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VOLUME IX ONLY issued as the final concluding volume only of a nine volume set. Full title - THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: BEING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE, REPORTS, MESSAGES, ADDRESSES, AND OTHER WRITINGS, OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE. PUBLISHED BY THE ORDER OF THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS ON THE LIBRARY, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS, DEPOSITED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, TABLES OF CONTENTS, AND A COPIOUS INDEX TO EACH VOLUME, AS WELL AS A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE, BY THE EDITOR H.A. WASHINGTON. VOL. IX. viii, 1-589 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 16cm. Original half-leather binding. i.e. black leather spine with five raised bands delineating six compartments of which two feature bright gilt stamped lettering; predominately dark marbled paper over boards with black leather corners. Small patches of surface abrasion to spine; mild scuffing at board corners with small loss of surface leather at front board's bottom corner. All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Four-line antiquarian ink ownership inscription on front flyleaf - "James O. Banks | Columbus | Miss | Oct. 1855." - along with his purple ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" at top of title page. Strongest foxing on several initial and rear leaves with foxing to interior leaves varying from mostly light to occasionally moderate. Binding retains some crispness. Still a handsome very good antiquarian volume. Contents continue preceding Volume 8's "Miscellaneous Parts I-III" so that this final Volume 9 is comprised of Part IV-Jefferson's Manual [aka "A Manual of Parliamentary Practice"] (pages 1-86), Part V-The Anas. (pages 87-211), and Part VI-Miscellaneous Papers (pages 212-515) plus the General Index for the entire set on pages 517-589. Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.75 pounds (1.7 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.
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