict with Tripoli,
Jefferson states that although it is “a small war in fact, it is
big in principle.” He devotes much of his attention to relations
with Spain. He considers alliance with Great Britain to force a
resolution with Spain, then chooses instead to negotiate with
France for the purchase of Florida and settlement of matters in
dispute with Spain. He drafts bills to organize the militia by age
and create a naval militia. Specimens sent by Lewis and Clark
arrive. Jefferson calculates that the United States has recently
acquired cessions of well over 9 million acres of land from Native
Americans. He meets with visiting Creek leaders. Answering a query,
Jefferson states that Patrick Henry was “the greatest orator that
ever lived” but “avaritious & rotten hearted.”
Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the
Declaration of Independence summarizes America's founding political
philosophy.At once a cherished symbol of liberty and an expression
of Jefferson's monumental talents as a writer, the document
captures in unforgettable phrases the ideals of individual liberty
that formed the backbone of American's Revolutionary movement. In
setting forth these "self-evident truths" alongside a list of
grievances against King George's Britain, the Declaration of
Independence justified the breaking of ties with "Mother England"
and the formation of a new country. This gift edition, printed in
two colors on acid-free paper, contains illustrations and
biographies of the signers alongside the document itself.
Originally published fifty years ago, "Princeton, 1746-1896" has
taken its place as one of the best institutional histories in
America. Yet the book is more than an institutional history just as
Princeton University, with its complex religious and political
roots and impressive list of faculty and alumni, is more than
simply a college. "Princeton, 1746-1896" will be valued by some
readers as a rich and well-documented commentary on education in
early America, and by others as a fascinating collection of
biographies of some of the more influential people in American
history, including Princeton University President and, later, U. S.
President, Woodrow Wilson.
Originally published in 1996.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas
Jefferson This volume's 627 documents feature a vast assortment of
topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of "a doting old age." He
inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond Enquirer denying that he
has endorsed a candidate for the next presidential election, and he
publishes two letters in that newspaper under his own name to
refute a Federalist claim that he once benefited by overcharging
the United States Treasury. Jefferson does not reply to unsolicited
letters seeking his opinion on constitutional matters, judicial
review, and a call for universal white male suffrage in Virginia.
Fearing that it would set a dangerous precedent, he declines
appointment as patron of a new society "for the civilisation of the
Indians." Jefferson is also asked to comment on proposed
improvements to stoves, lighthouses, telescopes, and navigable
balloons. Citing his advanced age and stiffened wrist, he avoids
detailed replies and allows his complaint to John Adams about the
volume of incoming correspondence to be leaked to the press in
hopes that strangers will stop deluging them both with letters.
Jefferson approves of the growth of Unitarianism and predicts that
"there is not a young man now living in the US. who will not die an
Unitarian."
Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt
examines The Declaration of Independence and other texts by Thomas
Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides
a biting critique of the current American administration.
Introducing this collection of Jefferson's writings, Michael Hardt
makes a powerful case for re-examining the foundational writings of
this American revolutionary in order to reignite the dialogue that
first conceived of a "land of the free".
A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas
Jefferson This volume’s 601 documents show Jefferson dealing with
various challenges. He is injured in a fall at Monticello, and his
arm is still in a sling months later when he narrowly escapes
drowning during a solitary horseback ride. Jefferson obtains
temporary financial relief by transferring a $20,000 debt from the
Bank of the United States to the College of William and Mary. Aided
by a review of expenditures by the University of Virginia that
uncovers no serious discrepancies, Jefferson and the Board of
Visitors obtain a further $60,000 loan that permits construction to
begin on the Rotunda. Jefferson drafts but apparently does not send
John Adams a revealing letter on religion. He exchanges long
letters discussing the Supreme Court with Justice William Johnson,
and he writes to friends about France’s 1823 invasion of Spain.
Jefferson also helps prepare a list of recommended books for the
Albemarle Library Society. In November 1822, Jefferson’s grandson
Francis Eppes marries Mary Elizabeth Randolph. He gives the
newlyweds his mansion at Poplar Forest and visits it for the last
time the following May. In a letter to James Monroe, Jefferson
writes and then cancels “my race is near it’s term, and not
nearer, I assure you, than I wish.”
Jefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of
Thomas Jefferson Congress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson
goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to
Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning
appointments to legislative councils. He peruses information about
Native American tribes, Spanish and French colonial settlements,
and the geography of the Louisiana Territory. He seeks the consent
of Spanish authorities to a U.S. exploration along the Red River
while asserting privately that Spain “has met our advances with
jealousy, secret malice, and ill faith.” A new law extends civil
authority over foreign warships in U.S. harbors, and he considers
using it also to constrain privateers. Federalist opponents bring
up “antient slanders” to question his past private and official
actions. His personal finances are increasingly reliant on bank
loans. He starts a search for a new farm manager at Monticello.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark write from Fort Mandan in April
before setting out up the Missouri River. Jefferson will not
receive their reports until mid-July. In the Mediterranean, William
Eaton coordinates the capture of the port of Derna and Tobias Lear
negotiates terms of peace with Pasha Yusuf Qaramanli to end the
conflict with Tripoli. News of those events will not reach the
United States until September.
The essential papers for every American. Included in the
Constitution with all the amendments, Declaration of Independence,
and Articles of Confederation.
After the congressional session ends, Jefferson leaves Washington
and goes home to Monticello, where his ailing daughter Mary dies on
17 April. Among the letters of condolence he receives is one from
Abigail Adams that initiates a brief resumption of their
correspondence. While in Virginia, Jefferson immerses himself in
litigations involving land. Back in the capital, he finds that he
must reconcile differing opinions of James Madison and Albert
Gallatin to settle a claim for diplomatic expenses. He corresponds
with Charles Willson Peale about modifications to the polygraph
writing machine. He prepares instructions for an expedition to
explore the Arkansas and Red Rivers. William Clark and Meriwether
Lewis send him maps and natural history specimens from St. Louis.
Alexander von Humboldt visits Washington. News arrives that a
daring raid led by Stephen Decatur Jr. has burned the frigate
Philadelphia to deprive Tripoli of its use. Jefferson is concerned
that mediation by Russia or France to obtain the release of the
ship's crew could make the United States appear weak. Commodore
Samuel Barron sails with frigates to reinforce the squadron in the
Mediterranean. Jefferson appoints John Armstrong to succeed Robert
R. Livingston as minister to France and attempts to persuade
Lafayette to move to Louisiana. In Paris, Napoleon is proclaimed
Emperor of the French. Jefferson has "brought peace to our Country
and comfort to our Souls," John Tyler writes from Virginia.
Aaron Burr fells Alexander Hamilton in a duel in July, but
Jefferson, caring little for either adversary or for disruptive
partisan warfare, gives the event only limited notice. He contends
with the problem of filling the offices necessary for the
establishment of Orleans Territory on October 1. He is constrained
by his lack of knowledge about potential officeholders. Meanwhile,
a delegation with a memorial from disgruntled Louisianians travels
to Washington. In August, the U.S. Mediterranean squadron bombards
Tripoli. The United States has uneasy relationships around its
periphery. Jefferson compiles information on British "aggressions"
in American ports and waters, and drafts a bill to allow federal
judges and state governors to call on military assistance when
British commanders spurn civil authority. Another bill seeks to
prevent merchant ships from arming for trade with Haiti. Contested
claims to West Florida, access to the Gulf of Mexico, tensions
along the Texas-Louisiana boundary, and unresolved maritime claims
exacerbate relations with Spain. Jefferson continues his policy of
pushing Native American nations to give up their lands east of the
Mississippi River. Yellow fever has devastating effects in New
Orleans. Abigail Adams terminates the brief revival of their
correspondence, musing that "Affection still lingers in the Bosom,
even after esteem has taken its flight." In November, Jefferson
delivers his annual message to Congress. He also commences
systematic records to manage his guest lists for official dinners.
A definitive scholarly edition of the retirement papers of Thomas
Jefferson The 612 documents in this volume include Jefferson's
notes on his early career, one of the lengthiest documents of his
retirement. Often misleadingly called his autobiography, the text
describes Jefferson's experience as an American revolutionary, a
legislator shaping and revising Virginia's laws, and a United
States diplomat in France as its own revolution neared. Jefferson
sits for a portrait by Thomas Sully commissioned for West Point. He
takes the unusual step of allowing his recommendation of a book by
John Taylor to be published, insuring a wide circulation of
Jefferson's views on the proper balance between state and federal
powers. In a private letter he asserts that the federal judiciary
is amassing overarching power, "ever acting, with noiseless foot,
& unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding
what it gains." Jefferson receives a description of an African
American commemoration of the nation's 1807 ban on the importation
of slaves. Jefferson advises that the opening of the University of
Virginia is not imminent even as he oversees its construction and
defends the high cost, stating as his goal, "to do, not what was to
perish with ourselves, but what would remain, be respected and
preserved thro' other ages."
Includes some 100 observations about life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness-as well as art and culture-from the author of the
Declaration of Independence. The new series look features a classic
portrait of the author on the front cover with his signature
printed below in gold foil.
