Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson makes financial arrangements to pay for a printing press and related equipment which he arranges to be sent to him in Paris. He asks his correspondent for news of America as he has not seen a report of Congress since October 10 or a letter from the Office of Foreign Affairs later than January. Jefferson further states that there is a "violent contest" between the king and parliament in France. Jefferson was active in the early republic as a member of the Continental Congress (1775-76, 1783-84), primary author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), Governor of Virginia (1779-81), Minister to France, Secretary of State under John Adams (1797-1801), and third President of the United States (1801-09). He also helped to found the University of Virginia and part of his library began the collection at the Library of Congress.

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826).
[Letter] June 16, Paris [to] Col. Smith.

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