184321Editorial Note: The Great Collaborators (Jefferson Papers)
The subject of that day’s dinner conversation—the French protest against the tonnage acts of 1789...
184322Editorial Note: Search for a European Concert on Navigation Law (Jefferson Papers)
In March 1791 the anxiety that Hamilton and his supporters felt about the threatened enactment of...
184323Editorial Note: Experiments in Desalination of Sea Water (Jefferson Papers)
There can be little doubt that Jacob Isaacks—an aged, infirm, and poor resident of Newport, but...
184324Editorial Note: Fixing the Seat of Government (Jefferson Papers)
Adams’ observation, apt at the time and prophetic of what was to come, was made during the...
184325Editorial Note: Unofficial Diplomacy on Indian Affairs (Jefferson Papers)
In the spring of 1791 the governments of Great Britain and the United States became suddenly...
184326Editorial Note: The Debt to France: The Proposals of Schweitzer, Jeanneret & Cie. (Jefferson Papers)
The question of liquidating the loans made by France to the United States not only affected the...
184327Editorial Note: Tench Coxe Seeks Office as Comptroller of the Treasury (Jefferson Papers)
In his pioneering work The Federalists , Leonard D. White, an able scholar in the field of...
184328Editorial Note: Rights of Man: The “Contest of Burke and Paine … in America” (Jefferson Papers)
What James Monroe called “the contest of Burke and Paine, as reviv’d in America,” bore a...
184329Editorial Note: The Northern Journey of Jefferson and Madison (Jefferson Papers)
Long before Hamilton’s friend Robert Troup made this observation he had become convinced that the...
184330Editorial Note: The American Consul at London (Jefferson Papers)
When news arrived early in the summer of 1790 that England and Spain were on the verge of war,...
184331Editorial Note: Jefferson, Freneau, and the Founding of the National Gazette (Jefferson Papers)
The Editor of the “National Gazette” receives a salary from government. Quere —whether this...
184332Editorial Note: The “Anas” (Jefferson Papers)
The following is the earliest document in the compilation made by TJ that has come to be known by...
184333Editorial Note: The Settlement of Jefferson’s Accounts as Minister Plenipotentiary in France (Jefferson Papers)
The submission of Jefferson’s accounts with the United States and supporting documentation to...
184334Editorial Note: Jefferson and André Michaux’s Proposed Western Expedition (Jefferson Papers)
Discovered in the vault of the American Philosophical Society in 1979 with supporting financial...
184335Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Questions and Observations on the Application of France (Jefferson Papers)
The four documents printed below illuminate an obscure episode in the Secretary of State’s...
184336Editorial Note: Jefferson and the Giles Resolutions (Jefferson Papers)
The draft resolutions printed below as Document I represent Thomas Jefferson’s climactic...
184337Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Opinion on the Treaties with France (Jefferson Papers)
Thomas Jefferson’s carefully qualified opinion in favor of the continued validity of the 1778...
184338Editorial Note: Jefferson and the American Debt to France (Jefferson Papers)
The documents printed below have been grouped here in order to record more clearly, with the...
184339Editorial Note: The Referral of Neutrality Questions to the Supreme Court (Jefferson Papers)
The number and complexity of questions about what constituted neutral behavior by the United...
184340Editorial Note: The Recall of Edmond Charles Genet (Jefferson Papers)
The decision to demand Edmond Charles Genet’s recall less than three months after his arrival in...
184341Editorial Note: Report on Commerce (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson’s report on commerce was his last effort as Secretary of State to achieve his...
184342Contemporary Translation: From Josef de Jaudenes and Josef Ignacio de Viar, 26 December 1793 (Jefferson Papers)
A part of the contents of the letter with which you honored us on the 21. instant, in answer to...
184343Memorandums to Henry Remsen, 31 August 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
Note to the digital edition: A revised version of this document, transcribed from manuscript, has...
184344Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to Philip Mazzei (Jefferson Papers)
On 24 Apr. 1796, Jefferson wrote a lengthy epistle to his former neighbor Philip Mazzei, who was...
184345Editorial Note: Documents Relating to the 1796 Campaign for Electors in Virginia (Jefferson Papers)
While Jefferson’s correspondence makes no mention of the Virginia campaign for presidential...
184346Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to John Adams (Jefferson Papers)
Anticipating an administration headed by John Adams with himself as vice president, Jefferson...
184347Editorial Note: Jefferson’s Letter to James Madison (Jefferson Papers)
Jefferson uncharacteristically failed to retain a press copy of this letter, making instead, as...
184348Suit Against the Estate of William Ronald: Order and Report, 10 July 1797 (Jefferson Papers)
In the Court of Chancery Virginia: Between Thomas Jefferson plt and William Bentley administrator...
184349Editorial Note: Petition to Virginia House of Delegates (Jefferson Papers)
It is not clear when Jefferson decided to take it upon himself to respond to the grand jury...
184350Editorial Note: Jefferson, the Aurora, and Delamotte’s Letter from France (Jefferson Papers)
When the Philadelphia Aurora of 3 Apr. 1798 printed a translation of “a letter from a well...