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Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Ser.: Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 : 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818 by Thomas Jefferson (2016, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691168296
ISBN-139780691168296
eBay Product ID (ePID)211207202
Product Key Features
Number of Pages784 Pages
Publication NamePapers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 : 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2016
SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, Presidents & Heads of State, American Government / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorThomas Jefferson
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
SeriesPapers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight43.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2004-048327
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number12
IllustratedYes
SynopsisThe 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.
LC Classification NumberE302.J442 2016
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