The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 (eBook)

1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

J. Jefferson Looney (Herausgeber)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18519-4 (ISBN)

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The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson’s 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 Jefferson’s 1817 bill of complaint and he unwittingly ensures his eventual financial ruin by endorsing notes totaling $20,000 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 Washington’s 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 College’s 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.

Autor

J. Jefferson Looney is editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, which is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia.

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 ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University • Albert Gallatin • Alexander Pope • Amendment • American National Biography • American Peace Society • American Philosophical Society • Battle of Trenton • Belisarius • Benjamin Henry Latrobe • Benjamin Silliman • Biography • British America • Caspar Wistar (physician) • Classical school (criminology) • Consideration • Continental Army • correspondent • County surveyor • Cover Letter • Dartmouth College • David Hosack • DeWitt Clinton • Dickinson College • Dio Chrysostom • dormitory • Edward Jenner • Edward Rutledge • federal union • Francis Scott Key • franklin pierce • Gazette • George Ticknor • George Tucker (politician) • Grammar school • Hartford Convention • Harvard University • henry knox • His Family • Holy Alliance • I Wish (manhwa) • Jedidiah Morse • J. (newspaper) • John A. Garraty • John C. Calhoun • John Payne Todd • John Quincy Adams • John R. Phillips (attorney) • John Scotus Eriugena • John Trumbull • Lecture • Letter of resignation • loeb classical library • Martha Jefferson Randolph • matthew carter • Mergenthaler Linotype Company • Monsieur • Mr. • Napoleon • Nathaniel Bowditch • newspaper • of education • Pamphlet • passport • Patrick Gass • Payment • Peace Society • Peter Jefferson • Phillips Exeter Academy • Politique • Poplar Forest • Port of Philadelphia • Primogeniture • Princeton University • Princeton University Press • Publication • Recess appointment • Religion • Republicanism • residence • Richard Bache • Richard Bland Lee • Roman Religion • salary • Second Continental Congress • Smallpox vaccine • Sons (novel) • Sons of liberty • Tax • Thomas Hutchinson (governor) • Treaty of Alliance (1778) • Treaty of Ghent • University of Pennsylvania • Vegetable • William Cobbett • William J. Duane • William Radford • Williams College • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18519-0 / 0691185190
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18519-4 / 9780691185194