Excerpt from Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 The Opinion universally entertained of the extraordinary abili ties of thomas jefferson, and the signal evidence given by his country, Of a profound sense of his patriotic services, and Of vene ration for his memory, have induced the Editor, who is both his Executor and the Legatee Of his Manuscript papers, to believe that an extensive publication from them, would be particularly acceptable to the American people.

The Memoir, contained in the first volume, commences with circumstantial notices of his earliest life; and is continued to his arrival in New York, in March, 1790, when he entered on the duties Of the Department of State, of which he had been just appointed Secretary.

From the aspect of the Memoir, it may be presumed that parts of it, at least, had been written for his own and his family's use only; and in a style without the finish of his revising pen. There is, however, no part Of it, minute and personal as it may be, which the Reader would wish to have been passed over by the Editor; whilst not a few parts Of that description, will, by some, be re garded with a particular interest.

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