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The Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson manuscripts

Approximately 9,500 items, including more than 9,000 pieces of correspondence (letters to Jefferson and retained copies of outgoing letters often made with a polygraph machine), journals, account books, and other personal papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1705-1827. Includes legal documents related to Jefferson's work as a lawyer with George Wythe, 1767-72; and correspondence with Maria Cosway, 1780s, daughters Martha (later Randolph) and Maria (later Eppes) Jefferson at Monticello, 1790s, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1796-97, Abigail and John Adams, James Madison, and James Monroe, ca. 1790s-1826.

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  • "Approximately 9,500 items, including more than 9,000 pieces of correspondence (letters to Jefferson and retained copies of outgoing letters often made with a polygraph machine), journals, account books, and other personal papers of Thomas Jefferson, 1705-1827. Includes legal documents related to Jefferson's work as a lawyer with George Wythe, 1767-72; and correspondence with Maria Cosway, 1780s, daughters Martha (later Randolph) and Maria (later Eppes) Jefferson at Monticello, 1790s, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, 1796-97, Abigail and John Adams, James Madison, and James Monroe, ca. 1790s-1826."@en
  • "The collection also includes family papers, 1705-57, including the papers of Jefferson's father Peter Jefferson; Jefferson's manuscript of his Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782-83, his only major published work; manuscript copy of Jefferson's translation of Les Ruins, ou Mediation sur les Revolutions des Empires, 1801; Jefferson's manuscript draft of the Declaration of Independence; two manuscript book catalogs, 1775-1812; annotated almanacs, 1771-76; and various other writings. Also, architectural sketches, notes and drawings by Jefferson of Monticello, his apartment in Paris, the University of Virginia, and other sites."@en
  • "Papers related to Jefferson's home, Monticello, in Virginia, include account books, 1783-90, "Farm Book," 1774-1824, "Garden Book," 1776-1824, indentures, tax statements and promissory notes. Also, papers related to Poplar Forest and Shadwell in Virginia. Papers kept during Jefferson's presidency (1801-1809) include lists of people entertained at Monticello, lists of votes to repeal the Embargo Act, 1809, and letters addressed to the Tammany Society and various Republican parties."@en

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