Genres: Letters Diaries & Personal Papers

1917–1929

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1764–1787

Draft of The Declaration of Independence

Source: H. A. Washington, ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 9 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Taylor and Maury, 1853–54), 1:19–26. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000365325 … Congress proceeded the same day [July 2] to consider

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1877–1917

Open Letters to Woodrow Wilson

Source: Editorial: “An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (March 1913): 236–37; Editorial: “Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson,” The Crisis (September 1913): 232–36, available online at the Hathi

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1787–1789

Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Phillip Mazzei (1796)

Source: “I. Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 24 April 1796,” Founders Online, National Archives, accessed April 11, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0054-0002. My dear friend,                                                                                                                                                 Monticello Apr. 24. 1796. . .

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