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Views ui uie lyimciwun.and transactions of the United States 'with foreign nations at different periods.
(6) Within the body of the Memoir, or referred to as an appendix. are other papers which were thought well entitled to the place they occupy.
The other Volumes contain letters from 1775, to his death, addressed to a very great variety of individuals, and comprising a range of information, and in many instances, regular essays, on subjects of history, politics, science, morals and religion. Notes of conversation, while Secretary of State, with President Washington, and others high in office.
Appended to the publication is a fac simile of the rough draught of the Declaration of Independence, in which will be seen the erasures, interlineations and'additions of Dr. Franklin and Mr, Adams, two of the appointed committee, in the handwriting oi each
“The opinion universally enter, tained of the extraordinary abilities of Thomas Jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, of a profound sense oi his patriotic services and of veneration for his memory have induced the editor, who is both his executor and the legatee of hie manuscript papcrs. to believe thai an extensive publication frotr them would be particularly acceptable to the American people.’1
* * * Jtmei L. Power* Frequently Converted With Jefferson
The late James L. Powers, whc was one of the* cultured southerr gentlemen of Rappahannock coun ty, is reported by t.'iose who knew
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