The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson

by Jefferson, Thomas; Koch, Adrienne; Peden, William

• ISBN13: 9780375752186
• ISBN10: 0375752188
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-10
• Publisher: Modern Library

Summary

"Jefferson aspired beyond the ambition of a nationality, and embraced in his view the whole future of man." --Henry Adams

Author Biography

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, left a vast literary legacy in the form of<br>journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. Jefferson remains one of the country's most extraordinary figures; <br>as well as president he was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant. At a dinner for Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy said that his guests were "the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. <br>This volume of his works, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden, represents many of Jefferson's most important contributions to American political thought. It includes the Autobiography, which contains the original and revised version of the Declaration of Independence; the Anas, or Notes (1791-1809); Biographical Sketches; selections from Notes on Virginia, the Travel Journals, and Essay on Anglo-Saxon; a portion of his public papers, including his first and second inaugural addresses, and over two hundred letters. The editors have provided a general introduction and introductory notes that precede the major works.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	xvii
I AUTOBIOGRAPHY Including The Declaration of Independence	3	(102)
II THE ANAS	105	(18)
III TRAVEL JOURNALS	123	(18)
IV ESSAY ON ANGLO-SAXON	141	(18)
V BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES	159	(14)
VI NOTES ON VIRGINIA	173	(96)
VII PUBLIC PAPERS	269	(54)
A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774	273	(16)
An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, 1779	289	(2)
Report of Government for the Western Territory, 1784	291	(2)
Opinion of Secretary of State, July 15, 1790	293	(1)
Opinion of Secretary of State, March 18, 1792	293	(1)
Opinion of Secretary of State, April 28, 1793	294	(2)
Opinion of Secretary of State, December 16, 1793	296	(1)
Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801	297	(4)
First Annual Message, December 8, 1801	301	(6)
Replay to Danbury Baptist Association, January 1, 1802	307	(1)
Indian Address, January 7, 1802	308	(1)
Second Annual Message, December 15, 1802	308	(1)
Third Annual Message, October 17, 1803	309	(4)
Fourth Annual Message, November 8, 1804	313	(1)
Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805	313	(5)
To the General Assembly of North Carolina, January 10, 1808	318	(1)
To the Society of Tammany, February 29, 1808	319	(1)
Eighth Annual Message, November 8, 1808	320	(3)
VIII LETTERS	323	(37)
To: John Harvie, Jan. 14, 1760	327	(1)
John Page, Dec. 25, 1762	327	(4)
John Page, July 15, 1763	331	(1)
John Page, Oct. 7, 1763	331	(1)
Robert Skipwith, Aug. 3, 1771	332	(2)
Dr. William Small, May 7, 1775	334	(1)
John Randolph, Esq., Nov. 29, 1775	335	(1)
