Thomas Jefferson manuscript material : 2 items, 1801-1816

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Thomas Jefferson manuscript material : 2 items, 1801-1816

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· To Tench Coxe, promoter of American industrial growth : 1 autograph letter signed : 11 Feb 1801 : (MISC 0122) : from Washington; in reference to the electoral vote which was to choose himself or Aaron Burr as president; begins, "Your favor of Jan. 25 came to hand some days ago, and yesterday a gentleman put into my hand , at the door of the Senate chamber, the vol. of the Amer. Museum for 1798 ..." · To George Ticknor, educator and author : 1 autograph letter signed : 8 Feb 1816 : (MISC 0329) : from Monticello; regarding books that Ticknor is buying for Jefferson; including, "... be so good as to remember my aversion to folios & 4tos ... the nerveless hand of a more than Septuagenaire wields a folio or a 4to with fatigue ..."; begins, "I had written you on the 14th of Jan. by duplicates through your father and the Secretary of State ..."

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Coxe, Tench, 1755-1824

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Tench Coxe (May 22, 1755 – July 17, 1824) was an American political economist and a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1788–1789. He wrote under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian," and was known to his political enemies as "Mr. Facing Bothways." Born in Philadelphia, Tench received his education in the Philadelphia schools and intended to study law, but his father determined to make him a merchant, and he was placed in the counting-house of Coxe & Furman, becoming a partner...

Ticknor, George, 1791-1871

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George Ticknor (1791-1871), educator and author, served as the first Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures at Harvard from 1817 to 1835. After his arrival at Harvard, Ticknor became disenchanted with the school curriculum, characterizing the College as a well-disciplined high school, and began an effort to reorganize the College around four main goals: the division of students in courses according to academic proficiency and merit; the division of the ...

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American statesman and third president of the United States. From the description of Thomas Jefferson letter, 1809. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367818629 Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was the third president of the United States, born in Goochland (now Albemarle County), Virginia. He was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1769 to 1775, and with R. H. Lee and Patrick Henry initiated the inter-colonial committee of correspond...