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The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 18
2022
Overview
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.\"
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
ISBN
0691229252, 9780691229256
