Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

Name: Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
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ISBN: 9780393974072

ISBN-10: 0393974073

ISBN-13: 9780393974072

Edition: 2010

Authors: Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, W. Franklin, Thomas Jefferson

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Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/23/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.60" wide x 9.20" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English

Richard J. Murnane manages the Risk Prediction Initiative and is a research scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research. Kam-biu Liu is the James J. Parsons Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University.Politician, philosopher, farmer, architect, and author, Jefferson was born to Peter and Jane Randolph Jefferson on April 13, 1743, in Tuckahoe, Virginia. As Jefferson observed in his autobiography, his parents could "trace their pedigree far back in England and Scotland." At the age of 16, Thomas Jefferson entered William and Mary College; at age 24, Jefferson was admitted to the bar; at 25, he was elected to the Virginia Assembly. Renowned for his political contributions…

Wayne Franklin is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.



Preface


A Note on the Texts


Abbreviations


The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson


A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)


From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (1829):


The Declaration of Independence


Notes of the State of Virginia (1787)


An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family (1800)


Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803


Selected Letters


To John Harvie, January 14, 1760


To John Page, December 25, 1762


To Robert Skipwith, August 3, 1771


To Charles McPherson, February 25, 1773


To John Adams, May 16, 1777


To Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778


To the Chevalier d'Anmours, November 30, 1780


To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, January 31, 1781


To Franï¿½ois Barbï¿½-Marbois, March 4, 1781


To Franï¿½ois Barbï¿½-Marbois, December 20, 1781


To Charles Thomson, December 20, 1781


To Franï¿½ois Barbï¿½-Marbois, March 24, 1782


To Franï¿½ois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, November 26, 1782


To George Rogers Clark, November 26, 1782


To Thomas Walker, September 25, 1783


To George Rogers Clark, December 4, 1783


To Franï¿½ois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, January 16, 1784


To Charles Thomson, May 21, 1784


To James Madison, May 11, 1785


To Franï¿½ois-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, June 7, 1785


To the Reverend Richard Price, August 7, 1785


To Peter Carr, August 19, 1785


To John Banister Jr., October 15, 1785


To James Madison, October 28, 1785


To James Madison, February 8, 1786


To Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786


To J. Hector St. John de Crï¿½vecoeur, January 15, 1787


To John Stockdale, February 27, 1787


To Madame la Comtesse de Tessï¿½, March 20, 1787


To Martha Jefferson, March 28, 1787


To The Marquis de Lafayette, April 11, 1787


To Maria Cosway, April 24, 1788


To J. Hector St. Jean de Crï¿½vecoeur, August 9, 1788


To The Reverend Richard Price, January 8, 1789


To John Trumbull, February 15, 1789


To Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789


To John Jay, July 19, 1789


To James Madison, September 6, 1789


To Mary Jefferson, April 11, 1790


To Mary Jefferson, June 13, 1790


To Martha Jefferson Randolph, December 23, 1790


To The Reverend William Smith, February 19, 1791


To Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791


To Martha Jefferson Randolph, January 15, 1792


To Thomas Paine, June 19, 1792


To Andrï¿½ Michaux, c. April 30, 1793


To James Madison, June 9, 1793


To Angelica Schuyler Church, November 27, 1793


To John Adams, December 28, 1796


To James Madison, January 1, 1797


To Mary Jefferson Eppes, January 8, 1798


To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 18, 1800


To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 27, 1800


To Dr. Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801


To Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801


To James Monroe, November 24, 1801


To Brother Handsome Lake, November 3, 1802


To Benjamin Hawkins, February 18, 1803


To William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803


To Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803


To General Horatio Gates, July 11, 1803


To John Tyler, June 28, 1804


To the Osages, July 12, 1804


To the Osages, July 16, 1804


To Constantin-Franï¿½ois de Chassebï¿½uf, Comte de Volney, February 18, 1805


To the Osage and Other Indians, January 4, 1806


To Constantin-Franï¿½ois de Chassebï¿½uf, Comte de Volney, February 11, 1806


To Joel Barlow, February 24, 1806


To John Norvell, June 14, 1807


To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808


To John Hollins, February 19, 1809


To Henri Grï¿½goire, February 25, 1809


To Horatio G. Spafford, May 14, 1809


To John Wyche, May 19, 1809


To John W. Campbell, September 3, 1809


To Benjamin Smith Barton, September 21, 1809


To C. and A. Conrad and Company, November 23, 1809


To James Madison, November 26, 1809


To General Tadeusz Ko ciuszko, February 26, 1810


To Dr. Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811


To Charles Willson Peale, August 20, 1811


To John Adams, January 21, 1812


To John Adams, June 11, 1812


To Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Madame de Staï¿½l-Holstein, May 24, 1813


To Paul Allen, August 5, 1813


To Paul Allen, August 18, 1813


To Nicholas Biddle, August 20, 1813


To John Adams, October 28, 1813


To Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813


To Edward Coles, August 25, 1814


To Samuel H. Smith, September 21, 1814


To William Short, Esq., November 28, 1814


To John Adams, April 8, 1816


To Josï¿½ Corrï¿½a da Serra, April 26, 1816


To Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817


To John Adams, November 13, 1818


To John Holmes, April 22, 1820


To John Adams, October 12, 1823


To James Monroe, October 24, 1823


To Ellen W. Coolidge, August 27, 1825


To Dr. James Mease, September 26, 1825


To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826


Contexts


From Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America Now Met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Cause and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms


From Common Sense



Manuscript Notes on Resolutions of Congress


Queries Concerning American States



To Jefferson, March 12, 1784, with John McDuffee's Answers to Queries Concerning the Moose



To Jefferson, March 15, 1784, with Answers to Queries Concerning the Moose



To Jefferson, with Memoranda on the Moose, June 22, 1784



From Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782



To the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Vice-President of the United States, June 24, 1797



Criticism


Early Responses To Jefferson and His Writings, 1802-1896


Ode to the Mammoth Cheese (1802)



From The President Again (1802)



Oration, in Honor of the Election of President Jefferson, and the Peaceable Acquisition of Louisiana (1804)



On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis (1807)



From The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times (1808)



From A History of New York (1809)



From The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (1823, 1830)



The Working Men's Declaration of Independence (1829)



Declaration of Sentiments (1848)



Memoirs (1873)



The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism (1896)



From Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of the Expatriated Man



From The Notes on Virginia



From Sally Hemings



From Slavery and the Declaration of Independence



From Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America



From Jefferson's Pauses



From Jefferson and the Familiar Letter



From Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy



From The Seductions of Thomas Jefferson



Modern Analysis and Criticism


From Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputation as Author of the Declaration of Independence



From "We Shall All Be Americans"



From The Evolution of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia



A Chronology



Selected Bibliography


Index