In this Book
- The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 14: 1 February to 31 August 1819
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series
The 637 documents in this volume span 1 February to 31 August 1819. As a founding member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors, Jefferson helps to obtain builders for the infant institution, responds to those seeking professorships, and orchestrates the establishment of a classical preparatory school in Charlottesville. In a letter to Vine Utley, Jefferson details his daily regimen of a largely vegetarian diet, bathing his feet in cold water each morning, and horseback riding. Continuing to indulge his wide-ranging intellectual interests, Jefferson receives publications on the proper pronunciation of Greek and discusses the subject himself in a letter to John Adams. Jefferson also experiences worrying and painful events, including hailstorm damage at his Poplar Forest estate, a fire in the North Pavilion at Monticello, the illness of his slave Burwell Colbert, and a fracas in which Jefferson's grandson-in-law Charles Bankhead stabs Jefferson's grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph on court day in Charlottesville. Worst of all, Jefferson's financial problems greatly increase when the bankruptcy of his friend Wilson Cary Nicholas leaves Jefferson responsible for $20,000 in notes he had endorsed for Nicholas.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Editorial Method and Apparatus
- pp. xi-xxiv
- Illustrations
- pp. li-1
- From John Barnes, 1 February
- pp. 3-4
- From Samuel Carr, 1 February
- pp. 4-5
- From “Zed” (“Franklin”), 3 February
- pp. 10-12
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 4 February
- pp. 12-15
- From Mathew Carey, 4 February
- pp. 15-16
- From Simon Chaudron, 7 February
- pp. 17-19
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 February
- pp. 22-23
- From James Monroe, 8 February
- pp. 23-24
- To James H. McCulloch, 9 February
- pp. 24-25
- From John Patterson, 9 February
- pp. 25-26
- From Aaron Ely, 10 February
- pp. 27-28
- From James Madison, 12 February
- pp. 29-30
- From John Adams, 13 February
- pp. 30-31
- From George Ticknor, 13 February
- pp. 31-33
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 15 February
- pp. 34-36
- From James Oldham, 17 February
- pp. 40-41
- From John Philippart, 17 February
- pp. 41-42
- To Joseph C. Cabell, 19 February
- pp. 45-46
- To John H. Cocke, 19 February
- pp. 46-47
- From Louis H. Girardin, 20 February
- pp. 48-49
- To Patrick Gibson, 21 February
- pp. 49-50
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 22 February
- pp. 55-56
- From John Vaughan, 22 February
- pp. 58-59
- To Joel Yancey, 22 February
- pp. 59-60
- From John Adams, 24 February
- pp. 60-61
- From James Maury, 24 February
- pp. 61-62
- From Patrick Gibson, 26 February
- pp. 72-73
- From William Wallace, 27 February
- pp. 75-76
- To Joseph C. Cabell, 1 March
- pp. 79-81
- From Peter S. Du Ponceau, 1 March
- pp. 81-82
- From John Adams, 2 March
- pp. 82-83
- To José Corrêa da Serra, 2 March
- pp. 83-84
- From Peter Poinsot, 2 March
- pp. 85-86
- To Thomas Cooper, 3 March
- pp. 90-91
- To Chapman Johnson, 3 March
- pp. 91-92
- To Robert Taylor, 3 March
- pp. 93-94
- To Hugh Holmes, 4 March
- pp. 96-97
- From James Brown, 5 March
