Volume 28
This volume brings Jefferson into retirement after his tenure as Secretary of State and returns him to private life at Monticello. He professes his desire to be free of public responsibilities...
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 27
This volume brings to a close Jefferson’s increasingly stormy tenure as Secretary of State. Against the background of the deadly yellow fever in Philadelphia, he copes with obstreperous French...
Volume 26
This volume documents exhaustively for the first time Edmond Charles Genet’s dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson’s diplomatic and political responses. After welcoming Genet’s...
Volume 25
The dramatic escalation in the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton to determine the future course of the new American nation is the main theme of this volume. Under pressure...
Volume 24
This volume finds Thomas Jefferson grappling with a series of problems arising from the radicalization of the French Revolution in Europe and the polarization of domestic politics in the United...
Volume 23
The documents in this volume deal with an unusually active, dramatic period during Thomas Jefferson’s tenure as Secretary of State. They reveal for the first time the full extent of his role in...
Volume 22
The months covered by this volume illustrate the variety of topics characteristic of the Jefferson Papers. Subjects range from Jefferson’s continued overseeing of the planning of the Federal...
Volume 21
The first volume in this series announced that outside indexers would prepare “temporary indexes” from time to time, each covering several volumes of the edition. The “permanent index” was to be...
Volume 20
Volume 20, the last to be edited by Julian P. Boyd, reflects the vast knowledge of Jefferson and his papers acquired by Professor Boyd during his forty-year editorship of the project. Here he...