Selections from the Library of Congress's collection of Jefferson manuscripts. Includes correspondence, official statements and addresses, records of early Virginia laws and history, and other writings on political, legal, educational, and scientific matters. Letters, notes, lists, and essays document Jefferson's role as the founder of the University of Virginia and his interest in such diverse areas as agriculture, anthropology, architecture, botany, ciphers, culinary arts, geology, literature and language, meteorology, travel, viticulture, and weights and measures. Documents are presented as digital images with selected searchable transcriptions. . These materials can be accessed through the Library catalog .
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