 | The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series Volume 12. In the 580 documents in this volume, Thomas Jefferson's incoming mail covers a wide range of fascinating topics. He receives impressions of a mammoth's tooth, altitude and meteorological observations, a call for a national pharmacopoeia, a discussion of primeval geology, and a letter that elicits Jefferson's opinion that cognition exists "in animal bodies certainly, in Vegetables probably, in Minerals not impossibly". Jefferson leases his Tufton and Lego... - The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series Volume 12. |
