Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged. [Illustration] captions were provided by the transcriber. The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were pointed out by the proofers, and left as printed: Page 291: Leblane should be Leblanc? Page 311: Ciracchi and Carrachi (in the same letter)? Page 332: Quixotte should be Quixote? Page 396: A line (or lines) seem to be missing at the bottom of page 396 after "The compensations to collectors depend on you, and not on". Page 435: Kosciugha should be Kosciusko? Page 461: Mr. Pintency at Madrid should be Mr. Pinckney at Madrid? Page 468: Browze Trist should possibly be Browse Trist? Page 484: Ponchartrain should be Pontchartrain? Page 486: Chace should possibly be Chase? THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: BEING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE. PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE, BY THE EDITOR H. A. WASHINGTON. VOL. IV. NEW YORK: H. W. DERBY, 625 BROADWAY. 1861. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by TAYLOR & MAURY In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Columbia. STEREOTYPED BY THOMAS B. SMITH, 216 William St., N. Y. CONTENTS TO VOL. IV. BOOK II. PART III.--CONTINUED.--LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES DOWN TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.--(1790-1826,)--3. Adams, J., letter written to, 153. Adams, Samuel, letters written to, 321, 389. Adams, Mrs., letters written to, 545, 555, 560. Attorney General of United States, letter written to the, 97. Barlow, Joel, letters written to, 369, 437. Barton, B. S., letters written to, 353, 470. Bell, Colonel, letter written to, 174. Bloodworth, Timothy, letter written to, 523. Brackenridge, John, letters written to, 318, 341, 498. Brown, Morgan, letter written to, 310. Buchan, Earl of, letter written to, 493. Burr, Colonel, letters written to, 184, 340, 349. Cabanis, M., letter written to, 496. Campbell, Colonel Arthur, letter written to, 197. Carmichael & Short, letter written to, 9. Carolina, South, Governor of, letter written to the, 97. Carr, P., letter written to, 235.