Papers of Thomas Jefferson – Retirement Series, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12 ; 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818:

The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson’s opinion that cog...

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Main Author: Jefferson, Thomas (Author)
Other Authors: Looney, J. Jefferson (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press [2018]
Series:Papers of Thomas Jefferson – Retirement Series
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Summary:The 580 documents in this volume cover a wide range of fascinating topics. Jefferson receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson’s opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetables probably, in Minerals not impossibly." Jefferson leases his Tufton and Lego plantations to his grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph. The directors of the Rivanna Company rebut Jefferson’s 1817 bill of complaint and he unwittingly ensures his eventual financial ruin by endorsing notes totaling
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9780691185194
DOI:10.1515/9780691185194

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