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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811
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Chapter One
THE PAPERS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON* * *
Jefferson and the Publication of Destutt de Tracy's Commentary on Montesquieu
I. TO WILLIAM DUANE, 12 AUG. 1810
II. DESTUTT DE TRACY'S COMMENTARY ON BOOK 2 OF MONTESQUIEU'S ESPRIT DES LOIS
III. EXTRACTS FROM DESTUTT DE TRACY'S REFLECTIONS ON MONTESQUIEU'S FIRST TWELVE BOOKS
EDITORIAL NOTE
Using the French manuscript that he received from the author in 1809, Jefferson undertook to see into print an English edition of Destutt de Tracy's commentary on Montesquieu's Esprit des Lois. He recruited Philadelphia printer and journalist William Duane for the task with the letter and sample translations printed below. Duane engaged his own translator, even for the portions Jefferson had already translated, and made further revisions himself before sending the work in batches to Jefferson for his review. Jefferson spent part of the last months of 1810 composing a preface and reviewing the draft translation. He expressed some concern about the quality of the translation and his inability to check it thoroughly without the French original, which remained in Duane's hands until 1813. Progress was temporarilysuspended by labor and financial troubles, but Duane published the work anonymously in the summer of 1811 as A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws. Prepared for press from the Original Manuscript, in the Hands of the Publisher. To which are annexed, Observations on the Thirty-First Book, by the late M. Condorcet: and Two Letters of Helvetius, on the merits of the same work (Philadelphia, 1811; Sowerby, no. 2327; Poor, Jefferson's Library, 10 [no. 623]; title page reproduced elsewhere in this volume). Despite Jefferson's enthusiastic approval, the first edition did not sell out. It was not reprinted in English in his or Destutt de Tracy's lifetime, although French, German, Italian, and Spanish versions did eventually appear (Destutt de Tracy to TJ, 12 June 1809, 11 Apr. 1818, 10 Mar. 1819, 24 Nov. 1820; Duane to TJ, 17 Aug., 29 Oct. 1810, 25 Jan., 15 Mar., 5 July 1811, 14 Feb. 1813; TJ to Duane, 16 Sept., 25 Oct., 13 Nov. 1810, 18, 26 Jan. 1811, 4 Apr. 1813; Destutt de Tracy, Commentaire sur l'Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu [Paris, 1819; Poor, Jefferson's Library, 10 (no. 622)], Charakterzeichnung der politik aller staaten der erde. Kritsicher commentar über Montesquieu's Geist der gesetze, 2 vols. [Heidelberg, 1820-21], Comentario sopra lo spirito delle leggi di Montesquieu [Naples, 1820], and Comentario sobre el Espíritu de las leyes de Montesquieu [Valencia, 1821; trans. Ramón Salas]).
I. To William Duane
Sir Monticello Aug. 12. 10.
Your letter of July 16. has been duly recieved, with the paper it inclosed, for which accept my thanks, and especially for the kind sentiments expressed towards myself. these testimonies of approbation, and friendly remembrance, are the highest gratifications I can recieve from any, and especially from those in whose principles & zeal for the public good I have confidence. of that confidence in yourself the military appointment to which you allude was sufficient proof, as it was made, not on the recommendations of others, but on our own knolege of your principles & qualifications. while I cherish with feeling the recollections of my friends, I banish from my mind all political animosities which might disturb it's tranquility, or the happiness I derive from my present pursuits. I have thought it among the most fortunate circumstances of my late administration that during it's eight years continuance, it was conducted with a cordiality and harmony among all the members which never were ruffled on any, the greatest or smallest occasion. I left my brethren with sentiments of sincere affection & friendship, so rooted in the uniform tenor of a long & intimate intercourse, that the evidence of my own senses alone ought to be permitted to shake them. anxious, in my retirement, to enjoy undisturbed repose, my knolege of my successor & late co-adjutors, and my entire confidence in their wisdom and integrity, were assurances to me, that I might sleep in security with such watchmen at the helm; and that whatever difficulties & dangers should assail our course, they would do what could be done to avoid or surmount them. in this confidence I envelope myself, & hope to slumber on to my last sleep. and should difficulties occur, which they cannot avert, if we follow them in phalanx, we shall surmount them without danger.
I have been long intending to write to you as one of the associated company for printing useful works.
