The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 41: 11 July to 15 November 1803
By (Author) Thomas Jefferson
Edited by Barbara B. Oberg
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
7th April 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
973.46092
Hardback
856
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
1247g
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
Barbara B. Oberg, senior research scholar at Princeton University, was general editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson from 1999 to 2014.