Scope and Contents From the Series: The first series American Commission to Negotiate Peace includes the journal Jefferson kept during his time in Paris as well as a transcript created by Geoffrey J. Martin, and publications collected for research. Many of the publications are in French. Jefferson served as the lead Geographer on the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, a research group led by Col. Edward M. House at the request of President Woodrow Wilson in the autumn of 1917 to investigate geographical, ethnological,...