Our laws, language, religion, politics, & manners are so deeply laid in English foundations, that we shall never cease to consider their history as a part of ours, and to study ours in that as it's origin. every one knows that judicious matter & charms of stile have rendered Hume's history the Manual of every student. I remember well the enthusiasm with which I devoured it when young, and the length of time, the research & reflection which were necessary to eradicate the poison it had instilled into my mind. it was unfortunate that he first took up the history of the Stuarts, became their Apologist, and advocated all their enormities. to support his work, when done, he went back to the Tudors, and so selected and arranged the materials of their history as to present their arbitrary acts only, as the genuine samples of the constitutional power of the crown; and, still writing backwards, he then reverted to the early history, and wrote the Saxon & Norman periods with the same perverted view. altho' all this is known, he still continues to be put into the hands of all our young people, and to infect them with the poison of his own principles of government. it is this book which has undermined the free principles of the English government, has persuaded readers of all classes that these were usurpations on the legitimate and salutary rights of the crown, and has spread universal toryism over the land, and the book will still continue to be read here as well as there. Baxter, one of Horne Tooke's associates in persecution, has hit on the only remedy the evil admits. he has taken Hume's work, corrected in the text his misrepresentations, supplied the truths which he suppressed, and yet has given the mass of the work in Hume's own words. and it is wonderful how little interpolation has been necessary to make it a sound history, and to justify what should have been it's title, to wit, 'Hume's history of England abridged and rendered faithful to fact and principle.' I cannot say that his amendments are either in matter or manner, in the fine style of Hume. yet they are often unpercieved and occupy so little of the whole work as not to depreciate it. unfortunately he has abridged Hume, by leaving out all the less important details. it is thus reduced to about one half it's original size. he has also continued the history, but very summarily, to 1801. the whole work is of 834. quarto pages, printed close, of which the Continuation occupies 283. I have read but little of this part. as far as I can judge from that little, it is a mere Chronicle, offering nothing profound. this work is so unpopular, so distasteful to the present Tory palates & principles of England that I believe it has never reached a 2d edition. I have often enquired for it in our book shops, but never could find a copy in them, and I think it possible the one I imported may be the only one in America. can we not have it reprinted here? it would be about 4. vols [8.sup.vo].
I have another enterprize to propose for some good printer. I have in my possession a MS. work in French, confided to me by a friend, whose name alone would give it celebrity were it permitted to be mentioned. but considerations insuperable forbid that. it is a Commentary and Review of Montesquieu's Spirit of laws. the history of that work is well known. he had been a great reader, and had commonplaced every thing he read. at length he wished to undertake some work into which he could bring his whole Commonplace book in a digested form. he fixed on the subject of his Spirit of laws, & wrote the book. he consulted his friend Helvetius about publishing it, who strongly dissuaded it. he published it however, and the world did not confirm Helvetius's opinion. still every man, who reflects as he reads, has considered it as a book of paradoxes, having indeed much of truth & sound principle, but abounding also with inconsistences, apocryphal facts, & false inferences. it is a correction of these which has been executed in the work I mention, by way of Commentary and Review; not by criticising words or sentences, but by taking a book at a time, considering it's general scope, & proceeding to confirm or confute it. and much of confutation there is, & of substitution of true for false principle: and the true principle is ever that of republicanism. I will not venture to say that every sentiment in the book will be approved: because, being in MS. and the French character, I have not read the whole but so much only as might enable me to estimate the soundness of the author's way of viewing his subject; and judging from that which I have read, I infer with confidence that we shall find the work generally worthy of our high approbation, and that it every where maintains the preeminence of Representative government, by shewing that it's foundations are laid in reason, in right, and in general good. I had expected this from my knolege of the other writings of the author, which have always a precision rarely to be met with. but to give you an idea of the manner of it's execution, I translate and inclose his commentary on Montesquieu's [II.sup.d] book, which contains the division of the work. I wish I could have added his review at the close of the 12. first books, as this would give a more compleat idea of the extraordinary merit of the work. but it is too long to be copied. I add from it however, a few extracts of his reviews of some of the books as specimens of his plan and principles. if printed in French it would be of about 180. pages [8.sup.vo] or 23. sheets. if any one will undertake to have it translated and printed on their own account, I will send on the MS. by post, and they can take the copyright as of an original work, which it ought to be understood to be. I am anxious it should be ably translated, by some one who possesses style, as well as capacity to do justice to abstruse conceptions. I would even undertake to revise the translation if required. the original sheets must be returned to me, and I should wish the work to be executed with as little delay as possible.
I close this long letter with assurances of my great esteem & respect Th: Jefferson
PoC (DLC); at foot of first page: "Mr Duane." Tr (MHi); posthumous copy; last page only. Enclosures: TJ's translations of Documents II and III.
