10.00 per volume.) Thomas Jefferson, perhaps more than any other public figure of the Revolutionary and Republican era, had a great sense of history, a considered regard for the preservation of those earliest records which he called "the curious monuments of the infancy of our country." At his death he left to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, his well-ordered accumulation of letters and papers which Chinard has called "the richest treasure house of information ever left by a single man." Ironically, this magnificent archive was later divided, dispersed, and partially destroyed.With the publication of Volume II of a projected fifty-two volume edition of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson by the Princeton University Press, under the editorship of Julian P. Boyd, and his assistants, Lyman H. Butterfield and Mina R. Bryan, the work of presenting this vast reassembled treasure house is well under way. Hereafter it is planned to publish four volumes each year. This will complete the series in 1963, just twenty years after the date of its inception on the bi-centennial anniversary of Jefferson's birth. This is one of the greatest editorial projects ever launched in America. It is also a major archival triumph, for the search for Jefferson documents extended to libraries and archival institutions throughout the United States and archival institutions in France,

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