class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">369, 461, 471.

Vergennes, Count de, letters written to, 385, 456, 479, 490, 537, 547, 577. Washington, George, letters written to, 221, 225, 230, 231, 232, 235, 237, 239, 241, 243, 249, 255, 257, 265, 267, 268, 270, 271, 276, 279, 282, 291, 292, 296, 297, 304, 305, 309, 313, 325, 333. —— From, 328. Wythe, George, letter written to, 211. ——* (address lost), 207, 246, 272, 289.

BOOK I.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, WITH APPENDIX.

INTRODUCTORY TO BOOK I.

In the arrangement which has been adopted, Book I. comprises the Autobiography and Appendix. The Autobiography extends to the 21st of March, 1790, when Mr. Jefferson arrived in New York to enter upon the duties of the Department of State, and embraces a variety of important subjects, such as the rise and progress of the difficulties between Great Britain and her North American Colonies—the circumstances connected with the Declaration of Independence—the debates in Congress