TJ purchased David Hume, The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (London, 1754-62) in 1764 while YOUNG (Douglas L. Wilson, "Jefferson vs. Hume," WMQ, 3d ser., 46 [1989]: 49-70; for a London reprint of 1790-91 subsequently acquired by TJ, see Sowerby, no. 370). Radical British politician John Horne Tooke and some of his associates were imprisoned in the Tower of London for their involvement with the parliamentary reform movement in 1793-94 (ODNB). TJ IMPORTED a copy of John Baxter, A new and Impartial History of England, from the most Early Period of Genuine Historical Evidence to the Present Important and Alarming Crisis (London, 1796?801; Sowerby, no. 405) in 1805 (W. & S. Jones to TJ, 23 July 1805 [MoSHi: TJC-BC]). He admired Baxter's work and frequently recommended it as superior to Hume? original. TJ endorsed Baxter? history for use by students at the University of Virginia, but he failed in several efforts to get it reprinted in America (TJ to Mathew Carey, 22 Nov. 1818; TJ to Thomas W. White, 5 Feb. 1820; TJ to George W. Lewis, 25 Oct. 1825).
The posthumously published works of the French philosopher Claude Adrien HELVETIUS included his letter advising Montesquieu against printing his Esprit des Lois (Oeuvres complettes de M. Helvétius [London, 1781; Sowerby, no. 1242]).
II. Destutt de Tracy's Commentary on Book 2 of Montesquieu's Esprit des Lois
[ca. 12 June 1809]
Livre Second:
Des Loix qui derivent directement de la Nature du Gouvernement.
Esprit des lois Copies liv. [2.sup.e] Il ny a que deux especes de Gouvernemens, Ceux qui Sont fondés Sur les droits généraux des hommes, et ceux qui Se pretendent fondés Sur Des droits particuliers.
La division ordinaire des gouvernemens en republicains, monarchiques, et despotiques, me parait essentiellement mauvaise.
Le mot republicain est un terme trés vague Sous lequel on comprend une multitude de gouvernemens prodigieusement di?erends les uns des autres, depuis la démocratie paisible de Schwitz et la democratie turbulente d'athènes jusqua l'aristocratie concentrée de Berne, et a la Sombre oligarchie de Venise: De plus cette qualification de republicain nest pas propre à figurer en opposition avec celle de monarchique. Car les provinces unies de la hollande, les etats unis de lamerique ont un chef unique, et Sont regardés comme des republiques: et lon a toujours eté incertain Si lon devait dire le royaume ou la republique de Pologne.
Le mot monarchique designe proprement un gouvernement dans lequel le pouvoir executif reside dans les mains dun Seul. mais ce n'est là quune Circonstance qui peut Se trouver reunie avec beaucoup dautres três diverses: et qui ne caracterise pas lessence de lorganisation Sociale. La preuve en est ce que nous venons de dire de la Pologne, de la hollande, et des etats unis. on peut y ajouter la Suede et la grande bretagne qui à beaucoup degards Sont des aristocraties royales, on pourrait citer encore le corps germanique qui avec beau-coup de raison, a Souvent eté appellé une republique de princes souverains: et même l'ancien gouvernement de France. Car ceux qui le connoissaient à fond Savent bien que C'etait proprement une aristocratie réligieuse, et feodale tant de Robe que d'Epée.
Quant au mot despotique, il designe un abus, un vice qui Se trouve plus ou moins dans tous les gouvernemens, parce que toutes les institutions humaines Sont imparfaites comme leurs auteurs; mais ce n'est point là le nom d'une forme particuliere de Societé, d'une espéce particuliere de gouvernement, il y a despotisme, oppression, abus d'autorité, partout où la loi etablie est Sans force, et cede à la volonté illegale d'un homme ou de plusieurs: Cela Se voit partout de tems en tems. Dans beaucoup de païs les hommes imprudens ou ignorans n'ont pris aucune precaution pour empecher ce malheur, dans d'autres ils n'en ont pris que d'insu8santes, mais il n'a eté etabli nulle part en principe, (pas même dans l'orient) que cela doive être ainsi. Il n'y a donc point de gouvernement qui par Sa nature mérite d'etre appellé Despotique
S'il y avait un tel gouvernement dans le monde ce Serait celui du dannemarck, où la nation après avoir Secoué le joug des pretres et des nobles et craignant leur influence dans Ses assemblées Si elle Se réunissait de nouveau a prié le Roi de gouverner Seul et par lui même, S'en rapportant à lui du Soin de Faire les lois qu'il jugerait necessaires au bien de l'etat: et depuis elle ne lui à jamais demandé compte de ce pouvoir discrétionaire. Cependant ce gouvernement Si illimité par la Loi, a toujours eté Si moderé (et c'est même pour cela qu'on ne S'est jamais occupé de restreindre Son autorité), il est, dis-je, Si moderé que personne n'oserait dire que le dannemarck est un etat despotique.
