This book, comprising Davis's voluminous but exacting researches, indicates that the collective intellect of Jefferson's Virginia was far broader in its interests, wider in its variety of reading, more fruitful in its artistic and scientific exercise and accomplishment than has customarily been acknowledged.

Originally published in 1964.

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