- pp. 97-98
- From William S. Jacobs, 6 March
- pp. 98-99
- From James Madison, 6 March
- pp. 99-100
- From Robert Patterson, 6 March
- pp. 100-101
- From George Blackburn, 8 March
- pp. 101-104
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 March
- pp. 105-107
- To Louis H. Girardin, 8 March
- pp. 107-108
- To Lafayette, 8 March
- p. 108
- To Joseph Léonard Poirey, 8 March
- pp. 110-111
- From John Rhea, 9 March
- pp. 111-112
- From Archibald Stuart, 9 March
- pp. 112-113
- To Joel Yancey, 9 March
- pp. 113-114
- From Destutt de Tracy, 10 March
- pp. 114-117
- From Hugh Holmes, 10 March
- pp. 118-119
- To Dabney Carr, 11 March
- p. 120
- From Louis H. Girardin, 11 March
- pp. 120-121
- From James Madison, 11 March
- pp. 121-122
- From George G. Minor, 11 March
- pp. 122-123
- To James P. Preston, 11 March
- pp. 123-124
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 12 March
- pp. 124-125
- From Thomas Cooper, 13 [March]
- pp. 125-128
- From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 13 March
- pp. 128-129
- From Robert Taylor, 13 March
- pp. 129-130
- To John Barnes, 14 March
- p. 131
- To Robert Patterson, 14 March
- pp. 132-133
- From Victor Adolphus Sasserno, 15 March
- pp. 134-136
- To Archibald Stuart, 15 March
- pp. 136-137
- To Louis H. Girardin, 16 March
- pp. 137-138
- From Marc Antoine Jullien, 18 March
- pp. 143-144
- From Isaac H. Tiffany, 18 March
- pp. 144-146
- From Frederick A. Mayo, 19 March
- pp. 146-147
- From Stephen Cathalan, 20 March
- pp. 148-150
- From Robert S. Garnett, 20 March
- pp. 150-152
- To John Adams, 21 March
- pp. 153-156
- To Vine Utley, 21 March
- pp. 156-157
- From José Corrêa da Serra, 22 March
- pp. 159-160
- From Patrick Gibson, 22 March
- pp. 160-161
- To Bernard Peyton, 25 March
- pp. 166-167
- From Rodolph Schaer, 25 March
- pp. 167-169
- From William F. Gray, 26 March
- pp. 169-170
- To Louis H. Girardin, 31 March
- pp. 183-184
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 1 April
- pp. 189-190
- From John Adams, 2 April
- pp. 190-191
- To Thomas Cooper, 2 April
- pp. 191-192
- From Mathew Carey, 3 April
- pp. 193-194
- From William C. Rives, 3 April
- pp. 197-198
- To John C. Calhoun, 4 April
- pp. 198-199
- To Isaac H. Tiffany, 4 April
- pp. 201-202
- From Boissy d’Anglas, 6 April
- pp. 203-206
- From Benjamin Vaughan, 6 April
- pp. 206-207
- From Maria Cosway, 7 April
- pp. 207-208
- To John Wayles Eppes, 7 April
- pp. 210-211
- To James Oldham, 8 April
- pp. 211-212
- To Frederick A. Mayo, 9 April
- pp. 214-215
- To Richard Ware, 9 April
- pp. 216-217
- From Thomas Cooper, 11 April
- pp. 218-220
- To John Laval, 11 April
- pp. 221-222
- To Robert Walsh, 11 April
- pp. 222-223
- From Gerard E. Stack, 12 April
- pp. 223-224
- To Joseph Milligan, 13 April
- pp. 224-225
- From Samuel Adams Wells, 14 April
- pp. 225-228
- From Franz X. Zeltner, 14 April
- pp. 228-229
- From Thomas Cooper, 15 April
- pp. 229-230
- From Benjamin Vaughan, 16 April
- pp. 230-232
- From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 April
- pp. 233-234
- From Napoleon B. Coleman, 18 April
- pp. 234-237
- From Thomas Cooper, 18 April
- pp. 237-238
- From Stephen Cathalan, 19 April
- pp. 238-239
- From John Laval, 19 April
- pp. 240-241
- From John Barnes, 21 April
- pp. 241-242
- From Benjamin Vaughan, 21–22 April
