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_, and Old English text by +plus marks+. The [bracketed] footnotes are as in the original. Inconsistent or incorrect accents and spelling in passages in French, Latin and Italian have been left unchanged. ς (final form sigma) in the middle of a word has been normalized to σ. Greek diacritics were normalized to be all present or all missing, according to their preponderance in the quotation. The following possible inconsistencies/printer errors/archaic spellings/different names for different entities were identified but left as printed: Vanderkemp and Vander Kemp Mellish and Melish Rochefaucault, Rochefoucauld, Rochfaucauld De Tutt, Destutt, Dustutt Tracy Machiavilian and Machiavelian ascendancy and ascendency. M. DE LOMERIE omitted from the table of contents. Page 76: "orders of council have been repeated" should possibly be "orders of council have been repealed" Page 155: "Tries's" most outrageous riot and rescue should possibly be "Fries's". Page 159: Hallicarnassensis should possibly be Halicarnassus. Page 163: Shaise's rebellion should possibly be Shay's rebellion. Page 186: There is a possible punctuation error in the entry for "herb" in the list under the heading "Adj." Page 357: Pythagonic should possibly be Pythagoric. Page 359: "The refractory siston" should possibly be "The refractory system". Page 402: Pretorian should possibly be Preætorian. Page 505: homony should possibly be hominy. Table of Contents references Putty, but text references Pully. The formulas for calculating an annuity on page 200 were possibly printed incorrectly. 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. VI. 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, 32 & 84 Beekman Street. CONTENTS TO VOL. VI. BOOK II. PART III.--CONTINUED.--LETTERS WRITTEN AFTER HIS RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES DOWN TO THE TIME OF HIS DEATH.--(1790-1826,)--3.