The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 1 (eBook)

4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

J. Jefferson Looney (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18459-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume inaugurates the definitive edition of papers from Thomas Jefferson's retirement. As the volume opens, a new president is installed and Jefferson is anticipating his return to Virginia, where he will pursue a fascinating range of personal and intellectual activities. He prepares for his final departure from Washington by settling accounts and borrowing to pay his creditors. At Monticello he tells of his efforts to restore order at his mismanaged mill complex, breed merino sheep, and otherwise resume full control of his financial and agricultural affairs. Though he is entering retirement, he still has one foot firmly planted in the world of public affairs. He acknowledges a flood of accolades on his retirement and has frequent exchanges with President James Madison. While fielding written requests for money, favors, and advice from a kaleidoscopic array of relatives, acquaintances, strangers, cranks, anonymous writers, and a blackmailer, he maintains a wide and varied correspondence with scientists and scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume's highlights include first-hand accounts of Jefferson's demeanor at his successor's inauguration and one of the most detailed descriptions of life at Monticello by a visitor; Jefferson's recommendations on book purchases to a literary club and a teacher; chemical analyses of tobacco by a French scientist that first isolated nicotine; the earliest descriptions of the death of Meriwether Lewis; one of Jefferson's most eloquent calls for religious tolerance; and his modest assessment of the value of his writings in reply to a printer interested in publishing them.

Autor

J. Jefferson Looney is Editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia. He was formerly editor and project director of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, and author or editor of several works on the history of Princeton University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Reihe/Serie: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • abolitionism • ACORD • Albert Gallatin • Alexander von Humboldt • American Antiquarian Society • American Colonization Society • American National Biography • American Philosophical Society • Augustus B. Woodward • Benjamin Franklin Bache (journalist) • Benjamin Henry Latrobe • Benjamin Waterhouse • Berlin Decree • British America • Calculation • Charles Willson Peale • Commonwealth of England • Consideration • Continental Army • continental congress • Dabney Carr (Virginia assemblyman) • Dartmouth College • Daughters of the American Revolution • David Humphreys (soldier) • deed • DeWitt Clinton • district attorney • eberhard • Explanation • Fatherland • fort ticonderoga • Francisco de Miranda • Frederick the Great • General Government • George Canning • George Washington Parke Custis • George Wythe • Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette • Henry Dearborn • His Family • Inauguration • indulgence • I Wish (manhwa) • James Harrington (author) • Jay Treaty • Joel Barlow • John Coakley Lettsom • John Randolph of Roanoke • John Wayles Eppes • joseph bonaparte • Joseph Priestley • letter of marque • Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts • Life and Letters • Martha Jefferson • Martin Van Buren • Massachusetts Historical Society • Memoir • Meriwether Lewis • Monsieur • Napoleon • National Gazette • newspaper • Nicholas Trist • Non-Intercourse Act (1809) • of education • Pamphlet • Patrick Gass • Patriotism • Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours • Postmaster General • President of the United States • Princeton University • Publication • Quantity • Queen Ann (Pamunkey chief) • Rembrandt Peale • result • salary • Smithsonian Institution • Statute • St. George Tucker • Suetonius • Tax • The Columbiad • Theodore Roosevelt Island • The Papers of James Madison • Thomas Hobbes • Thomas Jefferson Randolph • Thomas Paine • Thomas Tickell • Tories (British political party) • Treaty of Amiens • War pension • William Randolph • William Stephens Smith • William Wirt (Attorney General) • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18459-3 / 0691184593
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18459-3 / 9780691184593