Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper

“Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, 10 September 1814,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0471. … You will say, we have been devastated in the meantime. True. some of our public buildings

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Selected Dispatches

Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States concerning the Independence of the Latin-American Nations, vol. 3, ed. W. R. Manning (New York: Oxford University Press, 1925), 1636–40, available at https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x001406943. Joel

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Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman

“From Thomas Jefferson to Roger Chew Weightman, 24 June 1826,” Founders Online,National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-6179. The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city

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The Acquisition of Hawaii

Secretary of State Foster to John Stevens, November 8, 1892 Sir: Adverting to your current dispatches in relation to the course of political events in the Hawaiian Islands, many of

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The Olney Corollary

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, with the Annual Message of the President, Transmitted to Congress December 2, 1895, part 1, available at https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1895p1/d527. To the

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