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Book Synopsis"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a more deeply researched and convincing account. " --Evan Connell, author Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and most meticulously researched.Trade Review"Forget what you saw at the movies-this biography of the legend ofthe Old West shows that the facts are more interesting than thelegend."--The New York Times Book Review "The most thoughtful, well-researched, and comprehensive accountthat has been written about the development and career of anOld-West lawman."--The Tombstone Tumbleweed "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and mostmeticulously researched."--Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: TheGunfighter Who Never Was "Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account."--Evan Connell, author ofThe Sun of the Morning StarTable of ContentsCowtown Justice. A New Town, A New Badge. Murder and Madness. A March to Destiny. "I Think We Can Hang Them." Tombstone in Terror. Vendetta. Law versus Order. A Fight for Honor. The Last Frontiers. Long May His Story Be Told. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. Index.

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Book Synopsis"Extraordinarily readable. " --Paul D. Casdorph, author of Jackson and Lee Best remembered as the man who burned Atlanta and marched his army to the sea, cutting a swath of destruction through Georgia, William Tecumseh Sherman remains one of the most vital figures in Civil War annals.Table of ContentsOf Raymonds and Streets, Hoyts and Shermans. Beside the Still Waters. "I Regret I Ever Left the Army." A Yankee in Rebeldom. The Insanity of the South--and of Uncle Charles. Hamlet. The Same Game as at Bull Run. Bad Day at Chickasaw. Vicksburg and Sherman's First March. Willy, Chattanooga, and Knoxville. Commander of the Armies. "We Must Kill Those Three Hundred Thousand." "A Scene I Pray My Eyes May Never See Again." "Gone to Join Willy." The Carolinas. "I Will Take a Regiment of My Old Division and Clear Them All Out." "Whatever We Do Here Causes Death." At War With Grant. Of Lizzie and Tom. Extreme Unction. Sherman: A Brief Assessment. Appendix. Notes. Manuscripts Cited. Index.

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Book SynopsisFrom the preeminent Edison scholar . . . The definitive life of the inventor of the modern age The conventional story is so familiar and reassuring that it has come to read more like American myth than history: With only three months of formal education, a curious and hardworking young man beats the odds and becomes one of the greatest inventors in history. Not only does he invent the phonograph and the first successful electric light bulb, but he also establishes the first electrical power distribution company and lays the technological groundwork for today''s movies, telephones, and sound recording industry. Through relentless tinkering, by trial and error, the story goes, Thomas Alva Edison perseveres-and changes the world. In the revelatory Edison: A Life of Invention, author Paul Israel exposes and enriches this one-dimensional view of the solitary Wizard of Menlo Park, expertly situating his subject within a thoroughly realized portrait of a burgeoning country oTable of ContentsChildhood and Education. Itinerant Telegrapher. From Operator to Inventor. A Leading Electromechanician. Competing Interests. From Shop to Laboratory. New Directions. The Invention Factory. The Wizard of Menlo Park. Inventing a System. From Research to Development. Inventing an Industry. Family Matters. A New Laboratory. Inventing Entertainment. Industrial Research. Competition and Consolidation. Innovation and Enthusiasm. A Modern Legend. Fame in the Family. The Business of Innovation. Edison Incorporated. Inventor-Philosopher. Epilogue. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisExplains the kaleidoscopic nature of Middle Eastern diplomacy.Table of ContentsPreface PART ONE: THE REVOLUTIONARY 1 Coming Down the Mountain 2 The French Legacy 3 Party School and Army College 4 The Peasants' Revolt 5 The Cairo Conspiracy 6 Capturing the State 7 Capturing the Party 8 Blindly to the Brink 9 The Six Day Walkover 10 The Fight to the Top 11 The Black September Fiasco PART TWO: THE LEADER 12 Asad's State 13 Sadat, the Unsound Ally 14 The October Illusion 15 Duel with Henry Kissinger 16 1975: The Year Things Fell Apart 17 The Lebanese Trap 18 Jimmy Carter's False Dawn 19 The Enemy Within 20 Standing Alone 21 Ally of the Ayatollah 22 Battle with Menachem Begin 23 The Defeat of George Shultz 24 The Brothers' War (revised 1995) 25 Forging a Nation 26 Dirty Tricks 27 Conclusions: the Balance Sheet Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisLucrecia de Leon lived on the fringes of the 16th-century Spanish royal court. As a teenager, Lucrecia had hundreds of dreams about Spain's future that became the stuff of political controversy. This book is based upon surviving transcripts of her dreams and on the records of her Inquisition trial.Table of ContentsPREFACE EDITORIAL NOTE Introduction 1 Lucrecia de Leon 2 Dreams Diabolical, Dreams Divine 3 "I wake up the moment my eyes are closed" 4 Politics and Prophecy 5 Lucrecia the Prophet 6 Trial in ToletkJ Conclusion: Understanding Lucrecia CALENDAR OF LUCRECIA'S DREAMS ABBREVIATIONS NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisThis study focuses on James Legge (1815-1897), one of the most important 19th-century figures in the cultural exchange between China and the West. The narrative illuminates the era in which Legge lived as well as the surroundings in which he worked.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note to the Reader on Transcription and Romanization Introduction: The Strange Saga of Missionary Tradition, Sinological Orientalism, and the Comparative Science of Religions in the Nineteenth Century Prologue: Missionary Hyphenations West and East, 1815--1869 1. Pilgrim Legge and the Journey to the West, 1870--1874 2. Professor Legge at Oxford University, 1875--1876 Appendix to Chapter 2: Caricatures of Max Muller and James Legge at Oxford 3. Heretic Legge: Relating Confucianism and Christianity, 1877--1878 4. Decipherer Legge: Finding the Sacred in the Chinese Classics, 1879--1880 5. Comparativist Legge: Describing and Comparing the Religions of China, 1880--1882 6. Translator Legge: Closing the Confucian Canon, 1882--1885 7. Ancestor Legge: Translating Buddhism and Daoism, 1886--1892 8. Teacher Legge: Upholding the Whole Duty of Man, 1893--1897 Conclusion: Darker Labyrinths: Transforming Missionary Tradition, Sinological Orientalism, and the Comparative Science of Religions after the Turn of the Century Appendix A. Max Muller's Motto for The Sacred Books of the East Appendix B. James Legge's Oxford Lectures and Courses, 1876--1897 Appendix C. Principal Publications of James Legge and Max Muller Appendix D. Genealogy of the Legge Family Notes Bibliographical Note Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays on Hildegard of Bingen, ranging from medieval theology to medicine to music, offer an understanding of how one woman could transform so many of the traditions of the world in which she lived.Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS: Madeline Caviness Florence Eliza Glaze Margot Fassler Joan Ferrante

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Book SynopsisExamines the aspects of Hannah Arendt's life and thought including: her complex identity as a German Jew; her commitment to and critique of Zionism and the state of Israel; her works on "totalitarianism", Nazism, and the Eichmann trial; and, her intimate and tense connections to German culture.Trade Review"It is impressive to see an edited collection in which such a high intellectual standard is maintained throughout.... I learned things from almost every one of these chapters." - Craig Calhoun, author of Critical Social TheoryTable of ContentsContributors: Steven E. Aschheim Peter Baehr Richard J. Bernstein Leora Bilsky Richard I. Cohen Bernard Crick Michael Halberstam Agnes Heller Walter Laqueur Yaacov Lozowick Michael R. Marrus Hans Mommsen Gabriel Motzkin Susan Neiman Anson Rabinbach Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin Dana R. Villa Annette Vowinckel Lilliane Weissberg Albrecht Wellmer Moshe Zimmermann

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Book SynopsisThis account of the reformation in England under Edward VI challenges many established views and also gives an account of the religion of young Elizabeth I.Trade Review"An exciting and distinguished book.... MacCulloch combines exact and penetrating scholarship with a vitality of exposition that is rare in writing on Tudor history." - Blair Worden, Sunday Telegraph "MacCulloch's enviable ease in unraveling complex theological and political positions...make[s] this a formidable achievement. A dramatic period of English history will never look quite the same again." - The Independent (London) "Provocative and sparkling (let's say it, brilliant).... MacCulloch argues with great elegance that the Edwardian reformation was a crucial moment in the development of the Anglican Church and the forging of England's Protestant identity." - Robbie Millen, The Spectator

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Book SynopsisThe life of Count Harry Kessler (1868-1937), the famous Anglo-German art patron, writer, and activist, offers a vivid and engrossing perspective on the tumultuous transformation of art and politics that took place in modern Europe between 1890 and 1930. This is his biography.Trade Review"W.H. Auden called him probably the most cosmopolitan man who ever lived. Aesthete, patron, diplomat, diarist, peace campaigner, defender of the Weimar republic and exile from Nazism, this ultra-sophisticated German count belongs to a type that probably no longer exists: a moneyed and cultivated amateur whose brains and background brought him effortless access to politics, society and intellectual life in any capital where he set foot." - The Economist "By weaving together the story of Kessler's life with that of is time, in a way that evokes the reader's sympathy for his subject without sacrificing critical perspective, he offers a compelling insight into an often dramatic and sometimes terrifying period of history." - Washington Post "Easton deftly fills in the rich cultural context of Kessler's many realms." - New York Times Book Review "From Laird M. Easton's Life of Kessler, told in an exemplary fashion, there is much to learn about what went wrong at such a crucial period of German history. And about the danger inherent in a belief in the improving power of culture." - Times Literary Supplement"Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Art and Politics in Modern Germany I. Family and Education II. Apprenticeship III. The Third Weimar IV. The Fever Curve V. War's Purifying Fire VI. The Red Count VII. The Path Downward Conclusion: A World Forever Lost? Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAssesses the main features of Lloyd George's career from his early days when he established a reputation as a fiery radical, his work as a social reformer, his stance vis-a-vis the Boer War, his career during World War I and his work in the peace-making process, and his later years out of office.Trade Review"Comes as near as anything can to consensus estimate of uniquely contentious subject." "But for the compactness founded upon wide research, it is admirable." Literary Review "Carrying already an enviable reputation as the leading authority on Lloyd George's complex relationship with the British labour movement, Professor Wrigley now moves throught the whole span of his subject's career, from the era of Gladstonian Liberalism to the crises of the Second World War, with assuredness and insight. A thorough command of the existing secondary literature is complemented by the skilled use of illustrative material from primary sources." "A great strength of this slim volume is its accessibility, it can be read with profit by the under-graduate audience for whom it is designed." History "This book is a comprehensive biographical essay which surveys all aspects of Lloyd George's career. An historical introduction is followed by five chapters which successfully combine thematic and chronological approaches to the statesman's life." "This is a reliable, balanced and well-written book, giving a good overview of recent research." "An excellent introductin for students." David PowellTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. The Welsh Nonconformist Politician. 3. From Old Style Radical to New Liberal. 4. From 'Pro-Boer' to 'The Man Who Won the War'. 5. A Fit World and a Fit Land to Live in?. 6. Lloyd George and the Liberal Party. 7. The Welsh Wizard. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisProviding a close examination of Milton''s wide-ranging prose and poetry at each stage of his life, Barbara Lewalski reveals a rather different Milton from that in earlier accounts. Provides a close analysis of each of Milton''s prose and poetry works. Reveals how Milton was the first writer to self consciously construct himself as an ''author''. Focuses on the development of Milton''s ideas and his art. Trade Review"Lewalski's is easily the best single-volume life of Milton to date, and it is hard to imagine its being significantly bettered. Every reader will benefit from its insight and compression, and it will be the biography to which I direct my students." Times Higher Education Supplement "Arguably the most readable of modern Milton biographies, it reshapes our understanding of Milton the man, the thinker, political and religious activist, husband, parent, friend ...it is certain to be a classic among Milton studies" Reference Reviews "The Life of John Milton . . . combines lucidity with its formidable erudition." Terry Eagleton, The Observer Books of the Year, 2001 "A rigorous, up-to-date, yet surprisingly readable account of Milton's life and work… anyone concerned with the poet or the period will have to possess this book." The Independent "[Lewalski] has produced an outstanding biography, one that is reliable and readable. [...] It will be vaulable, not only to Milton specialists and students of English literature but to anyone who wants to learn about Milton's life and work." Virginia Quarterly Review "Lewalski's volume is immensely useful. In the process of discussing Milton's life and works, she gives the reader a believable figure facing major events and also the everyday business of moving through life. Such an appealing and readbale portrayal is welcome." Renaissance Quarterly "As a biography of Milton, Lewalski's Life is likely to remain the definitive work for decades to come." Church Times "The Life of John Milton is the magnum opus of Barbara K Lewalski, one of the leading Miltonists of the past half-century. [...] As an introduction to Milton's life and work it is likely to remain unequalled for years to come - that rare thing, a work of reference to be read with profit and pleasure from cover to cover." MLR "Her achievements scarcely need endorsement. Unsurprising, she once more surefootedly picks her way through the polemical prose while writing richly about the major poetry." Milton QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Plates. Preface. Acknowledgments. List of Abbreviations. 1. ‘The childhood shews the man" (1608-1625). 2. "To Cambridge . . . for seven years" (1625-1632). 3. "Studious Retirement": Hammersmith and Horton (1632-1638). 4. "I became desirous . . . of seeing foreign parts, especially Italy" (1638-1639). 5. "All mouths were opened against . . . the bishops" (1639-1642). 6. "Domestic or Personal Liberty" (1642-1645). 7. "Service . . . Between Private Walls" (1645-1649). 8. "The so-called Council of State . . . desired to employ my services" (1649- 1652). 9. "Tireless . . . for the sake of Liberty" (1652-1654). 10. "I . . . still bear up and steer/ Right onward" (1654-1658). 11 "The last words of our expiring libertie" (1658-1660). 12 "In darknes, and with dangers compast round" (1660-1665). 13. "Higher Argument": Completing and Publishing Paradise Lost (1665-1669). 14. "To try, and teach the erring Soul" (1669-1674). Epilogue: "Something ... Written to Aftertimes.". Notes. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisFew English monarchs have a worse reputation than Mary Tudor. She has been seen both as a religious fanatic who tried against the will of her people to reverse the course of the Reformation and as the pawn of her husband, Philip II of Spain - her infatuation with whom led her to betray England''s vital interests. How this pious, and by contemporary accounts, gentle woman aroused an antipathy that survives until the present is a central question in David Loades''s sensitive biography, now in paperback. Based on research into the documents of the time (many newly uncovered) the compelling story of Mary''s life is revealed here in unprecedented detail and depth, packed with incident and intrigue, and enmeshed in the politics of secular and religious struggle in England and Europe.Trade Review"Loades manages the difficult feat of being both a sensitive portrait of a woman treated abominably by her father, and a cool estimation of the religious persecutions she initiated as a result. A sad but not unsympathetic book." (The Week, January 2009) "An excellent and sensitive biography." (Observer) "A weighty achievement." (Times Educational Supplement) "A stimulating and scholarly reappraisal of Mary's career ... Without resurrecting the black legend, he illuminates the shortcomings of an historical figure who was 'a good woman, but an ill Queen'." (Spectator) "Loades has written by far the best biography of the queen to date. He has created a deeply moving and penetrating human story in which the lesser characters retain their verity and are gracefully integrated into a drama that is, as the author says, 'pure tragedy'." (American Historical Review) "David Loades's brisk and unsentimental account is therefore welcome." (The English Historical Review)Table of ContentsPreface. Abbreviations. Glossary. Map of Estates granted to Mary in 1547. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Token of Hope (1516-1525). 2. The 'Princess of Wales' (1525-1533). 3. Disgrace and Rehabilitation (1533-1547). 4. The Conservative Magnate (1547-1553). 5. 'Annus Mirabilis' (1553-1554). 6. Philip and Mary (1554-1557). 7. Mary and Elizabeth (1557-1558). 8. The Historical Mary. Appendix 1: The Development of Mary's Household (1516-1558). Appendix 2: The New Year Gift List of 1557. Appendix 3: Mary's Will. Bibliographical Abbreviations. References and Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisGenghis Khan was the founder of the Mongol Empire, the largest continuous land empire ever. On his death in 1227, this extended from the Near East to the Yellow Sea, and was expanded by his successors to include what is now Iran, Iraq and southern Russia. He then launched his assault on Northern China. This book tells his story.Trade Review"This may well be the definitive biography of Genghis Khan" Library Journal "But for Paul Ratchnevsky this corner of history would remain largely unavailable to the West. The debt to the author is enhanced by Thomas Haining's splendid and untiring work in rendering the original book into English." Times Higher Education Supplement "If anyone could bring us close to the mystery of Genghis Khan's achievements, it was the late Paul Ratchnevsky." London Review of Books "The translation is excellent. Mr Haining is to be congratulated on his contribution to what is in many respects an improvement even on Ratchnevsky's splendid work." Royal Asiatic Society "The most significant post-war study of Genghis Khan. Ratchnevsky had exemplary linguistic and historiographical skills enabling him to draw on a very wide range of original sources. Thomas Nivison Haining, the translator and editor of the English version, has done a fine job in trimming the notes while maintaining their principal import, to produce a work of value both for the informed general reader and for specialists." Asian Affairs "This is the most exciting book I have read for a long time ... A book that no serious Mongolist should be without. The general reader will find it absorbing and informative." The Anglo Mongolian Society NewsletterTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Editorial Foreword. Preface. 1. The Origins and Boyhood Years of Genghis Khan (Temuchin). 2. Rise to Supremacy on the Steppe. 3. Genghis Khan: Ruler of the Mongol Empire. 4. Personality and Achievements. 5. The Structure of the World Mongol Empire. Abbreviations. Notes. Glossary. Main Personalities. Dynamic Tables. Chronology. Map of Campaigns. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive and fully documented study of the Empress Matilda to be published in English. Much of the serious work on her life and historical importance has never been translated from German, and almost all has concentrated on the years of her struggle with Stephen for the English crown. This book examines her career as a whole, including the years as consort of the Emperor Henry V and as regent in Normandy for her son Henry II. It illustrates the problems of female succession in the early twelfth century, and gives a balanced assessment of Matilda''s character and achievements in the context of her own times.Trade Review"The first serious study of the career of the Empress Matilda ... Dr Chibnall's aim, ably achieved, has been to reconstruct the outline of Matilda's life, place her in the society and politics of the age, and form an assessment of her character." Times Literary Supplement "A formidable book about a formidable woman ... based on an extremely thorough understanding of the sources and casts a broad beam of light on the twelfth century." Journal of Ecclesiastical History "Very satisfying ... written with lucidity and force ... a very valuable addition to the corpus of core texts for any student of Norman and Angevin England." History "The intention of this book, is to examine Matilda's role in Anglo-Norman history and, as a female heir to the throne, in the history of feudal society. Marjorie Chibnall not only achieves this aim but surpasses it. This is a full biography of a twelfth-century woman who was in the center of power throughout her life and who served in both traditional and nontraditional female roles. It furthers our understanding of the person and of the political history of the Anglo-Norman kingdom. It also is a beautifully written book, one accessible to both scholar and student." Speculum "This is a biography that is both scholarly and readable." English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Foreword. Genealogical Tables. 1. Great by Birth. 2. Greater by Marriage. 3. Political Inheritance. 4. Disputed Succession. 5. Lady of the English. 6. Lordship and Governance in a Divided Realm. 7. Greatest in her Offspring. 8. Personal Patronage. 9. The Empress in History. Bibliography of Abbreviated Titles. Index.

