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Printed document, signed by Thomas Jefferson, 1 page. Second session of Congress, "An Act for finally adjusting and satisfying the Claims of Frederick William De Steuben." Gives Von Steuben compensation for his services in the war. Approved June 4, 1790.

Jefferson requests information about David Bushnell's "submarine navigation" experiments during the American Revolution.

Written from Monticello, Virginia. Thomas Jefferson responds to Claudius Crozet's offer to teach at the University of Virginia. Letter also comments on the progress of the University and on the uncertainty of funding.

Written from Monticello, Virginia. Thomas Jefferson thanks Claudius Crozet for sending him a copy of his new geometry textbook and for his contributions to teaching. The letter also comments on the advancement of science.

Thomas Jefferson writes, while he was the U.S. Minister to France, to William Gordon about the actions he has taken to assist Gordon's efforts to write a history of the American Revolution, and conveys his thoughts on what market may exist for the publication in France. Gordon conducted part of his research for his history at Mount Vernon. Gordon published The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the late War, and of the Thirteen Colonies from their origin, to that period, 4 vols. (London: William Gordon, 1788). Letter also mentions Marquis de la Fayette. Autograph letter, signed. 1 page.

This is one eight-page manuscript is entitled "Proposed list of instruments for the classes of [N]at[ural] philosophy & Mathematics," written by Thomas Jefferson around April 26, 1824. The instruments recommended by Jefferson were to outfit the departments of science in the Academical Village classrooms and laboratories at the University of Virginia, which held its first term in 1826. The listed is organized through headings by equipment requirements for each scientific department at the University: "Genl purposes," "Mechanics," "Hydrostatics," "Optics," "Electricity Etc.," "Astronomy," and "Miscellaneous." Jefferson's list includes a "very accurate set of weights" outlined with a table, a "model of Braham's fire engine," "a good Kaleidoscope," a "simple Planetarium, 3f diam. with Sun, moon & earth only," a "Lithographic press," an "Electric battery," a "Turning lathe with Tools for working in wood & brass," a "Magic lanthern," "12 f of brass chain for electrical machine," a camera lucida, a variety of pumps, a charcoal furnace, and many other scientific dependencies. For his request of "a very large supply" of glass tubes, Jefferson included three simple drawings of his preferred tube types. This list of proposed instruments was penned by Jefferson shortly before Francis Walker Gilmer, an emissary of Jefferson, was dispatched to Europe to gather mechanical and scientific instruments, as well as recruit professors from London, Cambridge, and Edinburgh colleges for the forming University of Virginia. Gilmer returned to Virginia at the end of 1824 with five professorships filled. Three small paper fragments from the manuscript are also present.