Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Editorial Method and Apparatus -- Maps -- Illustrations -- Jefferson Chronology -- From "Johannes Vonderpuff," 1 October -- From Joseph Delaplaine, 3 October -- From Gabriel Penn, 3 October -- To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 4 October -- From James Monroe, 4 October -- Notes on Bottle and Beverage Supplies, [6 October 1814-February 1816] -- To Thomas Cooper, 7 October -- From Samuel H. Smith, 7 October -- From Thomas Ritchie, 9 October -- From James Madison, 10 October -- From James Monroe, 10 October -- From John Barnes, 11 October -- From Isaac A. Coles, 11 October -- From James Oldham, 11 October -- To Samuel H. Smith, 11 October -- From Joseph Milligan, 12 October -- To James Madison, 13 October -- From John L. E. W. Shecut, 13 October -- From William F. Gray, 14 October -- From Samuel H. Smith, 14 October -- To James Madison, 15 October -- To Joseph C. Cabell, 16 October -- Notes on Household Consumption, [ca. 16 October] -- To James Monroe, 16 October -- To Joseph Milligan, 17 October -- To Joseph Delaplaine, 18 October -- To Andrew Moore, 18 October -- From Joseph C. Cabell, 19 October -- From Samuel H. Smith, 19 October -- From David Bailie Warden, 20 October -- From William C. C. Claiborne, 21 October -- From Samuel H. Smith, 21 October -- From Jonathan Williams, 21 October -- To John H. Cocke, 23 October -- From James Cutbush, 23 October -- From James Madison, 23 October -- From James Madison, 23 October -- From Charles Yancey, 23 October -- To Patrick Gibson, 25 October -- To William F. Gray, 25 October -- From James Leitch, 26 October -- From Patrick Gibson, 27 October -- From John Adams, 28 October -- From William Short, 28 October -- To Joseph Milligan, 29 October -- To Samuel H. Smith, 29 October -- From Thomas A. Pellet, 31 October.

Notes on the Peacock Plow, October -- From Francis W. Gilmer, 1 November -- From Leonard Sargent, 1 November -- List of Slaves at Poplar Forest, [ca. 2-13 November] -- To Patrick Gibson, 3 November -- To Reuben Perry, 3 November -- From William C. C. Claiborne, 4 November -- From Enoch Jones, 5 November -- From John H. Cocke, 6 November -- To Andrew Jamieson, 7 November -- From Abram R. North (for Andrew Jamieson), 7 November -- To Francis Eppes, 11 November -- From William & Reuben Mitchell, 11 November -- Instructions for Poplar Forest Management, 11 November -- To Archibald Robertson, 11 November -- From Archibald Robertson, 11 November -- From Thomas Jefferson Abbott, 12 November -- To Charles Clay, 12 November -- From William Fleming, 12 November -- From John Melish, 12 November -- From Francis W. Gilmer, 13 November -- To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 14 November -- From Joseph Miller, 14 November -- From Charles Willson Peale, 14 November -- From Joseph Milligan, 16 November -- From Elizabeth Trist, 17 November -- Estimate and Plans for Albemarle Academy/Central College, [ca. 18 November] -- Draft Bill to Create Central College and Amend the 1796 Public Schools Act, [ca. 18 November] -- From Anonymous, [received 19 November] -- To David Higginbotham, 19 November -- From Philip Thornton, 19 November -- To Patrick Gibson, 21 November -- From William Caruthers, 22 November -- From Edward Coles, 23 November -- From William Duane, 23 November -- From Francis Eppes, 23 November -- From Patrick Gibson, 23 November -- To Francis W. Gilmer, 23 November -- To Robert Patterson, 23 November -- To Robert M. Patterson, 23 November -- To Caspar Wistar, 23 November -- To James Cutbush, 24 November -- To William Duane, 24 November -- To Joseph Milligan, 24 November -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 25 November -- To William Short, 28 November.

From Jason Chamberlain, 30 November -- From James Monroe, 30 November -- From James Ogilvie, November -- From John Wilson, November -- To Joseph Milligan, 1 December -- William Mitchell's Agreement to Grind Wheat, 2 December -- Agreement to Lease Natural Bridge to Philip Thornton, 2 December -- To William Caruthers, 3 December -- To Louis H. Girardin, 3 December -- From Robert M. Patterson, 3 December -- To Philip Thornton, 3 December -- To John Wilson, 4 December -- From John H. Carr, 5 December -- From John Barnes, 6 December, enclosing Baring Brothers & Company to John Barnes, 20 October -- To Alexander J. Dallas, 7 December -- From Patrick Gibson, 7 December -- To James Monroe, 7 December -- To Thomas Taylor, 7 December -- From José Corrêa da Serra, 9 December -- To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 10 December -- To John Melish, 10 December -- From John Adams, 11 December -- From William Thornton, 11 December -- From William H. Crawford, 12 December -- From Greenberry Dorsey, 13 December -- To Louis H. Girardin, 13 December -- From Alexander J. Dallas, 14 December -- From Patrick Gibson, 14 December -- From Joseph Milligan, 14 December -- From James Oldham, 14 December -- To Horatio G. Spafford, 16 December -- From John Garnett, 17 December -- From John Barnes, 18 December -- From Thomas Taylor, 19 December -- From Samuel Thurber, 19 December -- From John Adams, 20 December -- From Charles Clay, 20 December -- From William Lee, 20 December -- From John B. Colvin, 21 December -- To Louis H. Girardin, 21 December -- From James Monroe, 21 December -- From James Savage, 21 December -- To Patrick Gibson, 23 December -- To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 23 December -- To John McAllister (1753-1830), 24 December -- To William Thornton, 24 December -- From Thomas Appleton, 26 December -- To Elizabeth Trist, 26 December -- From Joseph C. Cabell, 27 December.