Francis Eppes, July 15, 1776	336	(2)
John Fabroni, June 8, 1778	338	(1)
Col. James Monroe, May 20, 1782	339	(1)
Francois Jean, Chevalier de Chastellux, Nov. 26, 1782	340	(1)
Martha Jefferson, Dec. 22, 1783	341	(1)
Col. Monroe, June 17, 1785	341	(1)
Dr. Price, Aug. 7, 1785	342	(1)
The Count de Vergennes, Aug. 15, 1785	343	(3)
Mrs. Trist, Aug. 18, 1785	346	(1)
Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785	347	(4)
John Jay, Aug. 23, 1785	351	(1)
Baron Geismer, Sept. 6, 1785	352	(1)
James Madison, Sept. 20, 1785	353	(2)
Mr. Bellini, Sept. 30, 1785	355	(1)
Hogendorp, Oct. 13, 1785	356	(2)
J. Banister, Jr., Oct. 15, 1785	358	(2)
Rev. James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785	360	(2)
A. Stuart, Esq., Jan. 25, 1786	362	(2)
James Madison, Feb. 8, 1786	364	(1)
John Page, May 4, 1786	364	(2)
Mr. Wythe, Aug. 13, 1786	366	(1)
Mrs. Cosway, Oct. 12, 1786	367	(10)
James Madison, Dec. 16, 1786	377	(2)
John Jay, Jan. 9, 1787	379	(1)
Monsieur de Creve-coeur, Jan. 15, 1787	379	(2)
Col. Edward Carrington, Jan. 16, 1787	381	(1)
James Madison, Jan. 30, 1787	382	(2)
Madame la Comtesse de Tesse, March 20, 1787	384	(2)
Martha Jefferson, March 28, 1787	386	(2)
To: Martha Jefferson, April 7, 1787	388	(1)
The Marquis de Lafayette, April 11, 1787	389	(2)
James Madison, June 20, 1787	391	(2)
T.M. Randolph, Jr., July 6, 1787	393	(2)
Edward Carrington, Aug. 4, 1787	395	(1)
Col. Monroe, Aug. 5, 1787	396	(1)
Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787	397	(4)
John Adams, Aug. 30, 1787	401	(1)
John Adams, Nov. 13, 1787	402	(1)
Col. Smith, Nove. 13, 1787	403	(1)
James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787	403	(5)
E. Carrington, Dec. 21, 1787	408	(1)
Mr. A. Donald, Feb. 7, 1788	408	(2)
The Count de Moustier, May 17, 1788	410	(1)
William Carmichael, May 27, 1788	411	(1)
Col. Carrington, May 27, 1788	412	(1)
Mr. Izard, July 17, 1788	413	(1)
E. Rutledge, July 18, 1788	414	(1)
Mr. Cutting, July 24, 1788	415	(1)
James Madison, July 31, 1788	416	(1)
James Madison, Nov. 18, 1788	417	(1)
Dr. Price, Jan. 8, 1789	418	(4)
John Jay, Jan. 11, 1789	422	(2)
Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789	424	(2)
James Madison, March 15, 1789	426	(2)
Col. Humphreys, March 18, 1789	428	(2)
Dr. Willard, March 24, 1789	430	(1)
General Washington, May 10, 1789	431	(1)
Monsieur de St. Etienne, June 3, 1789	432	(2)
John Jay, June 24, 1789	434	(4)
John Jay, June 29, 1789	438	(2)
Thomas Paine, July 11, 1789	440	(2)
John Jay, July 19, 1789	442	(6)
James Madison, Sept. 6, 1789	448	(5)
William Hunter, Esq., Mayor of Alexandria, March 11, 1790	453	(1)
The Marquis de Lafayette, April 2, 1790	454	(1)
To: Maria Jefferson, April 11, 1790	455	(1)
Mr. Thomas Mann Randolph, May 30, 1790	456	(1)
John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790	457	(2)
Maria Jefferson, June 13, 1790	459	(1)
Count de Moustier, Dec. 13, 1790	460	(1)
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Dec. 23, 1790	461	(1)
Mr. Hazard, Feb. 18, 1791	461	(1)
Major L'Enfant, April 10, 1791	462	(1)
Thomas Mann Randolph, June 5, 1791	463	(1)
T. M. Randolph, July 3, 1791	464	(1)
John Adams, July 17, 1791	465	(1)
