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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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46521 | Editorial Note: Notes and Documents Relating to the … | The documents here gathered together, though covering a long span of time, are so gathered and... | |||
46522 | Editorial Note: The Case of Mace Freeland | This case, along with others that came to him during 1782, reveals Jefferson as turning seriously... | |||
46523 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Contemplated Mission to … | The documents here grouped together have no special unity beyond the fact that all of them relate... | |||
46524 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Proposed Revision of the … | When Jefferson stopped off in Richmond in May on his way back to Monticello, his discussions with... | |||
46525 | Editorial Note: Documents Concerning the Residence of … | Except for Document iii in this series, all of the notes and memoranda pertaining to the... | |||
46526 | Editorial Note: George Washington’s Resignation as … | Washington’s surrender of his commission at a formal audience granted by Congress was a symbolic... | |||
46527 | Editorial Note: The Connecticut-Pennsylvania … | The far-reaching dispute between Connecticut and Pennsylvania over their conflicting charter... | |||
46528 | Editorial Note: Report on the Powers of the Committee … | In his Autobiography Jefferson gave the following account of the steps leading to the creation of... | |||
46529 | Editorial Note: The Virginia Cession of Territory … | With the acceptance by Congress of the Virginia cession on 1 Mch. 1784, the national domain came... | |||
46530 | Editorial Note: Plan for Government of the Western … | On 1 Mch. 1784, immediately after the acceptance of the Virginia Deed of Cession, Jefferson... | |||
46531 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Notes on Coinage | Since Jefferson’s proposals concerning coinage in 1784 were in part inspired by a desire to... | |||
46532 | Editorial Note: To G. K. van Hogendorp, with Papers | The papers that Hogendorp left with Jefferson when he departed from Annapolis for a visit to... | |||
46533 | Editorial Note: Notes on Commerce of the Northern … | Among Jefferson’s well-ordered archives at Monticello was one category labeled “Rough draughts,... | |||
46534 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s “General Form” of a Treaty | “I am now to take my leave of the justlings of states,” Jefferson wrote Madison on the day he was... | |||
46535 | Editorial Note: Documents Pertaining to the Mission of … | The documents in this group were prepared by Adams and Jefferson during September and early... | |||
46536 | Editorial Note: Negotiations for a Treaty of Amity and … | The articles of the proposed treaty with Portugal were drawn up, as Jefferson later declared,... | |||
46537 | Editorial Note: The Article on the United States in the … | On 25 Oct. 1786 William Short wrote to William Nelson: “You speak of the Encyclopedia. It will be... | |||
46538 | Editorial Note: Polytype and Other Methods of Printing | New discoveries and inventions in the arts and sciences had a powerful appeal for Jefferson... | |||
46539 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Comments on François … | The assistance that Jefferson gave to the French historian François Soulés (1748–1809) was... | |||
46540 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Proposed Concert of Powers … | This remarkable proposal, which ran counter to the realities of 18th century political and... | |||
46541 | Editorial Note: Documents on the American Tobacco Trade | The documents in this group reveal what a powerful ally Jefferson had in Simon Bérard and the... | |||
46542 | Editorial Note: Further Documents Concerning American … | The preceding letter and the following documents present further aspects of the thoroughgoing... | |||
46543 | Editorial Note: The Consular Convention of 1788 | The Consular Convention of 1788 was the last of nine treaties to be signed by authority of the... | |||
46544 | Editorial Note: Proposals for Funding the Foreign Debt | The documents here presented are a part of the neglected story of Jefferson’s insistent appeals... | |||
46545 | Editorial Note: Documents Concerning the Whale Fishery | Jefferson’s review of the American whale fishery as a political institution is a classic example... | |||
46546 | Editorial Note: The Mirabeau Incident | More than once Jefferson expressed, with obvious sincerity, the same characteristic feeling that... | |||
46547 | Houdon, Jean Antoine | Houdon: Proposal I | Mr. Houdon requires for the execution of an Equastrian Statue of General Washington in Bronze the... | ||
46548 | James Madison to Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 August 1789 | Note: The letter from James Madison of 2 August 1789, published in Volume 15 of the letterpress... | |||
46549 | Editorial Note: The Earth Belongs in Usufruct to the … | Sometime during the first week in September, Jefferson suffered an incapacitating illness of six... | |||
46550 | Editorial Note: Documents on the Rice Trade | When Jefferson wrote Washington a conditional letter of acceptance of the office of secretary of... | |||
46551 | Editorial Note: The Debt to Farell & Jones and the … | Most of the documents presented in this group were discovered recently among the Ended Cases of... | |||
46552 | Editorial Note: Notes on American Medals Struck in … | Among the several attributes of sovereignty that Congress assumed during the period of... | |||
46553 | Madison on “The Earth Belongs to the Living” | I. TEXT AS RECEIVED BY JEFFERSON, 1790 II. TEXT AS REVISED BY MADISON LATE IN LIFE EDITORIAL NOTE... | |||
46554 | Editorial Note: The Holy Cause of Freedom | It is surprising that, except for contemporary newspaper publication, the text of this lofty... | |||
46555 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Alliance in 1790 with … | In the summer of 1790 Washington told the Comte de Rochambeau that Americans had learned to... | |||
46556 | Editorial Note: Report on Copper Coinage | On Wednesday, 7 Apr. 1790, a “member from South Carolina presented to the House a letter... | |||
46557 | Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Policy Concerning Presents … | Soon after taking office, Jefferson was obliged to address himself to the task of terminating... | |||
46558 | Editorial Note: Cabinet Opinions on the Resolutions … | This, as Alexander Hamilton stated, was “a case of inconsiderable magnitude.” In respect to the... | |||
46559 | Editorial Note: Documents on American Commercial Policy | The documents printed below were employed by Jefferson and Madison in a renewal of the bitter... | |||
46560 | Editorial Note: Report on Weights and Measures | Jefferson’s report on weights and measures is an almost perfect embodiment of his dual allegiance... | |||
46561 | Editorial Note: The War Crisis of 1790 | On 1 May 1790 Gouverneur Morris reported to Washington his most recent discussion with the... | |||
46562 | Editorial Note: Opinions on the Constitutionality of … | Probably the most celebrated and most controverted coalition in American history is that by which... | |||
46563 | Editorial Note: Plans and Estimates for the Diplomatic … | Soon after the passage of the Act providing the means of intercourse with foreign nations, a... | |||
46564 | Editorial Note: The Consular Establishment | At the time that Jefferson arrived in New York, only one consular appointment had been made by... | |||
46565 | Editorial Note: Documents Relating to Departmental … | Following passage of the Residence Act various departmental details obtruded upon the attention... | |||
46566 | Editorial Note: Fixing the Seat of Government on the … | Washington, Madison, and Jefferson—as well as Richard Bland Lee, Alexander White, Daniel Carroll,... | |||
46567 | Editorial Note: The Northwest Territory | If a poor man … should ask of me, where shall I go in order to live more at my ease, without the... | |||
46568 | Enclosure VIII: Map of the Reserved Tract including … | MS ( DNA : RG 46, Senate Records, 1st. Cong., 3rd. sess.). | |||
46569 | Editorial Note: Commercial and Diplomatic Relations … | In a remarkable series of reports to the President and to the House of Representatives during six... | |||
46570 | Editorial Note: The Impressment of Hugh Purdie and … | In mid-December, at Washington’s request, Jefferson reviewed the entire correspondence relating... |