A definitive scholarly edition of the correspondence and papers of
Thomas Jefferson This volume opens soon after the start of the
second session of the Eighth Congress and ends a few days after the
session closes. During the period, Jefferson receives twice as many
documents as he writes. He sits for portraits by Charles Fevret de
Saint-Memin and Rembrandt Peale. The nation endures an extreme
winter. William Dunbar begins to send information from the
exploration of the Ouachita River. Acts of Congress create new
territories and give Orleans Territory an assembly and a path to
statehood. The Senate ratifies a treaty to acquire an estimated 50
million acres of land from the Sac and Fox tribes. Levi Lincoln
resigns, Robert Smith asks to succeed him as attorney general, and
Jefferson seeks a new secretary of the navy. Jefferson and
vice-presidential candidate George Clinton receive 162 electoral
ballots against 14 for their opponents, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
and Rufus King. Napoleon is crowned emperor of the French, and
Spain declares war on Great Britain. The Senate acquits Samuel
Chase of eight articles of impeachment. Jefferson prepares his
inaugural address and is sworn into office for his second term on 4
March. He refuses to consider serving a third term.
This Norton Critical Edition seeks to give readers a full
understanding of Thomas Jefferson's importance to the intellectual
development of the United States, particularly in political theory
and scientific learning; of Jefferson's role in the expansion of
the territory and sovereignty of the United States; and of
Jefferson's controversial relation to slavery and race as key
issues in American history. The editor has selected Jefferson's
most important published texts-A Summary View of the Rights of
British America, the Declaration of Independence, and Notes on the
State of Virginia-along with An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia
Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family and his Message to
Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In addition, more than
one hundred of Jefferson's letters (1760-1826) have been
judiciously selected from his rich body of correspondence, allowing
readers to see Jefferson as a person as well as a public figure.
All texts are accompanied by detailed explanatory annotations.
"Contexts" reprints contemporary documents that place Jefferson and
his writings within the early American Republic, including works by
Thomas Paine, John Adams, Francois-Jean de Beauvoir, and Luther
Martin. Also included are diverse and early responses to Jefferson
and his writings by, among others, John Quincy Adams, William
Cullen Bryant, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. "Criticism" provides representative works
of modern interpretation and analysis that confirm Jefferson's
continuing relevance. Included are twelve thought-provoking
assessments from several disciplinary perspectives by, among
others, Annette Gordon Reed, Peter Onuf, and Douglas L. Wilson. A
Selected Bibliography is also included.
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."
This volume's 598 documents span 22 April 1818 to 31 January 1819.
Jefferson spends months preparing for a meeting to choose the site
of the state university. He drafts the Rockfish Gap Report
recommending the location of the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville as well as legislation confirming this decision.
Jefferson travels to Warm Springs to cure his rheumatism but
instead contracts a painful infection on his buttocks. His enforced
absence from Poplar Forest leads to detailed correspondence with
plantation manager Joel Yancey. A work that Jefferson helped
translate, Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy, is
finally published. Salma Hale visits Monticello and describes
Jefferson's views on food, wine, and religion. In acknowledging an
oration by Mordecai M. Noah, Jefferson remarks that the suffering
of members of the Jewish faith "has furnished a remarkable proof of
the universal spirit of religious intolerance." He receives long
discussions of occult science and the nature of light by Robert
Miller and Gabriel Crane. Abigail Adams dies, and Jefferson assures
John Adams that their own demise will result in "an ecstatic
meeting with the friends we have loved & lost and whom we shall
still love and never lose again."
The dramatic escalation in the conflict between Thomas Jefferson
and Alexander Hamilton to determine the future course of the new
American nation is the main theme of this volume. Under pressure
from other Republicans, Jefferson decides to continue as Secretary
of State instead of retiring to Monticello at the end of President
Washington's first term. At the same time he begins to play a more
active role as a Republican party leader, involving himself
secretly in a major effort by House Republicans to have Hamilton
dismissed from office by censuring his management of public
finances. France's declaration of war on Great Britain and the
Netherlands leads Jefferson into a serious conflict with Hamilton
over how to protect American neutrality in the face of the widening
European war. After persuading Washington to preserve the treaties
of alliance and commerce with France, Jefferson must then confront
the first in a series of French violations of American neutrality
that will sorely test the relationship between the two republics.
Testifying to the catholicity of Jefferson's interests, this volume
also deals with his efforts to promote a voyage of western
exploration by the noted French botanist Andr Michaux, his
observation of the first manned balloon flight in America by the
celebrated French aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard, and his concern
for expediting work on the new national capital.
Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of
Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of
organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting
and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and
teachings of Jesus, where, according to Jefferson, "there will be
found remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals
which has ever been offered to man."
Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this
volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These
disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other
daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and
availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant
evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and
of his insatiable curiosity. Originally published in 1997. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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