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Book SynopsisChristine Shawa s new biography uses a wealth of archival sources to paint a vivid portrait of one of the most remarkable and colourful men ever to sit on the papal throne. Admired and hated, his actions were always controversial and made him one of the most influential figures in Renaissance Italy.Trade Review"The 'Papa terribile' - notorious, Giucciardini wrote, for 'his very difficult nature', and 'for the magnificence with which he always outshone all others' - is at last the subject of a serious study in English, thanks to Christine Shaw's Julius II: The Warrior Pope (Oxford: Blackwell; pp. 360. #35). Guiliano della Rovere (cardinal, 1471-1503; pope, 1503-13) was for over forty years a dominant figure, and it must have taken a touch of his own intrepidity, much admired by Machiavelli, to have undertaken this biography. Shaw has done it mainly by means of chronological political narrative; she offers much new information derived from diplomatic correspondence and many revisions and reassessments. On the whole, she presents her hero as a rather greyer figure than the dissolute, hyper-aggressive egomaniac portrayed satirically by Erasmus and other contemporaries. In her view, Giuliano's overriding concern was for his and his uncle Pope Sixtus IV's upstart Ligurian family, in particular the career as a secular prince of his brother Giovanni della Rovere, Prefect of Rome, whose son Francesco Maria became by good fortune Duke of Urbino. The discussion of Giuliano's political intrigues and movements as a cardinal is probably the most original part of the book, covering the period with which the author is most familiar; she demonstrates that much of his energy was spent opposing his secular cousin, Girolamo Riario, who often outwitted him (and Shaw here distances herself from historians who have justified nepotism as a method of making papal government work, by pointing out that relatives did not necessarily co-operate). At all events, dynastic interest dictated the support received by rebellious Neapolitan barons and ambitious French kings from Giuliano, whom Shaw generally calls 'Vincula', a contemporary nick-name from his title church in Rome, which may confuse modern readers. Among other interesting letters cited are those from the Sforza ambassador at Turin in 1496, which reveal Giuliano's costly attempts to arrange a new French invasion which would have helped Giovanni's interests and also liberated their native Liguria from Milanese control. Later, the claims of the papal lordship combined with della Rovere interest to shape Julius's priorities or enmities, first anti-Venetian, then anti-French and anti-'barbarian'. But Giuliano-Julius never intended any grandiose parallel between himself and Julius Caesar, Shaw argues; no such idea was behind his choice of name as pope, and (apart possibly from the two medals struck after the submissions of Bologna in 1506) such Caesaro-papism was just the stock-in-trade of artists and humanists; it did not emanate from the Pope himself. Indeed, despite the book's subtitle, and Shaw's suggestion (unproven) that Julius would have liked to be a military man by profession rather than a priest in the Franciscan Order, he does not even emerge as a notable warrior: unsuccessful as a military legate in the 1470s, he never appointed a really first-rate commander, and, paradoxically he owed most of his victories to French armies or finally, in 1512, Spaniards and Swiss. It is a pity that the opportunity is missed to explore 'the very difficult nature' and the enigmatic intellect of Julius. Shaw once describes him as 'a figure of fun' (p. 50) and in conclusion, lamely, as 'the type of the plain-spoken, big-hearted man of action'. She acknowledges that he drank a lot, and that he was sexually active in his younger years (little seems to be known, unfortunately, about his daughter), but is dismissive about his supposed homosexuality: Alidosi was a favourite principally because he knew how to manage and humour his patron. If there is not much presence in the book of Julius's physicality, his foul-mouthedness and violence, there is little investigation in depth, either, of his reading and his urge to commission works of great art. Nevertheless, there are some fascinating and unexpected intimations of a gentler side, contrasting with the terribilita; his love of gazing at the sea and at passing ships when at Ostia, his readiness to fish in Lake Trasimeno or to quote from Virgil when on military expedition to Perugia and Bologna in 1506. The book includes twenty-eight black and white illustrations, succinct end-notes, bibliography and index; unfortunately it lacks a genealogical table of the della Rovere-Riario clan. EHR "Giuliano della Rovere became a cardinal in 1474 through the nepotism of his uncle, Pope Sixtus IV. However, as a result of his rather mediocre accomplishments as papal legate and the rivalry of other papal nipoti, the figure pope never enjoyed a commanding position of influence during his uncle's pontificate. His influence increased under the next pope, Innocent VIII, but then plummeted during the pontificate of the Borgia pope, Alexander VI, which he spent for the most part as an exile in France. After the short pontificate of Pius III, Giuliano became pope in 1503, taking the name Julius II. As pope his primary concern was the restoration of the temporal power of the papacy in Italy. A successful restoration meant confrontation, first with the ruling families of semi-independent papal cities, and secondly with Venice, which continued to nibble at papal possessions in the Marche and the Romangna. As a result, Julius became the warrior pope. He confronted the Baglioni of Perugia and the Bentivoglio of Bologna in 1506 and joined the League of Cambrai against Venice in 1508. After peace with Venice in 1510 he turned against his former ally, France, and joined the Holy League in 1511 for the purpose of driving the 'barbarians' from Italy. Following his death in 1513 Giucciardini condemned him for his willingness to spill Christian blood to increase the temporal power of the papacy; however, the world is probably willing to forgive the patron of Bramante, Raphael, and Michaelangelo. Christine Shaw states that because of his patronage of the arts, his attention to Italian politics, and his neglect of spiritual matters, Julius II was the epitome of a Renaissance Pope. Shaw's biography is sympathetic towards Julius II without being an apology for him. It is competent and readable, but at times the detail is overwhelming. It is not a book for the novice. She plunges into the intricacies of papal politics and diplomacy and does not surface until mid-way through the book with two excellent chapters on the papal court and Julius's patronage of the arts. After this breather, she plunges on anew until his death, almost ending in mid-sentence. A bare two pages of assessment serve as a conclusion. Her greatest contribution is her archival work that reveals many aspects of Giuliano della Rovere's career as a cardinal. This part of the biography comprises 120 pages of the text, while the pontificate receives less than 200 pages. The dust jacket states that Shaw's biography of Julius is the first 'in any language to be based on an extensive use of archival sources'. This is misleading, for volume VI of Ludwig Pastor's 40-volume History of the Popes devotes 400 pages to the pontificate of Julius II, including 150 on his patronage of the arts. Shaw's biography is a valuable contribution, but it is not yet time to discard a treasured set of Pastor. Parergon "Christine Shaw's biography is the first to be based on extensive use of archival sources, including the reports of those who negotiated with him or closely observed him. The early part of the book devotes much space to detailed (and sometimes tedious) narratives of military campaigns and political alliances. But these were at the heart of Julius' enterprise; he was convinced that he would strengthen and serve the church best by securing the independence of the papal states. He devoted his life to this cause and even as pope conducted some of his campaigns in person. It was the sight of Pope Julius entering Bologna at the head of his troops that prompted Erasmus' bitter satire Julius Exclusus. He portrayed Julius arriving at the gates of heaven with his troops and being denied entry by his predecessor, St Peter. Shaw has some interesting sections on Julius as patron of the arts, commissioning some of the most famous works of the Renaissance: the Sistine Chapel painted by a reluctant Michelangelo, the Vatican Stanze by Raphael, and the new St Peter's by Bramante. But patronage costs money, and money had to be raised by a network of benefices and sale of offices. The young Martin Luther visited Rome in 1510, and saw for himself the gap between the political/artistic and the pastoral priorities of the Roman Curia. The fifth Lateran Council (1512) called for reform, but Julius failed to give it effective backing. He died the following year, ill and lonely, deserted by his courtiers and time-servers. Shaw succeeds in presenting a portrait of 'a plain spoken, short tempered, vigorous, impetuous, man of action', but a prince-warrior rather than the religious leader of a Christendom in need of renewal." History Today " Distinguished by enthusiasm, restraint, painstaking research and lucid exposition of the labyrinthine politics of Renaissance Rome and Italy, a delight to read." Times Literary Supplement " The first book-length biography of Pope Julius to make substantial use of archival sources for fruitful research." Renaissance StudiesTable of ContentsAbbreviations. Introduction: The Renaissance Papacy. 1. The Papal Nephew. 2. The Power Beside the Throne. 3. Exile. 4. The Election. 5. The Patrimony of the Church. 6. The Papal Court. 7.'Julius Caesar Pontifex II'?. 8. The League of Cambrai. 9.'Fuori i Barbara'. 10. Il Papa Terribile. Sources and Select Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisProvides up-to-date assessment of one of the key figures in modern European history. Includes new chapters on Bismarck and militarism, and on Bismarck as chancellor. Substantially expanded throughout to take account of recent historiography.Table of Contents1. Birth, School and Early Years, 1815-1847. 2. Realpolitik. 3. Bismarck and German Unification. 4. Bismarck, the Nation and the Constitution. 5. Imperial Foreign Policy. 6. Bismarck, the Catholics and the Workers: the Limits of Power. 7. The Social and Economic Interpretation of German History. 8. Bismarck, Militarism and the Military. 9. Bismarck: the Chancellor at Home in the Seventies and Eighties. 10. Assessment References and Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisaeoProvides a fresh and provocative assessment of one of the leading figures of British history. aeo Interweaves interpretative narrative of Cornwalla s life with an in--depth assessment of his long--term historical narrative. aeo Draws from original source material throughout, explaining the difficulties faced in handling contemporary evidence.Trade Review"Clearly written, well organized and suffused with human interest, this new study will prove deservedly popular in sixth forms and university courses." History "This book is as disciplined, vivid and vigorous as the man it celebrates. Gaunt offers a convincing interpretation of Cromwell's life and a shrewd assessment of his achievement." John Morrill, Vice Master and Reader in Early Modern History, Selwyn College, Cambridge "A carefully written and well argued account." The Times "A new and controversial account of one of the pivotal figures in British history. This scholarly account is nonetheless interesting and informative." Rachel Dickinson, Waterstone's, Richmond, in The Bookseller "A concise but thick-textured and comprehensive reconsideration of a character, a career, a life and a reputation, making no claim to be definitive - each generation commands its own reappraisal - but ensured of an enduring place in the historiography." Ivan Roots, Cromwelliana "Serious and well researched." The Sunday Times "Oliver Cromwell is a superb and scholarly biography, and essential reading for any definitive study of 17th century British and Irish history. Midwest Book Review "The strength of Peter Gaunt's book is that it integrates Cromwell's military and political careers and deals seriously and sensitively with his religion. It is also well written. In his handling of Cromwell's battlefield exploits, Gaunt is superior to virtually all other recent biographers ... Gaunt has written the most useful biography since C. H. Firth's Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans appeared in 1900." AlbionTable of ContentsPreface. List of Maps. Part I: Introduction:. 1. The Man and the Myth. Pert II: The Life and Career:. 2. Early Life, 1599-1642. 3. The First Civil War, 1642-46. 4. Politics and the Army, 1646-49. 5. Enemies and Divisions, 1649-53. 6. Head of State , 1653-58. Part III: Conclusions:. 7. The Faces of Cromwell. Select Bibliography. Notes. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is an historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught on Rome during the Punic Wars. The book offers a perspective on this complex and turbulent period in the demise of the Hellenistic world and the rise of Rome.Trade Review"Lancel's new study should remain for some time to come the best treatment in English focusing on Hannibal specifically. Eminently readable and with a chronological chart and maps, Hannibal will appeal to readers at all levels." Choice "Hannibal combines readability with solid scholarship. Lancel's particular strength is his close acquaintance with things Carthaginian. He has excavated there and is the author of a history of the city which is also available in English. This competence means that, in so far as the source material will allow it, he is able to write from a sympathetic Punic perspective." Greece and RomeTable of ContentsList of Figures. Foreword. Glossary. 1. Hamilcar Barca. 2. Time for Spain. 3. From Cartagena to the Po Valley. 4.'Blitzkrieg' - from the Trebia to Cannae. 5. Declining Fortunes. 6. Setbacks. 7. Zama. 8. Exile. 9. Heritage, Legend and Image. Chronological Highlights. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a historical biography of Hannibal, the military leader of Carthage responsible for waging a dramatic onslaught against Rome during the Punic Wars, and one of the most fascinating figures of ancient history. It is told from a pro-Hannibal, rather than pro-Roman, perspective.Trade Review"Lancel's new study should remain for some time to come the best treatment in English focusing on Hannibal specifically. Eminently readable and with a chronological chart and maps, Hannibal will appeal to readers at all levels." Choice "Hannibal combines readability with solid scholarship. Lancel's particular strength is his close acquaintance with things Carthaginian. He has excavated there and is the author of a history of the city which is also available in English. This competence means that, in so far as the source material will allow it, he is able to write from a sympathetic Punic perspective." Greece and RomeTable of ContentsList of Figures. Foreword. Glossary. 1. Hamilcar Barca. 2. Time for Spain. 3. From Cartagena to the Po Valley. 4.'Blitzkrieg' - from the Trebia to Cannae. 5. Declining Fortunes. 6. Setbacks. 7. Zama. 8. Exile. 9. Heritage, Legend and Image. Chronological Highlights. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisBrings together seminal articles on Oliver Cromwell and the Interregnum. * Illuminates the personality of Cromwell and his achievements. * Includes treatments of Ireland and Scotland alongside discussion of England. * Editorial material introduces students to the historiographical issues. .Trade Review"Here are eight of the best essays of the past twenty years on Oliver Cromwell in power. The collection is enhanced by David Smith's lucid and comprehensive introduction summarizing the current historiography on politics and religion during the Interregnum." --Ian Gentles, Glendon College, Toronto "This collection of important articles on the 1650s will be a boon to everyone interested in discovering more about the history of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, as will the editor's introduction, which is a splendid guide to many important themes of the history of that period." --Barry Coward, Birkbeck College, LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Editor's Introduction. 1. Oliver Cromwell, the Regicide and the Sons of Zeruiah (John Morrill, University of Cambridge and Philip Baker, Associate Editor, The New Dictionary of National Biography). 2. Oliver Cromwell and the Sin of Achan (Blair Worden, University of Sussex). 3. The Cromwellian Protectorate: A Military Dictatorship? (Austin Woolrych, University of Lancaster). 4. 'The Single Person's Confidants and Dependents'? Oliver Cromwell and his Protectoral Councilors (Peter Gaunt, University College, Chester). 5. Oliver Cromwell and the Localities: The Problem of Consent (Anthony Fletcher). 6. Cromwell’s Religion (Colin Davis, University of East Anglia). 7. Oliver Cromwell, the First Protectorate Parliament and Religious Reform (David L. Smith, University of Cambridge). 8. Cromwell, Scotland and Ireland (David Stevenson, University of St. Andrews). Timeline. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is a biography of Eleanor of Provence. It draws on the rich sources available, to reveal the interaction of the private and public facets of the queen's life, the cultural and spiritual influences to which she responded and the character of her queenship.Trade Review"Margaret Howell's thought provoking study of King Henry III's queen, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England, has come as a welcome, timely and much needed addition ... Margaret Howell's carefully researched volume has finally allowed Eleanor of Provence to emerge as one of the most important and dominating figures in English political life during her husband's reign." Reviews in History "Margaret Howell has written a supremely good book ... in its broad and humane sympathies, as well as in its contribution to political history, this is a book that could hardly have been better done." Times Literary Supplement "Howell's reassessment of Eleanor's role in 13th-century politics and her approach to the study of queenship make this impressively researched work of import to scholars. Her readable and primarily narrative style should nonetheless appeal to a wider audience." Times Higher Education Supplement "Howell's study of one of England's most long-lived queens is thoroughly delightful, engaging, and grounded in impressive scholarship." Choice "A scholarly and very readable biography" American Historical Review "In this deeply researched and well-written work, Howell gives, in telling detail, the life of the queen and her place in the larger events of her time ... Above all, given that counselors played as large a part as they did in Henry's reign, Howell has written a compelling and illuminating account of one counselor who has been too often overlooked, Henry's Queen." SpeculumTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. Preface. List of Abbreviations. Note on Money. 1. Childhood, Marriage and Coronation. 2. The Young Queen. 3. Queen's Men and King's Men. 4. The Queen's Life-Style. 5. Queen Regent. 6. Faction. 7. Revolution. 8. Reaction. 9. War. 10. A Troubled Peace. 11. Queenship: Image, Practice and Resources. 12. Queen Mother. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisW.B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.Trade Review"For general readers and undergraduates, Brown's is the best choice. Brown's excellent biography is highly recommended for all readership levels."Choice "This is a wonderful critical history, meticulously providing a full context in time and place for all of Yeats's writings."The Sunday Tribune Brown is especially good at showing how Yeats constructed his volumes of poetry as a 'work in progress', and at rooting his acheivements in the venemous politics of Dublin culture wars."New York Times Book Review "The work is fascinating and a pleasure to read, Brown an illuminating and companiable guide."John McGahern, The Irish Times "One of the many splendid qualities of Terence Brown's recent biography is its critical appreciation of the poet's extraordinary cultural accomplishments within the broader context of a brilliantly rendered political and social history of modern Ireland. "Brown's book is nonetheless the finest single-volume biography of the Irish poet since the publication of Richard Ellmann's seminal Yeats: The Man and the Masks in 1948." Reason "Exceptional!!!!" Today's Books Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. Preface and Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Prologue: Sindbad's Yellow Shore. 1. Victorian Cities: London and Dublin. 2. The English 1890s. 3. Poems 1895. 4. Conflicts and Crises. 5. Patronage and Powers. 6. An Irish Ireland. 7. The Strong Enchanter. 8. The Mid-Life Mask. 9. Darkened Rooms. 10. The Lonely Height. 11. All Changed. 12. Occult Marriage. 13. The Weasel's Tooth. 14. Senator and Seer. 15. Visionary Modernist. 16. Home and Abroad. 17. An Old Man's Frenzy. 18. Stroke of Midnight. Epilogue: Afterlife. Works Cited. Select Bibliography and Guide to Further Reading. Index.

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Book SynopsisManetti (13961459) was a leading humanist biographer of the Renaissance. This voulme brings together his biographies of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, which helped establish the canon of Italian literature, and his parallel lives of Socrates and Senecathe standard biographical sources for those philosophers throughout the early modern period.

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Book SynopsisLincoln Prize winner Harris turns to the last months of Lincoln’s life in an attempt to penetrate this central figure of the Civil War, and arguably America’s greatest president. Lincoln’s ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation.Trade ReviewThough the reader knows exactly what will happen to Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, 1865, William C. Harris brings nail-biting tension, along with heartbreaking pathos and insightful historical analysis, to the story of Lincoln's final days. This is masterful story-telling and gripping history. -- Harold Holzer, Co-chairman, US Lincoln Bicentennial CommissionJust as his prize-winning book on Lincoln and Reconstruction revised our understanding of that subject, here William C. Harris finds much that is fresh, insightful, and important to say about the last months of Lincoln's life. Students of Lincoln and the Civil War will want this book on their shelves. -- Michael Holt, author of Rise and Fall of the American Whig PartyThere are few neglected subjects in the field of Lincolniana, but Professor Harris has found one--the last five months of Abraham Lincoln's life. He offers readers a thoroughly researched and fair-minded historical evaluation of the beginning of Lincoln's second presidential term, restoring a sense of indeterminacy to a surprisingly revealing period that has too often been sacrificed to the dramas of Appomattox and assassination. -- Mark E. Neely, Jr., author of The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of AmericaLincoln's Last Months shows in clear and fascinating detail how the embattled Civil War president was able, in the final six months of his life, to contend with a seemingly overwhelming array of military and political problems. -- Douglas L. Wilson, Lincoln Studies Center, Knox CollegeHarris's important and revealing study shows that during these last months the President exhibited his greatest mastery, both as a political leader and a military strategist. This fine book is admirable for the depth of its research and for the judiciousness of its interpretations. It is one of the half-dozen books on Lincoln published in the last decade that must be read by every student of the American Civil War. -- David Herbert Donald, Charles Warren Professor of American History Emeritus, Harvard UniversityHarris provides detail that has been paraphrased or neglected by other biographers...In even-tempered, observant prove, [he] ably organizes his facts into a presentation that even veteran Lincoln readers will appreciate as fresh. -- Gilbert Taylor * Booklist *This is a first-rate monograph for which Harris has done diligent spadework. This Lincoln isn't the sentimentalized or melancholy saint or savior, but a proficient, inventive, even cheerful administrator, dealing with diplomatic detail (chiefly with the British over Canada), naval technology and patronage squabbles in such key states as New York. Harris also provides a fresh retelling of the story of Lincoln's murder and martyrdom. -- Edwin M. Yoder Jr. * Washington Post Book World *Like viewers of the old "Columbo" TV mystery series, readers of this book will know in advance exactly what will happen to the principal subject on April 14, 1865, and precisely who will be responsible for the crime. The enjoyment comes from watching as the star, in this case author William C. Harris, weaves a complex tapestry of revealing insights to illuminate his subject. In this accomplished new book we observe a president devoting his last months to concluding America's most bitter war 'with malice toward none,' while his enemies are concurrently, dangerously swearing vengeance and violence...Serious students of the field will want—and need—to add this invaluable, well researched, and well crafted book to their libraries. -- Harold Holzer * North & South *This is a useful Lincoln book in large part because of the way it is defined...By isolating the last months for careful study, William Harris brings this most important chapter of Lincoln's life out from the shadow of the assassination and into the sunlight of concentrated sequential attention...Throughout the telling of these heavily charged events, the author brings a valuable assembling of comments from a variety of public figures, literary figures, and the press...The author deals with the much-misrepresented story of the assassination with brief, quiet authority and has gathered some good items from the response to it...Add this book to your Lincoln library. -- William Lee Miller * Civil War History *

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Book SynopsisFedor Chizhov built the first railroad owned entirely by Russian stockholders, created Moscow's first bank and mutual credit society, and launched the first profitable steamship line based in Archangel. In this valuable book, Thomas Owen vividly illuminates the life and world of this seminal figure in early Russian capitalism.Trade ReviewThomas C. Owen is a leading scholar of Russian economic history, and this book is in line with his previous works on the Moscow merchantry, tsarist corporate law, and the evolution of Russian corporations… This book should be of interest to scholars concerned with theories of economic growth derived from Joseph Schumpeter (entrepreneurial dynamism) and Max Weber (Protestantism)… Owen’s outstanding biography of a tsarist industrialist and ideologist of economic development sheds light on one of the most vital processes in the history not only of Russia but of the entire modern world. -- Steven G. Marks * American Historical Review *Provides a fascinating insight into the economy, politics and culture on Russia in the period following the Crimean War. Owen integrates the genre of biography with a thorough analysis of economic ideas, political and legal institutions. The volume is a valuable contribution to the debate on how economic and cultural institutes form economic performance and business culture, and to the studies on economic nationalism as well. -- Agnes Pogany * Business History *Owen’s knowledge of corporate practices and intricacies of doing business in nineteenth-century Russia is without peer… [H]e has written a valuable biographical work that will appeal to economic and business historians interested in the Tsarist economy, corporate practices in nineteenth-century Europe, and the ways in which institutional inadequacies may undermine the efforts of the entrepreneurial classes. -- Steven Nafziger * EH.net *Owen relies heavily for his documentation on the unpublished diary of Chizhov, over three thousand handwritten pages, in the Manuscript Division of the Russian National Library (formerly the Lenin Library). He also draws from his own immense electronic database compiled over the past three decades. This makes it possible for him to provide an unparalleled analysis of the financial side of Chizhov’s operations… [W]e are unlikely ever to have a more comprehensive picture of a Russian businessman in the nineteenth century than this, due in part to Owen’s efforts and in part to Chizhov himself, who was, after all, incomparable. -- Alfred Rieber * Journal of Modern History *Over the course of his career, Thomas C. Owen has established himself as this country’s foremost specialist on Russian entrepreneurial history and has set a high standard for meticulous scholarship… Owen’s mastery of his craft leaves little for a reviewer to quibble over… Owen’s study represents a revealing chapter in the intellectual history of Russian economic nationalism. The many paradoxes inherent in Chizhov’s ‘Slavophile capitalism’ provide valuable perspective on subsequent, as well as contemporary, attempts to chart a ‘Russian Way’ to economic modernity. -- James L. West * Slavic Review *A work of great erudition. Drawing on the unpublished diary of Fedor Chizhov, Thomas Owen brings to life a key figure in the economic and intellectual world of pre-revolutionary Russia. He sheds light on the difficulty for tsarist rulers of managing a large, multi-ethnic empire at a time of growing economic challenges from western European states. Written in a lucid, readable, and often vivid style, this is an important contribution to our knowledge of business and politics in nineteenth-century Europe. -- Peter Gatrell, University of ManchesterA fine combination of biography, business history, and intellectual history. Through the life and activities of Fedor Chizhov, Owen delves deeply into the businesses, financial practices, and entrepreneurial difficulties of one of the most important and successful business leaders in tsarist Russia during the reform era after the Crimean War. In the process he grapples with one of the most significant and vexing questions in Russian history: why were there so few Russian entrepreneurs? His analysis of Chizhov’s entrepreneurship is the richest, most detailed account of a Russian businessman in any language. -- Jonathan A. Grant, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Author's Note Introduction: Biography and Business History 1. The Search for a Vocation From Mathematics to Romantic Nationalism Arrest and Internal Exile Personality and Entrepreneurship 2. Economic Nationalism in Theory Economic Journalism in the Era of the Great Reforms Corporate Capitalism and Railroads Tariff Protection for Domestic Industries: German Theories and Russian Realities The Origins of Slavophile Capitalism 3 Economic Nationalism in Practice The Trinity Railroad The First Banks in Moscow The Moscow-Kursk Railroad The Archangel-Murmansk Steamship Company 4. Chizhov's Legacy Limits to Success Merchants and Gentry as Corporate Entrepreneurs The Political Context: Military-Autocratic Rule Unresolved Dilemmas Conclusion: The Death of Fedor Vasilievich Notes Bibliographical Essay Index

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Book SynopsisNone of the founding fathers of America equals the candor of John Adams' observations of his eighteenth-century world. This title features Adams' letters that reveal his positions on the personalities and issues of his times.

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Book SynopsisGrace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek’s leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his response to imperialism to those of Mao, Yuan Shikai, and Mahatma Gandhi, Huang widens the implications of her findings to explore alternatives to Western expressions of nationalism and modernity.Trade ReviewBy elucidating Chiang from within a Chinese cultural frame, Huang makes a genuine contribution to studies of Chiang Kai-shek available in English…Informative and thought-provoking. It decisively moves away from the question of whether Chiang failed to stand up to Japan or in fact saved China—the question that has dominated studies of Chiang for nearly eight decades now. She is no doubt right that Chiang sustained and amplified a narrative of humiliation that faded under Mao but which Beijing once again finds useful to promote its agenda. -- Hans van de Ven * China Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisGruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam. However, as Johnson shows here, it's Gruening's sixty-year public career in its entirety that provides an opportunity for historians to explore continuity and change in dissenting thought in twentieth-century America.Trade ReviewJohnson studies Gruening's long career as a dissenter, which began in 1921 when he ardently opposed keeping American marines in Haiti...Johnson is sensitive to Gruening's principles but remains clear-eyed about both the policy issues and his subject's less likeable traits. The book proves how the U. S. Senate can be the ideal perch for mavericks and dissenters outside the political mainstream who want to retain a public voice. A model for how to write a congressional biography. * Foreign Affairs *There's no question that Ernest Gruening deserves a biography, [and] there's no question that Johnson has written a fine, penetrating life of Gruening. 'Definitive' is a word most of us shy away from, but Johnson has written so well, so comprehensively, and so understandingly about Gruening that it doesn't seem likely that another biography will be needed...A fine work. The research is really impressive. It's clear, interesting, well-done. -- John Milton Cooper, Jr., University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsThe progressive impulse; the anti-imperialist impulse; the dilemmas of progressivism; the dilemmas of anti-imperialism; the Alaskan agenda; the Washington agenda; the dilemmas of dissent; the limits of dissent; the frustrations of dissent.

