Survey of Lego and translation of "The genius of the ruins" [manuscript], 1809 December 29, n.d.

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Survey of Lego and translation of "The genius of the ruins" [manuscript], 1809 December 29, n.d.

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Jefferson surveyed Lego on 29 December 1809 and made copious notes on the survey (scale 18 poles to the inch). He translated the first part of The Genius of the Ruins, or a Reverie and a Vision Amid the Ruins of Palmyra of the Desert, by Constantin François de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney. A copy of a lithograph of John Randolph of Roanoke on horseback is also included.

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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...

Randolph, John, 1773-1833

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Lego (Albemarle County, Va. : Estate)

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Volney, C. -F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820

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