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This volumes 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 Tracys Treatise on Political Economy is finally published Salma Hale visits Monticello and describes Jeffersons 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 amp lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again
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Volumes 11 and 12 cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jeffersons stay in France as American Minister thereThis is a rich period of personal correspondence and important documents revealing particularly Jeffersons interest in agriculture and architecture his extended trade negotiations his reports on the adoption of the US Constitution and his skilled efforts to establish friendly relations between Europe and his own nation
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The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoths tooth altitude and meteorological observations a call for a national pharmacopoeia a discussion of primeval geology and a letter that elicits Jeffersons 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 Jeffersons 1817 bill of complaint and he unwittingly ensures his eventual financial ruin by endorsing notes totaling 20000 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 Washingtons 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 Colleges 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
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The period covered by this volume brings to a conclusion Thomas Jeffersons first year as president On 8 December he communicates his first annual message to Congress peace between France and England is restored a rise in population will increase revenue and help abolish internal taxes the standing army can be done away with peace amp friendship prevail with Indian neighbors He recommends two particular matters to the attention of Congress a revision of the laws on naturalization and a review of the Judiciary Act Two delegations of Indian nations hold conferences with Jefferson and Secretary of War Henry Dearborn in Washington Jefferson observes that it is good for them to renew the chain of affection The president receives a Mammoth Cheese as a token of esteem from the citizens of Cheshire Massachusetts and the letter from the Danbury Baptists arrives In his famous reply to the Baptists Jefferson states that religion is a matter which lies solely between man amp his god Shortly after legislators arrive in town for the opening of Congress he begins to entertain at the Presidents House He uses such occasions to bridge the divide between the executive and legislative branches and foster political understanding between Republicans and Federalists As he moves into his second year as president he is optimistic about his legislative program and the Republican majority in Congress
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A welcome introduction to one of the most intellectually demanding areas of the undergraduate philosophy curriculum The authors provide a clear framework within which students can fit contemporary developments in the AngloAmerican tradition which provide the core themes of philosophy of mind and which connect to their other work in epistemology and philosophy of language
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This volumes 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 Tracys Treatise on Political Economy is finally published Salma Hale visits Monticello and describes Jeffersons 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 amp lost and whom we shall still love and never lose again
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The definitive edition of Thomas Jeffersons papers from the end of his presidency until his death continues with Volume Two which covers the period from 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810 Both incoming and outgoing letters are included totaling 518 documents printed in full General themes include Jeffersons financial troubles which eventually led him to loan himself a large sum of money he was managing for Tadeusz Kosciuszko his preparations to face a lawsuit stemming from his decision as president to remove Edward Livingston from a valuable property in New Orleans other legal complications involving his landholdings and the settlement of estates he had inherited long before his plans to breed merino sheep and share them gratis with his fellow Virginians and his ongoing interest in the Republican partys success Highlights include a long list of books on agriculture that Jefferson probably compiled to guide the Library of Congress in its purchases descriptions of inventions by Robert Fulton and more obscure figures such as the New Orleans engineer Godefroi Du Jareau Jeffersons draft letter criticizing the Quakers as unpatriotic much of which he later deleted the letter in which he ordered a set of silver tumblers that have become known as the Jefferson Cups and an important treatise on taxation by the distinguished French political economist Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours published here for the first time