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Book SynopsisIn John Adams’s last 28 months as a diplomat in Europe, he petitioned to halt British impressment of American sailors, salvaged U.S. credit by contracting two Dutch loans, and finished A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America. He retired to his home but later resumed office as the first vice president of the U.S.

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Book SynopsisThe Qing Empire in the early nineteenth century faced bureaucratic corruption, food shortages, infrastructure decay, domestic rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West. William T. Rowe uses literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary response to this general crisis.

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Book SynopsisLives of the Milanese Tyrants includes biographies of two dukes of Milanthe powerful Filippo Maria Visconti and the mercenary captain Francesco Sforzawritten by the most important Milanese humanist of the early fifteenth century, Pier Candido Decembrio. Both works are translated into English here for the first time from new Latin texts.Trade ReviewIanziti’s extraordinarily accurate and refined translation—based on Massimo Zaggia’s superb edition of the Latin texts—allows the modern reader to thoroughly approach Decembrio’s style and his idea of humanistic biography…There is no doubt that this publication represents one of the best testimonies of the renewed interest in the works of Pier Candido Decembrio, a champion of Italian humanism. -- Natale Vacalebre * Renaissance Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisJosephine Roche (1886-1976) was a progressive activist, New Deal policymaker, and businesswoman. As a pro-labor and feminist member of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, she shaped the founding legislation of the U.S. welfare state and generated the national conversation about health-care policy that Americans are still having today. In this gTrade Review"Muncy offers readers a biography of Progressive woman reformer-entrepreneur Josephine Roche, who has been largely overlooked by historians for her many contributions throughout the 20th century ... [A] fine book."--Choice "Relentless Reformer is a very necessary addition to the reading list of any student of the history of the United States of America. For those of a non-academic nature it is a jolly good read. It takes a worthy place in the comprehensive series Politics and Society in Twentieth-century America."--Don Vincent, Open History Journal "In her exemplary biography, Muncy never flinches from telling us the bad along with the good, drawing a portrait of a whole human being with profound lessons to teach."--Alice Kessler-Harris, Women's Review of Books "A model of biography as social and political history, Relentless Reformer tells the compelling story of one life as it shaped and exemplified a larger public life."--Barbara Melosh, Journal of American History "Muncy set out to return Roche to the prominence she deserves, while at the same time demonstrating how and why women's contributions are often ignored and or forgotten... She succeeded in accomplishing this, while writing an engaging and comprehensive biography."--Katherine G. Aiken, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS IX INTRODUCTION 1 PART I FIRST BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE'S APPRENTICESHIP, 1886-1918 1 Childhood in the West, Education in the East, 1886-1908 13 2 Aspiring Feminist and Social Science Progressive, 1908-1912 26 3 Emergence as a Public Leader, 1912-1913 42 4 Seeking Fundamentals: The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914 64 5 "Part of It All One Must Become": Progressive in Wartime, 1915-1918 79 PART II FIRST TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE'S NEW DEPARTURES, 1919-1932 6 Work and Love in a Progressive Ebb Tide, 1919-1927 97 7 Migrating to a "Totally New Planet": Roche Takes Over Rocky Mountain Fuel, 1927-1928 110 8 "Prophet of a New and Wiser Social Order," 1929-1932 126 PART III SECOND BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: HEIGHT OF ROCHE'S RENOWN, 1933-1948 9 Working with the New Deal from Colorado, 1933-1934 143 10 At the Center of Power: Roche in the New Deal Government, 1934-1939 162 11 Generating a National Debate about Federal Health Policy, 1935-1939 177 12 Unmoored during Wartime, 1939-1945 193 13 Becoming a Cold War Liberal, 1945-1948 211 PART IV SECOND TEMPORARY REVERSAL OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE BUILDS A PRIVATE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE COALFIELDS, 1948-1963 14 Creating "New Values, New Realities" in the Coalfields, 1948-1956 227 15 Democratic Denials and Dissent at the Miners' Welfare Fund, 1957-1963 247 PART V THIRD BURST OF PROGRESSIVE REFORM: ROCHE RECLAIMS THE FULL PROGRESSIVE AGENDA, 1960-1976 16 Challenged and Redeemed by the New Progressivism, 1960-1972 265 17 Only Ten Minutes Left? Epilogue and Assessment 289 ABBREVIATIONS 297 NOTES 299 SELECT PRIMARY SOURCES 375 INDEX 379

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Book SynopsisA collection of Richard Nixon's, America's most controversial president, important writings that demonstrates why he has had such a profound impact on American life. It includes some of the famous addresses in American history, from Nixon's 'Checkers' speech and 'Last Press Conference', to the 'Silent Majority' speech and White House farewell.Trade Review"This selection of Nixon documents is excellent, as is Rick Perlstein's introduction. It gets Nixon right, and it identifies the defining themes of his life and career."—David Greenberg, Rutgers University, author of Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image"Rick Perlstein's Nixon anthology is extremely impressive. Given that Nixon wrote or heavily edited most of his speeches, this collection of representative statements not only sheds much light on Nixon's long public life but it also reveals much about his multifaceted personality. And Perlstein's introduction and notes are insightful and balanced."—Timothy Naftali, author of Blind Spot: The Secret History of American CounterterrorismTable of ContentsIntroduction by Rick Perlstein PART I: Youth CHAPTER 1. From RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (1978) CHAPTER 2. Two letters (1923 and 1924) CHAPTER 3. "Our Privileges under the Constitution" (1929) CHAPTER 4. From the Frank Gannon interviews (1983) PART II: Congress CHAPTER 5. "The Hiss Case--A Lesson for the American People" (Washington, D.C., January 26, 1950) CHAPTER 6. The "Pink Sheet" (California, 1950) CHAPTER 7. The "Checkers Speech" (September 23, 1952) PART III: Vice President CHAPTER 8. "When you go out to shoot rats" (March 13, 1954) CHAPTER 9. The "Kitchen Debate" (Moscow, July 24, 1959) CHAPTER 10. The Great Debate: Kennedy v. Nixon (Chicago, September 26, 1960) PART IV: Comeback CHAPTER 11. "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference" (Los Angeles, November 6, 1962) CHAPTER 12. "The irresponsible tactics of some of the extreme civil rights leaders" (Cincinnati, February 12, 1964) CHAPTER 13. "Appraisal from Manila" (November 4, 1966) CHAPTER 14. "What Has Happened to America?" (Reader's Digest, October 1967) CHAPTER 15. "Asia after Viet Nam" (Foreign Affairs, fall 1967) CHAPTER 16. "The first civil right of every American is to be free from domestic violence" (Republican National Convention, Miami Beach, August 8, 1968) PART V: President CHAPTER 17. "To lower our voices would be a simple thing" (inaugural address, January 20, 1969) CHAPTER 18. "The present welfare system has to be judged a colossal failure" (August 8, 1969) CHAPTER 19. "The great silent majority of my fellow Americans" (November 3, 1969) CHAPTER 20. "The postwar period in international relations has ended" ("State of the World" message, February 18, 1970) CHAPTER 21. Four Vietnam Statements (1970) CHAPTER 22. Two political statements from 1970 CHAPTER 23. "Our best days lay ahead" (August 15, 1971) CHAPTER 24. "One China" (Shanghai, February 24, 1972) CHAPTER 25. "He can undisappear if we want him to" (Oval Office, June 23, 1972) CHAPTER 26. "Her name was Tanya" (Miami Beach Convention Center, August 23, 1972) CHAPTER 27. "There can be no whitewash at the White House" (April 30, 1973) CHAPTER 28. "I am not a crook" (November 17, 1973) CHAPTER 29. "I made clear there was to be no coverup" (April 29, 1974) CHAPTER 30. "My mother was a saint" (August 9, 1974) Index [CREDITS]

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. Goodman has produced, in his latest work, a succinct and vigorous account that combines erudition and an eye for detail with graceful insights."---Barry Strauss, The Wall Street Journal"Martin Goodman, steeped in both Jewish and classical sources, is the most significant historian of Jews and Judaism writing in the UK today, and one of the most significant in the world. As always, Goodman's work is clear, precise, and a pleasure to read."---David Ruben, Jewish Chronicle"The Jewish War rightfully belongs in the biography series of “lives of great religious books.” . . . An exciting and excellent piece of intellectual history. I recommend it without any reservations."---Rivkah Fishman-Duker, Jewish Political Studies Review

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Book SynopsisThe 526 documents printed in this volume run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. During this period Jefferson reviews the extant sources on the 1765 Stamp Act crisis to aid William Wirt, a Patrick Henry scholar; records his largely positive impressions of George Washington; and updates a reading list for law students that he had initially drawn up forty years earlier. In the spring of 1814 Jefferson becomes a trustee of the Albemarle Academy, the earliest direct ancestor of the University of Virginia. He is soon actively involved in planning for its establishment, helping to draft rules for governance of the academy''s trustees and propose funding options, and he lays out an expansive vision for its future as an institution of higher learning. Jefferson also exchanges ideas on collegiate education with such respected scholars as Thomas Cooper and José Corrêa da Serra. Jefferson''s wide-ranging correspondence includes a temperate response to a lengthy letter from Miles King uTable of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method and Apparatus xi Maps xxxix Illustrations xliii Jefferson Chronology 2 1813 To Destutt de Tracy, 28 November 3 From Joseph C. Cabell, 29 November 5 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 29 November 6 To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 30 November 9 To Lafayette, 30 November 13 From Judith Lomax, 30 November 16 From John Clarke, 2 December 16 From John Adams, 3 December 23 From David Ramsay, 3 December 28 From George Hay, 6 December 29 To Alexander von Humboldt, 6 December 29 From Edward Ross, 6 December 32 From Joseph C. Cabell, 8 December 33 To Madame de Tesse, 8 December 33 From Thomas Leiper, 9 December 36 From George Logan, 9 December 38 Account with Reuben Perry, 10 December 44 From John C. Pryor, 10 December 45 From John Barnes, 12 December 46 From Samuel M. Burnside, 13 December 47 From Bela Fosgate, with Note from David Holt, 13 December 48 To Isaac Cox Barnet, 14 December 50 To Valentin de Foronda, 14 December 50 To Francois Andre Michaux, 14 December 52 To Alexis Marie Rochon, 14 December 53 To Andre Thouin, 14 December 54 To Julian Ursin Niemcewicz, 15 December 56 From Horatio G. Spafford, 17 December 57 From Elizabeth Trist, 17 December 59 From Paul Allen, 18 December 63 From John Adams, 19 December 64 From John Devereux DeLacy, 19 December 68 From Sir Egerton Leigh, 19 December 68 From Patrick Gibson, 21 December 69 From John Melish, 21 December 70 From William Champe Carter, 22 December 70 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 22 December 71 To Patrick Gibson, 24 December 72 From Shotwell & Kinder, 24 December 72 From John Adams, 25 December 73 To Mary Lewis, 25 December 78 To Charles Clay, 28 December 79 From Charles Willson Peale, 28 December 79 From Patrick Gibson, 29 December 86 To Philip Mazzei, 29 December 87 To David Bailie Warden, 29 December 90 From David A. Leonard, 30 December 93 Account with William & Reuben Mitchell, [ca. 31 December] 94 1814 To John E. Hall, 1 January 95 To Thomas Leiper, 1 January 96 To Archibald Thweatt, 1 January 99 To Walter Jones, 2 January 100 From Thomas Leiper, 2 January 104 From David A. Leonard, 2 January 105 From Isaac McPherson, 2 January 106 To John Graham, 6 January 107 From Oliver Evans, 7 January, enclosing Oliver Evans's Petition to the United States Congress, [by 28 December 1813] 107 From Robert M. Patterson, 7 January 113 To Charles Clay, 8 January 114 From Patrick Gibson, 8 January 114 To Samuel M. Burnside, 9 January 115 From Charles Clay, 9 January 116 To Louis H. Girardin, 9 January 116 From Thomas Hornsby, 9 January, enclosing Statement by Elizabeth Henderson, 25 December 1813 117 To John Pintard, 9 January 119 From Joseph R. Darnall, 10 January 121 To Walter Jones, 10 January 122 From William Johnson, 12 January 123 To Patrick Gibson, 13 January 123 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 13 January 124 To Thomas Cooper, 16 January 124 To Oliver Evans, 16 January 131 To Joseph C. Cabell, 17 January 133 From Joseph Wheaton, 17 January 135 From William Short, 18 January 135 From Thomas Clark, 19 January 139 From Patrick Gibson, 19 January 141 To David A. Leonard, 20 January 141 To Robert M. Patterson, 20 January 142 To Sir Egerton Leigh, 21 January 143 To John Melish, 21 January 143 From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 January 144 To John Adams, 24 January 146 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 24 January 151 From John Manners, 24 January 152 To Richard Randolph, 25 January 154 To John Staples, 25 January 154 From Mathew Carey, 26 January 155 To Patrick Gibson, 26 January 155 To Joseph Wheaton, 26 January 156 To William Champe Carter, 27 January 157 To John Clarke, 27 January 158 To James Monroe, 27 January 159 From William Cocke, 28 January 160 From Elias Earle, 28 January, enclosing Henry Dearborn's Statement Regarding Elias Earle's Ironworks, 29 March 1812 162 From Robert Mills, 28 January 165 To William Short, 28 January 166 From Horatio G. Spafford, 28 January 169 To John Barnes, 29 January 169 From Oliver Evans, 29 January 170 To Joseph Graham, 29 January 174 To James Lyons, 29 January 174 To Archibald Thweatt, 29 January 175 To Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 176 To Samuel Greenhow, 31 January 178 To Elizabeth Trist, 1 February 178 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 3 February 179 Notes on Account with David Higginbotham, [ca. 3 February] 180 From Jason Chamberlain, 4 February 181 From Samuel Greenhow, 4 February 182 From Joseph C. Cabell, 5 February 184 From Samuel Brown, 8 February 186 From Patrick Gibson, 8 February 188 From John Barnes, 9 February 189 To Mathew Carey, 10 February 190 To Thomas Clark, 10 February 190 To Thomas Cooper, 10 February 190 To Shotwell & Kinder, 10 February 191 From John Barnes, 11 February 192 From Samuel R. Demaree, 13 February 194 From James Madison, 13 February 196 From James Monroe, 14 February 197 From William Bentley, 16 February 198 To Elias Earle, 16 February 199 From Walter Jones, 16 February 200 To James Madison, 16 February 203 To James Madison, 17 February 203 To Robert Mills, 17 February 204 From Richard Randolph, 18 February 204 From Arabella Graham, 20 February 204 From Gideon Granger, 22 February 205 To John Manners, 22 February 207 To John Barnes, 23 February 211 To Patrick Gibson, 23 February 212 To William Short, 23 February 212 From William DuVal, 24 February 213 From Lafayette, 25 February 215 From Patrick Gibson, 26 February 215 From John Barnes, 27 February 215 From John Adams, February 216 From Patrick Gibson, 2 March 222 From John Graham, 2 March 222 From William Short, 3 March 223 From Martin Dawson & Company, 4 March 225 From Elizabeth Trist, 5 March 226 From William Wardlaw, 5 March 228 From Charles Burrall, 6 March 229 From Joseph C. Cabell, 6 March 230 From Martin Dawson & Company, 6 March 231 From Charles Burrall, [7 March] 231 From Thomas Clark, 7 March 232 From George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 7 March 232 From John Barnes, 8 March 233 To Gideon Granger, 9 March 234 To James Madison, 10 March 238 Recommendation of William McClure by Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 240 From Patrick Gibson, 13 March 241 From John E. Hall, 15 March 241 To William Bentley, 16 March 242 To Henry M. Brackenridge, 16 March 242 To Charles Burrall, 16 March 243 To Jason Chamberlain, 16 March 243 To James Madison, 16 March 244 To Henry Muhlenberg, 16 March 244 From Samuel P. Parsons, 16 March 246 To Charles J. Ingersoll, 17 March 247 To Horatio G. Spafford, 17 March 248 To William Wardlaw, 17 March 249 To Louis H. Girardin, 18 March 250 Notes on Napier's Theorem, [ca. 18 March] 253 To James Barbour, 20 March 256 To Thomas Clark, 20 March 256 From Thomas Cooper, 20 March 257 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 20 March 259 To Samuel Pleasants, 20 March 260 From Isaac A. Coles, 21 March 260 To John Barnes, 22 March 261 To John Barnes, 22 March 261 From Charles Burrall, 22 March 262 From David Gelston, 22 March 263 To Patrick Gibson, 22 March 263 From Horatio G. Spafford, 22 March 264 The Founding of the University of Virginia: Albemarle Academy, 1803-1816 264 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 25 March 266 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 25 March 268 From Patrick Gibson, 26 March 268 To George Frederick Augustus Hauto, 26 March 268 To James Madison, 26 March 269 From James J. Pleasants (for Samuel Pleasants), 26 March 270 To William Short, 26 March 271 From Benjamin Galloway, 30 March 272 From Horatio G. Spafford, 30 March 273 From Benjamin Taylor, enclosing Benjamin Taylor's Annotated Drawings of Underwater Mines, [30] March 276 From William Cook, 31 March 280 To Benjamin Smith Barton, 3 April 281 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 3 April 282 To David Gelston, 3 April 282 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 5 April 282 From John Barnes, 5 April 283 From Nicolas G. Dufief, enclosing Account with Nicolas G. Dufief, 6 April 284 From Peter Carr, [received 7 April] 286 From Jose Correa da Serra, 10 April 287 From George Divers, 11 April 288 From Benjamin Smith Barton, 12 April 288 From Bradford & Inskeep, 12 April, enclosing Account with Bradford & Inskeep, 7 April 289 To Patrick Gibson, 12 April 290 From Luis de Onis, 13 April 291 From William Wardlaw, 13 April 292 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 14 April 292 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 15 April 293 From John Barnes, 16 April 294 From Joseph Delaplaine, 16 April 295 To William Shirman, 16 April 297 From Thomas Leiper, 17 April 297 To John H. Cocke, 19 April 300 From John H. Cocke, 19 April 301 To Jose Correa da Serra, 19 April 301 From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 April 302 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 19 April 303 To Benjamin Galloway, 19 April 305 To Samuel P. Parsons, 19 April 306 From Patrick Gibson, 20 April 307 From John Rhea, 20 April 307 From David Gelston, 21 April 307 From Augustus B. Woodward, 21 April 308 From Augustus B. Woodward, 22 April 308 From Hugh Holmes, 23 April 309 Joseph Jones Monroe to James Monroe, 23 April 310 From Horatio G. Spafford, 24 April 313 To John Barnes, 25 April 314 From Charles Caldwell, 25 April 317 From John Waldo, 25 April 319 To Jose Correa da Serra, 26 April 320 From David Isaacs, 26 April 321 To Horatio G. Spafford, 26 April 322 From John Barnes, 27 April 323 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 27 April 324 To Samuel Brown, 28 April 325 To Luis de Onis, 28 April 326 From Charles Caldwell, 30 April 328 From Francis Corbin, 30 April 329 From Joseph Delaplaine, 30 April 330 From William Shirman, 30 April 331 From Abraham Small, 30 April 331 To Louis H. Girardin, 1 May 332 From David Isaacs, 1 May 332 From John Barnes, 2 May 333 From John Barnes, 2 May 334 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 3 May 335 To Joseph Delaplaine, 3 May 340 From Thomas Law, 3 May 342 From Joseph H. Nicholson, 3 May 343 From John F. Watson, 3 May 344 From Samuel Brown, 4 May 345 From Patrick Gibson, 4 May 346 To John Staples, 4 May 346 From Joseph Wheaton, 4 May 347 From John T. Mason, 5 May 347 To William Richardson, 6 [May] 349 From David Bailie Warden, 6 May 349 From James Monroe, 7 May 351 To Craven Peyton, 7 May, enclosing John Henderson's Deed of Milton Property to Craven Peyton, 17 November 1807 351 To John Barnes, 8 May 353 To George W. Campbell, 8 May 354 To James Monroe, 8 May 355 To Bernard Peyton, 8 May 356 To William Cook, 9 May 356 From Jason Chamberlain, 10 May 357 To Hugh Chisholm, 10 May 357 From George Creager, 10 May 358 From James Madison, 10 May 359 To Craven Peyton, 10 May 360 From Abraham Howard Quincy, 10 May 361 From John Barnes, 13 May 363 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 15 May 363 To Henry Dearborn, 17 May 364 To John Langdon, 17 May 365 To James Madison, 17 May 365 To William Short, 17 May 366 To John F. Watson, 17 May 367 To John Adams, 18 May 368 From John Barnes, 18 May 369 To Daniel D. Tompkins, 18 May 370 To Francis Corbin, 20 May 370 To Abraham Small, 20 May, enclosing Eugene Aram's Defense at his Trial for Murder, [3 August 1759] 373 To Joseph H. Nicholson, 21 May 379 From Hugh Chisholm, 22 May 380 From John Barnes, 24 May 380 From James Mease, 24 May 381 To George Creager, 28 May 382 From John Vaughan, 28 May 383 From Henry M. Brackenridge, 30 May 383 From Thomas Cooper, 31 May 385 Account with William Steptoe, 1 June 387 From John F. Watson, 2 June 388 From Luis de Onis, 3 June 390 From John Wilson, 3 June 398 From William Barton, 6 June 398 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 6 June 400 From Robert Mills, 7 June 401 To Patrick Gibson, 9 June 401 From William Short, 9 June 402 To William Thornton, 9 June 405 From Dudley Leavitt, enclosing Dudley Leavitt's Table for Determining the Moon's Quarters, 10 June 407 To Elizabeth Trist, 10 June 409 To Charles Caldwell, 12 June 410 From Patrick Gibson, 13 June 412 To Thomas Law, 13 June 412 From Jean Baptiste Say, 15 June 416 From John Barnes, 16 June 421 From William H. Crawford, 16 June 422 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 17 June 426 From David Bailie Warden, 18 June 427 From Joseph Delaplaine, 19 June 429 To Christopher Clark, 21 June 430 To Archibald Robertson, 21 June 430 From John Barnes, enclosing Tadeusz Kosciuszko's Account with John Barnes, 22 June 431 To Patrick Gibson, 22 June 433 From Levett Harris, 22 June 433 To Archibald Robertson, 22 June 434 From Archibald Robertson, 22 June 435 From Israel B. Kursheedt, 24 June 435 From William Lambert, 24 June 436 From John Barnes, 27 June 437 From William Thornton, 27 June 438 To Baring Brothers & Company, 28 June 439 To John Barnes, 28 June 440 From David Isaacs, 28 June 441 To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 28 June 442 To Robert Mills, [28] June 443 To Joseph Delaplaine, 29 June 444 To James Mease, 29 June 444 To Robert Patterson, 29 June 446 To John Wilson, 29 June 446 To William Barton, 30 June 446 To Jason Chamberlain, 1 July 447 To Joseph Darmsdatt, 1 July 448 To William Shirman, 1 July 448 To John Waldo, 1 July 449 To Louis H. Girardin, 2 July 450 To William Duane, 3 July 450 To John Adams, 5 July 451 From John Barnes, 7 July 456 From Patrick Gibson, 7 July 457 To Louis H. Girardin, 7 July 458 From Thomas Lehre, 7 July 459 To Patrick Gibson, 8 July, with Note on Corn Contracts, 9 July 459 From James W. Wallace, 8 July 460 From Hugh Holmes, 10 July 460 To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 11 July 461 From Thomas C. Flournoy, 12 July, enclosing Thomas C. Flournoy's Fourth of July Speech, [4 July] 462 From Thomas Law, 12 July 467 From John Barnes, [ca. 13] July 469 From John Barnes, 13 July 470 From Patrick Gibson, 13 July 472 From Destutt de Tracy, [14] July 472 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 14 July 475 From John Adams, 16 July 476 To John Wayles Eppes, 16 July 482 From John Crookes, 20 July 484 To Joseph Miller, 21 July 484 To Andrew Moore, 21 July 485 To Robert Patterson, 23 July 486 To William Thornton, 23 July 486 From James Monroe, 25 July 487 To William Richardson, 25 July 488 From David Bailie Warden, 25 July 488 From Patrick Gibson, 27 July 491 From James Mease, 27 July 492 From William Wirt, 27 July, enclosing Patrick Henry's Stamp Act Resolves, 30 May 1765, with Notes by William Wirt 492 From Joseph Delaplaine, 28 July 497 From John Barnes, 29 July 499 From Elizabeth Trist, 29 July 500 From Frank Carr, 31 July 502 From Edward Coles, 31 July 503 To Baron Karl von Moll, 31 July 505 From David Bailie Warden, 1 August 505 From William Thornton, 2 August, enclosing Walter Janes to William Thornton, 12 [July], and William Thornton to George Greer, 2 August 506 To Robert Gillespie, 3 August 509 To James Monroe, 3 August 510 From Augustus B. Woodward, 3 August 511 From William Barton, 4 August 511 From George Hargraves, 4 August 512 To John H. Cocke, 5 August 513 From James Ogilvie, [ca. 5 August] 514 To Reuben Perry, 5 August 514 To John Watts, 5 August 515 To Patrick Gibson, 7 August 516 To Lancelot Minor, 7 August 518 Promissory Note to Hugh Nelson, 7 August 519 To Samuel M. Burnside, 8 August 520 To John Crookes, 8 August 521 To Thomas C. Flournoy, 8 August 522 To Joseph Delaplaine, 9 August 522 From George Greer, 9 August 523 To Thomas Lehre, 9 August 524 From Thomas Ritchie, 9 August 525 To Gilbert Stuart, 9 August 525 From William Duane, enclosing William Duane's Notes on the Expediency of Using Black Troops, 11 August 527 From John Nicholas, 12 August 534 To Craven Peyton, 13 August 535 From Peter Carr, 14 August 535 From Lafayette, 14 August, enclosing Lafayette to an Unidentified Correspondent, 22 May 536 To William Wirt, 14 August 544 To Major Clayton, 15 August 551 To Patrick Gibson, 15 August 551 To Thomas Ritchie, 15 August 552 From John Barnes, 16 August 553 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 16 August 554 To Patrick Gibson, 16 August 555 To William Barton, 17 August 555 To Bradford & Inskeep, 17 August 556 From William Caruthers, 17 August 556 From Thomas Cooper, 17 August 557 To Peter Cottom, 17 August 561 From Joseph Delaplaine, 17 August 562 To William Duane, 17 August 564 From John L. E. W. Shecut, 17 August 565 To William Thornton, 17 August 568 To John F. Watson, 17 August 568 To Augustus B. Woodward, 17 August 569 To John T. Mason, 18 August 569 Minutes of the Albemarle Academy Board of Trustees, 19 August 570 To John Barnes, 20 August 572 To Patrick Gibson, 20 August 572 From Miles King, 20 August 573 To William Short, 20 August 591 To James W. Wallace, 20 August 593 To William Wardlaw, 20 August 594 To John C. Carter, 21 August 594 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 21 August 595 From Samuel M. Burnside, 22 August 595 To Thomas Hornsby, 22 August 596 To David Michie, 22 August 597 From Jean Baptiste Say, 22 August 598 From Charles Yancey, 22 August 600 To Dabney Carr, 24 August 601 From Patrick Gibson, 24 August 602 From William Wardlaw, 24 August 602 To Edward Coles, 25 August 603 To Thomas Cooper, 25 August 606 To Caspar Wistar, 25 August 607 From John H. Cocke, 27 August 608 To Isaac A. Coles, 27 August 609 To Joseph Delaplaine, enclosing Thomas Jefferson's Extract from Theodor de Bry's Preface to Americae Pars Quinta, with a Drawing Depicting Christopher Columbus, and Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the Likeness of Christopher Columbus, 28 August 611 To Louis H. Girardin, 28 August 616 From John Barnes, 29 August 617 From Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 618 To Daniel F. Carr, 29 August 619 To Samuel Carr, 29 August 619 To William Caruthers, 29 August 620 To George Hargraves, 29 August 620 From James W. Wallace, 29 August 621 To Charles Yancey, 29 August 624 To Charles Yancey, 29 August 625 To John Minor, 30 August, including an earlier letter to Bernard Moore, [ca. 1773?] 625 From Jeremiah Yancey (for Charles Yancey), 30 August 632 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 31 August 632 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 1 September 633 From Edward Caffarena, 5 September 634 To Craven Peyton, 6 September 634 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [6 September] 635 To Peter Carr, 7 September 636 From John Wayles Eppes, 7 September 642 From James W. Wallace, 7 September 642 From John Minor, 8 September 643 From Thomas B. Wait & Sons, 8 September 644 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 9 September 646 To Francis Eppes, 9 September 647 To John Wayles Eppes, 9 September 648 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 9 September 649 To Thomas Cooper, 10 September 649 From John C. Carter, 12 September 655 From James W. Wallace, 13 September 656 From Donald Fraser, 14 September 656 From Thomas Cooper, [ca. 15 September] 657 From Thomas Cooper, 15 September 657 Thomas Cooper's Notes on University Curricula [ca. 15-22 September] 666 From Horatio G. Spafford, 15 September 668 From Joseph C. Cabell, 17 September 669 From Jose Correa da Serra, 20 September 671 Deposition of Craven Peyton in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September 672 Deposition of Richard Price in Jefferson v. Michie, 20 September 676 From Thomas Cooper, 21 September 678 The Sale of Thomas Jefferson's Library to Congress 679 I. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 681 II. To Samuel H. Smith, 21 September 681 From John Vaughan, [received 21 September] 684 From Thomas Cooper, 22 September 684 To Joseph C. Cabell, 23 September 689 To James Madison, 24 September 691 From Philip Mazzei, 24 September 693 From Joseph Milligan, 24 September 697 To James Monroe, 24 September 699 To John L. E. W. Shecut, 25 September 700 To Thomas B. Wait, 25 September 701 From Edward Coles, 26 September 702 To Miles King, 26 September 704 From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 26 September] 706 Statement of Albemarle County Taxes and Court Fees, 27 September 708 To Dabney Carr, 27 September 709 To Patrick Gibson, 27 September 710 From Samuel E. Mifflin, [ca. 27 September] 710 To James Oldham, 27 September 712 To Richard Randolph, 27 September 712 To Thomas Ritchie, 27 September 713 To John Barnes, 30 September 713 To Joseph C. Cabell, 30 September 714 Jose Correa da Serra's Memorandum on Religious Education, [after 30 September] 714 From Patrick Gibson, 30 September 716 Appendix: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found 719 Index 721

