Bonus: Behind the Scenes of the Adams-Jefferson Letters




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Summary: In 1959, the Omohundro Institute and UNC Press published Lester J. Cappon’s The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and John and Abigail Adams. It was the first time that all 380 letters between Jefferson and the Adamses appeared in a single volume. Karin Wulf, Director of the Omohundro Institute, takes us behind-the-scenes of The Adams-Jefferson Letters and its publication.