- pp. 242-243
- From Thomas Cooper, [22 April]
- pp. 243-244
- To Patrick Gibson, 22 April
- pp. 244-245
- From Charles Clay, 24 April
- pp. 246-247
- From John M. Wallace, 24 April
- pp. 247-248
- From William Oliver Vaughan, 25 April
- pp. 249-250
- From George Blaettermann, 27 April
- pp. 251-253
- From Archibald S. Bulloch, 28 April
- pp. 253-254
- From Charles Clay, 28 April
- pp. 254-255
- From Thomas Appleton, 30 April
- pp. 255-257
- From Louis Pio, [received 1 May]
- pp. 259-260
- To John H. Cocke, 3 May
- p. 261
- From John H. Cocke, 3 May
- pp. 261-265
- To James Eastburn & Company, 3 May
- pp. 265-266
- To John Laval, 3 May
- p. 266
- To Wilson J. Cary, 4 May
- pp. 267-268
- From John H. Cocke, 4 May
- pp. 268-269
- To John Barnes, 5 May
- p. 270
- From George Divers, 6 May
- pp. 271-272
- To Patrick Gibson, 6 May
- p. 272
- To Peter Laporte, 6 May
- pp. 272-273
- To Smith & Riddle, 6 May
- pp. 273-274
- From Micah Sterling, 7 May
- pp. 274-275
- From Patrick Gibson, 8 May
- pp. 275-276
- To John Laval, 8 May
- p. 276
- From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 8 May
- pp. 276-278
- From David McClure, [received 9 May]
- pp. 278-279
- To Louis H. Girardin, 10 May
- pp. 280-281
- From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 10 May
- pp. 281-282
- To John Philippart, 11 May
- pp. 283-284
- To Horatio G. Spafford, 11 May
- pp. 284-286
- To Jerman Baker, 14 May
- p. 294
- From John L. Meredith, 14 May
- pp. 296-295
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 14 May
- pp. 297-298
- To John Adams, 15 May
- p. 298
- To William J. Coffee, 15 May
- pp. 298-299
- From John Wayles Eppes, 15 May
- pp. 299-298
- From Andrew Kean, 15 May
- p. 300
- From Thomas Lehré, 15 May
- pp. 300-302
- To David McClure, 15 May
- p. 302
- To Thomas B. Parker, 15 May
- pp. 302-303
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 17 May
- pp. 303-304
- From Thomas McAuley, 19 May
- pp. 306-307
- From Patrick Gibson, 20 May
- pp. 308-309
- From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 20 May
- pp. 309-310
- From John Adams, 21 May
- pp. 310-311
- From Patrick Kerr Rogers, 21 May
- pp. 313-314
- From Robert Anderson, 22 May
- pp. 314-315
- From John Quincy Adams, 24 May
- pp. 315-316
- Estimate of Income and Expenses, 24 May
- pp. 316-317
- From William Eustis, 24 May
- pp. 317-318
- Account with Patrick Gibson, 24 May
- pp. 318-319
- From John Vaughan, 24 May
- pp. 319-320
- From John Coles, 25 May
- p. 320
- From William Short, 25 May
- pp. 321-325
- To John Steele, 25 May
- p. 325
- From Christopher Winckelblech, 25 May
- pp. 325-326
- To Joel Yancey, 25 May
- pp. 326-327
- To Stephen Cathalan, 26 May
- pp. 327-330
- From William Payne, 26 May
- pp. 337-338
- To Victor Adolphus Sasserno, 26 May
- pp. 338-339
- From John Adams, 27 May
- pp. 339-340
- To de Bure Frères, 27 May
- pp. 340-341
- To Thomas Appleton, 28 May
- pp. 348-350
- From John Laval, 28 May
- p. 351
- To John Vaughan, 28 May
- pp. 352-353
- To David Gelston, 29 May
- p. 353
- To Patrick Gibson, 29 May
- pp. 353-364
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 29 May
- pp. 354-355
- From Bernard Peyton, 31 May
- pp. 366-367
- From Edmund Bacon, 2 June
- pp. 369-370
- From John Barnes, 2 June
- p. 370
- From Lydia Broadnax, 2 June
- pp. 370-371
- From Samuel Adams Wells, 2 June
