STA LIBRARY THOMAS JEFFERSON BY JAMES SCHOULER, LL. D. AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES UNDER NOTE. FOR materials to illustrate the present brief sketch, little is available which has not already been presented in the three large volumes of Mr. Randall's faithful biography, and the extensive array of Jefferson's writings long ago officially published. But there still remains opportunity to present the services and character of our illustrious and many-sided statesman in a somewhat new aspect. With this latter object chiefly in view, I have used freely the ampler materials of my History of the United States in sketching his later political career, so long the subject of bitter controversy. It has been a source of great pleasure to me, in this modest literary diversion, to receive soon after the publishers' first announcement of their project, letters from Jefferson's latest descendants, strangers personally to me and residents of a |