Collection ID: 0042 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 (http://viaf.org/viaf/41866059)

Other related names

• Kislak, Jay I., former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/100551485)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2007574193

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Monticello, Virginia

Summary

Letter (ALS), written from Monticello, to the Marquis de Lafayette. Topics include sheep industry and the manufacture of cloth in the United States as opposed to England ("our progress in manufactures is far beyond the calculations of the most sanguine . . . This revolution in our domestic economy was well worth a war"); the war on land in Canada; the alliance of Indians and the British ; the naval war and Perry's victory on Lake Erie; and views on the emancipation of South America "from foreign subjection." A postcript, dated 14 Dec., refers to an expedition against Montréal.

Extent

Foliation

Support

Provenance

• Presented by Jay I. Kislak to the Library of Congress in 2008.
   

Subjects topical

• United States--History--War of 1812
• Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Genres

• Personal Correspondence

Keywords

• 19th century

Licenses

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