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Excerpt from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 20: Containing His Autobiography, Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary Manual, Official Papers, Messages and Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private, Now Collected and Published in Their Entirety for the First Time Adams, john, argument of, on Independence, I, 21; member of committee to prepare Decla ration of Independence, 26; views; on basis of voting in Con gress, 48; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to England, 94; leanings toward monarchy, 280; election to the presidency I, 280; IX, 356; XIII, xxxvi; suspected of authorship Of attacks on Franklin, 343; con versation with, 413, 414; parti sanship, 415; dinner with, 420; fears Of, for the Union, 442; ex tract from letter to John Jay about T ripolitan ambassador, III, 104; letter to Jay on treaty with Barbary States, 108; visit to the Hague, V, 409; Jeffer son's Opinions concerning, and attitude toward, VI, 68; VIII, 192; IX, 351, 356, 367, 375; XI, 29, 43; XIII, xxxvii, 2, 7, 8, 115, 125, 280, 281; retire ment of, from British court, VI, 96; Opinion Of Jefferson on book of, 98, 321; French translation Of works of, 98; XIX, 36; jour ney to Holland, VI, 129; loan negotiated by, 239; request for his recall, 380; conference with Jeflerson at the Hague, 435; execution of bonds by, 439; VII, 2; reception Of, at Boston, 102; elected vice-president, of independence xxi, xxu. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.