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Book SynopsisOpens on 4 March 1802, the first anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's inauguration as the nation's third president, and closes on 30 June.Table of ContentsForeword vii Editorial Method and Apparatus xvii Illustrations xlvii Jefferson Chronology 2 1802 From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 March 3 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 March 5 From Anonymous, [before 5 March] 6 To Henry Dearborn, [5 March] 7 From Henry Dearborn, 5 March 9 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson's Reply, [on or after 5 March] 10 From John Hughes, 5 March 11 To Samuel Smith, 5 March 12 To Henry Voigt, 5 March 13 From Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet, 6 March 13 From Thomas Mann Randolph, 6 March 14 From Abishai Thomas, 6 March 16 From Elizabeth House Trist, 6 March 16 From John Archer, 7 March 18 From Abraham Baldwin, 7 March 19 To William C. C. Claiborne, 7 March 19 To Anne Cary Randolph, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, and Ellen Wayles Randolph, 7 March 20 From Joseph H. Nicholson, 8 March 21 From James Walter, 8 March 22 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin on Nominations, [9 March] 23 To the Senate, 9 March 23 From Robert Smith, 9 March 24 From Samuel Smith, [9 March] 25 From Tench Coxe, [before 10 March] 25 From "A Lover of his Country," 10 March 27 Conference with Handsome Lake, Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes 29 I. Address of Handsome Lake, [10 March] 33 II. Henry Dearborn's Reply, 13 March 35 III. Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March] 36 IV. Address of Cornplanter, [15 March] 38 V. Address of Handsome Lake, [15 March] 39 VI. Address of Blue Eyes, [15 March] 39 VII. Henry Dearborn's Reply to Handsome Lake, Cornplanter, and Blue Eyes, 17 March 40 VIII. Confirmation of Title to the Seneca and Onondaga Indians, 17 March 42 From John Dickinson, 10 March 43 From Christopher Ellery, 10 March 44 From Andrew Ellicott, 10 March 45 From George Jefferson, 10 March 47 From Charles Le Brun, 10 March 47 From Charles McLaughlin, 10 March 50 To John Minor, 10 March 50 To the Senate, 10 March 51 To the Senate, 10 March 52 Sentence in the Court-Martial of John Spence 54 I. Henry Dearborn's Preliminary Draft, [10 March] 55 II. Henry Dearborn's Second Draft, with Jeffersons Revisions, [20 April] 56 From John Trumbull, 10 March 57 To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 10 March 61 From John Wayles Eppes, 11 March 61 From Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 12 March 62 Account with Zachariah Poulson, Jr., 12 March 64 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 12 March 64 From Benjamin Rush, 12 March 68 From Benjamin Smith Barton, 13 March 69 From David Fergusson, 13 March 70 From Thomas Mann Randolph, 13 March 71 From Robert Smith, 13 March 71 To Pierre Charles L'Enfant, 14 March 72 From John Thomson Mason, 14 March 72 From James Monroe, 14 March 73 From Susannah Santoran, 14 March 74 From William Barnwell, 15 March 75 From William Barton, 15 March 75 From Elizabeth Chester, 15 March 76 From Anthony S. Gadbury, 15 March 77 From Caesar A. Rodney, 15 March 78 To George Jefferson, 16 March 79 To Robert R. Livingston, 16 March 79 From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 16 March 80 From John Thomson Mason, 17 March 81 From John Minor, 17 March 81 From Thomas Paine, 17 March 82 From John Beckley, 18 March 85 To Benjamin Rush, 18 March 86 To James Dinsmore, 19 March 86 From George Jefferson, 19 March 87 From Philip Myer, 19 March 88 To James Walter, 19 March 89 To Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 19 March 90 From David Austin, 20 March 91 From Tench Coxe, 20 March 92 From William R. Davie, 20 March 93 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 20 March 94 From Anthony S. Gadbury, 20 March 95 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March 95 From Thomas Mann Randolph, 20 March 97 To Elizabeth House Trist, 20 March 98 To Robert Bailey, 21 March 100 From James Monroe, 21 March 100 To Gouverneur Morris, 21 March 101 From Gouverneur Morris, 21 March 101 Description of a Wheel Cipher, [before 22 March] 102 To Robert Patterson, 22 March 107 From Stephen Sayre, 22 March 109 From William Vallance, 22 March 111 To Caspar Wistar, 22 March 112 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 23 March 113 From Gideon Granger, 23 March 115 From the Navy Department, [on or before 23 March] 115 From Delaware Democratic Republicans, [on or after 24 March] 116 From Sarah McKean Irujo, 24 March 118 To Levi Lincoln, 24 March 119 To the Senate, 25 March 120 From Robert Smith, 25 March 121 From George Washington McElroy, 26 March 122 From Samuel Bishop, 27 March 122 From Henry Dearborn, 27 March 123 From John Page, 27 March 124 From Nicholas Reib, 27 March 125 From Daniel Carroll, 28 March 126 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 28 March 127 From Leonora Sansay, [28 March] 130 To Watson & Higginbotham, 28 March 131 From Abraham Baldwin, 29 March 131 To Benjamin Smith Barton, 29 March 132 From DeWitt Clinton, 29 March 133 To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 29 March 133 From James Madison, 29 March 135 To the Senate, 29 March 136 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 29 March 138 From Robert Smith, 29 March 140 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 30 March 141 From Aaron Burr, 30 March 143 From Henry Dearborn, 30 March 144 From William Eustis, 30 March 144 From Richard Fenwick, [on or before 30 March] 145 To Robert Gourlay, 30 March 146 To Charles Wyndham Grymes, 30 March 147 To Philip Ludwell Grymes, 30 March 147 From Samuel Osgood, 30 March 148 To Edward Savage, 30 March 149 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 30 March 149 From Robert Smith, 30 March 150 To the House of Representatives, 31 March 150 From John Thomson Mason, with Jefferson's Reply, 31 March 151 From John Minor of North Carolina, 31 March 152 To James Monroe, 31 March 153 To Francis Peyton, 31 March 154 To the Senate, 31 March 155 To Simon Chaudron and John James Barralet, 1 April 156 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 April 156 To Albert Gallatin, 1 April 157 To Peter Legaux, 1 April 159 From Wilson Cary Nicholas, [1 April] 159 From Robert Smith, [1 April] 160 From Tench Coxe, [before 2 April] 161 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 2 April 165 From George Jefferson, 2 April 167 To Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 2 April 167 From Edward Livingston, 2 April 168 To John Page, 2 April 169 From Francis Peyton, 2 April 170 To DeWitt Clinton, 3 April 170 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 April 170 From George Jefferson, 3 April 172 From Ezra L'Hommedieu, 3 April 172 To the Mississippi Territory House of Representatives, 3 April 173 From Samuel Quarrier, 3 April 174 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 3 April 175 To the Senate, 3 April 176 From William Short, 3 April 177 To Albert Gallatin, 4 April 178 To John Bartram, Jr., 5 April 179 From Sebastian Bauman, 5 March [i.e. April] 179 From Philippe de Letombe, 5 April 180 To the Senate, 5 April 181 From Henry Dearborn, 6 April 182 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 6 April 182 To William Branch Giles, [6 April] 183 From Louis Portas, 6 April 185 To the Senate, 6 April 187 To Albert Gallatin, 7 April 187 From John S. Lillie, 7 April 188 From Albert Gallatin, 8 April 189 From Samuel Quarrier, [on or before 8 April] 190 To the Senate, 8 April 191 From Henry Voigt, [before 9 April] 193 From Henry Dearborn, 9 April 194 From William Kilty, William Cranch, and John Thomson Mason, 9 April 195 From Thomas Mann Randolph, 9 April 196 To Nicholas Reib, 9 April 197 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 10 April 197 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [10 April] 198 From Nathaniel Ingraham, with John Steele's Note, 10 April 199 To George Jefferson, 10 April 200 From Philip Mazzei, 10 April 201 From Deborah Stewart, 10 April 204 From Caspar Wistar, 10 April 205 To Levi Lincoln and John Thomson Mason, 11 April 207 From James Ogilvie, 11 April 209 From Pierpont Edwards, 12 April 210 From Albert Gallatin, [12 April] 210 From Albert Gallatin, 12 April 211 From Levi Lincoln, 12 April 212 From John Thomson Mason, 12 April 214 From Samuel Latham Mitchill, 12 April 217 From James Monroe, 12 April 218 From "Noname Iota," 12 April 219 From Robert Patterson, 12 April 220 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 13 April 222 To John Isaac Hawkins, 13 April 223 From Alexander White, enclosing Draft of a Resolution for the City of Washington, 13 April 224 From Philip Wilson, 13 April 226 To Caspar Wistar, 13 April 227 To Abraham Baldwin, enclosing List of Books for the Library of Congress, 14 April 227 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 April 233 From Edward Stevens, 14 April 234 To Alexander White, enclosing Draft of a Resolution for the City of Washington, 14 April 235 From "Yankey Doodle," 14 April 236 To the House of Representatives, 15 April 237 From Bishop James Madison, 15 April 241 From Philip Wilson, [on or before 15 April] 242 From Henry Dearborn, 16 April 243 To Philip Ludwell Grymes, 16 April 243 To George Jefferson, 16 April 244 From George Jefferson, 16 April 244 James Madison's Report on Claims under Article 7 of the Jay Treaty, 16 April 245 From Martha Jefferson Randolph, 16 April 246 From Caesar A. Rodney, 16 April 247 From Robert Smith, 16 April 248 From James Tilton, 16 April 249 From Elias Boudinot, 17 April 249 From Henry Dearborn, 17 April 251 To Levi Lincoln, 17 April 251 From Philip Mazzei, 17 April 252 To Robert Patterson, 17 April 254 From Robert Patterson, 17 April 254 From William Thornton, 17 April 255 From Tench Coxe, [before 18 April] 260 To Robert R. Livingston, 18 April 263 Method of Using Robert Patterson's Cipher 267 I. Description of Method, [18 April] 272 II. Sample Encipherment: The Lord's Prayer, [18 April] 275 III. Sample Encipherment: "To the People of Great-Britain" 278 To Anne Cary Randolph, 18 April 281 From Bartholomew von Heer, 19 April 282 From James McGurk, [on or before 19 April] 283 From John Page, 19 April 285 To William Short, 19 April 287 From Charles Douglas, 20 April 291 From Joseph Fay, 20 April 292 To the House of Representatives, 20 April, enclosing From James Madison, 18 April 292 From "S," 20 April 294 To Volney, 20 April 295 To Henry Dearborn, 21 April 298 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 21 April 298 From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 21 April 299 From Albert Gallatin, 21 April 300 From John Isaac Hawkins, 21 April 301 From Robert Smith, 21 April 302 From William Baker, 22 April 302 From Henry Dearborn, [22 April] 304 From Henry Dearborn, 22 April 304 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 22 April 305 From Joseph Yznardi, Sr., 22 April 306 To James Cheetham, 23 April 308 To Madame de Corny, 23 April 308 From John Redman Coxe, 23 April 310 From William Duane, 23 April 311 List of Newspapers, [ca. 23 April] 312 From Thomas Martin, 23 April 313 From Gouverneur Morris, [23 April] 313 To William Thornton and Others, 23 April 314 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson's Comment, [before 24 April] 314 From Mathew Carey, 24 April 315 From William C. C. Claiborne, 24 April 319 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 24 April 320 From Albert Gallatin, 24 April 323 List of Candidates for Appointments, [ca. 24 April] 324 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 24 April 326 To James Oldham, 24 April 327 From Robert Patterson, 24 April 327 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 24 April 329 To Caesar A. Rodney, 24 April 330 From Joseph Dougherty, [on or before 25 April] 331 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 25 April 332 From Thomas McKean, 25 April 334 From James Monroe, 25 April 335 From David Austin, 26 April 337 To Sebastian Bauman, 26 April 338 From Isaac Briggs, 26 April 339 Statement of Account with Thomas Carpenter, 26 April 340 From Charles Johnson, 26 April 341 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 26 April 343 From Robert Smith, 26 April 345 From Ebenezer Tucker, 26 April 345 From Angelica Schuyler Church, 27 April 346 From Robert Leslie, 27 April 347 To the Senate, 27 April 348 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 April 349 From John Archer, 28 April 350 From John Brown of Boone County, Kentucky, 28 April 351 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 28 April 352 From Michael Leib, 28 April 353 From Catherine Church Cruger, 29 April 354 From Christopher Ellery, 29 April 354 To John Wayles Eppes, 29 April 354 To Heads of Departments, 29 April 355 From John Heard, 29 April 356 From Samuel Meredith, 29 April 357 Notes on Charges against Arthur St. Clair, [ca. 29 April] 357 From Edward Savage, 29 April 361 From Samuel Smith, 29 April 362 From Sebastian Bauman, 30 April 362 From Joseph Bloomfield, 30 April 363 To John Redman Coxe, 30 April 364 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 365 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 April 367 Memorandum from Christopher Ellery and Joseph Stanton, Jr., 30 April 376 From Albert Gallatin, 30 April 377 From Albert Gallatin, 30 April 378 From William Helms, 30 April 381 From William Jones and Joseph Clay, 30 April 382 To Levi Lincoln, [on or after 30 April] 382 From Thomas McKean, 30 April 383 To John Milledge, enclosing Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill, 30 April 384 From Caesar A. Rodney, 30 April 386 Query from Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson's Reply, [April] 387 To Abraham Baldwin, 1 May 388 To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 1 May 389 To Albert Gallatin, 1 May 390 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [ca. 1 May] 390 To James Jackson, 1 May 391 From James Jackson, 1 May 392 To Robert Leslie, 1 May 394 Notes on the Establishment of New Revenue Districts, [ca. 1 May] 394 From David Stone, 1 May 395 From Thomas McLean, 2 May 396 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 2 May 398 From Theodorus Bailey and Philip Van Cortlandt, 3 May 398 To Joel Barlow, 3 May 399 Memorandum from John Brown and John Breckinridge, 3 May 402 From DeWitt Clinton, 3 May 402 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 May 403 From George Jefferson, 3 May 403 From James Mease, 3 May 404 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 3 May 405 To the Senate, 3 May 406 From David Austin, 4 May 406 To Mathew Carey, 4 May 407 From Samuel Hanson, 4 May 408 To James Jackson, 4 May 409 To Levi Lincoln, 4 May 409 From Robert R. Livingston, 4 May 410 From Robert Smith, 4 May 416 From John Strode, 4 May 416 From David Austin, 5 May 417 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 5 May 418 To Albert Gallatin, Henry Dearborn, and Robert Smith, 5 May 420 To John Langdon, 5 May 420 To Robert R. Livingston, 5 May 421 To James Madison, 5 May 422 From Robert Patton, 5 May 422 To Charles Willson Peale, 5 May 423 To John Smith, 5 May 423 From John Churchman, 7 May 424 From Henry Dearborn, 7 May 426 From James Madison, 7 May 427 To John Page, 7 May 429 From Robert Smith, 8 May 429 From Isaac Story, 8 May 430 From John Vaughan, 8 May 431 From "A Lover of his Country," 9 May 435 To James Madison, 9 May 437 To James Monroe, 9 May 438 To Thomas Sumter, Sr., 9 May 438 From John Barnes, 10 May 439 From Charles W. Goldsborough, 10 May 440 To George Jefferson, [10] May 440 From Etienne Lemaire, 10 May 441 List of Vaccinations, 10 May 442 From Joseph Dougherty, 11 May 443 From Andrew Ellicott, 11 May 444 From Andrew Ellicott, 11 May 447 From John Wayles Eppes, 11 May 448 From Gideon Granger, 11 May 449 From James Madison, 11 May 449 From Michael Weyer, 11 May 451 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 12 May 451 From Arthur Fenner, 12 May 458 From "A Sybilline Voice," [before 13 May] 458 To John Barnes, 14 May 459 To Henry Dearborn, 14 May 459 From Gideon Granger, 14 May 460 From John Langdon, 14 May 462 To Etienne Lemaire, 14 May 463 To James Madison, 14 May 463 To Robert Smith, 14 May 464 "A reall friend" to Albert Gallatin, with Jefferson's Note, 15 May 465 From Caesar A. Rodney, 16 May 466 From Gideon Granger, 17 May 468 From James Monroe, 17 May 468 From Joseph Rapin, 17 May 469 Statement of William Short's Tenements, 17 May 472 From "A republican of Woodbridge," 19 May 474 To Gideon Granger, 20 May 475 To Etienne Lemaire, 20 May 475 From John Barnes, 21 May 475 From Daniel Brent, 21 May 477 From Richard Richardson, 21 May 478 From Madame de Tesse, 21 May 480 From Robert R. Livingston, 22 May 481 From Robert Smith, 22 May 485 From Jonathan Williams, 22 May 486 From Gideon Granger, 23 May 488 From Thomas Law, 23 May 488 From Samuel Brown, 24 May 489 From John Lambert and Others, 24 May 491 From Etienne Lemaire, 24 May 492 To James Madison, 24 May 493 From James Penn, 24 May 493 From Charles Pinckney, 24 May 494 From Abraham Hargis, 26 May 502 Statement of William Short's Tenements, 26 May 503 From Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 May 504 From Charles Willing Byrd, 27 May 505 From William Canby, 27 May 506 To George Jefferson, 27 May 507 Etienne Lemaire's Memorandum of Items for the President's House, 28 May 508 From Thomas Mendenhall, 28 May 509 From James Monroe, 30 May 510 From James Monroe, 30 May 511 From Craven Peyton, 30 May 512 From Thomas Sumter, Sr., 30 May 512 From Thomas Worthington, 30 May 514 From DeWitt Clinton, enclosing Candidates for Bankruptcy Commissioners and Comments on the Congressional Election in New York, 31 May 514 From Henry Dearborn, 31 May 517 From David Hall, 31 May 517 To Thomas Law, 31 May 519 From Robert Lawson, 31 May 520 From Caesar A. Rodney, 31 May 521 From John Berry, [on or before 1 June] 521 From William C. C. Claiborne, 1 June 522 From the District of Columbia Commissioners, 1 June 523 From Moses Myers, 1 June 523 From Thomas Newton, 1 June 524 From John Page, 1 June 525 From Elkanah Watson, 1 June 526 From Francis Mentges, 2 June 528 From John Beckley, 3 June 530 To Robert Brent, 3 June 530 From Robert Brent, 3 June 531 To James Monroe, 3 June 531 From James Monroe, 3 June 533 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, enclosing Itinerary from Edgehill to Washington, 3 June 533 To Joseph Rapin, 3 June 536 From Sir John Sinclair, 3 June 536 From Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, 3 June 538 From "Honesty," [before 4 June] 538 From Elisha Jenkins, 4 June 539 From William Kilty, 4 June 540 To Benjamin Dearborn, 5 June 541 From Delaware Democratic Republicans [5 June] 542 From Robert King, Sr., 5 June 544 From John F. Mercer, 5 June 547 To Albert Gallatin, 6 June 549 From Cyrus Griffin, 6 June 549 From Charles Willson Peale, 6 June 550 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 7 June 553 From Henry Dearborn, 7 June 553 To Robert King, Sr., 7 June 553 From Edward C. Nicholls, 7 June 554 From Josiah Smith, 7 June 555 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 8 June 556 To George Jefferson, 8 June 557 To Craven Peyton, 8 June 557 To Craven Peyton, 8 June 558 From Stephen Sayre, 8 June 558 From John Vaughan, 8 June 559 From Caspar Wistar, 8 June 564 To David Campbell, 9 June 566 From David Hall, 9 June 567 From Levi Lincoln, 9 June, enclosing From Levi Lincoln, 25 May 568 To Thomas McLean, 9 June 572 To Edward Savage, 9 June 572 From William Thornton, [9 June] 573 From DeWitt Clinton, 10 June 573 From William Davidson, 10 June 574 From Henry Dearborn, 10 June 577 Memorandums to Albert Gallatin, 10 June 577 From Samuel Miller, 10 June 579 From Mitchell & Buel, 10 June 580 From Charles Willson Peale, enclosing Diagrams: Top of Bison Skull and Diagram: Back of Bison Skull, 10 June 581 From David Redick, 10 June 584 From Alexander White, 10 June 586 From George Jefferson, 11 June 587 From James Monroe, 11 June 588 To William Wardlaw, 11 June 589 From John Barnes, 12 June 590 To George Jefferson, 12 June 590 From Thomas McKean, 12 June 591 From Joseph Priestley, 12 June 592 From Joseph Priestley, [on or before 12 June] 593 From Robert Smith, 12 June 596 To Thomas Claxton, 13 June 596 From Thomas Claxton, 13 June 597 To Roberts & Jones, 13 June 597 To Thomas Whitney, 13 June 598 From George Jefferson, 14 June 599 To Tobias Lear, 14 June 599 To Thomas McKean, 14 June 600 From David Mellinger, 14 June 600 To Caesar A. Rodney, 14 June 601 From Arthur Fenner and Theodore Foster, 15 June 602 Memorandum from Thomas Munroe, [15 June] 603 Robert Smith's Observations on the Charges Against Arthur St. Clair, 15 June 604 From Andrew Jackson, 16 June 608 From George Jefferson, 16 June 609 From Lewis Littlepage, 16 June 610 From William Lovering, 16 June 610 To Thomas Munroe, 16 June 611 To John Barnes, 17 June 612 From William Bentley, 17 June 612 To John Isaac Hawkins, 17 June 613 From Nathaniel Macon, 17 June 614 From Francis Peyton, 17 June 615 To Thomas Claxton, 18 June 615 Memorandum from Albert Gallatin, [18 June] 616 To Lewis Littlepage, 18 June 617 To William Lovering, 18 June 617 From Francis Peyton, 18 June 618 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 18 June 618 From William Bache, 19 June 619 To Albert Gallatin, 19 June 620 From John Langdon, 19 June 621 James Madison's Opinions on the Charges Against Arthur St. Clair, 19 June 622 From Thomas Munroe, 19 June 624 To Joseph Priestley, 19 June 625 To David Redick, 19 June 627 From Caesar A. Rodney, 19 June 628 From Joseph Marie Lequinio de Kerblay, 20 June 632 Memorandum from the Treasury Department, 20 June 634 From a "True Friend, Alltho a woman," 20 June 635 From Willem H. van Hasselt, 20 June 636 From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 21 June 647 To Albert Gallatin, 21 June 648 From Nathaniel Ingraham, 21 June 648 Memorandum to Albert Gallatin, [on or before 21 June] 649 From Thomas Moore, with Jefferson's Note, 21 June 650 From Samuel Smith, 21 June 651 John Barnes's Memorandum on William Short's Account, 22 June 652 To James Dinsmore, 22 June 653 To Mitchell & Buel, 22 June 654 To James Oldham, 22 June 654 To Henry Sheaff, 22 June 655 To George Washington Varnum, 22 June 656 To Albert Gallatin, 23 June 656 From Thomas Leiper, 23 June 657 From Thomas Leiper, 23 June 657 To John F. Mercer, 23 June 659 To Caesar A. Rodney, 24 June 660 To Samuel Smith, 24 June 660 From John Wayles Eppes, 25 June 662 From Albert Gallatin, 25 June 662 From John Harshe, 25 June 663 To George Jefferson, 25 June 664 To John Barnes, 26 June 665 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 26 June 665 From Isaac Briggs, 26 June 666 Memorandum on Delaware River Piers, 26 June 667 To James Monroe, 26 June 668 From John Ponsonby, 26 June 668 From John Condit, 28 June 669 From Ebenezer Hazard, 28 June 670 From David Humphreys, 28 June 671 From Henry Ingle, 28 June 675 From Levi Lincoln, 28 June 676 From Caesar A. Rodney, 28 June 677 From John Steele, 28 June 680 From Thomas Tingey, 28 June 682 From Anonymous, 29 June 684 To Isaac Briggs, 29 June 688 To John Langdon, 29 June 688 From James Monroe, 29 June 690 From Joseph Bloomfield, 30 June 691 To John Steele, 30 June 693 George Hadfield's Estimate of Cost for Building a Jail, [June] 694 Notes on Building the Jail, [June] 695 APPENDICES Appendix I: List of Appointments, [3-23 June] 697 Appendix II: Bankruptcy Commissions 701 I. List of Candidates for Bankruptcy Commissions, [ca. 1 May-6 July] 703 II. List of Nominations for Bankruptcy Commissions, [8 June 1802-18 November 1803] 707 Appendix III: Letters Not Printed in Full 713 Appendix IV: Letters Not Found 715 Appendix V: Financial Documents 719 Index 723