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Table of Contents
Foreword viiAcknowledgments ixEditorial Method and Apparatus xiiiMaps xlIllustrations xlvJefferson Chronology 2
1810
Jefferson and the Publication of Destutt de Tracy's Commentary on Montesquieu 3
I. To William Duane, 12 August 4II. Destutt de Tracy's Commentary on Book 2 of Montesquieu's Esprit des Lois 7III. Extracts from Destutt de Tracy's Reflections on Montesquieu's First Twelve Books 20
From William C. C. Claiborne, 13 August 25From Henry Dearborn, 15 August 27From James Madison, 15 August 29To John Barnes, 16 August 29To Albert Gallatin, 16 August 30From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 16 August 32To James Madison, 16 August 35To William Chamberlayne, 17 August 36From William Duane, 17 August 37From John R. Fenwick, 18 August 41From Robert Patterson, 18 August 41To Littleton W. Tazewell, 18 August 42From Jean Potocki, 19 August 43From Archibald Thweatt, 19 August 44To Thomas Ladd, 20 August 45To James Madison, 20 August 45From Henry Wheaton, 20 August 46To William Wirt, enclosing Notes on William Wirt's Comments on the Batture Statement, 20 August 47To William D. Meriwether, 21 August 49From Jean Marie de Bordes, 22 August 49From Delaplaine & Hellings, 24 August 50From James McKinney, 24 August 51From William C. C. Claiborne, 25 August 52From Lafayette, 25 August 54From Nathaniel H. Hooe, 28 August 55From Littleton W. Tazewell, 28 August 55Memorandum from Charles Johnston on Lynchburg Mail, [ca. 1-7 September] 56From Claude Alexandre Ruelle, 1 September 56To Benjamin Morgan, 2 September 59From Carl L. Siegfried, 3 September 60From John S. Cogdell, 4 September 61From Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 4 September 62From William Thornton, 4 September 63To William A. Burwell, 5 September 64From Charles Clay, 5 September 65From Claude Antoine Prieur Duvernois, 5 September 65From George Jefferson, 7 September 67To Hugh Chisholm, 10 September 67From Albert Gallatin, enclosing Albert Gallatin's Notes on Thomas Jefferson's Statement on the Batture Case, 10 September 68From Isaac Hillard, 10 September 74To James Madison, 10 September 75From Samuel H. Smith, 11 September 76From Sylvanus Bourne, 12 September 76From Plumard, 12 September 77From John B. Colvin, 14 September 78From Thomas Cooper, 14 September 79From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 14 September 80From George Jefferson, 14 September 83To Henry Voigt, 14 September 83To Archibald Thweatt, 15 September 84To William Duane, 16 September 86To John Barnes, 17 September 89From Martha C. Lewis, Lucy B. Lewis, and Ann M. Lewis, 17 September 90From Charles L. Lewis, [ca. 17 September] 91From Jonathan Williams, 17 September 93Memorandum on James Bowdoin's Letter, 18 September 96From Nicolas G. Dufief, 18 September 97To John R. Fenwick, 18 September 98To John B. Colvin, 20 September 99To Gideon Granger, 20 September 102From Lafayette, 20 September 105To William Short, 21 September 106From Alexander von Humboldt, 23 September 107To Robert Smith, 23 September 109To John Christoph Süverman, 23 September 110From James Gibbon, 24 September 111To Nathaniel H. Hooe, 24 September 111From Horatio G. Spafford, 24 September 112From Charles P. De Lasteyrie, 25 September 114From Levett Harris, 25 September 115From William Pinkney, 25 September 116To Caesar A. Rodney, 25 September 117To James Dinsmore, 26 September 119From Samuel Haines, 26 September 120To Joseph Milligan, 26 September 122To Albert Gallatin, 27 September 123From Gideon Granger, 27 September 126From Littleton W. Tazewell, 27 September 130From George Jefferson, 28 September 135From John H. Cocke, 29 September 136To John S. Cogdell, 29 September 136To Nicolas G. Dufief, 29 September 137To Henry Wheaton, 29 September 137To Peter Minor, 30 September 138To John H. Cocke, 1 October 147From Robert Smith, 1 October 147From Gideon Granger, 4 October 147From George Jefferson, 5 October 148From Benjamin Morgan, 5 October 149To Benjamin Smith Barton, 6 October 150From Caesar A. Rodney, 6 October 151To George Hay, 7 October 152To James Gibbon, 8 October 153To George Jefferson, 8 October 154To William Bentley, 9 October 155To William Caruthers, 9 October 155To Isaac Hillard, 9 October 156To James McKinney, 9 October 156To Henry Wheaton, 9 October 157From William C. C. Claiborne, 10 October, enclosing James Mather to William