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This category houses historical documents penned by Thomas Jefferson, including private letters, public documents, and speeches.

Resources in This Category

• A Summary View of the Rights of British America

  http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Summaryview.html
  E-text with footnotes.

• Declaration of Independence -- Draft

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1776-1785/jeffersons-draft-of-the-declaration-of-independence.php
  The Declaration as it is believed to have read when Jefferson submitted it for corrections.

• First Inaugural Address

  http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres16.html
  Delivered Wednesday, March 4, 1801.

• Second Inaugural Address

  http://www.bartleby.com/124/pres17.html
  Delivered Monday, March 4, 1805.

• The Avalon Project : Thomas Jefferson Papers

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/jeffpap.asp
  Includes major works, messages to Congress, inaugural addresses, miscellaneous papers, and letters.

• The Jefferson Bible

  http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
  Jefferson's life and morals of Jesus: a compilation of the teachings of Jesus extracted textually from the Gospels.

• Thomas Jefferson - Autobiography

  http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Autobiography.html
  Text is broken down into general sections.

• Thomas Jefferson Papers

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/
  27,000 documents from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress digitized and available online. Also includes a timeline of Jefferson's life.

 

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