Excerpt from Centennial Celebration of the Enactment of the First Free School Law in Illinois, 1825-1925 I am including in this circular some matters and records relating to Thomas Jefferson and Nathaniel Pope which in my Opinion helped to make possible the great achievement of Senator Duncan and Gover nor Coles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.