Reference: 3371
Author: Van Ward, Roland
Title: "The Geological and Geographical Writings of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: M.S. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1938)
Extent: pp. 219

Notes: no note

Reference: 1249
Author: Van Wyck, P. V. R.
Title: Address of P.V.R. Van Wyck, and Oration by Peyton Wise, Delivered Before the Irving Lyceum ... July 3, 1856, at the New Library Building of W.W. Corcoran, Esq.
Publisher: Henry Polkinhorn
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1856)
Extent: pp.23

Notes: Van Wyck's address is a biographical sketch of TJ.

Reference: 2478
Author: Van Zandt, Roland
Title: The Metaphysical Foundations of American History
Publisher: Mouton
Place of Publication: The Hague
Date: (1959)
Extent: pp. 269

Notes: Argues on pp. 99-202 that TJ most clearly and fully enunciates the "closed system of ideas, ... a dialectic of opposed interests and beliefs" through which American historians have come to understand their history.

Reference: 2050
Author: Van der Weyde , William Manley
Title: "Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?"
Publication: Americana
Volume: 6
Date: (1911)
Extent: 8-15

Notes: Rpt. separately; another claim for Thomas Paine as author.

Reference: 1241
Author: Vance, Joseph C.
Title: Knives, Whips and Randolphs on the Court House Lawn
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 15
Date: (1956)
Extent: 28-35

Notes: Best account of Charles L. Bankhead's attack on his brother-in-law, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, in February 1819. Bankhead had mistreated his wife, TJ's granddaughter, and TJ and the family had tried to intervene.

Reference: 1242
Author: Vance, Joseph Carroll
Title: Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Publication: Ph.D. Dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1957)
Extent: 269

Notes: Biography of TJ's favorite grandson who managed his farms after the War of 1812 and became the executor of his estate upon his death.

Reference: 1243
Author: Vance, Marguerite
Title: Patsy Jefferson of Monticello
Publisher: E.P. Dutton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1948)
Extent: 154

Notes: Juvenile biography of Martha Jefferson Randolph, focuses on years in France; heavily fictionalized.

Reference: 980
Author: Vanderstel, David G.
Title: "The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello"
Publication: Journal of the Early Republic
Volume: 13
Date: (1993)
Extent: 397-402.

Notes: Reviews the 1993 Monticello exhibit which brought back many of the items originally in the house and which sought to demonstrate the convergence of TJ's world of Enlightenment universal ideas, his world in public service, and his private world. Finds the exhibit does reveal TJ's complexity but suggests it might be overwhelming to some visitors and that the general public may find it difficult to grasp the implicit thesis behind the exhibit.

Reference: 2052
Author: Varg, Paul A.
Title: Foreign Policies of the Founding Fathers
Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Lansing
Date: (1963)
Extent: pp. xi, 316

Notes: Covers the period from 1774 to 1812. TJ discussed passim, but particularly in the chapters entitled "Credit vs. Markets: The Origin of Party Conflict over Foreign Policy" and "Jefferson and Madison Formulate Foreign Policy." Sees foreign policy as shaped by party warfare and by the psychological forces vested in the symbols of an aristocratic Europe and a virtuous America.

Reference: 17
Author: Vaughan, Joseph Lee and Omer Allen Gianniny, Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda Restored 1973-1976.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville, VA
Date: (1981)
Extent: xxi, 170.

Notes: Introduction by Frederick D. Nichols; on TJ's original concept, Stanford White's reconstruction, and the modern restoration. Generously illustrated. Previously cited University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville TJCAB , # 3373.

Reference: 3372
Author: Vaughan, G. B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Community College, and the Pursuit of Education."
Publication: Community College Frontiers
Volume: 8
Date: (1980)
Extent: 4-10

Notes: no note

Reference: 3373
Author: Vaughan, Joseph Lee and Omer Allen Gianniny, Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Rotunda Restored 1973-76
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1981)
Extent: pp.xxi, 170

Notes: Introduction by Frederick Doveton Nichols; on TJ's original concept, Stanford White's rebuilding, and the restoration. Generously illustrated.

Reference: 981
Author: Vermeule, Emily Townsend
Title: “Jefferson and Homer,”
Publication: Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
Volume: 137
Date: (1993)
Extent: 689-703.

Notes: Somewhat disjointed essay that in the first half comments on TJ's admiration for Homer because of the copiousness and powr of his language. Claims that comments in his “Thoughts on English Prosody” reveal his as one of the first Americans to understand instinctively Homeric epic as a rhetorical, sung performance. Second half of essay is more interested in the historical referentiality of the Homeric texts in view of modern understanding of Homeric authorship.

