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Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method and Apparatus xi Maps xxxix Illustrations xliii Jefferson Chronology 2 1813 To Destutt de Tracy, 28 November 3 From Joseph C. Cabell, 29 November 5 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 November 6 To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30 November 9 To Lafayette, 30 November 13 From Judith Lomax, 30 November 16 From John Clarke, 2 December 16 From John Adams, 3 December 23 From David Ramsay, 3 December 28 From George Hay, 6 December 29 To Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December 29 From Edward Ross, 6 December 32 From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 December 33 To Madame de Tesse, 8 December 33 From Thomas Leiper, 9 December 36 From George Logan, 9 December 38 Account with Reuben Perry, 10 December 44 From John C. Pryor, 10 December 45 From John Barnes, 12 December 46 From Samuel M. Burnside, 13 December 47 From Bela Fosgate, with Note from David Holt, 13 December 48 To Isaac Cox Barnet, 14 December 50 To Valentin de Foronda, 14 December 50 To Francois Andre Michaux, 14 December 52 To Alexis Marie Rochon, 14 December 53 To Andre Thouin, 14 December 54 To Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 15 December 56 From Horatio G. Spafford, 17 December 57 From Elizabeth Trist, 17 December 59 From Paul Allen, 18 December 63 From John Adams, 19 December 64 From John Devereux DeLacy, 19 December 68 From Sir Egerton Leigh, 19 December 68 From Patrick Gibson, 21 December 69 From John Melish, 21 December 70 From William Champe Carter, 22 December 70 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 22 December 71 To Patrick Gibson, 24 December 72 From Shotwell & Kinder, 24 December 72 From John Adams, 25 December 73 To Mary Lewis, 25 December 78 To Charles Clay, 28 December 79 From Charles Willson Peale, 28 December 79 From Patrick Gibson, 29 December 86 To Philip Mazzei, 29 December 87 To David Bailie Warden, 29 December 90 From David A. Leonard, 30 December 93 Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December] 94 1814 To John E. Hall, 1 January 95 To Thomas Leiper, 1 January 96 To Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 99 To Walter Jones, 2 January 100 From Thomas Leiper, 2 January 104 From David A. Leonard, 2 January 105 From Isaac McPherson, 2 January 106 To John Graham, 6 January 107 From Oliver Evans, 7 January, enclosing Oliver Evans's Petition to the United States Congress, [by 28 December 1813] 107 From Robert M. Patterson, 7 January 113 To Charles Clay, 8 January 114 From Patrick Gibson, 8 January 114 To Samuel M. Burnside, 9 January 115 From Charles Clay, 9 January 116 To Louis H. Girardin, 9 January 116 From Thomas Hornsby, 9 January, enclosing Statement by Elizabeth Henderson, 25 December 1813 117 To John Pintard, 9 January 119 From Joseph R. Darnall, 10 January 121 To Walter Jones, 10 January 122 From William Johnson, 12 January 123 To Patrick Gibson, 13 January 123 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 13 January 124 To Thomas Cooper, 16 January 124 To Oliver Evans, 16 January 131 To Joseph C. Cabell, 17 January 133 From Joseph Wheaton, 17 January 135 From William Short, 18 January 135 From Thomas Clark, 19 January 139 From Patrick Gibson, 19 January 141 To David A. Leonard, 20 January 141 To Robert M. Patterson, 20 January 142 To Sir Egerton Leigh, 21 January 143 To John Melish, 21 January 143 From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 January 144 To John Adams, 24 January 146 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 24 January 151 From John Manners, 24 January 152 To Richard Randolph, 25 January 154 To John Staples, 25 January 154 From Mathew Carey, 26 January 155 To Patrick Gibson, 26 January 155 To Joseph Wheaton, 26 January 156 To William Champe Carter, 27 January 157 To John Clarke, 27 January 158 To James Monroe, 27 January 159 From William Cocke, 28 January 160 From Elias Earle, 28 January, enclosing Henry Dearborn's Statement Regarding Elias Earle's Ironworks, 29 March 1812 162 From Robert Mills, 28 January 165 To William Short, 28 January 166 From Horatio G. Spafford, 