- pp. 373-378
- From Robert I. Evans, 3 June
- pp. 378-379
- To James Leitch, 3 June
- pp. 379-380
- To Nicholas H. Lewis, 3 June
- pp. 380-381
- To Peter Laporte, 4 June
- pp. 382-383
- To John Laval, 4 June
- p. 384
- To John Coles, 5 June
- p. 385
- From Asa Hazen, 5 June
- p. 386
- From Louis H. Girardin, 6 June
- pp. 387-388
- From Peter Poinsot, 6 June
- pp. 388-389
- From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 7 June
- pp. 390-391
- From William Sampson, 10 June
- pp. 415-416
- From Vine Utley, 10 June
- pp. 419-422
- To John Laval, 11 June
- p. 423
- To John Barnes, 12 June
- pp. 425-426
- To Pierre de Polética, 12 June
- pp. 426-428
- To Robert Anderson, 13 June
- pp. 428-430
- From Joel Yancey, 13 June
- pp. 430-431
- From Ezra Stiles Ely, 14 June
- pp. 432-433
- To Thomas McAuley, 14 June
- pp. 433-434
- To Charles F. Kupfer, 15 June
- pp. 434-435
- To Archibald S. Bulloch, 17 June
- pp. 435-436
- From Chapman Johnson, 17 June
- pp. 436-437
- To Robert S. Garnett, 18 June
- pp. 438-439
- From Andrew Smith, 18 June
- pp. 439-440
- From Chapman Johnson, 19 June
- pp. 440-441
- From John Vaughan, 19 June
- pp. 442-443
- From Thomas Cooper, 21 June
- pp. 444-446
- To Louis H. Girardin, 22 June
- pp. 451-452
- To Richard Rush, 22 June
- pp. 452-453
- From William Short, 22 June
- pp. 453-454
- From Francis W. Gilmer, 23 June
- pp. 455-457
- From Jeremiah Greenleaf, 23 June
- pp. 458-459
- To Benjamin Vaughan, 23 June
- pp. 459-460
- To Samuel Adams Wells, 23 June
- pp. 463-464
- From Dabney S. Carr, 24 June
- pp. 464-465
- From Henry Dearborn, 24 June
- pp. 466-467
- From John Laval, 24 June
- pp. 467-468
- From Thomas Eston Randolph, 24 June
- pp. 468-469
- From Edmund Bacon, 25 June
- pp. 469-470
- To John Coles, 25 June
- p. 470
- To Ezra Stiles Ely, 25 June
- pp. 470-471
- To Patrick Gibson, 25 June
- pp. 473-474
- From John Hollins, 25 June
- pp. 474-475
- To Charles F. Kupfer, 25 June
- pp. 475-476
- To Joel Yancey, 25 June
- pp. 476-477
- From John Coles, 26 June
- p. 477
- To Nicholas H. Lewis, 26 June
- pp. 478-479
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 27 June
- pp. 479-480
- To John L. Meredith, 27 June
- pp. 480-481
- To Vine Utley, 27 June
- p. 481
- To William Wirt, 27 June
- pp. 482-483
- From Patrick Gibson, 28 June
- pp. 483-484
- To William Short, [29] June
- pp. 488-489
- To John Vaughan, 29 June
- pp. 489-490
- To José Corrêa da Serra, 30 June
- pp. 490-491
- To William Sampson, 30 June
- pp. 491-492
- From James Dinsmore, 1 July
- pp. 492-493
- From Andrew Smith, 1 July
- pp. 493-494
- From Joel Yancey, 1 July
- pp. 494-495
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 2 July
- pp. 495-496
- To Patrick Gibson, 2 July
- pp. 496-497
- To John Hollins, 2 July
- p. 497
- To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 July
- pp. 497-498
- To Thomas Perkins, 2 July
- pp. 498-499
- From John Steele, 3 July
- p. 499
- From Daniel Brent, 4 July
- pp. 499-500
- From Joshua M. Stokes, 4 July
- pp. 501-502
- To Henry Dearborn, 5 July
- pp. 502-504
- To Jeremiah Greenleaf, 5 July
- pp. 504-505
- To John Laval, 5 July
- p. 505
- To Andrew Smith, 5 July
- pp. 505-506
- From John Wharton (d. 1829), 5 July
- pp. 506-507
- To John H. Cocke, 7 July
- pp. 511-512
- From Delamotte, 7 July
- pp. 512-513
- From Chapman Johnson, 7 July
