This volume's 571 documents cover both Jefferson's opposition to restrictions on slavery in Missouri and his concession that "the boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave." Seeking support for the University of Virginia, he fears that southerners who receive New England educations will return with northern values. Calling it "the Hobby of
"Impeccably produced and faithful to the editorial philosophy of the Jefferson Papers' founding editor Julian P. Boyd, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series sets a high standard for letterpress collections."---Christopher Childers, Journal of Southern History