Volumes 11 and 12 cover the period from January 1787 through March 1788 and deal with Jefferson's stay in France, as American Minister there. This is a rich period of personal correspondence and important documents, revealing, particularly, Jefferson's interest in agriculture and architecture, his extended trade negotiations, his reports on the ado
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"The series will illuminate . . . The whole course of our history from the 1769's to the 1820's."-Henry Steele Commager.