C. C. Claiborne, 5 August 157From Peter Minor, 10 October 161From William A. Burwell, 12 October 162To Samuel Haines, 12 October 163To Charles Johnston, 12 October 164To James Madison, 15 October 165From Benjamin Smith Barton, 16 October 166To William C. C. Claiborne, 16 October 167To George Jefferson, 16 October 168From John Harvie, 18 October, enclosing Appraisal of Chattels at Belmont Estate, [after 5 October], and Payment Plan for Money Due from John Harvie to Thomas Jefferson, [18 October] 169From Caesar A. Rodney, 18 October 173From George Jefferson, 19 October 176From James Madison, 19 October 177From William J. Stone, 19 October 179From Charles Yancey, 19 October 180To Nathaniel H. Hooe, 20 October 180To Benjamin Smith Barton, 22 October 181To Gideon Granger, 22 October 182From Henry Skipwith, 22 October 183To William Wardlaw, 22 October 183To Charles Yancey, 22 October 184From James McKinney, 23 October 184To William Duane, 25 October 184From Charles Holt, 25 October 185To Benjamin Morgan, 27 October 186Agreement to Convey Bedford County Lands to Charles L. Bankhead, 29 October 186From William Duane, 29 October 189From Gideon Gooch, 29 October 190To George Jefferson, 29 October 190To Peter Minor, enclosing Proposed Agreement with the Directors of the Rivanna Company, 31 October 191From Charles Yancey, 31 October 194From John Wayles Eppes, 1 November 195From Charles Everette, 1 November, enclosing Thomas Jefferson's Account with Charles Everette, [ca. 23 February] 196From William Short, 1 November 197From William Wardlaw, 1 November 200From William Caruthers, 4 November 201From George Hay, 5 November 201Census of Inhabitants and Supplies at Monticello, 8 November 202To George Hay, 11 November 203To John Wayles Eppes and William B. Giles, 12 November 203From John Tyler, 12 November 205To William Duane, 13 November 207From Thomas Law, [received 14 November] 209From Samuel Overton, 14 November 209To John Harvie, 15 November 210To Henry Skipwith, 15 November 210To William J. Stone, 15 November 211From Lafayette, 16 November 211To Daniel Scott, 16 November 214Account with Hugh Chisholm, 17 November 215To Peter Minor, 18 November 216From Pierre Paganel, [received 19 November] 219From William Partridge, 19 November 221From James Ronaldson, 19 November 223To Peter Minor, 20 November 224From Daniel Scott, 20 November 224From Peter Minor, 21 November 225From Anonymous, [received 22 November] 225To Littleton W. Tazewell, 22 November 226To Charles Holt, 23 November 227To John Tyler, 25 November 228From John Armstrong, 26 November 228From David Howell, 27 November 229From James Mather, 30 November, enclosing List of Batture-Related Papers Sent to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 233To James Ronaldson, 3 December 238To William Partridge, 4 December 238To William Jarvis, 5 December 239To Lydia R. Bailey, 6 December 241From Joseph Dougherty, 6 December 241From Samuel & James Leitch, 6 December 242To Craven Peyton, 6 December 242To William Prichard, 6 December 243To John Wayles Eppes, 7 December 244To David Gelston, 7 December 245From James Madison, 7 December 245From Thomas B. Robertson, 7 December 246To James Madison, 8 December 248From Horatio Turpin, 8 December 249To William Chamberlayne, 11 December 250From David Bailie Warden, 11 December 250To John Armstrong, 13 December 251To Joseph Dougherty, 13 December 252Petition of Thomas Jefferson and Others to the Virginia General Assembly, [before 13 Dec. 1810] 253From John Wayles Eppes, 14 December 254From John Wayles Eppes, 14 December 256To David Howell, 15 December 257From James Mather, 15 December 258From Gibson & Jefferson, 17 December 258From Jones & Howell, 17 December 259From Robert Smith, 19 December 260From David Bailie Warden, 19 December 260From Thomas Law, 22 December, enclosing Thomas Law to Jacob Wagner, [ca. 5-22 December], and Jacob Wagner to Mr. Barry, [ca. 5-22 December] 261From Robert Bakewell, 23 December 263From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 December 264From James Monroe, 24 December 266From John Lynch, 25 December 267From William Chamberlayne, 27 December 270From Littleton W. Tazewell, 29 December 270From Peter Minor, 30 December 271From Samuel H. Smith, 30 December 272From William Short, 31 December 272
1811
