Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged.
The Table of Contents references a Special Message dated Mar. 21, 1804. The corresponding entry itself is dated Mar. 20.
Accents in the table showing the geographical locations of the Indian confederacies seem to indicate pronunciation.
The section starting "Logan's family" has no closing quotation mark.
The section starting "An act of" has no closing quotation mark.
Prevôté and vicomté should possibly not have accents.
Soree. Ral-bird should possibly be Sora. Rail-bird.
bueltas y tortuosidades should possibly be vueltas y tortuosidades.
Cypriores should possibly be Cypriéres.
Aligators should possibly be Alligators.
[Sidenote: 43*] is missing.
Part II ends with an unfinished sentence, and an incomplete address.It has been left as printed.
The dated sidenote "1778, Sept. 5." is out of order, and may be an error.
The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were pointed out by the proofers, and left as printed:
Chippewas and Chippawas
Muskingum and Muskinghum
Rappahanoc, Rappahannoc, Rappahànoc
Duponçeau and Duponceau
Pawtomac, Potomac, Potomak, Powtomac,
Pottawatomies, Powtawatamies, Powtewatamy
Monongalia, Monongahela
Mississippi, Missisipi
Miller, Millar
Maudan, Mandan
levee and levée
THE
WRITINGS
OF
THOMAS JEFFERSON:
BEING HIS
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES,ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL
AND PRIVATE.
PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY,
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS,
DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX
TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE,
BY THE EDITOR
H. A. WASHINGTON.
VOL. VIII.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY RIKER, THORNE & CO.
WASHINGTON, D.C.:—TAYLOR & MAURY.
1854.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
TAYLOR & MAURY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia.
EZRA N. GROSSMAN, Printer,
211 & 213 Centre st., N.Y.