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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 21

Name: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 21
ISBN: 9780691266152

1 April to 31 October 1824

Thomas Jefferson,

J. Jefferson Looney,

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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 21

1 April to 31 October 1824

Thomas Jefferson,

J. Jefferson Looney,

About this book

A definitive new volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson

The 533 documents in this volume include revealing material on Jefferson’s health. He is limited to a liquid diet for weeks due to an abscess under his jaw. Although daily horseback rides take him “3. or 4. to 8. or 10. miles without fatigue,” he cannot walk “further than my garden.” He has lost only one tooth due to age and is glad not to need “teeth of porcelain.”

Due to debility, Jefferson’s only serious occupation is the effort to open the University of Virginia. Francis W. Gilmer travels to Great Britain to recruit professors and buy “a library and apparatus.” Jefferson is determined to hire only faculty of “the first grade of science.” The Rotunda is still unfinished but fit for use “until funds may occur to compleat it.”

Jefferson predicts that a plan to send freed African Americans to Africa will fail. He observes that “barbarism” is in decline and “will in time I trust disappear from the earth.” To another correspondent he defends “the principles which have guided my public life,” but adds that, when altered circumstances make changes of principle beneficial, “then let such changes take place, and the means yield to the end.”

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Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2025

Print ISBN

9780691266145

eBook ISBN

9780691266152

Topic

Politics & International Relations

Subtopic

Political Biographies

Index

Politics & International Relations

Cover
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Editorial Method and Apparatus
Maps
Illustrations
Jefferson Chronology
{1824}
From Thomas Appleton, 1 April
From Joseph C. Cabell, 1 April
From Thomas McKean, 1 April
From Bernard Peyton, 1 April
To Joel Yancey, 1 April
From Thomas Newport, 2 April
To John Griscom, 3 April
To Thomas Leiper, 3 April
To Granville Sharp Pattison, 3 April
To Philip S. Physick, [3 April]
To Edward Livingston, 4 April
Arthur S. Brockenbrough’s Estimate of University of Virginia Rotunda Costs, 5 April
John Finch’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [before 5 April]
Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 5–7 April
From David Harding, 6 April, enclosing Preamble to the Constitution of the Jefferson Debating Society, [before 6 April], and “A Citizen” on the Jefferson Debating Society, [ca. 13 March]
From James Monroe, [received 6 April]
From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 April
From Moritz Furst, 8 April
From Horatio G. Spafford, 8 April
Agreement by Mary Garner to Sell Land to the University of Virginia, 9 April
To James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, and John H. Cocke, enclosing Estimate of University of Virginia Income and Expenses, 9 April
Agreement by Daniel A. Piper and Mary A. F. Piper to Sell Land to the University of Virginia, 9 April
To Franklin Bache, 10 April
To William J. Coffee, 10 April
To William DuVal, 10 April
To John Farrar, 10 April
To Robert Hare, 10 April
To Thomas McKean, 10 April
From James Madison, 10 April
To William Short, 10 April
From Chapman Johnson, 12 April
From Bernard Peyton, 12 April
From Marc Auguste Pictet, 12 April, enclosing Pierre François Bellot to Marc Auguste Pictet, 11 April
From John Hambden Pleasants, 12 April
From Powhatan B. Tindall, 13 April
To Nicholas P. Trist, 13 April
From Bernard Peyton, 15 April
From Joseph C. Cabell and John H. Cocke, 16 April
From James Madison, 16 April
To Bernard Peyton, 16 April
From William Short, 17 April
From Giacomo C. Beltrami, 18 April
From Alexander Garrett, 18 April
From William Russell, 18 April
From John C. Calhoun, 19 April
From Bernard Peyton, 19 April
To John Hambden Pleasants, 19 April