From Mary Page, 2 January 276From Benjamin Rush, 2 January 276From David Bailie Warden, 2 January 279From James Lyle, 3 January 280To John Wayles Eppes, 5 January 281To John Graham, 5 January 282To William Chamberlayne, 6 January 283From John Barnes, 7 January 284From Thomas T. Hewson, 8 January 284From William Lambert, 8 January 285To James Monroe, 8 January 286From William Coolidge, 9 January 288To John Barnes, 10 January 289To John Wayles Eppes, 10 January 290To Jones & Howell, 10 January 290To Amos Stoddard, 10 January 291To David Bailie Warden, 10 January 292From John Graham, 11 January 292To James Walker, 11 January 293From Benjamin Brown, 12 January 294To David Bailie Warden, 12 January 294To Archibald Stuart, 13 January 295From William Prichard, 14 January 296From John Graham, 15 January 297From Skelton Jones, 15 January 297To Thomas Law, 15 January 298Account with Jonathan & Isaac Shoemaker, 15 January 300To Nathaniel H. Hooe, 16 January 302To James Monroe, 16 January 303To Benjamin Rush, 16 January 304From David Bailie Warden, 16 January 308Lease Agreement with William Johnson, 17 January 310To William Duane, enclosing Thomas Jefferson's Preface for Destutt de Tracy's Commentary on Montesquieu, 18 January 310To Thomas T. Hewson, 18 January 312From David Bailie Warden, 19 January 312To John Hollins, 20 January 313To Lafayette, 20 January 313To Caesar A. Rodney, 20 January 316To Horatio Turpin, 20 January 316From John Wayles Eppes, 21 January 317From George Jefferson, 21 January 317To John Lynch, 21 January 318From François André Michaux, 21 January 320From James Monroe, 21 January 322From James Wilkinson, 21 January 323From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 January 325To William Coolidge, 24 January 326To John Wayles Eppes, 24 January 327To Eli Alexander, 25 January 328To Benjamin Brown, 25 January 328From William Duane, 25 January 329From George Hay, 25 January 331To James Monroe, 25 January 332From Peter B. Porter, 25 January 333To William Prichard, 25 January 334To Thomas Eston Randolph, 25 January 334To Destutt de Tracy, 26 January 334To William Duane, 26 January 339From David Bailie Warden, 26 January 339From John Hollins, 27 January 341To James Lyle, 27 January 341From Richard Barry, 29 January 342From George W. Erving, 29 January 342From William C. C. Claiborne, 30 January 344From Matthias Nack, 30 January 345To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 February 347Constitution for Proposed Agricultural Society of Albemarle, [ca. 1 February] 347Notes on Poplar Forest Plantings and Geography, 1 February 1811-6 October 1821 352From Benjamin Rush, 1 February 356From Ezekiel Bacon, 2 February 358From James Walker, 3 February 359From John B. Colvin, 4 February 359Astronomical Calculations, 5-11 February 361From William Chamberlayne, 6 February 367From James W. Wallace, 8 February 368Conveyance of Ivy Creek Lands to Samuel J. Harrison, 9 February 368From Gabriel Richard, 9 February 369To Charles A. Scott, 9 February 371From John Fletcher, 11 February 372From George Jefferson, 11 February 373From Lyman Spalding, 11 February 373To Samuel J. Harrison, 13 February 374From Philip Mazzei, 15 February, enclosing Power of Attorney, 4 February 375From John Melish, 16 February, enclosing John Melish to James Madison, 7 February 383To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 17 February 392From Nicolas G. Dufief, 24 February 393To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 February 394From Peter Derieux, 25 February 394Charles Clay's Bedford County Temperature Readings, [ca. 26 February] 396General Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson, [ca. 28 February] 397Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Acting Officially, [ca. 28 February] 397Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Jurisdiction, [ca. 28 February] 400Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Intrusion, [ca. 28 February] 401Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Justification to Abate a Nuisance, [ca. 28 February] 404Plea in Livingston v. Jefferson on Ground of Justification under an Act of Congress, [ca. 28 February] 407Motion to Dismiss Livingston v. Jefferson, [ca. 28 February] 410Conveyance of James Hubbard to Reuben Perry, February 411Notes on Shipping Costs for Flour, [February] 413From Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 1 March 414From George Jefferson, 1 March 415From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1 March 415From Robert Wash, 1 March 418From André Thoüin, 2 