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- GLC#
- GLC01034
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1784
- Author/Creator
- Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
- Title
- Notes on the establishment of a money unit....
- Place Written
- Paris, France
- Pagination
- 14 p. : Height: 20 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Printed by Pierres in Paris. Copies of this work were bound into the private edition of Notes on the State of Virginia (GLC 5096). A rare work by Jefferson, one with important consequences for the United States. Jefferson Papers 8: 295 and 7: 150-203. Sowerby, Jefferson's Library 3755; Malone, Jefferson The Virginian, pp.416-18; C. Doris Heilman, "Jefferson's Efforts towards the Decimalization of United States Weights and Measures," in ISIS, 16 (Nov.1931): 266-314; Verner, "Mr. Jefferson Distributes his Notes," New York. 1952.
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