To William H. Crawford, [20] April
To Moritz Furst, 20 April
To David Harding, 20 April
To Robert Richardson (of Ohio), 20 April
To Powhatan B. Tindall, 20 April
From Frederick W. Hatch, [22 April]
From Francis Eppes, 23 April
To John C. Calhoun, 25 April
To George Blaettermann, 26 April
The Founding of the University of Virginia: Recruitment of British Faculty
To Samuel Parr, 26 April
To Richard Rush, 26 April
To Dugald Stewart, 26 April
To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 April
From Moritz Furst, 27 April
Notes on Account between University of Virginia and Thomas Appleton, [after 27 April]
From James Barbour, 28 April
From Isaac Cox Barnet, 28 April
From Edmund Perryman, 29 April
From Bernard Peyton, 29 April
Receipt from Francis W. Gilmer to Alexander Garrett, 30 April
From Littleberry H. Mosby, 30 April
From Thomas G. Watkins, 30 April
From Thomas Appleton, 1 May
To Francis Eppes, 1 May
From Frederick W. Hatch, 1 May
To William Russell, 1 May
To Horatio G. Spafford, 1 May
To James Barbour, 2 May
From Franklin Bache, 3 May
From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 3 May
From Edmund Bacon, 4 May
To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 4 May
From David Higginbotham, 4 May
To David Higginbotham, 4 May
From Henry Lee, 4 May
From John Michael O’Connor, 4 May
From Joseph C. Cabell, 5 May
From Jonathan Barber, 6 May
From Francis W. Gilmer, 6 May
From David Hosack, 6 May
To Bernard Peyton, 6 May
From Jonathan Thompson, 7 May
From Joseph G. Swift, 8 May
From William H. Cabell, 10 May
From William W. Hening, 10 May
From James Monroe, 10 May
From Bernard Peyton, 10 May
From Thomas Ritchie, 10 May
From William Short, 10 May
From William Hawkesworth, 11 May
From Samuel L. Mitchill and Felix Pascalis, 11 May
To Jonathan Barber, 12 May
From William DuVal, enclosing William DuVal to William Wirt, 12 May
To David Hosack, 12 May
From Lafayette, 12 May
From Frederick A. Mayo, 12 May
To Bernard Peyton, 13 May
To Robert Goodacre, 14 May
From Robert Goodacre, 14 May
From James Barbour, 15 May
From John Winn, enclosing Account, 15 May
To Joseph C. Cabell, 16 May
To William Hawkesworth, 16 May
To Henry Lee, 16 May
To James Madison, 16 May
To John Michael O’Connor, 16 May
To Bernard Peyton, 16 May
To John Winn, 16 May
To Thomas Appleton, 17 May
To Franklin Bache, 17 May
To Férussac, [ca. 17 May
To Samuel L. Mitchill and Felix Pascalis, 17 May
To Robert Patterson, 17 May
From Bernard Peyton, 17 May
To William Short, 17 May
From John Winn, 17 May
To Thomas Appleton, 18 May
Notes on Marble Fireplaces for Monticello, 18 May
To Theodorus Bailey, 20 May
From John Finch, 20 May
From James Madison, 20 May
From Bernard Peyton, 20 May
To Samuel Williams, 20 May
From Nathaniel Macon, 21 May
To Thomas Eston Randolph, 22 May
To Joseph G. Swift, 22 May
Martin Van Buren’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, [ca. 23 May]
From William J. Coffee, 24 May
From Gulian C. Verplanck, 24 May
Announcement of Opening of University of Virginia, [25 May]
To Clement P. McKennie, 25 May
From Thomas Eston Randolph, 26 May
From Bernard Peyton, 27 May
From Samuel Brown, 30 May
To William J. Coffee, 31 May
To William Duane, 31 May
Samuel Whitcomb’s Account of a Visit to Monticello, 31 May
From Patrick Gibson (ca. 1775–1827), 1 June
From Frederick W. Hatch, [2] June
From Jerman Baker, 3 June
To John Barnes, 3 June
From Joshua Dodge, 3 June
From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 4 June
From John Vaughan, 4 June
To John Cartwright, 5 June
From William Duane, 5 June
William Duane’s Notes on Guatemala, [ca. 5 June]
To Francis W. Gilmer, 5 June
To Richard Rush, 5 June
To Dodge & Oxnard, 6 June
From Francis W. Gilmer, 6 June
To Gulian C. Verplanck, 7 June
From John Barnes, 8 June
From William P. Smith, 8 June
From Martin Van Buren, 8 June
From Thomas Appleton, 10 June
From Thomas Appleton, 10 June
From Levi Woodbury, 11 June
From Stephen T. Mitchell, 12 June
From Littleton Dennis Teackle, 12 June
From Joseph C. Cabell, 13 June
From George Washington Jeffreys, 13 June
From William Mullins, 13 June
From Richard Rush, 13 June
Account with Youen Carden, [ca. 14 June]
From Elisha Copeland, 14 June
From Peter P. F. Degrand, [ca. 14 June]