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Volume Five of the definitive edition of Thomas Jeffersons papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 592 documents from 1 May 1812 to 10 March 1813 America declares war on Great Britain on 18 June 1812 Jefferson counsels domestic reconciliation while suggesting that America recruit British incendiaries to burn London if British ships attack American cities He passes on to President James Madison a long and discouraging letter from Isaac A Coles describing American military bungling in the Niagara Campaign An unofficial proposal that Jefferson return to public life as secretary of state does not gain the retired statesmans support Jefferson receives many requests for governmental patronage responds insightfully to a colorful assortment of authors and inventors is mildly diverted by a fraudulent perpetualmotion machine and spends considerable time on legal troubles A dispute with David Michie over land in Albemarle County nearly leads to a duel between Michie and Jeffersons agent A conflict with Samuel Scott over property in Campbell County further vexes Jefferson who prepares an extensively researched answer to Scotts complaint Despite the conflict Jefferson graciously writes a letter of introduction for Scotts son Jefferson remains accessible to the public receives anonymous letters urging him to convert to Christianity and settles a wager for one correspondent who asks if Jefferson ever met the British king Jefferson gloomily observes that the hand of age is upon me and complains that his faculties are failing He still has thirteen years to live
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From 1784 to 1789 Jefferson was in France first as commissioner to negotiate peace treaties and then as American minister Volume 13 continues the account of these years which are covered in Volumes 7 to 14 and includes material on his travels through Holland Germany and northern France on his study of wine cultivation whale fishing and the tobacco trade on the consular convention with France on the news from the United States concerning the beginnings of the Federal Government under the new Constitution
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This volume brings to a close Jeffersons increasingly stormy tenure as Secretary of State documenting among many things his epochal duel with Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton over the conduct of American foreign policy Against the background of the deadly yellow fever in Philadelphia he copes with obstreperous French consuls and informs Edmond Charles Genet that the American government has requested his recall After resuming his work on the definition of US maritime limits Jefferson prevails upon President Washington to inform Congress not only of Genets recall but also of the British refusal to carry out the disputed provisions of the Treaty of Paris In a final effort to implement his policy of commercial retaliation against Great Britain Jefferson submits to Congress in December his longawaited Report on Commerce vividly detailing the various forms of discrimination imposed on American trade by the British The volume presents the early and final versions of the in all their textual complexity Disappointed by Washingtons tepid response to his criticisms of Hamiltons fiscal policies frustrated by the Treasury Secretarys rising influence over American foreign policy and eager to enjoy uninterruptedly the pleasures of domestic life Jefferson retires from office on 31 December 1793 determined never again to suffer the torments of public life Volume 27 contains a supplement that covers some 270 documents for the period 176493 that have been found or reclassified since the publication of the last supplement in Volume 15
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This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genets dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jeffersons diplomatic and political responses After welcoming Genets arrival as the harbinger of closer relations between the American and French republics Jefferson becomes increasingly distressed by the French ministers defiance of the Washington administrations ban on the outfitting of French privateers in American ports the enlistment of American citizens in French service and the exercise of admiralty jurisdiction by French consuls in American ports Although the Supreme Court declines to advise the executive branch on neutrality questions that Jefferson prepares with the President and the Cabinet he helps to formulate a set of neutrality rules to meet Genets challengeUnable to convince the impetuous French envoy to adopt a more moderate course Jefferson works in the Cabinet to bring about Genets recall so as to preserve friendly relations with France and minimize political damage to the Republican party in which he takes a more active role to prevent the Federalists from capitalizing on Genets defiance of the President Grappling with the threat of war with Spain Jefferson involves himself equivocally in a diplomatically explosive plan by Genet to liberate Louisiana from Spanish rule In this volume Jefferson also plays a decisive role in resolving a dispute over the design of the Capitol and plans agricultural improvements at Monticello in preparation for his retirement to private life
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This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the United States The overthrow of the French monarchy leads the Secretary of State to suspend debt payments to that nation and to formulate a diplomatic recognition policy that will long guide American diplomacy After an abortive effort to initiate negotiations with the British minister in Philadelphia on the execution of the Treaty of Paris Jefferson deflects a British proposal to establish a neutral Indian barrier state in the Northwest Territory As he awaits the start of negotiations on major diplomatic issues with Spain he deals with a Spanish effort to incite hostilities between the Southern Indians and the United States The conflict between Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton reaches a new stage when the Secretary of the Treasury brings the cabinet struggle into full public view with four series of pseudonymous newspaper attacks on Jefferson In letters to President Washington Jefferson insists that Hamiltonian policies pose a fundamental threat to American republicanism and in other documents he sets forth remedies for the defects he sees in Hamiltons system During this period he also finds time to investigate the ravages of the Hessian fly on American wheat and to make plans to remodel Monticello
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