- pp. 513-514
- To James Madison, 7 July
- pp. 514-517
- From Peter Cardelli, 8 July
- pp. 522-523
- To John Adams, 9 July
- pp. 523-525
- To John Wayles Eppes, 9 July
- pp. 525-526
- From Thomas B. Parker, 9 July
- pp. 526-527
- To Mathew Carey, 11 July
- p. 528
- To Thomas Cooper, 11 July
- pp. 528-529
- To George Williamson, 11 July
- pp. 529-530
- From Robert S. Garnett, 13 July
- pp. 530-531
- From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 14 July
- pp. 532-533
- From [John Brazer], 15 July
- pp. 536-537
- From John H. Peyton, 17 July
- pp. 540-541
- To Edmund Meeks, 19 July
- pp. 541-542
- From John Adams, 21 July
- pp. 545-546
- From Patrick Gibson, 21 July
- pp. 548-549
- From Rowland Reynolds, 21 July
- pp. 550-552
- From John Laval, 22 July
- p. 552
- From James Steptoe, 22 July
- pp. 552-553
- From Edmund Bacon, 26 July
- pp. 554-555
- From Joseph Caldwell, 26 July
- pp. 555-556
- From Christopher Anthony, 27 July
- pp. 557-558
- From John Binns, 27 July
- pp. 558-559
- From Robert Taylor, 27 July
- pp. 560-561
- From John Adams, 28 July
- p. 563
- To Edmund Bacon, 28 July
- p. 564
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 July
- pp. 564-565
- To Patrick Gibson, 28 July
- pp. 570-571
- From Peter Laporte, 28 July
- pp. 571-572
- From Bernard Peyton, 28 July
- pp. 573-574
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 July
- pp. 575-576
- From Peter Force, 30 July
- pp. 577-578
- From Samuel B. T. Caldwell, 31 July
- pp. 578-579
- From Richard Bland Lee, 2 August
- pp. 581-582
- To Thomas B. Parker, 2 August
- pp. 582-583
- From Thomas B. Robertson, 2 August
- pp. 583-584
- From Edmund Bacon, 4 August
- pp. 584-586
- From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 5 August
- pp. 586-588
- To Alexander Hepburn, 7 August
- pp. 588-589
- From D. Mariano, 7 August
- pp. 589-591
- To Charles Willson Peale, 7 August
- pp. 591-592
- From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 7 August
- pp. 593-594
- To Rowland Reynolds, 7 August
- pp. 594-595
- To John Wood, 7 August
- p. 595
- To Joseph Antrim, 8 August
- pp. 595-596
- To Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 August
- pp. 596-597
- From Giovanni Andrei, 10 August
- pp. 598-599
- From Eulalie Cathalan, 10 August
- pp. 599-600
- From Thomas Ewell, 10 August
- pp. 600-601
- To Patrick Gibson, 11 August
- pp. 602-603
- To Richard Bland Lee, 11 August
- pp. 603-604
- From Gerard E. Stack, 13 August
- pp. 606-607
- From Thomas B. Parker, 14 August
- pp. 612-613
- From William Short, 14 August
- pp. 613-616
- To James Monroe, 17 August
- pp. 618-620
- From Charles Willson Peale, 21 August
- pp. 624-625
- To Joshua Dodge, 22 August
- pp. 625-626
- From Spencer Roane, 22 August
- pp. 626-627
- To John Brazer, 24 August
- pp. 629-631
- To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 August
- pp. 635-636
- From Samuel J. Harrison, 25 August
- pp. 636-637
- From Eulalie Cathalan, 26 August
- pp. 637-638
- From Jefferson Chambers, 27 August
- pp. 638-639
- From Patrick Gibson, 27 August
- pp. 639-640
- From Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 28 August
- pp. 640-641
- To Arthur S. Brockenbrough, 29 August
- pp. 641-642
- To Gerard E. Stack, 29 August
- pp. 643-644
- To John Binns, 31 August
- p. 644
- To Julius B. Dandridge, 31 August
- pp. 645-646