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• A Summary View of the Rights of British America

  http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Jefferson/Summaryview.html
  Etext with footnotes.

• Autobiography

  http://www.bibliomania.com/2/9/frameset.html
  Jefferson's account of his life, written in 1821 and made available online by Bibliomania.

• Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia

  http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu00007.xml.frame
  Chronological listing of original Jefferson manuscripts held by the University of Virginia Library.

• Danbury Baptist Correspondence (1801-02)

  http://lonang.com/library/reference/danbury-baptist-association/
  The very rare address of the Danbury Baptist Association (Connecticut) October 7, 1801 to Thomas Jefferson, President, and his famous reply, the 'wall of separation' letter dated January 1, 1802.

• First Inaugural Address

  http://pagebypagebooks.com/Thomas_Jefferson/First_Inaugural_Speech/
  HTML etext, with introduction.

• Jefferson on Politics and Government: Contents

  http://guides.lib.virginia.edu/content.php?pid=77323
  Jefferson's political philosophy in his own words. The collection contains over 2,700 quotations from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.

• Letters Jefferson

  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/
  Chronological listing of the letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1743-1826.

• Second Inaugural Address

  http://pagebypagebooks.com/Thomas_Jefferson/Second_Inaugural_Speech/
  HTML etext, with introduction.

• Texts by or to Thomas Jefferson

  http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/texts/
  from the Modern English Collection at the University of Virginia.

• The Avalon Project : Thomas Jefferson Papers

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/jeffpap.asp
  Hyperlinked index from Yale Law School.

• The Jefferson Bible

  http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/
  "Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen. In compiling what has come to be called the Jefferson Bible, he sought to separate these ethical teachings from the religious dogma".

• The Writings of Thomas Jefferson

  http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff.htm
  The Memorial Edition of Jefferson's writings in 19 volumes, edited by Albert Ellery Bergh.

• Thomas Jefferson - Autobiography

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

• Thomas Jefferson Online: Archives

  http://www.pbs.org/jefferson/frame5.htm
  Jefferson's most important and controversial writings, and transcripts of 24 interviews conducted for Ken Burns' documentary.

• 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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