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JEFFERSON STARTED BUILDING MONTICELLO WHEN HE WAS 25... ...HE ADDED THE FINAL TOUCHES WHEN HE WAS 80 YEARS OLD Sources: Thomas Jefferson Foundation monticello.org) The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, by Susan R. Stein; Monticello in Measured Drawings, commentary by William L. Beiswanger; Thomas Jefferson's Monticello; Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder, by Jack McLaughlin
...screeds from lunatics and pleas from strangers for money. In particular he could not resist a request for advice. When a young student wrote him seeking some suggested reading, Jefferson picked up a regular correspondence with the youth and even personally hunted bookshops for texts for him. The student, William Munford, turned out to be a scoundrel who would spread political gossip about Jefferson. But historians consider this letter from the then Vice President to Munford to be essential Jefferson: a statement of his fundamental optimism, his faith in the possibility of progress through learning, and the clearest expression...
March 26, 1800 To: William Short...
Much like the election of 2000, the contentious race of 1800 would be a gradually unfolding drama. As the campaign was just getting under way, Jefferson wrote to a Virginian in France, William Short, that Americans would acquiesce to the will of the majority. Jefferson probably exaggerated his confidence in that fact, in hopes that Short would show the letter around Europe and bolster the perception of the U.S. as a smoothly running republic. By February 1801, when he wrote to his son-in-law, the race had taken an unexpected twist. He had bested John Adams, but now Jefferson...
This rescue was inspiring news for the folks back home and other captives and slaves in North African hands, but the event was almost eclipsed by another daring raid the following year. In April 1805, Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American Marines, and in a maneuver that has since been compared to that of the charismatic T.E. Lawrence, led a desert march from inland that took Tripoli's second city, Derna, by surprise. Lieut. Presley O'Bannon of the Marine Corps hoisted the Stars and Stripes over the captured town...