Thomas Jefferson Letters (copies) Inventory (#861) 1784-1824.

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Thomas Jefferson Letters (copies) Inventory (#861) 1784-1824.

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), president of the United States, 1801-1809; governor of Virginia, 1779-1781; U.S. minister to France, 1785-1789; U.S. secretary of state, 1790-1793; vice-president of the United States, 1797-1801; after retirement from presidency, lived at plantation Monticello near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Va.; instrumental in founding University of Virginia, 1819. Miscellaneous reproductions of Thomas Jefferson letters include the following. Handwritten transcription of letter, 25 June 1823, from Thomas Jefferson declining an invitation to participate in the celebration of the approaching anniversary of the nation's birth. Photostats, chiefly letters, 1790, 1797, 1804, 1807, 1814, and 1824, from Jefferson to his daughter, Martha Jefferson Randolph, to Elizabeth H. Trist, to Nicholas Philip Trist, and to Thomas Mann Randolph, concerning family matters, political turmoil, his desire to return to Monticello, and the University of Virginia. Several short social notes written by Jefferson in Paris, 1784-1789, are also included. Handwritten copy and typed copy of letter, 24 April 1791, from Jefferson at Philadelphia to his daughter at Monticello about gardening and clothing. Photostat of letter from Monticello, 9 May 1817, in which Jefferson described plans for the building and grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Typed copy of a letter, 6 December 1813, from Jefferson to Baron Friederich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt thanking him for astronomical observations and atlases relating to Latin American countries and discussing the future of those countries and mentioning other issues.

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