From Ferdinand R. Hassler, 14 June
From Horatio G. Spafford, 18 June
From Anne Royall, 20 June
From Robert Walsh, 20 June
From Francis W. Gilmer, 21 June
Memorandum of Agreement between Francis W. Gilmer and George Blaettermann, 21 June
To Jerman Baker, 22 June
From John Browne Cutting, 22 June
To Ferdinand R. Hassler, 22 June
From Count Scagnelli, 22 June
To William P. Smith, 22 June
To Littleton Dennis Teackle, 22 June
From William Duane, 23 June
Photogarphs
From John Quincy Adams, 24 June, enclosing Congressional Resolutions on Columbus Portrait and William J. Stone Engraving of Declaration of Independence, 26 May
To Peter P. F. Degrand, 24 June
To Stephen T. Mitchell, 24 June
To William Mullins, 24 June
To Levi Woodbury, 24 June
From George Blaettermann, 26 June
From William P. Smith, 26 June
To Robert Walsh, 26 June
From William Watkins, 28 June
To Theodorus Bailey, 29 June
To Martin Van Buren, 29 June
From Lydia Huntley Sigourney, 30 June
From William Goodacre, 1 July
From Bernard Peyton, 1 July
From Constantine S. Rafinesque, 1 July
To John Browne Cutting, 2 July
From Peter P. F. Degrand, 2 July
To James Monroe, 2 July
From Charles Willson Peale, 2 July
To Horatio G. Spafford, 2 July
From Timothy Clowes, 3 July
To Bernard Peyton, 3 July
From Louis A. Tarascon, 3 July, enclosing Proposal for a Road Between the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, [ca. 1 July]
To John Barnes, 4 July
To Giacomo C. Beltrami, 4 July
To William Duane, 4 July
To Bernard Peyton, 4 July
To John Vaughan, 4 July
From Henry V. S. Van Den Bergh, 5 July
From Marcus Garry (McGarry), 6 July
From Joseph G. Swift, 6 July
From John Barnes, 7 July
From Francis W. Gilmer, 7 July
From Bernard Peyton, 8 July
From Alexander Saunders, 8 July
From John Browne Cutting, 9 July
From David Higginbotham, 9 July
From John Vaughan, 9 July
From William DuVal, 10 July, enclosing John P. DuVal to William DuVal, 10 June
From Hiram Haines, 10 July
To James Monroe, 10 July
From Peter (Pettite?), [received 10 July]
To John Adams, 11 July
From William D. Chappell, 11 July
To Henry A. S. Dearborn, John Hollins, and John Vaughan, 11 July
To William Gray, 11 July
To Bernard Peyton, 11 July
To William Watkins, 11 July
From James Madison, 12 July, enclosing Henry Wheaton to James Madison, 3 July, and James Madison to Henry Wheaton, 11 July
From James Monroe, 12 July
From William H. Tarpley, 12 July
From Martin Van Buren, 13 July
From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 July
From William Hilliard, 14 July
From Henry Lee, 14 July
From Thomas Leiper, 14 July
From Peter H. Leuba and Henry Leuba, enclosing Peter H. Leuba’s French Translation of Letter to Thomas Jefferson, and Peter H. Leuba’s Italian Translation of Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 14 July
To James Madison, 14 July
From Bernard Peyton, 14 July
Notes on a Conversation with David Higginbotham, 15 July
To Lewis C. Beck, 16 July
From Auguste Comte, 16 July
From de Bure Frères, enclosing Invoice of Books, 16 July
From Richard Rush, 17 July
To John Quincy Adams, 18 July
To John Browne Cutting, 18 July
To Marcus Garry (McGarry), 18 July
To James Monroe, 18 July
To Charles Willson Peale, 18 July
From Charles B. Rice, 18 [July?]
To Lydia Huntley Sigourney, 18 July
From William Short, 19 July
From Francis W. Gilmer, 20 July
From Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 20 July
From Charles Sigourney, 20 July
From James Wilkinson, 20 July
From John Browne Cutting, 21 July
To Thomas Leiper, 22 July
To James Monroe, 22 July
From George Washington Adams, 23 July
From John Vaughan, 23 July
From John Adams, 24 July
From William H. Keating, 24 July
From Thomas Taylor (for Reuben G. Beasley), 25 July
To William H. Tarpley, 26 July
From Thomas Appleton, 28 July
From Thomas Appleton, 28 July
From John Cartwright, 28 July
From Eliza C. Rankin, 28 July
From William Ludlow, 30 July
From N. N. Wilkinson (for Bernard Peyton), 30 July
From Ebenezer Seaver, 2 August
From Thomas W. White, 3 August
From Henry V. Somerville, 5 August
Account with Hugh Chisholm, [before 6 August]
From John H. Cocke, 7 August
From William Short, 7 August
To James Madison, 8 August
To George Washington Adams, 9 August