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Book SynopsisThis is a colorful, comprehensive, and authoritative introduction to the life and work of the author of The Prince--Florentine statesman, writer, and political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527). Corrado Vivanti, who was one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars, provides an unparalleled intellectual biography that demonstrates the cTrade Review"Sensible and useful... [Vivanti] sets forth the greatness of Machiavelli, not as a figure of his time, the Renaissance, but as a founder of modernity."--Harvey C. Mansfield, Wall Street Journal "Students well versed in the classics, the historian's vast writings and medieval history will most enjoy this academic biography."--Kirkus Reviews "[T]his graceful and informative biography should win many readers and is a welcome addition to Machiavelli scholarship... [R]ecommended for all scholarly collections."--Library Journal "Paints a complex picture of the circumstances that shaped the man whose name became synonymous with political cunning."--Karl Kunkel, ForeWord Reviews "[E]xcellent, and accessible to anyone interested in finding out more about Machiavelli."--Jonathan Powell, Prospect "Vivanti supplies a fascinating, concise guide to Machiavelli's life and work... [W]ell worth reading."--Joanna Kavenna, Spectator "[I]nformative and ... level-headed."--Keith Miller, Telegraph "Vivanti offers a comprehensive analysis of the thought of Machiavelli situated against the backdrop of political and biographical developments in the early 16th century... Few writers possess better qualifications to write this study."--Choice "Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography will appeal to a wide audience, since the style is easy-to-read and the content broad but focused. Anyone interested in this period of history (15th and 16th century Europe) or political philosophy will find Vivanti's work a useful guide and a stimulating read."--Economics and Philosophy Blogspot "Corrado Vivanti's learned intellectual biography reinforces [an] image of Machiavelli as a misunderstood forerunner of the Italian Risorgimento, calling for the redemption of Italian republicanism four centuries before the final reunification of the Italian states."--Michael Ignatieff, The Atlantic "Corrado Vivanti's intellectual biography is a masterful piece of scholarly writing and a fine corollary to the author's long commitment to the world of Machiavelli studies... [T]his translation of Vivanti's study nicely displays the liveliness and intensity of Machiavelli's thought in the context of a changing European world... Niccolo Machiavelli: An Intellectual Biography [is] a work for posterity."--Mauricio Suchowlansky, Renaissance and Reformation "[A] fine exposition of Machiavelli's life and works."--Vickie B. Sullivan, The Historian "A remarkable contribution to the English-language literature on the thought and life of the Florentine secretary. Vivanti is the editor and annotator of the three volume complete works of Machiavelli, Opere (Milan 1997-2005). An outgrowth of this earlier work, it weaves into a seamless narrative the notes, commentary and critical introductions that Vivanti brought to the Opere."--Bendetto Fontana, European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsPreface vii Part I. The Florentine Secretary 1 1. A Shadowy Period: The First Half of His Life 3 2. The Relationship with Savonarola 7 3. The Activity in the Chancery 11 4. The Correspondence with Functionaries of the Domain 19 5. Diplomatic Activity 24 6. The Experience of the Early Missions 28 7. Changes of Fortune and the Ghiribizzi al Soderino 36 8. The Florentine Ordinance 41 9. The Venetian Defeat and the Reconquest of Pisa 51 10. The End of the Republic and the Return of the Medici 58 Part II. Exile in His Homeland 69 11. The Confinement at Sant'Andrea 71 12. "I have composed a little work On Princedoms" 76 13. The "Myth" of The Prince 85 14. Frequenting the Orti Oricellari 103 15. An Original Comment on Livy 108 16. The Art of War 122 Part III. "Niccolo Machiavelli, Historian, comic writer, and tragic writer" 127 17. A New Season in Machiavelli's Life 129 18. A Return to Business 135 19. "The annals or the history of Florence" 143 20. "The things done at home and abroad by the Florentine people" 149 21. The Friendship with Guicciardini 168 22. Clizia and the Musical Madrigals 176 23. Final Act 180 Appendix: Notes on the Use of the Word Stato in Machiavelli 193 Notes 219 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who lived in Scotland and around the globe in the fastTrade ReviewWinner of the 2011 Scottish History Book of the Year Award, Saltire Society One of The New Yorker's "Reviewer's Favorites" of 2011 Shortlisted for the 2012 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Award in Nonfiction "The eleven Johnstone siblings of Westerhall, in Scotland, were 'a large and disorderly family,' whose lives, playing out on three continents between 1723 and 1813, illuminate what Rothschild calls an 'empire of intimate exchanges.' The subject is well chosen and provocatively explored."--New Yorker "The book is the outcome of a remarkable archival discovery, of the kind of which every historian dreams... The nature of her ambition is revealed by her title, The Inner Life of Empires. She wants to show us how the opening of the world to a family like the Johnstones affected their thoughts, sentiments, and behavior, and is anxious to recapture the day-to-day responses of people who had no idea, any more than we ourselves have, of how the story in which they found themselves caught up would end. Would the new republic of the United States survive? Nobody knew for certain. The range of sources she has consulted, the extraordinary wealth of detail she has unearthed about even the most obscure individuals, and the quite unexpected connections between them that she has uncovered fully support her claim. It is wonderfully appropriate that a book that gives us so many new and surprising insights into the new 'information society' of the eighteenth century should itself depend so heavily on new information technology, drawing, as Rothschild puts it, on 'a world of searchable databases and digitized archive catalogues.' In doing so, it presents what I suspect is a foretaste of a kind of history that will become increasingly common in the years to come, even if, as I fear, not all its practitioners will bring to it the historical imagination and sensitivity of Emma Rothschild."--New York Review of Books "Ms. Rothschild's The Inner Life of Empires offers us a fascinating tour of Scottish society during the age of empire, and it does so from a unique perspective. Ms. Rothschild has written a "micro-history," a mode of scholarship that attempts to elucidate large historical themes by closely narrating the small history of a particular individual. Her micro-history is not about an individual but a family. The book is unusually well-researched and wide-ranging... Ms. Rothschild has corralled this voluminous and scattered archival record with diligence and skill. She presents the Johnstones' family history as a portrait of their age. Books of this kind work by accumulating telling detail and so defy summary. Still, several themes emerge. Ms. Rothschild beautifully reveals, for instance, how fundamentally the imperial and military exploits of states can remake the imaginative and aspirational worlds of their subjects. The Johnstones could plan a career in the Caribbean, or gossip about the politics of the Mughal court in Delhi, in a manner that would have staggered their near forebears. The Inner Life of Empires reminds us that the experience of globalism long predates the age of the Internet... More admirable still is Ms. Rothschild's meticulous and elegant account of the family. She offers us a captivating glimpse of what it must have been like to live in, profit from and command the British Empire during its heyday."--Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal "This original and remarkable book ... is the story of the Johnstones, 11 Scottish siblings whose lives spanned the entire 18th-century British Empire--from Britain to Africa and the Americas. By extraordinary perseverance, Rothschild (a Harvard historian) has excavated the tiniest tidbits about them from a vast array of repositories and collections, and used these shards of evidence to broaden and deepen our understanding of the Enlightenment, commerce, empires, revolutions, nation states, sentiments, family relations, and slavery. Her tale often holds the mysteries of a fictional account, especially about a key slave whose life after shipment to the American colonies is lost in the mists of time... While this is a scholarly work and the very model of the contemporary historian's craft, it's also deeply illuminating, humane, at times moving, and altogether captivating."--Publishers Weekly "[An] elegantly crafted narrative... The Inner Life of Empires ... is a tour-de-force of archival sleuthing. It is also a triumph of historical ventriloquism. Speaking through the Johnstones, Rothschild delivers a wise, original reflection on the shifting boundaries between home and abroad, private and public, at the dawn of the modern age."--Maya Jasanoff, New Republic "Emma Rothschild is an historian of the mind, of characteristic ways of thinking and feeling. She aims to blindfold hindsight and to recover not just external events but the way people perceived them at the time. The difficulty is evidence. Most people leave no trace. Even the eminent, she says, show little sign of the inner consequences of outward affairs. As if in answer, her absorbing new book, "The Inner Life of Empires", overflows with evidence--so finely detailed and from such scattered sources as to be scarcely imaginable before the development of digitized, searchable catalogues and archives."--The Economist "Here Emma Rothschild offers a truly transnational family history set in an age of turbulence, war and imperial growth; a moment in time where dramas were many. Rothschild's story of Empire, however, comes with a new spin, offering as it does a micro-historical account of one family's interconnections with the empires, politics and ideologies of the age. Drawing on many intensively mined sources from an array of archives, including a rich collection of family letters, she furnishes a richly detailed, highly readable account of the Johnstones, four sisters and seven brothers born into middling circumstances in Dumfries in the 1720s and 1730s... The strength of this book lies in its focus on the family as a collective, for it is here that we see how Empire and individuals came together."--Donald MacRaild, Times Higher Education "This is a meticulous study, based on an immense amount of research, including a large cache of family correspondence, court records and much more... There is much to admire about this book. It skillfully links the "microhistory" of the Johnson siblings with the "macrohistory" of Britain and its empire, giving us an intimate glimpse into the way one family pursued the material opportunities and confronted the moral challenges that arose with Britain's late-18th-century advance around the globe."--Dane Kennedy, Washington Independent Review of Books "This is ... a brave and able book."--Gillian Tindall, Literary Review (UK) "Emma Rothschild's magnificently researched and lucidly written book reveals the many connections and layers of empire without in any way undermining the less edifying aspects of empire."--Rudrangshu Mukherjee, The Telegraph (Calcutta, India) "[A] wealth of insight into early capitalism and ... the moral foundations of the global economy."--Diane C., Enlightened Economist "Rothschild presents a fascinating combination of micro- and macro-history that sheds light on 18th century empires throughout the world. She does so by relying upon primary source documents of one family, the Johnstones, a relatively nonprosperous family of the Scottish country gentry... [T]he approach provides a window on both personal and worldwide history that would be impossible otherwise."--Choice "There is much wisdom and compassion in this gracefully written book."--Keith M. Baker, Law and History Review "Rothschild is an accomplished scholar and a fluent writer. And her subject--teasing a broad study from a history of a single family--is both cleverly conceived and persuasively-argued. It is a tribute to indefatigable research, and it reflects the author's intellectual excitement about what she has unearthed."--James Walvin, Figurehead Historian "[T]his work is an apt corrective to overly simplistic views of what eighteenth-century imperial Britons believed and felt."--Robert A. McLain, Historian "The micro-history of the Johnstones ... is a fascinating and informative account... [S]ome of the best pages of this book illuminate the connections between principles, personal interests, and ideas in the political thought and in the politics of members of this family. Rothschild's sensitivity to these conflicts and tensions is admirable."--K. Steven Vincent, European Legacy "The Inner Life of Empires is an excellent micro-history of one family's globe-spanning existence... Rothschild illuminates a tumultuous period that created the modern economy, the British Empire, and the philosophical Enlightenment and will be an indispensible tool for contextualizing discussions of present-day globalization."--World Book Industry "Rothschild wonderfully stirs politics, economics, family relationships, slavery, government, colonial life, and education into the same pot. Her work makes a convincing argument against separating concerns of public and private, economy and romance, politics and family. Her material may seem too comprehensive for one volume, but The Inner Life of Empires is very readable, almost novelistic in its integrated structure and fluid narrative."--Anna Lawrence, Journal of Modern History "[A] Gem of a book... Her book is a brilliant achievement in what the author identifies as the new microhistory and a sophisticated statement on the possibilities of this genre."--Mark Gamsa, Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Geschichte / Revue Suisse d'HistoireTable of ContentsIntroduction: Ideas and Sentiments 1 Chapter One::Setting Out 11 The Four Sisters and Seven Brothers 15 Difficult Circumstances 23 Tragic News from the Indias 29 The Frontiers of Empire in the West 34 Small Congratulatory Elephants 45 Chapter Two: Coming Home 59 The Finances of the Family 60 The Politics of the East and West Indies 68 The Arts and Sciences of Enlightenment 76 The Ruins of the Indies 80 Intran Bell alias Belinda 87 Joseph Knight 91 Chapter Three:: Ending and Loss 97 The Detritus of Empire 99 The James Johnstones 105 Indian Yellow Satin 109 The Treasurer 112 Distant Destinies 116 Chapter Four:Economic Lives 121 Possible Empires 125 What Is the State? 131 What Was, and What Was Not Law 137 A Society of Persons 141 A Moderate Empire 146 Economic Theories 148 Chapter Five: Experiences of Empire 154 Slavery in the British Empire 154 "This Age of Information" 170 Family Histories 185 Connections of Things 197 Intimate Lives 202 Chapter Six: What Is Enlightenment? 210 The Sect of Philosophers 211 The Milieux of Enlightenment: Books and Booksellers 220 Legal Information 224 Clerks and Clerics 231 The Milieux of Political Thought 239 The Atmosphere of Society 247 The Enlightenment of the Johnstones 252 The Coexistence of Enlightenment and Oppression 258 Chapter Seven: Histories of Sentiments 263 The Eye of the Mind 263 The History of the Human Mind 266 Family Secrets 270 The Discontinuity of Size and Scenes 277 The Incompleteness of Information 279 Chapter Eight:: Other People 284 The Johnstones and the Mind 285 Intran Bell alias Belinda 29 Other People 299 Acknowledgments 303 Appendix 307 Abbreviations 309 Notes 311 Maps 463 Index 469