William Short, July 28, 1791	466	(1)
Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791	467	(1)
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Jan. 15, 1792	468	(1)
The President of the United States, May 23, 1792	468	(6)
Thomas Paine, June 19, 1792	474	(1)
The President of the United States, Sept. 9, 1792	474	(4)
William Short, Jan. 3, 1793	478	(1)
James Madison, June 9, 1793	479	(3)
The President of the United States, July 31, 1793	482	(1)
Eli Whitney, Nov. 16, 1793	483	(1)
John Adams, April 25, 1794	483	(1)
Tench Coxe, May 1, 1794	484	(1)
James Madison, Dec. 28, 1794	485	(1)
Monsieur d'Ivernois, Feb. 6, 1795	486	(2)
M. de Meusnier, April 29, 1795	488	(1)
Mann Page, Aug. 30, 1795	489	(1)
George Wythe, Jan. 16, 1796	490	(2)
Philip Mazzei, April 24, 1796	492	(1)
John Adams, Dec. 28, 1796	493	(1)
James Madison, Jan. 1, 1797	494	(1)
Elbridge Gerry, May 13, 1797	495	(3)
Edward Rutledge, June 24, 1797	498	(1)
Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799	499	(2)
Edmund Pendleton, Jan. 29, 1799	501	(1)
Maria Jefferson Eppes, Feb. 7, 1799	502	(1)
Edmund Randolph, Aug. 18, 1799	503	(3)
To: Dr. Joseph Priestley, Jan. 18, 1800	506	(1)
Dr. Joseph Priestley, Jan. 27, 1800	507	(2)
Dr. William Bache, Feb. 2, 1800	509	(1)
Samuel Adams, Feb. 26, 1800	509	(1)
Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800	510	(1)
Martha Jefferson Randolph, Jan. 26, 1801	511	(1)
T. M. Randolph, Feb. 19, 1801	512	(1)
John Dickinson, March 6, 1801	513	(1)
Dr. Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801	514	(2)
Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801	516	(1)
Robert R. Livingston, Sept. 9, 1801	517	(1)
The Secretary of the Treasury (Albert Gallatin), April 1, 1802	518	(1)
Dr. Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803	519	(4)
General Horatio Gates, July 11, 1803	523	(1)
Monsieur Cabanis, July 12, 1803	524	(1)
Wilson C. Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803	524	(2)
Jean Baptiste Say, Feb. 1, 1804	526	(1)
Judge John Tyler, June 28, 1804	527	(1)
C. F. C. de Volney, Feb. 8, 1805	528	(1)
The Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, Jan. 10, 1806	529	(2)
The Reverend Doctor G. G. Jenner, May 14, 1806	531	(1)
John Norvell, June 11, 1807	532	(1)
Governor James Sullivan, June 19, 1807	533	(1)
Dr. Casper Wistar, June 21, 1807	534	(2)
Monsieur DuPont De Nemours, July 14, 1807	536	(1)
Charles Pinckney, March 30, 1808	537	(1)
The Prince Regent of Portugal, May 5, 1808	538	(1)
Monsieur Lasteyrie, July 15, 1808	539	(1)
Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Nov. 24, 1808	540	(3)
Thomas Leiper, Jan. 21, 1809	543	(1)
John Hollins, Feb. 19, 1809	544	(1)
M. Henri Gregoire, Eveque et Senateur a Paris, Feb. 25, 1809	544	(1)
Monsieur DuPont de Nemours, March 2, 1809	545	(1)
The Inhabitants of Albemarle Country, in Virginia, April 3, 1809	546	(1)
John Wyche, May 19, 1809	547	(1)
To: Dr. B. S. Barton, Sept. 21, 1809	548	(1)
Rev. Samuel Knox, Feb. 12, 1810	549	(1)
General Thaddeus Kosciusko, Feb. 26, 1810	550	(3)
Governor John Langdon, March 5, 1810	553	(1)
Governor John Tyler, May 26, 1810	554	(1)
Colonel William Duane, Aug. 12, 1810	555	(1)