From J. F. Daniel Lobstein, 9 August
To Thomas J. O’Flaherty, 9 August
To Eliza C. Rankin, 9 August
To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 10 August
To Henry Lee, 10 August
Notes on the Two-Party System, [ca. 10 August]
To Constantine S. Rafinesque, 11 August
From William F. Gordon, 12 August
From James Madison, 12 August
From Francis W. Gilmer, 13 August
From Isaac Munroe, 13 August
From William A. Caruthers, 14 August
From John Browne Cutting, 14 August
To Charles Sigourney, 15 August
To Henry V. Somerville, 15 August
From Ira H. Taylor, 15 August
To George Ticknor, 15 August
From Thomas G. Watkins, 15 August
To Thomas W. White, 15 August
To James Leitch, 16 August
From James Madison, 16 August
From Bernard Peyton, 16 August
From James H. Caldwell, 17 August
From Henry A. S. Dearborn, [before 17] August
From Christopher H. Williams, 17 August
From Bernard Peyton, 19 August
To Henry A. S. Dearborn, 20 August
From Bernard Peyton, 21 August
From Edmund Bacon, 22 August
From Bernard Peyton, 22 August
To David Hosack, 23 August
From Bernard Peyton, 23 August
From Bernard Peyton, enclosing Account for Tobacco Sales, 23 August
From John S. Richardson, George Man, and Phineas Savery, 24 August
From Samuel Kercheval, 25 August
To John McLean, [25] August
To James Monroe, 25 August
To Bernard Peyton, 25 August
From George Hay, 26 August
From Henry Lee, 26 August
From John Miller, [26 August]
From James Monroe, 26 August
To James H. Caldwell, 27 August
From John H. Cocke, 27 August
To John Browne Cutting, 27 August
From Francis W. Gilmer, 27 August
To Rowland Reynolds, 27 August
To Ira H. Taylor, 27 August
From Daniel K. Minor, 28 August
From William Munford, 28 August
To Bernard Peyton, 28 August
From Lafayette, 29 August
From Bernard Peyton, 30 August
From Pierre Lambert, 2 September
From Bernard Peyton, 2 September
From William Towler, 2 September
From Martin Van Buren, 2 September
From Moses Dawson, [ca. 3] September
To Lafayette, 3 September
To James Madison, 3 September
To Bernard Peyton, 3 September
To William J. Coffee, 4 September
From John Browne Cutting, 4 September
From David Gelston, 4 September
From James Paxton, 4 September
From Augustus B. Woodward, 4 September
Horace Holley’s Visit to Monticello
To Samuel Kercheval, 5 September
To Gulian Ludlow, 5 September
To Daniel K. Minor, 5 September
From Hull Barton, 6 September
To Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 6 September
From Jacob Engelbrecht, 6 September
To Henry Lee, 6 September
From Gulian Ludlow, 6 September
To William Ludlow, 6 September
To William Munford, 6 September
From Bernard Peyton, 6 September
To John S. Richardson, George Man, and Phineas Savery, 6 September
From David Higginbotham, 7 September
To William H. Keating, 7 September
From Richard Rush, 8 September
Account with Youen Carden, 9 September
From Thomas Leiper, 9 September
From Theodorus Bailey, 10 September
From Edward Everett, 10 September
To David Gelston, 10 September
To David Higginbotham, 10 September
From Gulian Ludlow, 10 September
From James Madison, 10 September
To Peter Minor, 10 September
To James Paxton, 10 September
From William J. Coffee, 11 September
From Hiram Haines, enclosing “Welcome, Freedom’s Noblest Son,” A Song Honoring Lafayette by “The Stranger” (Hiram Haines), 11 September
From David Higginbotham, 11 September
To James Gibbon, 12 September
To John Laval, 12 September
From Adam Hodgson, 13 September
From Francis W. Gilmer, 15 September
From Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 16 September
From Francis W. Gilmer, 16 September
From Archibald Robertson, 16 September
From James Madison, 17 September
From Dodge & Oxnard, with Postscript from Joshua Dodge, 18 September
To William J. Coffee, 19 September
To Louis A. Leschot, 20 September
From John Moody, 20 September
From Jonathan Thompson, 20 September
To William H. Crawford, 21 September
From Joseph L. Lewis, 21 September
From Samuel Moore, 21 September
From John Gorman, 22 September
To Peter Maverick, 22 September
From Maria Cosway, 24 September
From John Laval, 24 September
To James Madison, 24 September
Promissory Note from Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 24 September
