The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) / Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

by Thomas Jefferson

Transcriber's Note:

Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged.

The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were pointed out by the proofers, and left as printed:

• Crownenshield, Crowningshield,
• Pontchartrain, Ponchartrain,
• Blennerhasset and Blannerhassett,
• Miller and Millar,
• ascendancy and ascendency.

• Page 129: Turfot's works should possibly be Turgot's works.
• Page 208: "Whom shall we appoint in the room of Kilgore." is possibly missing a question mark.
• Page 234: seafencibles should possibly be sea fencibles.
• Page 277: "if we become dissatisfied" should possibly be "if we become satisfied".
• Page 278: Uberville should possibly be Iberville.
• Page 556: teazing should possibly be teasing.
• Page 468: arbonverous is a possible typo.
• Page 581: chetif is a possible typo.
• Table of Contents:
  • Colonel Humphreys was misspelled as Umphreys, and therefore out of order.
  • Latrobe was mispelled and therefore out of order.
  • LEVETT HARRIS omitted.

THE
WRITINGS
OF
THOMAS JEFFERSON:

BEING HIS

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL
AND PRIVATE.

PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY,
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS,
DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.