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Book SynopsisDocumenting Thomas Jefferson's last year's, this title presents 523 documents from 1 September 1815 to 30 April 1816. In this period, Jefferson makes three trips to Poplar Forest.Table of ContentsForeword vii Acknowledgments ix Editorial Method and Apparatus xi Maps xxxix Illustrations xliii Jefferson Chronology 2 1 8 1 5 Deposition of James Lewis in Jefferson v. Michie, 1 September 3 From Joseph Miller, 1 September 3 From Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 September 4 From Edward Bancroft, 5 September 6 From Albert Gallatin, 6 September 8 From Alden Partridge, enclosing Table of Altitudes of Northern Mountains, 6 September 9 From A. Baudon, [by 8 September] 12 From Lafayette, 8 September 13 From George W. Campbell, 9 September 14 From James Maury, 9 September 16 Jefferson's Travel receipts 18* I. Guerrant & Staples's Bill for Food, [12 September] 19 * II. Henry Flood's Bill for Food and Lodging, [13 September] 19 * III. Robert Hunter's Bill for Food, [13 September] 20 * IV. Charles Hoyle's Bill for Food, [13 September] 20 * V. Bill for Food at a Tavern in Liberty, Virginia, [17 September] 21 * VI. Robert Douthat's Bill for Food and Lodging, 21 September 21 From Samuel K. Jennings, 13 September 22 To William Steptoe, 13 September 26 To Christopher Clark, 14 September 26 To Mary Blair Andrews, 15 September 27 From Joseph Coppinger, 15 September 29 Deposition Regarding Randolph Jefferson's Estate, 15 September 30 From Christopher Clark, 17 September 33 To Thaddeus Norris, 17 September 34 Notes on Distances between Poplar Forest and Natural Bridge, [ca. 17-21 September] 35 Calculations of Latitudes of the Sharp Peak of Otter and Natural Bridge, 18 September-10 November 36 From Patrick Gibson, 21 September 37 To Jose Correa da Serra, 22 September 37 To John Milledge, 22 September 38 To John Rhea, 22 September 39 Account with William Steptoe, 22 September 40 From Mathew Carey, 23 September 40 To John Holmes, 23 September 41 From John Jefferson, 23 September 42 To Samuel K. Jennings, 23 September 43 From James Monroe, 23 September 44 From Henry Dearborn, 26 September 46 From Charles Yancey, 26 September 47 From John Glendy, 28 September 48 To Randolph Harrison, 28 September 49 From Nicolas G. Dufief, 29 September 50 To Patrick Gibson, 29 September 50 To Archibald Robertson, 29 September 51 From James Penn (for Archibald Robertson), 29 September 52 Deposition of Elizabeth Henderson in Jefferson v. Michie, 30 September 52 From James Mease, 1 October 54 From Thomas Addis Emmet, 2 October 55 From Richard S. Hackley, 3 October 57 Promissory Note from Joel Yancey to Charles Clay on Behalf of Thomas Jefferson, 3 October 58 From Mathew Carey, 4 October 58 To Joseph Milligan, 5 October 59 Book List, [after 6 October] 60 From Peter Stephen Chazotte, 6 October 61 To Patrick Gibson, 6 October 62 Notes on a Conversation with Henry Dearborn, 7 October 62 To Henry Dearborn, 7 October 63 From Christopher Greenup, 9 October 63 From Caspar Wistar, 9 October 64 From Lafayette, 10 October 67 To George Watterston, 10 October 69 Observations at Monticello Related to Calculation of Latitude, 11 October-31 January 1816 70 To Alden Partridge, 12 October 71 To Spencer Roane, 12 October 72 To Mathew Carey, 13 October 74 To Tristram Dalton, 13 October 75 To Robert Patterson, 13 October 76 To Henry Sheaff, 13 October 77 To Benjamin Waterhouse, 13 October 78 From George Watterston, 13 October, enclosing Notes on Etienne Bezout's Cours de Mathematiques, [before April] 79 From George Ticknor, 14 October 82 To George W. Campbell, 15 October 88 To Peter Stephen Chazotte, 15 October 90 To George Logan, 15 October 90 To James Mease, 15 October 91 To Charles Yancey, 15 October 92 From Mary Blair Andrews, 16 October 93 To Albert Gallatin, 16 October 94 From John Manesca and Victor Value, 16 October 97 From J. Sheaff (for Henry sheaff), 16 October 98 To Patrick Gibson, 17 October 99 From David M. Randolph, 17 October 100 From John Martin Baker, 18 October 102 From Arsene Lacarriere Latour, 18 October 103 From noah Worcester, 18 October 104 Account with William Ballard, [ca. 20 October] 105 To Patrick Gibson, 20 October 106 To Thomas Ritchie, 20 October 106 From Richard Rush, 20 October 107 To George Watterston, 20 October 107 To Louis H. Girardin, 21 October 108 From George Logan, 21 October 109 To Martin Dawson, 22 October, with Jesse Abell's receipt, 23 October 111 To John Glendy, 22 October 112 From Philip Mazzei, [22] October 112 From Spencer Roane, 22 October 120 To Caspar Wistar, 22 October 121 To John Bracken, 23 October 122 To Robert Saunders, 23 October 123 From Patrick Gibson, 24 October 124 To Charles Massie, 24 [October] 124 From John Minor, 24 October 125 From Robert Patterson, 24 October 125 From Thomas Appleton, 25 October 126 To Arsene Lacarriere Latour, 26 October 128 To John Manesca and Victor Value, 26 October 129 To Richard Rush, 26 October 129 To Henry Sheaff, 26 October 130 To Joseph Milligan, 27 October 130 To John Bankhead, 28 October 131 To Patrick Gibson, 28 October 133 From John Guillemard, 28 October 134 From Robert Saunders, 29 October 136 From William Bentley, 30 October 137 From George Fleming, enclosing Drawing and Description of a Steam Engine, 30 October 138 From Sir John Sinclair, 1 November 143 To Christopher Clark, 2 November 144 From Christopher Clark, 2 November 145 From the Citizens of Lynchburg, 4 November 145 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 4 November 147 To Christopher Clark, 5 November 148 From Christopher Clark, 5 November 148 From Claude Alexandre Ruelle, enclosing Claude Alexandre Ruelle to James Madison, 5 November 149 From Edmund Bacon, 8 November 151 From Henry Jackson, 9 November 152 Jefferson's Calculations of Altitude of the Peaks of Otter 153 * I. Labeled Diagrams Related to Calculations of Altitude of the Peaks of Otter, [before 10 November] 154 * II. Field notes and Calculations of Altitude of the Peaks of Otter, [10-ca. 17 November] 156 * III. Summary Comments on the Peaks of Otter, [before 2 December] 173 From John Adams, 13 November 174 From Peter S. Du Ponceau, 14 November, enclosing Resolution by the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, 30 October 177 From James Madison, [15 November] 180 From John Barnes, 18 November, enclosing Baring Brothers & Company to John Barnes, 14 September 181 To Charles Clay, 18 November 183 From Horatio G. Spafford, 18 November 183 From John Rhea, 20 November 184 From John Vaughan, 21 November 186 From William R. Gray, 22 November 187 From Alden Partridge, 23 November, enclosing Observations on the Use of Barometers to Compute Altitudes, 20 August 1811, and Table of Altitudes of the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains, [by 5 November 1810] 187 From Horatio G. Spafford, 23 November 194 From Robert Patterson, 24 November 194 From George Ticknor, 25 November 195 From Jean David, 26 November 197 From Albert Gallatin, 27 November 201 From Robert Patterson, 28 November 204 From Carlo Botta, 29 November 207 From Stephen Cathalan, 29 November 209 From Alexander Murray, 29 November 212 From Lady Virginia Murray, [before 29 November] 213 Conveyance of Sally Goodman to Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 November 215 From Thomas Leiper, 30 November 216 From Dabney Carr, 1 December 219 From Robert Patterson, 2 December, enclosing Ferdinand R. Hassler's List of Scientific Instruments Procured for the United States Coast Survey, November 220 From Henry Dearborn, 3 December 226 Trigonometry Exercise, 4 December 227 From Charles Clay, 5 December 229 From Philip I. Barziza, 6 December 230 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, enclosing Victor du Pont's Notes on Samuel F. Du Pont, 7 December 231 From George Watterston, 7 December 237 To William Steptoe, 8 December 238 From Alden Partridge, enclosing Summary of Meteorological Observations, 9 December 238 Calculations of Latitude of Poplar Forest, 6 August-10 December 245 From Benjamin Austin, 11 December 247 From John Wayles Eppes, 11 December 250 From Peter Derieux, 12 December 251 To Patrick Gibson, 12 December 254 To Archibald Robertson, 12 December 254 From Benjamin Waterhouse, 14 December 255 Petition of Joseph Miller to the Virginia General Assembly, [presented 15 December] 258 To Fanny Brand, 16 December 262 From Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, 16 December 262 To John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 16 December 263 From Amos J. Cook, 18 December 264 To Charles Massie, 18 December 267 From Andre Thouin, 18 December 267 From James Gibbon, 19 December 269 From Charles Massie, 19 December 269 From Joseph Delaplaine, 20 December 270 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 20 December 270 From James Gibbon, 22 December 272 From Patrick Gibson, 22 December 272 To James Madison, 22 December 273 To Joseph Milligan, 22 December 274 To Robert Patterson, 22 December 275 To Horatio G. Spafford, 22 December 276 To John Vaughan, 22 December 276 To Jerman Baker, 23 December 277 To Joseph C. Cabell, 23 December 279 From Charles Willson Peale, 23 December 280 To Philip I. Barziza, 24 December, enclosing Abstract of Marriage Settlement of John Paradise and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, [after 10 May 1769], and Sir William Jones's Notes on Marriage Settlement of John Paradise and Lucy Ludwell Paradise, [after 10 May 1769] 282 To James Gibbon, 24 December 286 From Charles Yancey, 24 December 286 To Jean David, 25 December 287 To Louis H. Girardin, 25 December 288 To David Higginbotham, 25 December 289 To Robert Saunders, 25 December, enclosing Power of Attorney From Giovanni Battista Fancelli to Thomas Jefferson, 29 August 1814, and Transfer of Power of Attorney for Giovanni Battista Fancelli from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Saunders, 25 December 290 From Horatio G. Spafford, 25 December 297 From Charles Yancey, 27 December 298 To William Bentley, 28 December 299 From Lafayette, 28 December 300 From Martin Dawson, 29 December 301 To George Fleming, 29 December 302 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 31 December 304 From Hosea Humphrey, 31 December 307 1 8 1 6 To Jose Correa da Serra, 1 January 308 From Jean David, 1 January 311 To Patrick Gibson, 2 January 312 To Alden Partridge, 2 January 313 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 January 317 To George Watterston, 3 January 318 From James Gibbon, 5 January 318 From William Short, 5 January 319 From Philip I. Barziza, 6 January 322 From Stephen Cathalan, 6 January 323 To James Gibbon, 6 January 324 From John f. Oliveira Fernandes, 6 January 324 From Madame de Stael Holstein, 6 January 326 To Charles Yancey, 6 January 328 From Jerman Baker, 7 January 331 From Nathaniel Macon, 7 January 332 From David Gelston, 8 January 333 To Benjamin Austin, 9 January 333 From John Bradbury, 9 January 337 From Horatio G. Spafford, 9 January 339 To Charles Thomson, 9 January 340 From Carlo Botta, 10 January 343 To Horatio G. Spafford, 10 January 343 To John Adams, 11 January 345 To John Adlum, 13 January 348 To Jean David, 13 January 348 To Thomas Appleton, 14 January 349 From Joseph Delaplaine, 14 January 351 To George Ticknor, 14 January 353 From Joseph Fox, [ca. 15] January 355 From Joshua Norvell, 15 January 356 To William Short, 15 January 357 To Elisha Ticknor, 15 January 359 To John Vaughan, 15 January 359 From Joseph C. Cabell, 16 January 360 To Henry Jackson, 16 January 362 To James Monroe, 16 January 362 From Philip Doddridge, [17] January 363 From Thomas W. Maury, 17 January 365 From Charles Yancey, 17 January 366 From John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 18 January 366 From John Barnes, 19 January 367 To Dabney Carr, 19 January 367 To David Gelston, 20 January 369 To Patrick Gibson, 20 January 370 To Bernard Peyton, 20 January 371 To Peter Wilson, 20 January 372 To Amos J. Cook, 21 January 374 From Lafayette, 21 January 376 Jefferson's Essay on New England Religious Intolerance 378* I. To Thomas Ritchie, 21 January 378 * II. Essay on New England Religious Intolerance (Draft),[ca. 10 January] 380 * III. Essay on New England Religious Intolerance (As Published), [27 January] 381 To Peter S. Du Ponceau, 22 January 383 To Nathaniel Macon, 22 January 384 From James Monroe, [22] January, enclosing Winfield Scott to James Monroe, 18 November 1815 388 To Philip I. Barziza, 23 January 394 From Joseph C. Cabell, 23 January 394 To Joseph C. Cabell, 24 January 396 From Joseph C. Cabell, 24 January 398 To Peter Derieux, 24 January 399 From Thomas W. Maury, 24 January 400 To John F. Oliveira Fernandes, 24 January 401 From Philip Thornton, 24 January 402 From Benjamin Austin, 25 January 403 From Elisha Ticknor, 26 January 403 To Sarah Bowdoin Dearborn, 27 January 404 From Joseph Delaplaine, 27 January 405 To Philip Doddridge, 27 January 405 To Patrick Gibson, 27 January 406 To Thomas W. Maury, 27 January 406 From Dabney Carr, 29 January 407 From Thomas Eston Randolph, 29 January 408 From George Watterston, 29 January 409 To Noah Worcester, 29 January 410 To Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 30 January 412 To Albert Gallatin, 30 January 413 From Gilbert J. Hunt, 30 January 414 Observations for Calculating the Latitude of Monticello, 30 January-4 February 415 To Thomas Eston Randolph, 30 January 415 To Thomas Appleton, 31 January 416 To Joseph C. Cabell, 31 January 416 To Henry Jackson, 31 January 417 From Bernard Peyton, 31 January 418 To Marc Auguste Pictet, 31 January 419 To George Ticknor, 31 January 420 To Stephen Cathalan, 1 February 420 From Jean David, enclosing Petition and Memorial to Congress on American Viticulture, 1 February 422 To Henry Jackson, 1 February 429 From Jeremiah Platt, 1 February 429 Statement of Taxable Property in Albemarle County, 1 February 430 To David Bailie Warden, 1 February 431 From John Adams, with Postscript by Abigail Adams, 2 February 431 To Joseph C. Cabell, 2 February 435 From John B. Smyth (for William Duane), enclosing Account with William Duane, 2 February 439 To Thomas W. Maury, 3 February 439 From Destutt de Tracy, 4 February 441 To Christopher Greenup, 4 February 443 To James Monroe, 4 February 444 From John F. Watson, 5 February 447 To Joseph Fox, 6 February 447 To John Barnes, 7 February 448 To Patrick Gibson, 7 February 449 To William Marshall, 7 February 449 To Philip Thornton, 7 February 450 From Peter Derieux, 8 February 451 From Peter S. Du Ponceau, 8 February 453 To Henry Jackson, 8 February 454 To George Ticknor, 8 February 454 From Elizabeth Trist, 8 February 456 To Benjamin Austin, 9 February 457 From Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 9 February 458 To Joseph Delaplaine, 9 February 459 To Elisha Ticknor, 9 February 460 From Joseph Delaplaine, 10 February 460 From George Fleming, 10 February 461 To Joseph Milligan, 11 February 463 From John Barnes, 12 February, enclosing Tadeusz Kosciuszko to John Barnes, 26 November 1815 465 From Jose Correa da Serra, 12 February 466 From George P. Stevenson, 12 February 469 From Joseph C. Cabell, 14 February 469 From Stephen Cathalan, 15 February, enclosing Amant Spreafico to Stephen Cathalan, 9 January 470 Notes on Wine Consumption, 15 February-21 July 474 From Isaac Briggs, 16 February 474 From Alexander J. Dallas, 16 February 477 From Francis W. Gilmer, 16 February 478 From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 16 February 480 From Dabney C. Terrell, 16 February 481 Notes for a Settlement with William D. Fitch, 17 February 482 From Lafayette, 17 February, enclosing Destutt de Tracy to Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 30 January 484 To Joseph Miller, 17 February 487 To James Monroe, 17 February 487 To Isaac A. Coles, 18 February 488 To James L. Jefferson, 18 February 488 From James L. Jefferson, 18 February 489 From Robert Saunders, enclosing Charles Bellini Estate Account, 20 February 490 From David Bailie Warden, 20 February 492 To Joel Yancey, 20 February 493 Auditor's Report on the Purchase of Thomas Jefferson's Library, 21 February 494 From Joseph C. Cabell, 21 February 495 From Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 February 498 From John G. Robert (for Patrick Gibson), 22 February 499 From John Barnes, 23 February 500 Isaac A. Coles's Account of a Conversation with Thomas Jefferson, [before 23 February] 500 From Robert Ould, 23 February 502 From Garrit Storm, 23 February 503 From Joel Yancey, 24 February 505 From Joseph C. Cabell, 26 February 506 To Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 507 To Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 511 To Alexander J. Dallas, 26 February 512 From John Vaughan, 26 February 514 From John Adlum, 27 February 514 To Isaac Briggs, 27 February 515 From James Monroe, 27 February 516 To Joseph C. Cabell, 28 February 517 To Francis W. Gilmer, 28 February 518 To David Higginbotham, 28 February 519 To James Monroe, 28 February 519 To William Short, 28 February 519 To John Bradbury, 29 February 521 To William H. Crawford, 29 February 521 To Gilbert J. Hunt, 29 February 522 From Joseph Miller, 29 February 523 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 29 February 523 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 29 February 524 To James Oram, 29 February 525 To John F. Watson, 29 February 525 From Josiah Meigs, 1 March 526 From John Adams, 2 March 526 To Robert Ould, 2 March 529 To Robert Saunders, 2 March 530 To Garrit Storm, 2 March 531 To George Watterston, 2 March 531 From James Barbour, 4 March 532 To James Barbour, 5 March 532 From Anonymous, [ca. 6 March] 535 From Joseph Milligan, 6 March 537 To Richard Peters, 6 March 538 From Mary B. Briggs, 7 March 540 To Patrick Gibson, 8 March 541 From Christopher Hudson, 8 March 542 To Bernard Peyton, 8 March 542 To Thomas Ritchie, 8 March 543 Receipt from John F. Watson, 8 March 544 From George Watterston, 8 March 544 From Isaac A. Coles, 9 March 544 From John Tayloe Lomax, 11 March 545 From Thomas M. Randolph & Company, enclosing Account of Flour Shipped by Thomas M. Randolph & Company, 12 March 546 "A" (Thomas Jefferson) to the Washington Daily National Intelligencer, 13 March 548 From Patrick Gibson, 13 March 552 From John Vaughan, 13 March 552 To John Barnes, 14 March 553 To Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 14 March 553 From William F. Gray, 14 March 555 From William Annesley, [received 15 March] 555 From George Ticknor, 15 March 559 To Joel Yancey, 15 March 562 From James Barbour, 16 March 563 From Benjamin J. Campbell, 16 March 564 Account with James Leitch, 16 March 565 From John Wood, 16 March 566 From Frank Carr, [received 18 March] 567 To Patrick Gibson, 18 March 567 From Patrick Gibson, 18 March 568 From Stephen Cathalan, 19 March, enclosing Amant Spreafico to Stephen Cathalan, 23 February, and Stephen Cathalan to James Madison, 25 September 1814 569 From Ellen W. Randolph (Coolidge), 19 March 578 From Leroy, Bayard & Mcevers, 19 March, enclosing Account with N. & J. & R. van Staphorst, 31 December 1815 579 From Bernard Peyton, 19 March 581 From Thomas Appleton, 20 March 583 From Christopher Clark, 20 March 583 From Gideon Fitz, 20 March 584 From John Barnes, 21 March 587 Account with George Cabell, [ca. 21 March] 588 From Emmor Kimber, 22 March 589 From Wilson Cary Nicholas, 22 March 590 From William Thornton, 22 March 592 To Patrick Gibson, 24 March 593 From Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 24 March 595 From Joseph Fox, 25 March 597 Account with James Leitch, 25 March 597 From Richard Peters, 25 March 598 To William Annesley, 26 March 601 To Benjamin J. Campbell, 26 March 601 To John f. Oliveira Fernandes, 26 March 602 From Bernard Peyton, 27 March 602 From Thomas Ritchie, 27 March 603 To Archibald Robertson, 28 March 604 From Jose Correa da Serra, 29 March 605 From Isaac Briggs, 30 March 606 To John Wayles Eppes, 30 [March] 607 From Levin Gale, 30 March 609 From Susan Maria Bruff, 31 March 610 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, enclosing Notes on the Encouragement of American Manufactures, 31 March 611 From Albert Gallatin, 1 April 620 To John Wood, 1 April 621 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 2 April 623 Notes on Popular Election of Juries, [ca. 2 April] 629 From Archibald Robertson, 3 April 630 Title and Prospectus for Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April] 630 Note for Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy, [ca. 6 April] 633 From William McIlhenney, 6 April 635 To Joseph Milligan, 6 April 638 To Thomas Ritchie, 6 April 640 From Jesse Torrey, 6 April 641 From John Wood, 6 April 642 From Giovanni Carmignani, 7 April 644 To Nicolas G. Dufief, 7 April 645 To Leroy, Bayard & Mcevers, 7 April 646 To John Tayloe Lomax, 7 April 647 To Josiah Meigs, 7 April 647 To William short, 7 April 648 To John Vaughan, 7 April 649 To John Adams, 8 April 649 From William Wingate, 8 April 653 From Francois Gard, 9 April 654 From James Leitch, 9 April 656 From Louis Philippe Gallot de Lormerie, 9 April 656 To James Monroe, 9 April 658 From John f. Oliveira Fernandes, 9 April, enclosing Joseph de Monteverde to John f. Oliveira Fernandes, 2 December 1815 659 To William Short, 9 April, enclosing William Woods's Survey of Land in Dispute between James Monroe and William Short, 21 February 661 From Leroy, Bayard & Mcevers, 10 April 662 To Albert Gallatin, 11 April 663 Promissory Note to John Neilson, 11 April 665 To Thomas Eston Randolph, 11 April 665 From John f. Dumoulin, 12 April 665 From Charles P. De Lasteyrie, 14 April 667 From Thomas Appleton, 15 April, enclosing Will of Philip Mazzei, 3 December 1814 669 From Lafayette, 16 April 679 From Leroy, Bayard & Mcevers, 16 April 679 To Isaac Briggs, 17 April 680 To Mary B. Briggs, 17 April 682 To Susan Maria Bruff, 17 April 682 To James Monroe, 17 April 683 From James L. Jefferson, 19 April 683 To Wilson Cary Nicholas, 19 April 684 From William Short, 23 April 693 From George Ticknor, 23 April 696 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de nemours, 24 April 699 To Charles Clay, 25 April 702 To Francis Adrian Van der Kemp, 25 April 703 To Jose Correa da Serra, 26 April 704 From Eusebio Valli, 26 April 707 From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), with Thomas Jefferson's Notes, 27 April 708 From George Logan, 27 April 708 From James Monroe, 28 April 710 To Elizabeth Trist, 28 April 710 To John Wayles Eppes, 30 April 712 From Tadeusz Kosciuszko, April 714 List of Slave Vaccinations, April-May 717 Appendix: Supplemental List of Documents Not Found 719 Index 721

