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Jefferson's memorandum books : accounts, with legal records and miscellany, 1767-1826

Author: Thomas Jefferson; James Adam Bear; Lucia C Stanton
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable  Read more...
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Named Person: Thomas Jefferson
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Thomas Jefferson; James Adam Bear; Lucia C Stanton
ISBN: 0691047197 9780691047195
OCLC Number: 25629653
Notes: Thomas Jefferson Foundation notes:
One Set Gift From: George Green Shackelford, 2002. Inscribed by authors.
Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Second series
Thomas Jefferson : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography (by Frank Shuffelton)
Volumes in the Second Series of the Papers edition. Abundantly annotated edition of TJ's account books and records. An essential resource for biographical research, a mine of useful information about TJ's habits and the world he moved in. -- Frank Shuffelton
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Arranged chronologically, each year includes some or all of the following: legal notations, cash accounts, miscellaneous memoranda, Martha Jefferson's accounts, meteorological records.
v. 1. 1767-1790 -- v. 2. 1791-1826.
Shuffelton Bibliography : Suppl. (1991- ), No. 1294
Description: 2 v. (lv, 1624 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: v. 1. 1767-1790 --
v. 2. 1791-1826.
Other Titles: Memorandum books
Responsibility: James A. Bear, Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, editors.
Local System Bib Number:
4204

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"Among the Second Series of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, this volume has the most detailed coverage of his day-to-day life. These disciplined records of personal expenditures, and of various other daily observations, furnish valuable information about prices and availability of commodities of the period and provide abundant evidence of Jefferson's devotion to a systematic way of living and of his insatiable curiosity."--Publisher's description.
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