Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Library Catalog
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 18
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691229260
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
A new definitive volume of the retirement papers of Thomas Jefferson This volume’s 627 documents feature a vast assortment of topics. Jefferson writes of his dread of “a doting old age.” He inserts an anonymous note in the Richmond Enquirer denying that he has endorsed a candidate for the next presidential election, and he publishes two letters in that newspaper under his own name to refute a Federalist claim that he once benefited by overcharging the United States Treasury. Jefferson does not reply to unsolicited letters seeking his opinion on constitutional matters, judicial review, and a call for universal white male suffrage in Virginia. Fearing that it would set a dangerous precedent, he declines appointment as patron of a new society “for the civilisation of the Indians.” Jefferson is also asked to comment on proposed improvements to stoves, lighthouses, telescopes, and navigable balloons. Citing his advanced age and stiffened wrist, he avoids detailed replies and allows his complaint to John Adams about the volume of incoming correspondence to be leaked to the press in hopes that strangers will stop deluging them both with letters. Jefferson approves of the growth of Unitarianism and predicts that “there is not a young man now living in the US. who will not die an Unitarian.”
The Express Messenger
Author: Critic and Literary World
Author: Jeannette Leonard GilderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers and publishing
Languages : en
Pages : 934
Book Description
The Critic
Author: Resting Places
Author: Scott WilsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 887
Book Description
In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide range of fields, including politics, the military, the arts, crime, sports and popular culture. Many entries are new to this edition. Each listing provides birth and death dates, a brief summary of the subject's claim to fame and their burial site location or as much as is known. Grave location within a cemetery is provided in many cases, as well as places of cremation and sites where ashes were scattered. Source information is provided.
AGS Quarterly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sepulchral monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Universalist and Ladies' Repository
Author: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 12
Author: Thomas JeffersonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691185190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
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 $20,000 for Wilson Cary Nicholas. Jefferson adds to the collections of the American Philosophical Society and writes an extended introduction to the "Anas," a corpus of official papers and political anecdotes documenting his service as George Washington’s secretary of state. Jefferson drafts legislation to establish a public education system in Virginia. He attends a Masonic cornerstone laying ceremony for the nascent Central College’s first pavilion early in October 1817 and is greatly pleased by the passage on 21 February 1818 of a law establishing a commission to plan a new state university, raising his hopes that Central College might soon become the University of Virginia.
Newsletter of the Association for Gravestone Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sepulchral monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description