28 January 169 To John Barnes, 29 January 169 From Oliver Evans, 29 January 170 To Joseph Graham, 29 January 174 To James Lyons, 29 January 174 To Archibald Thweatt, 29 January 175 To Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 176 To Samuel Greenhow, 31 January 178 To Elizabeth Trist, 1 February 178 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 3 February 179 Notes on Account with David Higginbotham, [ca. 3 February] 180 From Jason Chamberlain, 4 February 181 From Samuel Greenhow, 4 February 182 From Joseph C. Cabell, 5 February 184 From Samuel Brown, 8 February 186 From Patrick Gibson, 8 February 188 From John Barnes, 9 February 189 To Mathew Carey, 10 February 190 To Thomas Clark, 10 February 190 To Thomas Cooper, 10 February 190 To Shotwell & Kinder, 10 February 191 From John Barnes, 11 February 192 From Samuel R. Demaree, 13 February 194 From James Madison, 13 February 196 From James Monroe, 14 February 197 From William Bentley, 16 February 198 To Elias Earle, 16 February 199 From Walter Jones, 16 February 200 To James Madison, 16 February 203 To James Madison, 17 February 203 To Robert Mills, 17 February 204 From Richard Randolph, 18 February 204 From Arabella Graham, 20 February 204 From Gideon Granger, 22 February 205 To John Manners, 22 February 207 To John Barnes, 23 February 211 To Patrick Gibson, 23 February 212 To William Short, 23 February 212 From William DuVal, 24 February 213 From Lafayette, 25 February 215 From Patrick Gibson, 26 February 215 From John Barnes, 27 February 215 From John Adams, February 216 From Patrick Gibson, 2 March 222 From John Graham, 2 March 222 From William Short, 3 March 223 From Martin Dawson & Company, 4 March 225 From Elizabeth Trist, 5 March 226 From William Wardlaw, 5 March 228 From Charles Burrall, 6 March 229 From Joseph C. Cabell, 6 March 230 From Martin Dawson & Company, 6 March 231 From Charles Burrall, [7 March] 231 From Thomas Clark, 7 March 232 From George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 7 March 232 From John Barnes, 8 March 233 To Gideon Granger, 9 March 234 To James Madison, 10 March 238 Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 240 From Patrick Gibson, 13 March 241 From John E. Hall, 15 March 241 To William Bentley, 16 March 242 To Henry M. Brackenridge, 16 March 242 To Charles Burrall, 16 March 243 To Jason Chamberlain, 16 March 243 To James Madison, 16 March 244 To Henry Muhlenberg, 16 March 244 From Samuel P. Parsons, 16 March 246 To Charles J. Ingersoll, 17 March 247 To Horatio G. Spafford, 17 March 248 To William Wardlaw, 17 March 249 To Louis H. Girardin, 18 March 250 Notes on Napier's Theorem, [ca. 18 March] 253 To James Barbour, 20 March 256 To Thomas Clark, 20 March 256 From Thomas Cooper, 20 March 257 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 20 March 259 To Samuel Pleasants, 20 March 260 From Isaac A. Coles, 21 March 260 To John Barnes, 22 March 261 To John Barnes, 22 March 261 From Charles Burrall, 22 March 262 From David Gelston, 22 March 263 To Patrick Gibson, 22 March 263 From Horatio G. Spafford, 22 March 264 The Founding of the University of Virginia: Albemarle Academy, 1803-1816 264 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 25 March 266 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 25 March 268 From Patrick Gibson, 26 March 268 To George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 26 March 268 To James Madison, 26 March 269 From James J. Pleasants (for Samuel Pleasants), 26 March 270 To William Short, 26 March 271 From Benjamin Galloway, 30 March 272 From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 March 273 From Benjamin Taylor, enclosing Benjamin Taylor's Annotated Drawings of Underwater Mines, [30] March 276 From William Cook, 31 March 280 To Benjamin Smith Barton, 3 April 281 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 April 282 To David Gelston, 3 April 282 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 5 April 282 From John Barnes, 5 April 283 From Nicolas G. Dufief, enclosing Account with Nicolas G. Dufief, 6 April 284 From Peter Carr, [received 7 April] 286 From Jose Correa da Serra, 10 April 287 From George Divers, 11 April 288 From Benjamin Smith