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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies, from the papers of Thomas Jefferson

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08584 Author/Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts Type: Header Record Date: 1830 Pagination: 4 v. : illus. Height: 23 cm, Width: 14.5 cm Order a Copy

Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Second edition. Published in Boston by Gray and Bowen. Signed by Hamilton Fish. This was the first of several attempts to replicate Thomas Jefferson's correspondence. Volumes 1 and 4 are mis-identified on the spine as the other. Quarter leather with marbled paper.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875
Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893

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