Bidspirit auction | JAMES MORTON SMITH, ”THE REPUBLIC

JAMES MORTON SMITH, ”THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS: THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JAMES MADISON” - This lot features a three-volume of a series titled The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison 1776-1826, edited by James Morton Smith. This is a collection of nearly 1,250 letters exchanged between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, who are referred to as ”the two greatest philosopher-statesmen of the American Enlightenment”. The letters document their personal and political partnership, which was instrumental in shaping the ideology of democracy and representative government.