Barton, 12 April 288 From Bradford & Inskeep, 12 April, enclosing Account with Bradford & Inskeep, 7 April 289 To Patrick Gibson, 12 April 290 From Luis de Onis, 13 April 291 From William Wardlaw, 13 April 292 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 14 April 292 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 15 April 293 From John Barnes, 16 April 294 From Joseph Delaplaine, 16 April 295 To William Shirman, 16 April 297 From Thomas Leiper, 17 April 297 To John H. Cocke, 19 April 300 From John H. Cocke, 19 April 301 To Jose Correa da Serra, 19 April 301 From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 April 302 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 19 April 303 To Benjamin Galloway, 19 April 305 To Samuel P. Parsons, 19 April 306 From Patrick Gibson, 20 April 307 From John Rhea, 20 April 307 From David Gelston, 21 April 307 From Augustus B. Woodward, 21 April 308 From Augustus B. Woodward, 22 April 308 From Hugh Holmes, 23 April 309 Joseph Jones Monroe to James Monroe, 23 April 310 From Horatio G. Spafford, 24 April 313 To John Barnes, 25 April 314 From Charles Caldwell, 25 April 317 From John Waldo, 25 April 319 To Jose Correa da Serra, 26 April 320 From David Isaacs, 26 April 321 To Horatio G. Spafford, 26 April 322 From John Barnes, 27 April 323 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 27 April 324 To Samuel Brown, 28 April 325 To Luis de Onis, 28 April 326 From Charles Caldwell, 30 April 328 From Francis Corbin, 30 April 329 From Joseph Delaplaine, 30 April 330 From William Shirman, 30 April 331 From Abraham Small, 30 April 331 To Louis H. Girardin, 1 May 332 From David Isaacs, 1 May 332 From John Barnes, 2 May 333 From John Barnes, 2 May 334 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 3 May 335 To Joseph Delaplaine, 3 May 340 From Thomas Law, 3 May 342 From Joseph H. Nicholson, 3 May 343 From John F. Watson, 3 May 344 From Samuel Brown, 4 May 345 From Patrick Gibson, 4 May 346 To John Staples, 4 May 346 From Joseph Wheaton, 4 May 347 From John T. Mason, 5 May 347 To William Richardson, 6 [May] 349 From David Bailie Warden, 6 May 349 From James Monroe, 7 May 351 To Craven Peyton, 7 May, enclosing John Henderson's Deed of Milton Property to Craven Peyton, 17 November 1807 351 To John Barnes, 8 May 353 To George W. Campbell, 8 May 354 To James Monroe, 8 May 355 To Bernard Peyton, 8 May 356 To William Cook, 9 May 356 From Jason Chamberlain, 10 May 357 To Hugh Chisholm, 10 May 357 From George Creager, 10 May 358 From James Madison, 10 May 359 To Craven Peyton, 10 May 360 From Abraham Howard Quincy, 10 May 361 From John Barnes, 13 May 363 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 May 363 To Henry Dearborn, 17 May 364 To John Langdon, 17 May 365 To James Madison, 17 May 365 To William Short, 17 May 366 To John F. Watson, 17 May 367 To John Adams, 18 May 368 From John Barnes, 18 May 369 To Daniel D. Tompkins, 18 May 370 To Francis Corbin, 20 May 370 To Abraham Small, 20 May, enclosing Eugene Aram's Defense at his Trial for Murder, [3 August 1759] 373 To Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May 379 From Hugh Chisholm, 22 May 380 From John Barnes, 24 May 380 From James Mease, 24 May 381 To George Creager, 28 May 382 From John Vaughan, 28 May 383 From Henry M. Brackenridge, 30 May 383 From Thomas Cooper, 31 May 385 Account with William Steptoe, 1 June 387 From John F. Watson, 2 June 388 From Luis de Onis, 3 June 390 From John Wilson, 3 June 398 From William Barton, 6 June 398 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 June 400 From Robert Mills, 7 June 401 To Patrick Gibson, 9 June 401 From William Short, 9 June 402 To William Thornton, 9 June 405 From Dudley Leavitt, enclosing Dudley Leavitt's Table for Determining the Moon's Quarters, 10 June 407 To Elizabeth Trist, 10 June 409 To Charles Caldwell, 12 June 410 From Patrick Gibson, 13 June 412 To Thomas Law, 13 June 412 From Jean Baptiste Say, 15 June 416 From John Barnes, 16 June 421 From William H. Crawford, 16 June 422 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 17 June 426 From David Bailie Warden, 18 June 427 From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 June 429 To Christopher