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Title: Madison, James to James Kirke Paulding, 1831 April; No. 871 James Madison to James Kirke Paulding
Identifier(s): text:353730
Description: Mentions the problems of writing biography and the deficiencies of oral tradition and comments briefly on [George] Washington, [Benjamin] Franklin, [Thomas] Jefferson, and John Adams and more extensively on [Alexander] Hamilton for Paulding's proposed "Biographical undertaking."
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836et al
Subject: Biography; Oral history; Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860; Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1831-04; 2023

Title: Correspondence Between John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and Robert Howe, 1775
Identifier(s): text:252166
Description: Concerning Norfolk and the war
Subject: Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Virginia--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1775

Title: Symposium on Newly Acquired Jefferson Letters for the APS Library. Part III: The "Great Claw" and the Science of Thomas Jefferson.
Identifier(s): video:1041; 2010_04_004
Description: Keith Thomson talks about Jefferson's scientific thoughts and his personal battle with the french Count Buffon. In 1796, Jefferson received a letter announcing a discovery of bones of a large animal (the giant sloth).
Subject: History of Science; Extinction (Biology); Imagocnus; Miocene sloth; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Views on science; Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2010-04-22

Title: Les Presidents Des Etats-Unis.
Identifier(s): graphics:5012; APSimg3846; Graphics Number: M42-13-27
Description: Garvan Coll., No. 601.
Source: Print Collection (Garvan);
Subject: Portraits ; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Monroe, James, 1758-1831; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Date: n. d.

Title: Les Presidents Des Etats-Unis.
Identifier(s): graphics:5529; APSimg3846; Graphics Number: M42-13-27
Description: Black and white lithograph group portrait of the first six Presidents of the United States above an eagle.; Garvan Coll., No. 601.
Source: Print Collection (Garvan);
Subject: Portraits; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Monroe, James, 1758-1831; Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
Date: n. d.

Title: Thomas Jefferson to [Thomas Leiper], June 12, 14 1815.
Identifier(s): APSimg8021; APSimg8021
Description: David Library Item Number: 2376; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Leiper, Thomas, 1745-1825; Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821; Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824
Date: 1815 June 12

Title: Pioneering APS Paleontologists Jefferson, Darwin, and Walcott: The Known History of Life, Then and Now
Identifier(s): video:1502
Description: William Schopf's talk focuses on the connection between the APS, Jefferson, Darwin, and Walcott and how these three men are connected by paleontology.
Subject: Paleontologists, United States, Biography.; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882; Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2018-04-28

Title: Resolution, United States. Congress, 1782 November 12; United States. Congress. Resolution
Identifier(s): apsrevcity:11541
Description: Congress resolves that Thomas Jefferson should be appointed as a minister plenipotentiary for the peace negotiations in France.; American Philosophical Society
Subject: Political Philosophy; Waging the War; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Peace; United States--Foreign relations--1775-1794; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1782-11-12; 2022

Title: John Murray, Earl of Dunmore to William Howe, 1775 November 30
Identifier(s): text:252154
Description: L. 4p. (see T.Jefferson. Correspondence...; 1775-1784. no.6.) Concerning the war.
Subject: Dunmore, John Murray, Earl of, 1732-1809; Howe, William Howe, Viscount, 1729-1814; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Date: 1775-11-30

Title: Manuscript subscription list put forward by Jefferson to support a proposed scientific expedition under Andre Michaux, 1793.; Subscription list for proposed exploration of the American West.
Identifier(s): graphics:4751; local: APSimg1138; local: 728.001
Description: This stunning document, the body of which is in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, gives instructions to Michaux "to explore the interior country of North America from the Mississippi along the Missouri and Westwardly to the Pacific Ocean . . ." Those subscribing money for this venture have signed below, with their pledges noted. Included are: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Robert Morris. This expedition was never undertaken, and it is only one instance of Jefferson's continuing interest in exploring the western territory, culminating in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.; Provenance: Discovered in the vault in Philosophical Hall in 1979; accessioned, 1980; see Committee on Library Report, Year Book (1979): 158-160.
Subject: Early American history; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Michaux, André, 1746-1802.
Date: 1793

Title: The state of Virginia from the best authorities. Engraved for Carey's edition of Guthrie's geography, improved, [1795]
Identifier(s): graphics:10829; 654: [1795]: L585vcg: Large
Description: Adapted from the map of Virginia in the general atlas for Carey's edition of Guthrie's geography improved (Philadelphia: Carey, 1795). See also: Notes on the state of Virginia, by Thomas Jefferson. 3rd American edition. (New York: M.L. and W.A. Davis, for Furman and Loudon: 1801). The American Philosophical Society Transactions (vol. 6) state that Mathew Carey presented the "Materials from which Guthrie's Geography was compiled," on 18 October 1805. This is part of that gift. Wheat: 568. Provenance: Provenance: Presented by Mathew Carey, 18 October 1805.
Subject: Maps.; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.; Guthrie, William, 1708-1770.; Virginia.; United States--Maps--Early works to 1800.; Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Date: 1795

Title: James Madison to James Kirke Paulding, April 1831.
Identifier(s): APSimg7941; APSimg7941
Description: David Library Item Number: 871; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860; Historians; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1831 April

Title: Mazzei, Philip to Thomas Jefferson, 1780 March 2; No. 929 Philip Mazzei to Thomas Jefferson
Identifier(s): text:353667
Description: Mentions that Mazzei met with Dr. [Benjamin] Franklin and others, recommends the marquis de Lafayette, who delivers the letter, and relates several anecdotes about the latter on the eve of his departure for America; transmits intelligence about the movements of [Adm. George Brydges] Rodney's fleet and about the departure of French troops for America; discusses financial matters, requests financial assistance, and suggests that Jefferson send a cargo of tobacco to Italy.; "2nd Copy"
Creator: Mazzei, Filippo, 1730-1816et al
Subject: United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--American forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--British forces; United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, French; Military intelligence; Admiralty--Great Britain; Tobacco; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834; Rodney, George Brydges Rodney, Baron, 1719-1792
Date: 1780-03-02; 2023

Title: Letters to Caspar Wistar, 1794-1893
Identifier(s): text:280565
Subject: Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818; American Philosophical Society; Botany; Medicine -- 19th century; Natural history; Yellow fever; Paleontology -- 19th century; Michaux, Francois André, 1770-1855; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Brown, Samuel, 1769-1830; Camper, Adriaan Gilles, 1759-1820; Correia da Serra, José Francisco, 1750-1823; Cuvier, Georges, Baron, 1769-1832; Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823; Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831; Palisot de Beauvois, Ambrose-Marie-François-Joseph, 1752-1820; Raffeneau-Delile, Alire, 1778-1850; Tilesius von Tilenau, Wilhelm Gottlieb; Warden, David Bailie (1772-1845)
Date: 1794-1893