Public papers and addresses. A summary view of the rights of British America (1774) ; A Declaration by the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled (with Jefferson's original draft and congressional amendments (1776) ; The Declaration of Independence (as adopted by Congress) (1776) ; A bill for establishing religious freedom (1777) ; Report on government for Western Territory (1784) ; Opinion on the constitutionality of a national bank (1791) ; Opinion on the French treaties (1793) ; Draft of Kentucky resolutions (1798) ; First Inaugural Address (1801) ; To Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge and others, a committee of Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut (1802) ; Second Inaugural Address (1805) ; Report of the Commissioners for the University of Virginia (1818)

Excerpts from Notes on Virginia (1782). Query VI (A quarrel with Buffon : the New World is not inferior) ; Query VIII (Should America encourage immigration?) ; Query XI (A description of the Indians) ; Query XIII (The Virginian constitution) ; Query XIV (The laws of Virginia : slavery, the natural endowments of the Black race, education) ; Query XVII (Religious freedom) ; Query XVIII (The effect of slavery on manners) ; Query XIX (Agrarian virtue) ; Query XXII (Commerce, shipping, and self-defense)

Correspondence. To Edmund Pendleton, Aug. 26, 1776 (Early views on constitutionalism) ; To David Rittenhouse, July 19,1778 (An obligation higher than politics) ; To John Jay, Aug. 23, 1785 (A preference for sailors over manufacturers) ; To Charles Bellini, Sept. 30, 1785 (French and American morals) ; To John Banister, Jr., Oct. 15, 1785 (The disadvantage of study abroad) ; To James Madison, Oct. 28, 1785 (A "fundamental right to labor") ; To James Madison, Jan. 30, 1787 (Shay's Rebellion and Western secession) ; To Anne Willing Bingham, Feb. 7, 1787 ("The tranquil pleasures of American society") ; To Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787 (The moral sense) ; To William S. Smith, Nov. 13, 1787 ("The tree of liberty") ; To James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787 (Objections to the Constitution) ; To Francis Hopkinson, Mar. 13, 1789 (Party : "The last degradation of a free and moral agent) ; To James Madison, Mar. 15, 1789 (A bill of rights) ; To James Madison, Sept. 6, 1789 ("The earth belongs to the living") ; To Benjamin Banneker, Aug. 30, 1791 (Equality and "our Black brethren") ; To the President of the United States (George Washington), Sept. 2, 1792 (the conflict with Alexander Hamilton) ; To Elbridge Gerry, Jan. 26, 1799 ("A profession of my political faith") ; To William Green Munford, June 18, 1799 (Progress and perfectibility) ; To Dr. Joseph Priestley, Mar. 21, 1801 (Something new under the sun) ; To the U.S. Minister to France (Robert Livingston), Apr. 18, 1802 (The strategic importance of New Orleans) ; To Benjamin Hawkins, Feb. 18, 1803 (A plan for civilizing Indians) ; To Wilson Cary Nicholas, Sept. 7, 1803 (The Louisiana Purchase and constitutional amendments) ; To Henri Gregoire, Feb. 25, 1809 (Negro equality and rights) ; To John Tyler, May 26, 1810 (Education and the wards) ; To John Colvin, Sept. 20, 1810 (The "law of necessity and self-preservation") ; To John Adams, June 15, 1813 (An airing of our political differences) ; To John Adams, Oct. 28, 1813 (The natural aristocracy) ; To J. Correa de Serra, Apr. 19, 1814 (Happiness and virtue) ; To Thomas Law, June 13, 1814 (The moral sense) ; To Joseph C. Cabell, Feb. 2, 1816 ("Divide the counties into wards") ; To Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, Apr. 24, 1816 (The moral principles on which government is founded) ; To John Taylor, May 28, 1816 (What is a republic?) ; To Francis W. Gilmer, June 7, 1816 (The sense of justice is natural to man) To Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816 (How to reform the Virginian constitution) ; To Isaac Tiffany, Aug. 26, 1816 ("This new principle of representative democracy") ; To Nathaniel Burwell, Mar. 14, 1818 (Ideas on female education) ; To Judge Spencer Roane, Sept. 6, 1819 (Constitutional construction) ; To John Holmes, April 22, 1820 ("A fire bell in the night") ; To Jared Sparks, Feb. 4, 1824 (A plan for emancipation) ; To Major John Cartwright, June 5, 1824 (The lessons of experience ; Christianity and the common law) ; To Henry Lee, May 8, 1825 ("The object of the Declaration of Independence") ; To William Branch Giles, Dec. 26, 1825 (Resistance to consolidation) ; To James Madison, Feb. 17, 1826 ("Take care of me when dead") ; To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826 (Last thoughts on the Declaration of Independence).