Volume 46
Congress adjourns early in March, and Jefferson goes home to Monticello for a month. After his return to Washington, he corresponds with territorial governors concerning appointments to...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Print Edition
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson is a multi-volume scholarly edition devoted to the publication of the Jefferson’s public and private papers. This edition includes items he received as well as those he wrote. It begins with letters from the early 1760s, when Jefferson was still a youth who had not yet completed his education and Virginia was a British colony. The project staff are now preparing for publication papers from Jefferson’s presidency, which stretched from 1801 to 1809. The print edition, published to the highest standards of materials and craft by Princeton University Press, provides convenient access to our work and ensures that it will be available long into the future. The series is expected to encompass slightly over sixty volumes.
Volume 45
This volume opens soon after the start of the second session of the Eighth Congress and ends a few days after the session closes. During the period, Jefferson receives twice as many documents as...
Volume 44
Aaron Burr fells Alexander Hamilton in a duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, in July, but Jefferson, caring little for either adversary or for disruptive partisan warfare, gives the event only limited...
Volume 43
After the congressional session ends, Jefferson leaves Washington and goes home to Monticello, where his ailing daughter Mary dies on 17 April. Among the letters of condolence he receives is one...
Volume 42
Confessing that he may be acting "with more boldness than wisdom," Jefferson in November 1803 drafts a bill to create Orleans Territory, which he entrusts to John Breckinridge for introduction in...
Volume 41
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...
Volume 40
This volume opens on 4 March 1803, the first day of Jefferson's third year as president. Still shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, he confronts the potential political...
Volume 39
This volume opens on 13 November 1802, when 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...
Volume 38
Volume 38 opens on 1 July 1802, when Jefferson is in Washington, and closes on 12 November, when he is again there. For the last week of July and all of August and September, he resides at...