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Book SynopsisA title that opens on 13 November 1802, when the 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 of the right of deposit at New Orleans, an act that threatens the economic wellbeing of Westerners.Table of ContentsForeword vii Editorial Method and Apparatus xv Illustrations xlv Jefferson Chronology 2 1 8 0 2 Receipt from Vincent Ducomb, 13 November 3 From Gibson & Jefferson, 13 November 3 To Benjamin H. Latrobe, 13 November 4 From Craven Peyton, 13 November 4 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, [before 14 November] 5 From J. P. P. Derieux, 14 November 6 To the National Institute of France, 14 November 7 To Connecticut Republicans, 15 November 8 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 15 November 9 From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 16 November 10 To Samuel Harrison Smith, 16 November 11 To Dabney Carr, 17 November 11 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 17 November 12 From Robert Hewes, 17 November 12 From Peter S. Marks, 17 November 13 To Thomas Newton, 17 November 14 Drafting the Annual Message to Congress 14 * I. Referral of the Draft to James Madison, 18 November 17 * II. Referral of the Draft to Albert Gallatin, 19 November 18 * III. Gallatin's Remarks on the Draft, [19-21 November] 18 * IV. Statement of Receipts and Expenditures,[on or before 21 November] 25 * V. Referral of the Draft to Henry Dearborn, 22 November 27 * VI. Dearborn's Remarks on the Draft, [23 November] 28 * VII. Robert Smith's Remarks on the Draft,[on or before 25 November] 28 * VIII. Referral of the Draft to Levi Lincoln, [25 November] 28 * IX. Lincoln's Remarks on the Draft, 25 November 29 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 18 November 30 From Albert Gallatin, 18 November 31 From George Helmbold, 18 November 32 From William S. Jacobs, 18 November 32 To Edward Preble, 18 November 33 From John Dawson, 19 November 34 From James Jackson, 19 November 34 From Archibald McCall, 19 November 35 From John Thomson Mason, with Jefferson's Order, 19 November 36 From Joseph H. Nicholson, 19 [November] 37 From Robert Smith, 19 November 39 From Arsenne Thiebaut de Berneaud, 19 November 39 From John Avery, 20 November 46 From John Carr, 20 November 46 From Albert Gallatin, [20 November] 47 Statement of Account with Edward Gantt, 20 November 48 From Richard Humpton, 20 November 49 From Carlos Martinez de Irujo, 20 November 50 To Robert R. Livingston, 20 November 50 To Thomas Newton, 20 November 51 To Craven Peyton, 20 November 52 Statement on Loan Certificates for William Short, 20 November 52 From Landon Carter, [21 November] 53 From Samuel Hanson, 21 November 54 From Joseph Marie Lequinio de Kerblay, 21 November 56 Statement of Account with Meriwether Lewis, 21 November 57 To Francis Mitchell, 21 November 58 To William Bache, 22 November 59 From Henry Dearborn, 22 November 59 From Henry Dearborn, with Jefferson's Note, [22 November] 60 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 22 November 60 To John Wayles Eppes, 22 November 61 From David Gelston, 22 November 62 Memorandum from Benjamin H. Latrobe, [22 November] 63 To John Mason, 22 November 64 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 22 November 64 To the Senate and the House of Representatives,[on or after 22 November] 65 To George III, King of Great Britain, 23 November 66 To Samuel Hanson, 23 November 67 To James Monroe, 24 November 67 From J. P. P. Derieux, 25 November 68 From George Helmbold, 25 November 69 From John Milledge, 25 November 69 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 25 November 70 From John Brown, 26 November 71 From William Duane, [26 November] 73 From Robert R. Livingston, 26 November 74 From Matthew Lyon, 26 November 76 From John Smith, 26 November 78 From St. George Tucker, 26 November 80 From Benjamin H. Latrobe, [28 November] 81 To Caesar A. Rodney, 28 November 82 To Thomas Cooper, 29 November 83 From Blair McClenachan, 29 November 84 From John Morton, 29 November 85 To Joseph Priestley, 29 November 85 From Stephen Sayre, 29 November 87 From Hippolyte Ferdinand de Widranges, 29 November 89 From Timothy Bloodworth, 30 November 90 From James Garrard, 30 November 91 From Ephraim Kirby, 30 November 92 From Philippe Reibelt, 30 November 93 From Samuel Elliot, November 96 To James Dinsmore, 1 December 98 From Alexander Fowler, 1 December 99 To George Jefferson, 1 December 103 From George Jefferson, 1 December 104 Memorial of the Kentucky Legislature, [1 December] 104 To John Bartram, Jr., 2 December 105 From Daniel Carroll, 2 December 106 To James Madison, 2 December 106 To William Short, 2 December 106 From Therese Ceracchi, 3 December 107 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 December 108 From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 4 December 110 From Affinity Megeath, 4 December 111 From John Brown, 5 December 112 To John Redman Coxe, 6 December 113 From Albert Gallatin, 6 December 113 From George Jefferson, 6 December 114 To Benjamin Jones, 6 December 114 From Levi Lincoln, 6 December 115 From the Navy Department, [on or before 6 December] 117 From "A True Republican," [ca. 6 December] 117 From Francis Deakins, 7 December 117 From Elizabeth Ford, 7 December 119 To Albert Gallatin, 7 December 119 To George Jefferson, 7 December 120 To S. & S. Myers, 7 December 121 From Carlos Martinez de Irujo, [8 December] 121 From Richard W. Meade, 8 December 122 To Thomas Newton, 8 December 123 From Robert Smith, 8 December 123 To Robert Bailey, 9 December 125 From Laurence A. Dorsey, 9 December 126 To Carlos Martinez de Irujo, 9 December 127 From James Mease, with Jefferson's Note, [9 December] 128 From Abraham Baldwin, 10 December 128 From John Redman Coxe, 10 December 129 To James Dinsmore, 10 December 129 From Albert Gallatin, enclosing List of Appointments, with Notes by Gallatin and Jefferson, and Gallatin's Notes on Appointments, with Jefferson's Orders, 10 December 130 To Ephraim Kirby, 10 December 133 From Robert Smith, 10 December 134 To John Steele, 10 December 134 From Marten Wanscher, 10 December 135 To John Barnes, 11 December 136 From Justus Erich Bollmann, 11 December 136 From J. P. P. Derieux, 11 December 137 To John Wayles Eppes, 11 December 138 To James Monroe, 11 December 139 From S. & S. Myers, 11 December 139 From Richard Claiborne, 12 December 140 From George Rogers Clark, 12 December 141 To Albert Gallatin, 12 December 143 From William Jones, 12 December 143 From Charles Willson Peale, 12 December 144 From Jonathan Williams, 12 December 145 From John Wayles Eppes, 13 December 147 From Harry Innes, 13 December 148 From George Jefferson, 13 December 149 To Levi Lincoln, 13 December 149 From Levi Lincoln, 13 December 150 To John Smith, 13 December 154 From Timothy Bloodworth, 14 December 155 From Gabriel Duvall, enclosing Distribution of Votes in Maryland, 14 December 156 To Albert Gallatin, 14 December 158 From Thomas Marston Green, 14 December 158 From Thomas Randall, 14 December 159 From Caesar A. Rodney, 14 December 160 From William Short, 14 [December] 162 Annual Message to Congress, 15 December 162 To John Barnes, 15 December 172 To Jones & Howell, 15 December 172 From Benjamin H. Latrobe, 15 December 173 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 15 December 174 To the Senate, 15 December 175 From John Conrad & Co., 16 December 175 From Thomas T. Davis, 16 December 176 To Thomas T. Davis, 16 December 177 From John Wayles Eppes, 16 December 177 From Jesse Franklin, 16 December 178 To James Garrard, 16 December 179 From Craven Peyton, 16 December 180 From Leonard Honore Gay de Vernon, 17 December 180 From "Jack A Dandy," [ca. 17 December] 181 From James Monroe, 17 December 182 To the Senate, 17 December 182 From Thomas Cooper, 18 December 182 From Albert Gallatin, 18 December 183 From Rufus King, 18 December 184 From Philippe Reibelt, 18 December 185 From Philip Pearson, 19 December 186 From Caesar A. Rodney, 19 December 188 From Johann Gotthilff Angerman, 20 December 189 From Joseph Barnes, 20 December 190 To Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 20 December 195 From Thomas T. Davis, 20 December 195 From Albert Gallatin, 20 December 196 From Thomas Munroe, 20 December 197 From Robert Snelson, 20 [December] 200 From Henry Voigt, 20 December 201 From Joshua Wingate, Jr., 20 December 202 To John Armstrong, 21 December 202 From Therese Ceracchi, 21 December 203 To Albert Gallatin, 21 December 205 From Peder Blicher Olsen, 22 December 206 From Benjamin Gorton, 22 December 206 To the House of Representatives, 22 December, enclosing From James Madison, 21 December 208 From Robert Snelson, 22 December 210 From Thomas Worthington, 22 December 210 From John Wayles Eppes, 23 December 211 To the House of Representatives, 23 December 212 Statement of Account with Jones & Kain, with Jefferson's Order, 23 December 213 From Francis Taliaferro Brooke, 24 December 214 From Andrew Ellicott, 24 December 214 From John Wayles Eppes, 24 December 214 To Albert Gallatin, 24 December 215 From Thomas S. Cavender, 25 December 216 To Albert Gallatin, 25 December 217 From Thomas Paine, enclosing Paine's Memorandum on Louisiana, [25 December] 217 From John Vaughan, 25 December 218 To Jonathan Williams, 25 December 220 From William Bache, 26 December 221 To the Senate, 27 December 221 To the Senate, 27 December 223 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 27 December 225 From John Smith, 27 December 225 From Indiana Territory Citizens, 28 December 226 From Arnold Oelrichs, 28 December 228 From Jean Francois Perrey, enclosing From William Henry Harrison and Others, 28 December 229 Memorandum for Henry Dearborn on Indian Policy, 29 December 231 From John Condit, 30 December 234 From Edmund Harrison, 30 December 235 To the House of Representatives 236 * I. To the House of Representatives, 30 December 237 * II. To the Speaker of the House, 30 December 238 From Carlos Martinez de Irujo, 30 December 238 From James Miller, 30 December 239 To Timothy Bloodworth, 31 December 240 To Dwight Foster, 31 December 241 To Heads of Departments, [31 December] 241 From John Joseph Rey, 31 December 241 To Caesar A. Rodney, 31 December 243 From John Vaughan, 31 December 244 From George Trisler, enclosing Circular on the Winchester Triumph of Liberty, 1802 244 1 8 0 3 From E. T. Hadwen, 1 January 246 From David Humphreys, 1 January 253 From Joseph Coppinger, 3 January 254 From William Dean, 3 January 255 To James Dinsmore, 3 January 256 From Albert Gallatin, 3 January 257 From E. T. Hadwen, 3 January 259 From Ephraim Kirby, 3 January 260 From John Reich, 3 January 264 From John Wayles Eppes, 4 January 265 Petition of William Connor, with Jefferson's Order, 5 January 266 From John Redman Coxe, 5 January 267 From William Dunbar, 5 January 268 To the House of Representatives, 5 January 271 To John Smith, 5 January 272 From Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 6 January 272 To John Barnes, 6 January 273 From Abijah Hart, 6 January 273 From Anthony Van Mannierck, 6 January 274 From Horatio Gates, 7 January 275 From George Meade, 7 January 277 From Caesar A. Rodney, 7 January 278 To the Senate, 7 January 279 From Albert Gallatin, [8 January], enclosing Andrew Ellicott to Albert Gallatin, 27 December 1802 280 From George Jefferson, 8 January 283 From James Lovell, 8 January 283 From Thomas Munroe, 8 January 285 To Owl and Others, 8 January 286 From Samuel A. Ruddock, [on or after 8 January] 290 From William Wirt, 8 January 292 From Carlos Martinez de Irujo, [9 January] 293 From James Jackson, 9 January 294 From James Monroe, 9 January 295 From Joseph Anderson, 10 January 296 From John Conner, 10 January 296 From Henry Dearborn, enclosing List of Army Appointments, 10 January 297 From Henry Dearborn, 10 January 299 From William Edgar, 10 January 299 To George Jefferson, 10 January 300 From Robert Leslie, 10 January 301 From Levi Lincoln, 10 January 302 To James Monroe, 10 January 306 From Charles Willson Peale, 10 January 306 Petition of John Baker, with Jefferson's Order, 11 January 308 From Mary Jefferson Eppes, 11 January 309 Petition of John Henderson, 11 January 310 To George Jefferson, 11 January 311 To John Langdon, 11 January 311 To the Senate, 11 January 312 To the Senate, 11 January 313 To the Senate, 11 January 316 To the Senate, 11 January 316 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 11 January, enclosing From Elias Boudinot, 1 January 318 Commission for James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston, 12 January 320 To George Jefferson, 12 January 321 To George Jefferson, 12 January 321 To James Monroe, 12 January 322 From Thomas Paine, 12 January 322 To Christopher Smith, 12 January 323 To S. Smith & Buchanan, 12 January 323 From Albert Gallatin, [13 January] 324 To Albert Gallatin, [13 January] 327 To James Monroe, 13 January 328 To Thomas Paine, 13 January 331 From Henry Dearborn, 14 January 332 From Harry Innes, 14 January 332 From Thomas S. Kennedy, 14 January 333 From Benjamin Hawkins, 15 January 334 From George Jefferson, 15 January 335 Proclamation Extending Building Regulations in the City of Washington, 15 January 335 From John Smith, 15 January 336 From William Hamilton, 16 January 337 From Peter Carr, 17 January 337 To John Wayles Eppes, 17 January 338 From E. T. Hadwen, enclosing Religious Testimony of E. T. Hadwen, 17 January 339 To Thomas Mann Randolph, 17 January 341 From Markes Vandewall, 17 January 342 Meriwether Lewis: Estimated Costs of Missouri River Expedition, [before 18 January] 342 To Mary Jefferson Eppes, 18 January 343 From Albert Gallatin, 18 January 344 To James Garrard, 18 January 347 Notes on Navy Appropriations for 1803, [on or after 18 January] 348 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 January 350 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 18 January, enclosing Henry Dearborn: Report on Indian Affairs, 17 January 354 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, [18 January] 357 From the Town Committee at York, Massachusetts, with Jefferson's Notes, 18 January, enclosing Memorial from the Town Committee at York, Massachusetts, 17 January 358 Petition of Augustus B. Woodward and Others, with Jefferson's Order, 18 January 360 From John Wayles Eppes, 19 January 361 From Lewis Harvie, [19 January] 361 From Edward Livingston, 19 January 363 From "A Merchant of Charleston" 19 January 364 From Robert Smith, with Jefferson's Note, 19 January 366 From Dr. John Vaughan, 19 January 367 From William Helms, 20 January 368 From John Langdon, 20 January 368 From John Lithgow, 20 January 369 To John Page, 20 January 369 To Peder Blicher Olsen, [21 January] 370 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 21 January 371 To Thomas C. James, 21 January 373 From James A. Stewart, 21 January 374 From Albert Gallatin, enclosing Estimate of Navy Appropriations for 1803, 22 January 376 Memorandum for Henry Dearborn, 22 January 379 To John Avery, 23 January 381 From Peder Blicher Olsen, [23 January] 382 To Peter Carr, 23 January 383 To Charles Willson Peale, 23 January 383 To the President of the Senate, 23 January 384 To John Reich, 23 January 384 From Robert Smith, 23 January 385 To William Tazewell, 23 January 385 To Dr. John Vaughan, 23 January 386 From H. Bredaugh, 24 January 386 From Albert Gallatin, [24 January] 386 To Albert Gallatin, 24 January 387 From Samuel McFetrich, 24 January 387 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 24 January 388 From William H. Beaumont, 25 January 389 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 25 January 390 To Samuel Hanway, 25 January 391 To Lewis Harvie, 25 January 392 From John Langdon, 26 January 393 From Robert Leslie, enclosing Plan of a Dry Dock, 26 January 394 To William Hill Wells, 26 January 398 From Christopher Ellery, 27 January, enclosing Petition of Nathaniel Ingraham, [on or before 27 January] 398 To Horatio Gates, 27 January 401 To Robert Leslie, 27 January 402 Petition of William Mattox, with Jefferson's Order, 27 January 403 To Martha Jefferson Randolph, 27 January 404 To John Campbell White, 27 January 405 From John Conrad Lange, 28 January 406 From Charles Willson Peale, enclosing Description of the Physiognotrace, 28 January 406 From Peter Carr, 29 January 409 From Albert Gallatin, 29 January 410 From Robert Smith, 29 January 410 From William Adamson, 30 January 411 From Levi Lincoln, 30 January 415 To Madame de Tesse, 30 January 416 To Madame de Corny, 31 January 417 To Maria Cosway, 31 January 418 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 31 January 419 From Augustine Eastin, 31 January 422 From Albert Gallatin, 31 January 422 From Levi Lincoln, 31 January 425 From John Washington Scott, 31 January 425 From William Canby, 1 February 426 From Henry Dearborn, [1 February] 427 From Henry Dearborn, 1 February 427 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 February 427 To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 1 February 428 From James Miller and Others, 1 February 432 From William Bache, 2 February 433 From John Daly Burk, 2 February 434 From James Currie, 2 February 435 From Philadelphia Merchants and Others, 2 February 435 To the Senate, 2 February 436 From "A. B.", [on or before 3 February] 438 From Susana Carter, 3 February 440 From Joseph Eaker, 3 February 441 From Thomas Marston Green, 3 February 442 To the House of Representatives, 3 February 443 To Robert R. Livingston, 3 February 444 From Joseph Stokes, 3 February 446 To Abraham Baldwin, 4 February 447 From Robert Brent, 4 February 448 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 4 February 448 From William Hoge and Joseph Hiester, 4 February 449 To William Jones, 4 February 451 To Pierre Auguste Adet, 5 February 451 From Henry Dearborn, enclosing From Henry Dearborn, 5 February 452 To Marc Auguste Pictet, 5 February 456 To Charles Pougens, enclosing Jefferson's Volumes of the Encyclopedie Methodique, 5 February 458 To Justus Erich Bollmann, 6 February 462 To Jones & Howell, 6 February 463 List of Groceries for Monticello, 6 February 463 To Louis Sebastien Mercier, 6 February 463 To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 6 February 464 To Thomas Newton, 6 February 465 To Daniel Trump, 6 February 465 To Volney, 6 February 466 From James Ash, 7 February 467 To Stephen Cathalan, Jr., enclosing List of Groceries Wanted from Marseilles, 7 February 468 List of French Wines, [on or before 7 February] 471 From Thomas McKean, 7 February 471 From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 7 February 475 To John Joseph Rey, 7 February 475 From Edward Savage, 7 February 475 From William Wingate, with Jefferson's Note, 7 February 476 From William, Benjamin, and W. L. Bakewell, 8 February 478 From James Brobson and John Warner, 8 February 479 To George Jefferson, 8 February 480 To James Madison, 8 February 481 To Craven Peyton, 8 February 482 From Thomas Hobbes Scott, 8 February 482 To Charles Smith, 8 February 483 From Robert Smith, 8 February 484 From Albert Gallatin, [9 February] 485 From John Barnes, 10 February 485 From John Breckinridge and Others, 10 February 486 From Robert Eastburn, 10 February 488 From John Wayles Eppes, 10 February 488 To Albert Gallatin, 10 February 490 From Thomas Newton, 10 February 491 From Clement Storer and Others, 10 February 491 Topics for Consultation with Heads of Departments, [on or after 10 February] 493 To Cornplanter and Others, 11 February 496 From Samuel Hanson, 11 February 497 Letter of Credence for James Monroe, 11 February 498 From J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 11 February 499 From Elisha Bennett, 12 February 499 To Handsome Lake, 12 February 500 From Thomas Mendenhall, 12 February 502 From Robert Leslie, 13 February 504 From Jean Vermonnet, 13 February 507 From J. P. P. Derieux, 14 February 509 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 510 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 14 February 511 From Rolfe Eldridge, 14 February 513 To Farmer's Brother and Others, 14 February 514 From James Jackson, 14 February 518 From Charles Willson Peale, 14 February 523 To the Senate, 14 February 524 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 14 February 525 From James Burnham, 15 February 525 From Madame de Corny, 15 February 527 To Henry Dearborn, 15 February 529 From Albert Gallatin, 15 February 531 From Philip Mazzei, 15 February 532 To James Jackson, 16 February 541 From Thomas Newton, 16 February 543 To John Breckinridge, 17 February 543 From Daniel Carroll Brent, 17 February 544 From Joseph Coppinger, 18 February 545 To Benjamin Hawkins, 18 February 546 To George Jefferson, 18 February 549 From Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 19 February 549 From Samuel J. Cabell, 19 February 550 From Henry Dearborn, 19 February 551 To Thomas McKean, 19 February 552 From Craven Peyton, 19 February 555 From Robert Smith, [19 February] 555 From James Taylor, Jr., 19 February 556 From John Carroll, 20 February 556 From Thomas Rodney, 20 February 557 From Elize Winn, 20 February 558 To John Daly Burk, 21 February 559 To John Wayles Eppes, 21 February 560 From James Madison, [21 February] 560 To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, 21 February 561 To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 21 February 562 To the Senate, 21 February 562 Statement of Account with George Andrews, [on or before 22 February] 563 To James Madison, 22 February 564 From Joseph H. Nicholson, 22 February 565 From Lyman Spalding, 22 February 566 To Joseph Anderson, William Cocke, and William Dickson, 23 February 566 From Nicholas Gouin Dufief, 23 February 567 To Joseph H. Nicholson, 23 February 568 To Craven Peyton, 23 February 569 From Benjamin Reynolds, 23 February 569 To the Senate and the House of Representatives, 23 February, enclosing Madison's Report on the Hendrick, 22 February 573 From Anne Cary Randolph, [before 24 February] 575 From Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [before 24 February] 575 To Lacepede, 24 February 576 To John Carroll, 25 February 579 Circular to the Governors of the States, 25 February 579 From Pierpont Edwards, 25 February 581 To George Jefferson, 25 February 581 From Levi Lincoln, 25 February 582 From Schuyler Livingston, [25 February] 582 To Thomas Mendenhall, 25 February 583 To James Monroe, 25 February 584 To James B. Richardson, 25 February 585 To William Wingate, 25 February 586 From Peter Hughes, 26 February 586 To Anne Cary Randolph, 26 February 588 To Benjamin Smith Barton, 27 February 588 To William Henry Harrison, 27 February 589 From Justus Erich Bollmann, 28 February 593 From Matthew Clay, 28 February 594 From Albert Gallatin, 28 February 595 To William Henry Harrison, 28 February 596 To Lewis Harvie, 28 February 597 From Alexander Moultrie, 28 February 598 To Benjamin Rush, 28 February 598 From Robert Smith, 28 February 600 Abstract of Warrants from Robert Smith, 28 February 600 To Caspar Wistar, 28 February 601 From Joseph Croswell, February 602 From Abraham Baldwin, 1 March 606 From Isaac Briggs, 1 March 606 To Nicolas Gouin Dufief, 1 March 608 From Nicolas Gouin Dufief, enclosing Invoice for Books, 1 March 609 From Christopher Ellery, 1 March 610 To the House of Representatives, 1 March 611 From Michael Leib, 1 March 611 Memorandum to James Madison, 1 March 612 To Joseph H. Nicholson, 1 March 613 To Philip Pearson, 1 March 613 To the Senate, 1 March 614 From Benjamin Waterhouse, 1 March 615 To Richard Winn, 1 March 616 From John Page, 2 March 617 To Robert Patterson, 2 March 618 Statement of Account with Rapine, Conrad & Co., 2 March 619 From Robert Smith, 2 March 621 From Joseph Anderson, 3 March 621 From John Bacon, 3 March 622 To William Dunbar, 3 March 623 From Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 3 March 624 From Joseph Hamilton, 3 March 626 From Craven Peyton, 3 March 627 To William Short, 3 March 627 From David Thomas, 3 March, enclosing From James McCrea, 13 September 1802 628 APPENDICES Appendix I: List of Appointments, 631 [13 November 1802-4 March 1803] Appendix II: Letters Not Printed in Full 636 Appendix III: Letters Not Found 637 Appendix IV: Financial Documents 641 INDEX 645

