The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: by Thomas Jefferson,J. Jefferson Looney

The 526 files published during this quantity run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. in this interval Jefferson reports the extant resources at the 1765 Stamp Act main issue to help William Wirt, a Patrick Henry pupil; files his principally optimistic impressions of George Washington; and updates a analyzing record for legislation scholars that he had at the start drawn up 40 years prior. within the spring of 1814 Jefferson turns into a trustee of the Albemarle Academy, the earliest direct ancestor of the college of Virginia. he's quickly actively excited about making plans for its institution, assisting to draft ideas for governance of the academy's trustees and suggest investment ideas, and he lays out an expansive imaginative and prescient for its destiny as an establishment of upper studying. Jefferson additionally exchanges principles on collegiate schooling with such revered students as Thomas Cooper and José Corrêa da Serra. Jefferson's wide-ranging correspondence contains a temperate reaction to a long letter from Miles King urging the retired president to mirror on his own faith, and a diplomatic yet noncommittal respond to an offer by means of Edward Coles that the writer of the announcement of Independence hire his status to aid abolish slavery. Having discovered of the British destruction past due in August 1814 of the general public constructions in Washington, Jefferson deals his great booklet assortment as an alternative for the Library of Congress. The nucleus for one of many world's nice public libraries is shaped early in 1815 while the kingdom purchases Jefferson's 6,707 volumes.

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