Clark, 21 June 430 To Archibald Robertson, 21 June 430 From John Barnes, enclosing Tadeusz Kosciuszko's Account with John Barnes, 22 June 431 To Patrick Gibson, 22 June 433 From Levett Harris, 22 June 433 To Archibald Robertson, 22 June 434 From Archibald Robertson, 22 June 435 From Israel B. Kursheedt, 24 June 435 From William Lambert, 24 June 436 From John Barnes, 27 June 437 From William Thornton, 27 June 438 To Baring Brothers & Company, 28 June 439 To John Barnes, 28 June 440 From David Isaacs, 28 June 441 To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June 442 To Robert Mills, [28] June 443 To Joseph Delaplaine, 29 June 444 To James Mease, 29 June 444 To Robert Patterson, 29 June 446 To John Wilson, 29 June 446 To William Barton, 30 June 446 To Jason Chamberlain, 1 July 447 To Joseph Darmsdatt, 1 July 448 To William Shirman, 1 July 448 To John Waldo, 1 July 449 To Louis H. Girardin, 2 July 450 To William Duane, 3 July 450 To John Adams, 5 July 451 From John Barnes, 7 July 456 From Patrick Gibson, 7 July 457 To Louis H. Girardin, 7 July 458 From Thomas Lehre, 7 July 459 To Patrick Gibson, 8 July, with Note on Corn Contracts, 9 July 459 From James W. Wallace, 8 July 460 From Hugh Holmes, 10 July 460 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 July 461 From Thomas C. Flournoy, 12 July, enclosing Thomas C. Flournoy's Fourth of July Speech, [4 July] 462 From Thomas Law, 12 July 467 From John Barnes, [ca. 13] July 469 From John Barnes, 13 July 470 From Patrick Gibson, 13 July 472 From Destutt de Tracy, [14] July 472 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 14 July 475 From John Adams, 16 July 476 To John Wayles Eppes, 16 July 482 From John Crookes, 20 July 484 To Joseph Miller, 21 July 484 To Andrew Moore, 21 July 485 To Robert Patterson, 23 July 486 To William Thornton, 23 July 486 From James Monroe, 25 July 487 To William Richardson, 25 July 488 From David Bailie Warden, 25 July 488 From Patrick Gibson, 27 July 491 From James Mease, 27 July 492 From William Wirt, 27 July, enclosing Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765, with Notes by William Wirt 492 From Joseph Delaplaine, 28 July 497 From John Barnes, 29 July 499 From Elizabeth Trist, 29 July 500 From Frank Carr, 31 July 502 From Edward Coles, 31 July 503 To Baron Karl von Moll, 31 July 505 From David Bailie Warden, 1 August 505 From William Thornton, 2 August, enclosing Walter Janes to William Thornton, 12 [July], and William Thornton to George Greer, 2 August 506 To Robert Gillespie, 3 August 509 To James Monroe, 3 August 510 From Augustus B. Woodward, 3 August 511 From William Barton, 4 August 511 From George Hargraves, 4 August 512 To John H. Cocke, 5 August 513 From James Ogilvie, [ca. 5 August] 514 To Reuben Perry, 5 August 514 To John Watts, 5 August 515 To Patrick Gibson, 7 August 516 To Lancelot Minor, 7 August 518 Promissory Note to Hugh Nelson, 7 August 519 To Samuel M. Burnside, 8 August 520 To John Crookes, 8 August 521 To Thomas C. Flournoy, 8 August 522 To Joseph Delaplaine, 9 August 522 From George Greer, 9 August 523 To Thomas Lehre, 9 August 524 From Thomas Ritchie, 9 August 525 To Gilbert Stuart, 9 August 525 From William Duane, enclosing William Duane's Notes on the Expediency of Using Black Troops, 11 August 527 From John Nicholas, 12 August 534 To Craven Peyton, 13 August 535 From Peter Carr, 14 August 535 From Lafayette, 14 August, enclosing Lafayette to an Unidentified Correspondent, 22 May 536 To William Wirt, 14 August 544 To Major Clayton, 15 August 551 To Patrick Gibson, 15 August 551 To Thomas Ritchie, 15 August 552 From John Barnes, 16 August 553 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 August 554 To Patrick Gibson, 16 August 555 To William Barton, 17 August 555 To Bradford & Inskeep, 17 August 556 From William Caruthers, 17 August 556 From Thomas Cooper, 17 August 557 To Peter Cottom, 17 August 561 From Joseph Delaplaine, 17 August 562 To William Duane, 17 August 564 From John L. E. W. Shecut, 17 August 565 To William Thornton, 17 August 568 To John F. Watson, 17 August 568 To Augustus B. Woodward, 17 August 569 To John T. Mason, 18 August 569 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 19 