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Book SynopsisWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forTrade ReviewWinner of the 2012 Book of the Year Award, American National Section of L'Association Internationale de Droit Penal (AIDP) Selected for the Washington Post's "Best of 2012: 50 notable works of nonfiction" "All the Missing Souls is a very personal history, an angry book by an often bitter man caught in the middle, conflicted in his loyalties, trying to advance the American agenda on international justice, while simultaneously having to tell potential allies in other countries that the agenda did not apply to Americans... [T]he question of whether the establishment of international justice was actually worth it hangs over David Scheffer's narrative... Justice--imperfect, partial, expensive--has been done and even been seen to be done. In these places, murderous rages have subsided. Some have reconciled. States have achieved stability. People are moving on. One of the reasons for this may be that in some cases justice was done. If so, David Scheffer can be proud of what he tried to do."--Michael Ignatieff, New York Review of Books "The story [Scheffer] tells is fascinating, for it makes clear that his principal adversary in the struggle for international justice wasn't African warlords or Balkan nationalists but members of his own government."--Lawrence R Douglas, Times Literary Supplement "A diplomat fights an uphill battle to bring the worst criminals to justice in this dogged memoir... Scheffer's narrative is an epic diplomatic history... In it we see the birth of a more responsible and civilized world order."--Publishers Weekly "David Scheffer, a former State Department official who was a major architect of the five new tribunals of the 1990s, takes a refreshingly different approach to American pride in his semi-autobiographical study of the new courts. He is critical of his president (Clinton), he is critical of his secretary of state (Albright), and, remarkably and refreshingly in an American memoir in the twenty-first century, he is critical of himself... Scheffer ... offers an impressively gripping and persuasive story of the complexity of his own undertakings: the cooperation across bureaucracies domestic and international, the development of law respectfully and creatively, and the furious indifference of circumstance to the best of intentions. In other words, he has written a good book of contemporary history."--Timothy Snyder, New Republic "A revealing and valuable record of the U.S. role in the effort to entrench accountability for mass atrocities as a central principle in international affairs... The centerpiece of Scheffer's book is a long and vivid account of the negotiations to set up a permanent International Criminal Court."--Anthony Dworkin, Washington Post "David Scheffer ... provides the ultimate insider's life work, part autobiography, part documentary, all highly informative and enlightening. Indeed, much of the information contained in this text simply cannot be obtained from any other source."--Matthew Kane, International Affairs "Meticulous... From 1993 to 1997 [Scheffer] served as senior adviser to Madeleine Albright, the US ambassador to the UN, and then until 2001, on President Bill Clinton's nomination, he became the first US ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues. Scheffer is therefore particularly well placed to describe the changes that occurred over that eight-year period... All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals is first and foremost an insider's account, and one written from a US perspective... No country has done more to create an international justice system than the US, or to keep itself outside the reach of that system. If nothing else, Scheffer's account establishes that for the US, even for the Clinton administration, this was about making international law for others."--Philippe Sands, Financial Times "Scheffer recounts the effort to extend the reach of international justice to war zones and collapsing societies... This impeccably documented work stands as a condemnation not just of such Bush-era expediency but also of moral compromise at the expense of the powerless. It's also the story of an attempt to attain the most strenuous of goals: upholding civilization in the face of monstrous evil. Scheffer is one of the very few people who can tell it."--Douglas Gillison, Time "The most enduring and sobering message of All the Missing Souls is that--unless the most powerful players in international military actions insist otherwise--international criminal justice is always at the bottom of the list."--Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard Magazine "Pioneering... From the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic in Kosovo to the trial of Charles Taylor in Sierra Leone, Scheffer recounts the highlights of this 'truly international counterattack on impunity for the worst possible crimes.' Reflecting after nearly a decade of battles, the author writes that international justice is the art of the possible and requires endless patience and persistence... An important resource for scholars and specialists in international law."--Kirkus Reviews "Scheffer provides a fascinating insider's account of the formation of the war crimes tribunals following atrocities in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia... Scheffer chronicles in captivating detail the diplomatic and political minefields that he and his colleagues navigated to help establish the International Criminal Court... A superb account and unique perspective on the subject, complementing works such as Carla Del Ponte's Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity's Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity."--Lynne F. Maxwell, Library Journal starred review "As the first Ambassador at large for War Crimes Issues, David Scheffer was literally at the centre of what is the most fertile period in the development of international criminal law since the Nuremberg Trial... His insights into the dynamics of the evolving US policy in international criminal justice are invaluable. Amongst the many textbooks in international criminal law, David Scheffer's book is refreshingly different. It makes good reading for specialists and for students, yet it is also highly accessible to a broad public. This is a must acquisition for the international criminal law bookshelf."--William A. Schabas, PhD Studies in Human Rights blog "The reporting of genocide and mass atrocities in the media often has the effect of dulling us to their full horror. They become abstractions, something that happens to other people, far away. In All the Missing Souls, Scheffer makes those crimes immediate and real, and describes an extraordinary effort to further the creation of a world that 'holds war criminals in contempt and breeds them no more.'"--Maria Browning, Chapter 16 "This is an honest and scholarly book."--Geoffrey Robertson, New Statesman "[Scheffer] documents, in careful detail, the convoluted behind-the-scenes steps that went into the setting up of the various tribunals, the nit-picking delays, the timidity and obfuscation of governments and the endless postponements and quibbling... [A] historically important book of record."--Caroline Moorehead, Literary Review "Scheffer, who led U.S. efforts to develop international criminal courts during the Clinton administration, has written a personal history of these efforts... Full of exhaustive details, although not organized in chronological or systematic fashion, this book will be of great interest to specialists in the field."--Choice "This is an important book, its final chapter being, perhaps, the most important, because it points a way forward to new categories of crimes against humanity, such as atrocity crime, which need to be on the statute book if the ICC is to have even sharper teeth."--Rabbi Dr Charles H Middleburgh, Middleburgh Blog "All the Missing Souls clearly fills a gap in literature on the administration of international justice, and it is must reading for those interested in emerging themselves profoundly in this field. His direct personal involvement in working to create international tribunals to bring to justice individuals responsible for the worst of the 'atrocity crimes' of recent decades demonstrates that perseverance and tenacity can make a difference on the international scene."--Martin Wenick, American Diplomacy "David Scheffer has provided us with a unique insight into the international legislative process and into the making of US foreign policy. We are in his debt."--Chris Brown, RUSI Journal "All the Missing Souls is an excellent narrative on the formation and the future of international justice and rule of law initiatives."--Justin L. Heather, Chicago Bar Association Record "Scheffer's general observations and recommendations are grounded in a wealth of detail on the diplomatic ins and outs of the pursuit of international criminal justice during his tenure."--Richard B. Bilder, American Journal of International Law "On behalf of the world's most powerful nation in the 1990s, Scheffer was pivotal throughout the formative decade of international criminal justice. No historian or scholar of international criminal law can afford to miss his newly published All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals... The role of a talented and committed diplomat and lawyer, in the service of the world's most powerful nation and of his own pathway to redemption, can be invaluable. In the end, we are all indebted to Scheffer for his personal contributions to the cause."--Doug Cassel, American Journal of International Law "This clearly written book [is] a comprehensive historical, political and diplomatic overview of the international criminal law system."--Rossella Pulvirenti, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION: Ambassador to Hell 1 PART I CHAPTER ONE: An Echo of Nuremberg 15 CHAPTER TWO: It's Genocide, Stupid 45 CHAPTER THREE: Credible Justice for Rwanda 69 CHAPTER FOUR: Abandoned at Srebrenica 87 CHAPTER FIVE: The Pastor from Mugonero 108 CHAPTER SIX: Unbearable Timidity 124 PART II CHAPTER SEVEN: The Siren of Exceptionalism 163 CHAPTER EIGHT: Futile Endgame 199 CHAPTER NINE: Rome's Aftermath 227 PART III CHAPTER TEN: Crime Scene Kosovo 251 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Freetown Is Burning 296 CHAPTER TWELVE: The Toughest Cockfi ght 341 PART IV CHAPTER THIRTEEN: No Turning Back 409 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Postscript on Law, Crimes, and Impunity 421 Acknowledgments 441 Appendix: Comparison of Modern War Crimes Tribunals 444 Notes 451 Further Reading 501 List of Illustrations 511 Index 513

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Book SynopsisNellie Dowell was a match factory girl in Victorian London who spent her early years consigned to orphanages and hospitals. Muriel Lester, the daughter of a wealthy shipbuilder, longed to be free of the burden of money and possessions. Together, these unlikely soulmates sought to remake the world according to their own utopian vision of Christ's teTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015 "In The Match Girl and the Heiress, inspired by a cache of private writings that reveal a profound relationship between two women activists, [Koven] delves deep into the historical record to build an intriguing story of cross-class devotion--between the social reformer Muriel Lester and 'a half-orphaned Cockney' factory worker named Nellie Dowell."--Nina Burleigh, New York Times Book Review "[F]ascinating... The great virtue of Koven's approach is his constant probing of surfaces. He is never content simply to mention a school, a hospital, a factory, without examining the policies or commercial pressures, the attitudes of the public, the actual daily round and the experience of those who lived or worked there, asking what it felt like, emotionally and physically... [This] imaginative book, at once an immaculate social and religious history and an intriguing exercise in life-writing, gives both the heiress and the match girl their due."--Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books "[M]eticulously researched."--Caroline Moorhead, Times Literary Supplement "Rutgers University historian Koven (Slumming) has fashioned a scholarly yet highly readable jewel that tackles the big issues of early-20th-century England in an intimate way. Through the lives of Muriel Lester and Nellie Dowell, he brilliantly illuminates the growth of global capitalism, a revolutionary 'God is love' Christian theology, war and pacifism, feminism and sexuality, and class and gender relations."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Koven demonstrates how these women changed the world's attitude toward the poor."--Kirkus "Koven's book sets Nellie and Muriel's relationship in the context of the religion and politics of their era... [T]he most memorable parts are about the unique relationship between these two women. It also serves as a timely reminder of how cruel life was for the poor when there was no welfare state to act as a safety net."--Rachel Trethewey, Independent "Koven's book sensitively uses a personal relationship to examine both the hopes and the failures of the attempts to cross class boundaries at a time and place where they ruled supreme."--Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch "The Match Girl and the Heiress is a tale of two intertwined lives, but it is also a story of many places, thoughtfully and richly realized... At the heart of this excellent work is an engrossing, sensitive, and thoughtful story of history, theology, politics, and genuine love."--James Norton, Christian Science Monitor "Seth Koven's new book is a bold, brilliant and deeply moving account of [Lester's and Dowell's] contrasting lives... It is Koven's evident admiration for the imagination and conviction involved in the struggle to live ethically that makes this book such a terrific read."--Nadia Valman, Times Higher Education "Seth Coven who has poured considerable research into this work, has given us much food for thought... The Match Girl And The Heiress deserves a thorough read and is both entertaining and thought-provoking."--Clare O'Beara, Fresh Fiction "Remarkable reading... Muriel and Nellie shine through the pages of The Match Girl and the Heiress."--John Rennie, East End Life "Koven's book is finely researched and detailed as it traces the cross?fertilisation of nonconformist religious movements with those of the early socialist, pacifist and suffragette elements of East London's political radicalism."--The New English Landscape "[An] impressive work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship... Rich, critical, and warm-hearted, The Match Girl and the Heiress will be inspiring and provoking historians of affective emotion, social work, immanence theology, and fraternalism for some time to come."--Geoff A.C. Ginn, Health and History "Koven makes a convincing argument that love and its emotions are worthy of serious consideration within histories of politics of this period... Koven's methodology for filling in the blanks and reconstructing Dowell's life leads to rich and rewarding readings of institutions and other cultural texts."--Angharad Eyre, Journal of Victorian Culture "Congratulations to Seth Koven for his comprehensive research into the history of Kingsley Hall. An academic work and while not a light read, provides a fascinating insight into the beginnings of the labour movement trades unionism, Christian socialism, pacifism, and the fives and times of those who worked with great conviction for better social conditions."--Doreen Kendall, Stone Stories "While it's hard enough to recover the lives of women from centuries past, it's an even greater challenge to recover the lives--the full, complex, interior lives--of the working poor. And when a central figure is at once poor and a woman? That Koven has produced such a vivid and detailed rendering of [Nellie] Dowell's life is remarkable in and of itself... Koven's illuminating readings of [Nellie's] letters form what I would argue is one of the most powerful analyses of an early-century poor woman's interior life... His achievement is significant."--Lisa Rodensky, Women's Review of Books "Koven's book is a detailed and nuanced exploration of sincere attempts by dedicated Christians to find better and more equitable ways to live."--Lynn MacKay, Labour-Le Travail "[The Match Girl and the Heiress] is a model for how micro history can tease out macro historical processes... A beautiful account of a time and a place, and however rich and complex the analysis, its arguments and conclusions are not only accessible to a broad readership but have implications that transcend the narrow interests of historians of modern Britain... [A] wonderful read."--Nadja Durbach, American Historical Review "Seth Koven has done a remarkable job in shining a light on a hitherto hidden aspect of the multi-faceted story of the main protagonists."--Rosemary Taylor, East London History Society Newsletter "Koven combines masterful analysis and compelling narrative to create an unforgettable story of the friendship between Muriel Lester, the wealthy social activist, and Nellie Dowell, a match factory worker, in late Victorian London."--Theresa Kaminski, History Buff "Koven's book will fascinate not only readers interested in the history of this period but anyone who has mused on how to practice a Christian social ethic in a society which seems hostile to it... [The Match Girl and the Heiress] beautifully illustrates both the 'mighty force' of 'Christian revolutionary love' and its inherent limits."--Michael Ledger-Lomas, Books & Culture "[An] absorbing narrative."--Andrew Stone, New Zealand Herald "Seth Koven's The Match Girl and the Heiress ... extends richly into a range of related contexts, from match production to Christian Science. Koven's scholarship is astonishing in its depth and conscientiousness: he proceeds sensitively and ethically, always alert to the limits of interpretation."--Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Public Books "[An] inventive book."--Helen Rogers, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children 21 The Education of Nellie Dowell 23 The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester 57 Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning 75 CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls 77 The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture 79 How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls 85 Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed 95 Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls 104 Conclusions 130 CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain 135 "God Is Love" 137 Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening 154 God's Empire 171 From Paupers to Citizens 177 Conclusions 181 CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace 184 Taking Nellie's Temperature 186 Narrating Nellie 190 "You don't look near so well really" 201 Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics 212 Bodies at War 219 Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel 226 "Why it is I don't know" 237 Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart 252 CHAPTER FIVE Love and Christian Revolution 256 Henry Lester's Gift 261 Feminisms at War 274 Reconciliation and Christian Revolution 288 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" 301 Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress 315 Conclusions 328 Afterlives 330 Manuscript Sources 353 Notes 357 Index 435

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Book SynopsisStill shaken by the closing of the right of deposit at New Orleans, the author confronts the potential political consequences of a cession of Louisiana to France that might result in a denial of American access to the Mississippi. This title drafts instructions and a cipher for Meriwether Lewis and arranges for the needed instruments.

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Book SynopsisGives legal advice, including an opinion on whether perjury can be committed before a grand jury. This title attempts to bring Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy into print, offers biographical information for Delaplaine's Repository, and recommends revisions to a forthcoming biography of Patrick Henry.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 NAVSA Best book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association Winner of the 2015 Stansky Prize, North American Conference on British Studies One of HistoryBuff.com's 10 Can't-Miss History Books of 2015 "In The Match Girl and the Heiress, inspired by a cache of private writings that reveal a profound relationship between two women activists, [Koven] delves deep into the historical record to build an intriguing story of cross-class devotion--between the social reformer Muriel Lester and 'a half-orphaned Cockney' factory worker named Nellie Dowell."--Nina Burleigh, New York Times Book Review "[F]ascinating... The great virtue of Koven's approach is his constant probing of surfaces. He is never content simply to mention a school, a hospital, a factory, without examining the policies or commercial pressures, the attitudes of the public, the actual daily round and the experience of those who lived or worked there, asking what it felt like, emotionally and physically... [This] imaginative book, at once an immaculate social and religious history and an intriguing exercise in life-writing, gives both the heiress and the match girl their due."--Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books "[M]eticulously researched."--Caroline Moorhead, Times Literary Supplement "Rutgers University historian Koven (Slumming) has fashioned a scholarly yet highly readable jewel that tackles the big issues of early-20th-century England in an intimate way. Through the lives of Muriel Lester and Nellie Dowell, he brilliantly illuminates the growth of global capitalism, a revolutionary 'God is love' Christian theology, war and pacifism, feminism and sexuality, and class and gender relations."--Publishers Weekly, starred review "Koven demonstrates how these women changed the world's attitude toward the poor."--Kirkus "Koven's book sets Nellie and Muriel's relationship in the context of the religion and politics of their era... [T]he most memorable parts are about the unique relationship between these two women. It also serves as a timely reminder of how cruel life was for the poor when there was no welfare state to act as a safety net."--Rachel Trethewey, Independent "Koven's book sensitively uses a personal relationship to examine both the hopes and the failures of the attempts to cross class boundaries at a time and place where they ruled supreme."--Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch "The Match Girl and the Heiress is a tale of two intertwined lives, but it is also a story of many places, thoughtfully and richly realized... At the heart of this excellent work is an engrossing, sensitive, and thoughtful story of history, theology, politics, and genuine love."--James Norton, Christian Science Monitor "Seth Koven's new book is a bold, brilliant and deeply moving account of [Lester's and Dowell's] contrasting lives... It is Koven's evident admiration for the imagination and conviction involved in the struggle to live ethically that makes this book such a terrific read."--Nadia Valman, Times Higher Education "Seth Coven who has poured considerable research into this work, has given us much food for thought... The Match Girl And The Heiress deserves a thorough read and is both entertaining and thought-provoking."--Clare O'Beara, Fresh Fiction "Remarkable reading... Muriel and Nellie shine through the pages of The Match Girl and the Heiress."--John Rennie, East End Life "Koven's book is finely researched and detailed as it traces the cross?fertilisation of nonconformist religious movements with those of the early socialist, pacifist and suffragette elements of East London's political radicalism."--The New English Landscape "[An] impressive work of painstaking and imaginative scholarship... Rich, critical, and warm-hearted, The Match Girl and the Heiress will be inspiring and provoking historians of affective emotion, social work, immanence theology, and fraternalism for some time to come."--Geoff A.C. Ginn, Health and History "Koven makes a convincing argument that love and its emotions are worthy of serious consideration within histories of politics of this period... Koven's methodology for filling in the blanks and reconstructing Dowell's life leads to rich and rewarding readings of institutions and other cultural texts."--Angharad Eyre, Journal of Victorian Culture "Congratulations to Seth Koven for his comprehensive research into the history of Kingsley Hall. An academic work and while not a light read, provides a fascinating insight into the beginnings of the labour movement trades unionism, Christian socialism, pacifism, and the fives and times of those who worked with great conviction for better social conditions."--Doreen Kendall, Stone Stories "While it's hard enough to recover the lives of women from centuries past, it's an even greater challenge to recover the lives--the full, complex, interior lives--of the working poor. And when a central figure is at once poor and a woman? That Koven has produced such a vivid and detailed rendering of [Nellie] Dowell's life is remarkable in and of itself... Koven's illuminating readings of [Nellie's] letters form what I would argue is one of the most powerful analyses of an early-century poor woman's interior life... His achievement is significant."--Lisa Rodensky, Women's Review of Books "Koven's book is a detailed and nuanced exploration of sincere attempts by dedicated Christians to find better and more equitable ways to live."--Lynn MacKay, Labour-Le Travail "[The Match Girl and the Heiress] is a model for how micro history can tease out macro historical processes... A beautiful account of a time and a place, and however rich and complex the analysis, its arguments and conclusions are not only accessible to a broad readership but have implications that transcend the narrow interests of historians of modern Britain... [A] wonderful read."--Nadja Durbach, American Historical Review "Seth Koven has done a remarkable job in shining a light on a hitherto hidden aspect of the multi-faceted story of the main protagonists."--Rosemary Taylor, East London History Society Newsletter "Koven combines masterful analysis and compelling narrative to create an unforgettable story of the friendship between Muriel Lester, the wealthy social activist, and Nellie Dowell, a match factory worker, in late Victorian London."--Theresa Kaminski, History Buff "Koven's book will fascinate not only readers interested in the history of this period but anyone who has mused on how to practice a Christian social ethic in a society which seems hostile to it... [The Match Girl and the Heiress] beautifully illustrates both the 'mighty force' of 'Christian revolutionary love' and its inherent limits."--Michael Ledger-Lomas, Books & Culture "[An] absorbing narrative."--Andrew Stone, New Zealand Herald "Seth Koven's The Match Girl and the Heiress ... extends richly into a range of related contexts, from match production to Christian Science. Koven's scholarship is astonishing in its depth and conscientiousness: he proceeds sensitively and ethically, always alert to the limits of interpretation."--Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Public Books "[An] inventive book."--Helen Rogers, Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 CHAPTER ONE Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children 21 The Education of Nellie Dowell 23 The Apprenticeship of Muriel Lester 57 Conclusions: The Challenges of Unlearning 75 CHAPTER TWO Capitalism, from Below and Down Under: The Global Traffic in Matches and Match Girls 77 The Work of the Match Girl in Victorian Culture 79 How Match Factory Women Became Match Girls 85 Match Girls' Militant: Why the Bell's Match Factory Strike of 1893/94 Failed 95 Metropolitan Match Girls Abroad: Immoral Circulations of Matches and Match Girls 104 Conclusions 130 CHAPTER THREE "Being a Christian" in Edwardian Britain 135 "God Is Love" 137 Foundational Fables, Ethical Awakening 154 God's Empire 171 From Paupers to Citizens 177 Conclusions 181 CHAPTER FOUR Body Biographies in War and Peace 184 Taking Nellie's Temperature 186 Narrating Nellie 190 "You don't look near so well really" 201 Muriel Lester's Spiritual Therapeutics 212 Bodies at War 219 Grammars of Difference, Erotics of Illness in Nellie's Letters to Muriel 226 "Why it is I don't know" 237 Conclusions: Dialects for the Heart 252 CHAPTER FIVE Love and Christian Revolution 256 Henry Lester's Gift 261 Feminisms at War 274 Reconciliation and Christian Revolution 288 "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you" 301 Telling the Truth, Becoming an Heiress 315 Conclusions 328 Afterlives 330 Manuscript Sources 353 Notes 357 Index 435

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