To José Corrêa da Serra, 27 December -- From Charles Yancey, 27 December -- To Thomas Taylor, 28 December -- To John Barnes, enclosing Power of Attorney to John Barnes, 29 December -- From Randolph Jefferson, 29 December -- From Jeremiah A. Goodman, 30 December -- From William Plumer, 30 December -- To James Monroe, 1 January -- To John B. Colvin, 2 January -- To Samuel Thurber, 2 January -- From Patrick Gibson, 3 January -- To John Garnett, 4 January -- From James Ligon (for Patrick Gibson), 4 January -- To Joseph C. Cabell, 5 January -- To Jeremiah A. Goodman, 6 January -- To Patrick Gibson, 7 January -- From Abraham O. Stansbury, 7 January -- From John McAllister & Son, 9 January -- From John Vaughan, 9 January -- From John Barnes, 10 January -- From William Thornton, 11 January -- From John Seabrook, 12 January -- From Mathew Carey, 14 January -- From Lancelot Minor, 14 January -- To Louis H. Girardin, 15 January -- From Charles W. Goldsborough, 19 January -- From the American Philosophical Society, 20 January -- To Louis H. Girardin, 20 January -- To William P. Newby, 20 January -- To Thomas Eston Randolph, 20 January -- To James Monroe, 21 January -- From Robert M. Patterson, 21 January -- From Thomas Eston Randolph, 21 January -- From Samuel M. Burnside, 23 January -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 23 January -- From John B. Spargella, 24 January -- From James Cutbush, 28 January -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 28 January -- To Charles Clay, 29 January -- To Samuel H. Smith, 30 January -- From Samuel H. Smith, 30 January -- From John Strachan, 30 January -- From Peter H. Wendover, 30 January -- To William Plumer, 31 January -- From Thomas Law, [ca. January] -- From Peter Carr, 2 February -- Francis C. Gray's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [4-7 February] -- George Ticknor's Account of a Visit to Monticello, [4-7 February].

From Caspar Wistar, [received 4 February] -- From Caspar Wistar, 5 February -- From David Bailie Warden, 7 February -- From Charles Clay, 8 February -- To Robert M. Patterson, 8 February -- To John Vaughan, 8 February -- To Mathew Carey, 9 February -- To Charles W. Goldsborough, 9 February -- From Francis De Masson, 9 February -- To James Savage, 9 February -- To William Thornton, 9 February -- To William Duane, 10 February -- To John B. Spargella, 10 February -- Statement of Bedford and Campbell County Property Subject to Federal Tax, 11 February -- Statement of Bedford and Campbell County Property Subject to State Tax, 11 February -- To William Caruthers, 11 February -- To the Federal Assessor for Rockbridge County, 11 February -- From Randolph Jefferson, 13 February -- To William H. Crawford, 14 February -- To Lafayette, 14 February -- From Joseph Dougherty, 15 February -- From James Monroe, 15 February -- From Samuel H. Smith, 15 February -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 15 February -- To Randolph Jefferson, 16 February -- From Josiah Meigs, 16 February -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 18 February -- From Benjamin Smith Barton, 19 February -- From Caesar A. Rodney, 19 February -- To John Bankhead, 20 February -- To Charles Clay, 21 February -- From Alexander J. Dallas, 21 February -- Notes on Household Consumption, 21 February -- To Horatio G. Spafford, 21 February -- From William Caruthers, 22 February -- From Hugh Nelson, 22 February -- From Horatio G. Spafford, 24 February -- To Patrick Gibson, 25 February -- To Benjamin Smith Barton, 26 February -- To George Hay, 26 February -- From Henry Dearborn, 27 February -- To Joseph Dougherty, 27 February -- To Joseph Milligan, 27 February -- To Samuel H. Smith, 27 February -- Observations on the Transportation of the Monticello Library, [ca. 27 February] -- To David Bailie Warden, 27 February.

To Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, 28 February.