March 419To George Hay, 3 March 420To George Jefferson, 3 March 420To Peter Minor, 3 March 421To Skelton Jones, 4 March 422To Mary Page, 4 March 423From Dudley Richardson, 4 March 424From Caesar A. Rodney, 4 March 424From John Harvie, 5 March 425From Skeffington Selby, 5 March 426From David Bailie Warden, 5 March 427To Ezekiel Bacon, enclosing Memorandum on Correspondence with James Wilkinson, 6 March 428From Robert Elliott, 6 March 431To Robert Patterson, 7 March 431To Mary Stith, 7 March 432From John Threlkeld, 7 March 433From Dominick Barthe, 8 March 434From George Jefferson, 8 March 434From George Jefferson, 8 March 435To James Madison, 8 March 436To Peter B. Porter, 8 March 437To William Short, 8 March 438From John Rhea, 9 March 439From Bernard McMahon, 10 March 439To John Melish, 10 March 440To James Wilkinson, 10 March 440From Richard Barry, 11 March 441To George Jefferson, 11 March 441To George Jefferson, 11 March 443To David Bailie Warden, 11 March 443From Lafayette, 12 March 444From Robert Patterson, 12 March 447From Isaac A. Coles, 13 March 448From William Duane, 15 March 449From George Jefferson, 15 March 453To Samuel Carr, 16 March 453From Samuel Carr, 16 March 454To George Divers, 16 March 454Notes on Monticello Plantings, 16 March 455To Dominick Barthe, 17 March 456From George Divers, 17 March 456To Robert Elliott, 17 March 456From Samuel J. Harrison, 17 March 457To Skeffington Selby, 17 March 457From Mary Stith, 17 March 458To John Threlkeld, 17 March 458From Theodorus Bailey, 18 March 459From Theodorus Bailey, 18 March 459To Richard Barry, 18 March 460To George Divers, 18 March 460To Samuel J. Harrison, 18 March 461From Charles P. De Lasteyrie, 18 March 461From James Madison, 18 March 462From David Bailie Warden, 18 March 464From Opie Norris, 19 March 464From Palisot de Beauvois, 19 March 465From John Wayles Eppes, 20 March 473To Albert Gallatin, 20 March 474To Patrick Magruder, 20 March 475To Robert Smith, enclosing List of Batture-Related State Department Documents, 20 March 475To James Mather, 21 March 479To Robert Patterson, 21 March 479From Benjamin Morgan, 22 March, enclosing Abner L. Duncan's Instructions on Settlement of John Peyton's Estate, [by 15 September 1810] 480To Archibald Stuart, 22 March 481To George Hay and William Wirt, enclosing List of Batture-Related Papers and Pamphlets sent to Counsel, 23 March 481From James Lyle, 23 March 489Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, [ca. 23 March] 489To Littleton W. Tazewell, 23 March 499To Nathaniel Ellicott, 24 March 500To John Wayles Eppes, 24 March 501From Theodorus Bailey, 25 March 503To Madame de Tessé, 27 March 503To Peter Walsh, 27 March 505To Theodorus Bailey, 28 March 506To William Duane, 28 March 506From Nathaniel Ellicott, 28 March 509From Bernard Smith, 28 March 510From Archibald Stuart, 28 March 511To David Bailie Warden, 28 March 512From George Jefferson, 29 March 512From Reuben Perry, 29 March 513To John Wayles Eppes, 30 March 513From Caesar A. Rodney, 30 March 513To William Wirt, 30 March 515From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 31 March 515To George Jefferson, 1 April 518From James Madison, 1 April 518To James Oldham, 1 April 520From James Walker, 1 April 520From Theodorus Bailey, 2 April 521From Clement Caines, 2 April 521To Thomas Eston Randolph, with Account, 2 April 522From John Martin Baker, 3 April 523From John Barnes, 3 April 524To Richard Barry, 3 April 525To John Hollins, 3 April 525To Jones & Howell, 3 April 526From Peter Minor, 3 April 527From James Monroe, 3 April 527To John Barnes, 4 April 528To William Chamberlayne, 4 April 529To Joseph Darmsdatt, 4 April 530To Henry Foxall, 4 April 530To Gordon, Trokes & Company, 4 April 530To George Jefferson, 4 April 531From Count Théodore Pahlen, 4 April 532From John G. Jackson, 5 April 532From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 5 April 534To James Lyle, 5 April 538From David Bailie Warden, 6 April 538From Peter Carr, 7 April 540To Kemp Catlett, 7 April 541From Gibson & Jefferson, 7 April 541To James Madison, 7 April 542From George W. Varnum, 7 April 543To Bernard McMahon, 8 April 544To Littleton W. Tazewell, George Hay, and William Wirt, enclosing List of Authorities cited in Statement on the Batture Case, 9 April 545From William Coghlan, 10 April 548From William Wirt, 10 April 549From Joseph Darmsdatt, 11 April 550From Gibson & Jefferson, 11 