Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 - 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818

Informationen zum Autor J. Jefferson Looney is editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series! which is sponsored by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation! Charlottesville! Virginia. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas A. Jefferson, Jefferson Thomas
• Assisted by: J. Jefferson Looney (Editor), Looney J. Jefferson (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780691168296
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16829-6
• No. of pages: 784
• Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series; Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Re; Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political leaders and leadership