J. B. Colvin, Sept. 20, 1810	556	(1)
Dr. Benjamin Rush, Jan. 16, 1811	556	(5)
Colonel William Duane, March 28, 1811	561	(1)
Dr. Benjamin Rush, Aug. 17, 1811	562	(2)
John Adams, Jan. 21, 1812	564	(2)
F. A. Van der Kemp, March 22, 1812	566	(1)
James Maury, April 25, 1812	567	(1)
John Melish, Jan. 13, 1813	568	(4)
Colonel William Duane, Jan. 22, 1813	572	(1)
Colonel William Duane, April 4, 1813	573	(1)
John Adams, May 27, 1813	573	(1)
John Adams, June 27, 1813	574	(1)
Dr. Samuel Brown, July 14, 1813	575	(1)
Isaac McPherson, Aug. 13, 1813	576	(1)
John Adams, Oct. 13, 1813	577	(2)
John Adams, Oct. 28, 1813	579	(1)
Dr. Thomas Cooper, Jan. 16, 1814	580	(1)
Monsieur N. G. Dufief, April 19, 1814	581	(1)
Thomas Law, Esq., June 13, 1814	582	(4)
John Adams, July 5, 1814	586	(1)
Edward Coles, Aug. 25, 1814	586	(2)
Peter Carr, Sept. 7, 1814	588	(6)
Dr. Thomas Cooper, Sept. 10, 1814	594	(1)
Samuel H. Smith, Esq., Sept. 21, 1814	594	(2)
William Short, Esq., Nov. 28, 1814	596	(2)
The Marquis de Lafayette, Feb. 14, 1815	598	(1)
James Maury, June 15, 1815	599	(1)
Albert Gallatin, October 16, 1815	600	(1)
Colonel Charles Yancey, Jan. 6, 1816	601	(2)
Charles Thomson, Jan. 9, 1816	603	(1)
Joseph C. Cabell, Feb. 2, 1816	603	(2)
To: Joseph Milligan, April 6, 1816	605	(4)
John Adams, April 8, 1816	609	(2)
John Taylor, May 28, 1816	611	(4)
Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816	615	(3)
John Adams, Aug. 1, 1816	618	(1)
Mrs. Abigail Adams, Jan. 11, 1817	618	(2)
Charles Thomson, Jan. 29, 1817	620	(1)
Joseph Delaplaine, April 12, 1817	620	(2)
Baron Alexander Von Humboldt, June 13, 1817	622	(1)
Monsieur Barbe de Marbois, June 14, 1817	622	(2)
George Ticknor, Nov. 25, 1817	624	(1)
John Trumbull, Jan. 8, 1818	624	(1)
Count Dugnani, Feb. 14, 1818	625	(1)
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse, March 3, 1818	626	(2)
Nathaniel Burwell, Esq., March 14, 1818	628	(2)
John Adams, Nov. 13, 1818	630	(1)
Dr. Vine Utley, March 21, 1819	630	(2)
Mr. Laporte, June 4, 1819	632	(1)
William Short, Oct. 31, 1819	633	(3)
Dr. Thomas Cooper, March 13, 1820	636	(1)
John Holmes, April 22, 1820	637	(1)
William Short, Aug. 4, 1820	638	(1)
John Adams, Aug. 15, 1820	639	(1)
William Roscoe, Dec. 27, 1820	640	(1)
John Adams, Sept. 12, 1821	641	(1)
James Smith, Dec. 8, 1822	642	(1)
Robert Walsh, April 5, 1823	643	(1)
John Adams, April 11, 1823	644	(2)
General Samuel Smith, May 3, 1823	646	(1)
The President of the United States (James Monroe), Oct. 24, 1823	646	(3)
Monsieur A. Coray, Oct. 31, 1823	649	(1)
The Marquis de Lafayette, Nov. 4, 1823	650	(1)
Mr. David Harding, President of the Jefferson Debating Society of Hingham, April 20, 1824	651	(1)
Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824	651	(1)
Henry Lee, August 10, 1824	652	(1)
To: Charles Sigourney, Aug. 15, 1824	653	(1)
John Adams, Jan. 8, 1825	654	(1)
Thomas Jefferson Smith, Feb. 21, 1825	655	(1)
Henry Lee, May 8, 1825	656	(1)
Ellen W. Coolidge, August 27, 1825	657	(2)
Dr. James Mease, Sept. 26, 1825	659	(1)
George Washington Lewis, Oct. 25, 1825	660	(3)
James Madison, Feb. 17, 1826	663	(2)
Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826	665