In 1959, the Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press published Lester J. Cappon’s The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams. It was the first time that all 380 letters between Jefferson and the Adamses appeared in a single volume.

Why did Lester Cappon and the Omohundro Institute undertake this great project? And how did they put together this important documentary edition?

Karin Wulf, Director of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, takes us behind-the-scenes of The Adams-Jefferson Letters and its publication.

 

Links

• Omohundro Institute
• Lester J. Cappon ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters
• Karin Wulf
• Episode 193: Partisans: The Friendship and Rivalry of Adams and Jefferson
• Klepp and Wulf ed, The Diary of Hannah Callander
• Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, A Midwife’s Tale
• Charles F. Hobson, Papers of John Marshall
• Louis B. Wright ed., Robert Beverley, The History and Present State of Virginia
• National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHCRP)
• Ronald Hoffman and Sally Mason ed., The Carroll Papers (2001)
• Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black
• Gordon Wood, The Creation of the American Republic
• Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
• Susan Sleeper-Smith, Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest

 

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