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Covering May through July 1801, this volume uncovers the story of the author's first presidential administration. It gathers figures on revenues and expenses and suggests improvements in methods of collecting taxes.

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Thomas Jefferson is residing at Monticello, avoiding the 'rather sickly' season in the nation's capital. In mid-November, he enters a period of intense activity in the preparation of his first annual message to Congress, soliciting suggestions but personally drafting the document that he will submit in writing in early December.

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On 8 December Thomas Jefferson communicates his first annual message to Congress: peace between France and England is restored; the standing army can be done away with; and, 'peace & friendship' prevail with Indian neighbors. This title covers the period that brings to a conclusion Thomas Jefferson's first year as president.

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Opens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June.

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A title that opens on 1 July 1802, when Thomas Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. Upon learning in August of the declaration of war by Mawlay Sulayman, the sultan of Morocco, much of the president's and the cabinet's attention is focused on that issue.

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A title that opens on 13 November 1802, when the Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 3 March 1803, the final day of his second year as president. The central issue of these months is the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3: June 1779 to September 1780, will be forthcoming.

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Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, the author confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi. This title drafts instructions and a cipher for Meriwether Lewis and arranges for the needed instruments.

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The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation's capital. Shortly before leaving Washington, he has a last meeting with his cabinet, after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 O

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4: October 1780 to February 1781, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 5: February 1781 to May 1781, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 6: May 1781 to March 1784, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 8: February 1785 to October 1785, will be forthcoming.

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The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 9: November 1785 to June 1786, will be forthcoming.

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Gives legal advice, including an opinion on whether perjury can be committed before a grand jury. This title attempts to bring Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy into print, offers biographical information for Delaplaine's Repository, and recommends revisions to a forthcoming biography of Patrick Henry.

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The 584 documents in this volume cover the period from 19 January to 31 August 1817, during which Jefferson devotes much time and energy to founding Central College, the predecessor of the University of Virginia. In May 1817, at its first official meeting, the college's Board of Visitors authorizes land purchases and a subscription campaign that ev

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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 Vegetable

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