April, enclosing Thomas Jefferson's Account with Morris & Dunnington, [ca. 10 April] 550To George Jefferson, 11 April 551From Thomas Law, 13 April 552From Henry Dearborn, 14 April 552To Alexander von Humboldt, 14 April 553To Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 14 April 555From David Bailie Warden, 14 April 557From John Barnes, 15 April 558To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 15 April 559To George Jefferson, 15 April 561To François André Michaux, 15 April 561To Pierre Paganel, 15 April 562To Count Théodore Pahlen, 15 April 563To William Wirt, 15 April 563To Joel Barlow, 16 April 564To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 16 April 565From James Monroe, 16 April 567From John Hollins, 17 April 567From Skelton Jones, 17 April 569Survey of Boundary between Lego and Pantops, 17 April 570From William Wirt, 17 April 573From James Oldham, 18 April 575To Peter Derieux, 19 April 575From Henry Foxall, 19 April 576From Gibson & Jefferson, 19 April 577From James Madison, 19 April 577To Thomas Law, 23 April 578From Oliver Pollock, 23 April, enclosing Oliver Pollock to William Robertson, and Reply, 30 January 579From Thomas Richards, 23 April 581To Edward Coles, 24 April 581To C. & A. Conrad & Company, 24 April 582From John Dortic, 24 April 583To Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 583To Albert Gallatin, 24 April 584To James Madison, 24 April 585From John Barnes, 25 April, enclosing Maria Beckley to John Barnes, 21 April 587From James Oldham, 25 April 588From Edward Parker and Joseph Delaplaine, 27 April 589From "A Friend to the Christian Religion" ("Goodwill"), 28 April 590From Edward Coles, 29 April 590To William Duane, 30 April 591Bennett H. Henderson to Craven Peyton, 30 April 594To Robert Smith, 30 April 595From Benjamin Smith Barton, 1 May 596To Jones & Howell, 1 May 597From Theodorus Bailey, 2 May 597From Joel Barlow, 2 May 598From Fitzwhylsonn & Potter, 3 May 599From James Madison, 3 May 600To William Wirt, 3 May 601To William Wirt, 3 May 601To John Dortic, 4 May 604To Bernard McMahon, 4 May 604To Oliver Pollock, 4 May 605To John Hollins, 5 May 606To James Monroe, 5 May 607From Robert Smith, 5 May 608To Henry Foxall, 7 May 609To Edward Parker and Joseph Delaplaine, 7 [May] 609Elijah Fletcher's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [8 May] 610From Thomas Newton, 8 May 611From George Jefferson, 9 May 612To Reuben Perry, 10 May 612To Joel Barlow, 11 May 613From John Dortic, 11 May 614To Thomas Richards, 11 May 614To Dudley Richardson, 11 May 615To Bernard Smith, 11 May 615To Johann Severin Vater, 11 May 615To Robert Wash, 11 May 616To John Graham, 12 May 616To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 12 May 617To Craven Peyton, [12 May] 617To Jean Potocki, 12 May 618To David Bailie Warden, 12 May 619From Joel Barlow, 15 May 619From John Dortic, 16 May 619From George Jefferson, 16 May 620From Eleuthère I. du Pont de Nemours, 17 May 621To William Short, 17 May 621From William F. Gray, 18 May 623From Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 19 May 624Memorandum on Craven Peyton and Reuben Grady, 19 May 625From William Wirt, 19 May 626From John Graham, 20 May 627From James Lyle, 22 May 627From Thomas Ringgold, 22 May 628To John Dortic, 23 May 628From George Jefferson, 23 May 629To James Monroe, 23 May 629From James Ogilvie, 24 May 630To Ann C. Bankhead, 26 May 633To James Madison, 26 May 634From Samuel J. Harrison, 29 May 634To Cornelia J. Randolph, 3 June 635From William C. Rives, 4 June 635To John Milledge, 5 June 636From George Jefferson, 6 June 637From James Monroe, 6 June 637From James Madison, 7 June 638From Samuel J. Harrison, 8 June 639Notes on Account with Jonathan & Isaac Shoemaker, [ca. 8 June] 640Account with Jonathan & Isaac Shoemaker, 8 June 642To Charles L. Bankhead, 10 June 644To Isaac A. Coles, 10 June 644From Isaac A. Coles, 10 June 645From Anthony Gerna, enclosing Teophane Arata to Thomas Jefferson, 10 June 645From Thomas T. Loury, 11 June 647To Benjamin Morgan, 11 June 648From Benjamin F. Salvage, 11 June 649From C. & A. Conrad & Company, 12 June 649From George Jefferson, 13 June 650From William D. Meriwether, 13 June 650From Osborn Sprigg, 15 June 651To Burwell Bassett, 17 June, enclosing Extracts from Palisot de Beauvois's Letter to Thomas Jefferson, 19 March, with Jefferson's Notes 651
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