August 570 To John Barnes, 20 August 572 To Patrick Gibson, 20 August 572 From Miles King, 20 August 573 To William Short, 20 August 591 To James W. Wallace, 20 August 593 To William Wardlaw, 20 August 594 To John C. Carter, 21 August 594 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 21 August 595 From Samuel M. Burnside, 22 August 595 To Thomas Hornsby, 22 August 596 To David Michie, 22 August 597 From Jean Baptiste Say, 22 August 598 From Charles Yancey, 22 August 600 To Dabney Carr, 24 August 601 From Patrick Gibson, 24 August 602 From William Wardlaw, 24 August 602 To Edward Coles, 25 August 603 To Thomas Cooper, 25 August 606 To Caspar Wistar, 25 August 607 From John H. Cocke, 27 August 608 To Isaac A. Coles, 27 August 609 To Joseph Delaplaine, enclosing Thomas Jefferson's Extract from Theodor de Bry's Preface to Americae Pars Quinta, with a Drawing Depicting Christopher Columbus, and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, 28 August 611 To Louis H. Girardin, 28 August 616 From John Barnes, 29 August 617 From Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 618 To Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 619 To Samuel Carr, 29 August 619 To William Caruthers, 29 August 620 To George Hargraves, 29 August 620 From James W. Wallace, 29 August 621 To Charles Yancey, 29 August 624 To Charles Yancey, 29 August 625 To John Minor, 30 August, including an earlier letter to Bernard Moore, [ca. 1773?] 625 From Jeremiah Yancey (for Charles Yancey), 30 August 632 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 31 August 632 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 September 633 From Edward Caffarena, 5 September 634 To Craven Peyton, 6 September 634 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [6 September] 635 To Peter Carr, 7 September 636 From John Wayles Eppes, 7 September 642 From James W. Wallace, 7 September 642 From John Minor, 8 September 643 From Thomas B. Wait & Sons, 8 September 644 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 September 646 To Francis Eppes, 9 September 647 To John Wayles Eppes, 9 September 648 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 9 September 649 To Thomas Cooper, 10 September 649 From John C. Carter, 12 September 655 From James W. Wallace, 13 September 656 From Donald Fraser, 14 September 656 From Thomas Cooper, [ca. 15 September] 657 From Thomas Cooper, 15 September 657 Thomas Cooper's Notes on University Curricula [ca. 15-22 September] 666 From Horatio G. Spafford, 15 September 668 From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 September 669 From Jose Correa da Serra, 20 September 671 Deposition of Craven Peyton in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September 672 Deposition of Richard Price in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September 676 From Thomas Cooper, 21 September 678 The Sale of Thomas Jefferson's Library to Congress 679 I. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 681 II. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 681 From John Vaughan, [received 21 September] 684 From Thomas Cooper, 22 September 684 To Joseph C. Cabell, 23 September 689 To James Madison, 24 September 691 From Philip Mazzei, 24 September 693 From Joseph Milligan, 24 September 697 To James Monroe, 24 September 699 To John L. E. W. Shecut, 25 September 700 To Thomas B. Wait, 25 September 701 From Edward Coles, 26 September 702 To Miles King, 26 September 704 From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 26 September] 706 Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees, 27 September 708 To Dabney Carr, 27 September 709 To Patrick Gibson, 27 September 710 From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 27 September] 710 To James Oldham, 27 September 712 To Richard Randolph, 27 September 712 To Thomas Ritchie, 27 September 713 To John Barnes, 30 September 713 To Joseph C. Cabell, 30 September 714 Jose Correa da Serra's Memorandum on Religious Education, [after 30 September] 714 From Patrick Gibson, 30 September 716 Appendix: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found 719 Index 721

About the Author

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