Recommendation of Joseph Antrim, 25 September
Recommendation of Abia B. Thorn, 25 September
From Anonymous, 26 September
From Dugald Stewart, 26 September
From William H. Hening, 27 September
From Robert G. Scott, 27 September
From Thomas G. Watkins, 27 September
From Thomas Campbell, 28 September
Robley Dunglison’s Contract with the University of Virginia, 28 September
Thomas Hewitt Key’s Contract with the University of Virginia, 28 September
George Long’s Contract with the University of Virginia, 28 September
From James Madison, 28 [September]
From Frances Dorothy Cartwright, 29 September, enclosing John Cartwright’s Draft Virginia Constitution, [before 17 September]
From Judah Dobson, 29 September
Notes on the Writings of Baron d’Holbach, [after 29 September]
To John Moody, 29 September
From the New-York Horticultural Society, 29 September
To Bernard Peyton, 29 September
From Robert Smith (printer), 29 September
To Samuel Williams, 29 September
To Samuel Moore, 30 September
Charles Bonnycastle’s Contract with the University of Virginia, 1 October
From Lafayette, 1 October
From Nicholas B. Pryor, 1 October
From George Fisher, enclosing Manifesto to the People of the United States of America, 2 October
Chapman Johnson to John H. Cocke, 3 October
From William Short, 3 October
From John Farmer, enclosing Latin Translation of the Declaration of Independence, 4 October
From Francis W. Gilmer, 4 October
From Charles J. Ingersoll, 4 October
From Bernard Peyton, enclosing Account for Flour Sales, 4 October
To Archibald Robertson, 4 October
Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 4–5 October
Horace Wellford to University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 4 October
To James Leitch, 5 October
University of Virginia Board of Visitors Report to Literary Fund President and Directors, 5 October, enclosing
To James Madison, 6 October
From Bernard Peyton, 7 October
To Thomas Appleton, 8 October
From Thomas Appleton, 8 October
From John H. Cocke, with Jefferson’s Note, 8 October
From Richard Rush, 8 October
Conveyance of Land to the University of Virginia by Daniel A. Piper and Mary A. F. Piper, 8 October
To Edmund Bacon, 9 October
To Lafayette, 9 October
From James Madison, 9 October
To Robert G. Scott, 9 October
From Bernard M. Carter, 10 October
To William H. Hening, 10 October
From Horace Holley, 10 October
To Joseph L. Lewis, 10 October
To Bernard Peyton, 10 October
To James Madison, 11 October
From Bernard Peyton, enclosing Account for Tobacco Sales, 11 October
Nicholas P. Trist’s Record of Thomas Jefferson’s Conversations, 11 October
From John Adams (of Richmond), William H. Fitzwhylsonn, and Thomas Brockenbrough, 12 October
To Francis W. Gilmer, 12 October
From Joseph Coolidge, 13 October
To Frederick A. Mayo, 13 October
To Richard Rush, 13 October
From James Madison, [14] October
From Bernard Peyton, 14 October
From Thomas Ritchie, 14 October
To Edward Everett, 15 October
To James Madison, 15 October
To Charles J. Ingersoll, 16 October
From Jared Mansfield, 16 October
From John Moody, 16 October
From Walter W. New, 16 October
To Nicholas B. Pryor, 16 October
To Thomas G. Watkins, [16 October]
To Theodorus Bailey, 17 October
To John Adams (of Richmond), William H. Fitzwhylsonn, and Thomas Brockenbrough, 18 October
From James Monroe, 18 October
From William Duane, 19 October
Martha Jefferson Randolph to James Leitch, 19 October
From Stephen Simpson, 20 October
From Charles J. Ingersoll, 21 October
From Theodorus Bailey, 22 October
From George Cooke, 22 October
From Thomas Leiper, 22 October
From James Madison, 22 October
Cornelia J. Randolph to James Leitch, 23 October
To Joseph Coolidge, 24 October
To William Duane, 24 October
To Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 25 October
From Louis H. Girardin, 27 October
To Charles J. Ingersoll, 27 October
To Thomas Leiper, [27 October]
To Stephen Simpson, 27 October
From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 October
From Frederick W. Hatch, 28 October
From Lafayette, 28 October
From Horatio G. Spafford, 28 October
From Ira H. Taylor, 30 October
From James Monroe, 31 October
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