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Documents Edmond Charles Genet's dramatic challenges to American neutrality and Jefferson's diplomatic and political responses.

Reveals Washington and Jefferson in the closest relationship of their official careers. This volume shows Jefferson's concern over the growing discontent in the South and West over fiscal and other policies of the national government, his resistance to interested promotion of consular appointments in business circles, and more.

This volume brings Jefferson back to the U.S. from France, to become the first American Secretary of State, and marks the beginning of Jefferson's work in the Cabinet with Alexander Hamilton.

The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 17: July 1790 to November 1790, will be forthcoming.

This volume continues and almost completes Jefferson's stay in France as American minister there, and includes documents throwing light on the critical days of the eve of the French Revolution.

Volume 13 begins at the end of March 1788, when Jefferson and Adams were still in Amsterdam carrying on negotiations with the Dutch bankers for a loan to carry the national debt until the new government could be firmly established under the proposed Constitution, and concludes on 7 October 1788.

Volumes 11 and 12, cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and important documents, revealing, particularly, Jefferson's interest in agriculture and architecture, his extended trade negotiations, his reports on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, and his skilled efforts to establish friendly relations between ...

Volume 7 brings to a climax Jefferson's legislative career and includes documents of the highest importance. This volume includes his report on the establishment of a land office for disposing of lands in the national domain in order to discharge the national debt, his instructions for the American ministers abroad, his report on the national debt and circular appeal to the states.

Volume 9 covers the period of the negotiations for a treaty of amity and commerce with Portugal, in which Jefferson attempted to open up a market for American flour and to move toward his prophetic plan of organizing a system of collective security against the Barbary pirates.

Volume 8 covers the period from February through October 1785. During this time Jefferson was appointed to replace Benjamin Franklin as American minister to France, Franklin returned to America, and John Adams went to London to take up his duties as minister to Great Britain.

Volume 6 finds Jefferson in the chaotic days of the end of his term as governor, carries him through the years of his personal depression of 1781-1782, and reaches a magnificent climax in his great legislative work in the Continental Congress of 1783-1784.

Volume 5 covers only three months of the final part of Jefferson's governorship. From late February to late May 1781, Jefferson continued to deal with the complex problems of supporting Greene's army in the south, to cope with the threat from Indians in the southwest, to support George Rogers Clarks's intended campaign against Detroit, to aid Lafayette and Steuben in a final attempt to capture Benedict Arnold at Portsmouth, and to lay the foun...

Volume 4 covers five critical months in Jefferson's governorship. From October 1780 through February 1781 he dealt with a dangerous invasion threat by General Leslie in October-November and the actual and devastating incursion of General Benedict Arnold up the James in January. The fullest records of these events and of Jefferson's plan to capture Arnold at Portsmouth were furnished by the Governor himself and are printed in this volume.

Volume 3 embraces somewhat more than the first half of Jefferson's two-year service as governor of Virginia. Relates to military matters: the drafting of men for Continental and for militia service, the supplying of men and arms for the defense of Virginia's far-flung western domain, clearing privateers out of Virginia waters, dealing with deserters, establishing arms factories and military hospitals, supplying Virginians in captivity with mon...

Apart from lawmaking, the volume contains the records of Jefferson's activities as county lieutenant, concerned with local defense and the treatment of British sympathizers, as an amateur of science, corresponding with Rittenhouse and other learned men in Europe and America, as a protector and friend of Burgoyne's army intervened at Charlottesville, as a farmer and gardener, and as a book collector.

includes the almost incredible volume of Jefferson's writings on practically every aspect of human life-from politics and diplomacy to architecture, philosophy, agriculture, and music. The series includes 18, 000 letters written by Jefferson and, in full or summary, 25, 000 letters written to him by the great and humble of many nations. No previous edition has included more than fifteen per cent of the total, and only about a fifth of the docu...

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