Reference: 32
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: A Further Checklist of the Separate Editions of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1950)
Extent: pp. 26

Notes: Earlier checklist implied in the title is the unpublished memoranda of Harry Clemons, Librarian of the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 1250
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Convergence
Volume: 3
Date: (1970)
Extent: 88-90

Notes: no note

Reference: 3374
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "The Maps and Plates Appearing with the Several Editions of Mr. Jefferson's 'Notes on the State of Virginia."'
Publication: VMHB
Volume: 59
Date: (1951)
Extent: 21-33

Notes: Careful bibliographical description.

Reference: 3375
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Distributes His Notes, A Preliminary Checklist of First Editions."
Publication: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Volume: 56
Date: (1952)
Extent: 159-86

Notes: How and to whom TJ sent copies of the 1st edition of Notes; varying states of the edition may suggest second thoughts on what TJ wished to include. Also printed separately, New York: New York Public Library, 1952. pp. 31.

Reference: 3376
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Makes a Map."
Publication: Imago Mundi
Volume: 14
Date: (1959)
Extent: 96-108

Notes: Scholarly account of how TJ made the 1786 map of Virginia intended to accompany the Abbe Morellet's translation of Notes. Claims that the map is the most detailed and accurate representation of Virginia in the last quarter of the 18th century.

Reference: 3377
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Crusade Against Ignorance."
Publication: Journal of Education of the Faculty and College of Education of the University of British Columbia
Volume: 7
Date: (1962)
Extent: 16-24

Notes: Survey of TJ's work for public education; slight.

Reference: 3378
Author: Verner, Coolie and P. J. Conkwright
Title: "The Printing of Jefferson's Notes, 1793-94."
Publication: Studies in Bibliography
Volume: 5
Date: (1952)
Extent: 201-03

Notes: Mathew Carey engaged Parry Hall to print the second American edition of Notes.

Reference: 3379
Author: Verner, Coolie
Title: "Some Observations on the Philadelphia 1794 Edition of Jefferson's Notes."
Publication: Studies in Bibliography
Volume: 2
Date: (1949)
Extent: 201-04

Notes: Bibliographic description of two states of this edition.

Reference: 1251
Author: Vest, George G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, An Address. Delivered at Columbia, Mo., on June 4, 1885
Publisher: Buxton & Skinner
Place of Publication: St. Louis
Date: (1885)
Extent: pp. 24

Notes: Laudatory and rhetorical view of TJ's career.

Reference: 1252
Author: Vest, George G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson. An Address. Delivered Before the Jefferson Club, of St. Louis, Missouri, October 31, 1895, on the occasion of unveiling a bust in bronze of Thomas Jefferson, the work of Benjamin Harney, Esq., a member of the Club.
Publisher: The Jefferson Club
Place of Publication: St. Louis
Date: (1895)
Extent: pp. 21

Notes: Laudatory rhetoric linking TJ with the present day Democratic Party and not the Republicans or Populists.

Reference: 1253
Author: Via, Betty Davis
Title: Monticello's Animal Kingdom
Publisher: For the author
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1967)
Extent: pp. (32)

Notes: Domestic and wild animals at Monticello in TJ's time; juvenile.

Reference: 1254
Author: Via, Betty Davis
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Indians
Publisher: The author
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1969)
Extent: pp. (32)

Notes: Juvenile; fanciful.

Reference: 1255
Author: Via, Betty Davis
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Letters to Young People
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1956)
Extent: broadside

Notes: Brief notes and extracts from TJ's letters.

Reference: 1256
Author: Via, Vera V.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Uneasy Rest."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 11
Date: (1961)
Extent: 27-32.

Notes: The Monticello graveyard.

Reference: 3380
Author: Via, Betty Davis
Title: The Fourth of July Goose
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1958)
Extent: Folding broadside

Notes: Monticello juvenile fiction.

Reference: 57
Author: Vial, Fernand
Title: "La culture française de Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Mélanges Auguste Viatte
Publisher: Académie des Sciences d'Outre-Mer,
Place of Publication: Paris:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 49-57.

Notes: Describes TJ's citations in his Commonplace Book from French authors, particularly Montesquieu, and notes the large number of books by French authors in his library. Slight piece for a festschrift.

Reference: 1257
Author: Victor, O. J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Knickerbocker Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1858)
Extent: 359-62,479-84

Notes: Review essay of Randall's Life; the first section on TJ's youth is generally admiring, but the second section is a sharp attack on his "inconsistencies."

Reference: 640
Author: Vidal, Gore
Title: "The Tree of Liberty: Notes on Our Patriarchal State."
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 251
Date: (August 27, 1990)
Extent: 185, 202-04.

Notes: Frames a critique of the American patriarchal "garrison state" with a consideration of the counter example of TJ, at least as expressed in his revolutionary concepts of the pursuit of happiness and of the necessity of occasionally watering the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Reference: 982
Author: Vincent, Bernard
Title: “Thomas Paine, The Louisiana Purchase, and the Rights of Man,”
Publication: Plantation Society in the Americas
Volume: 3
Date: (no. 2, 1993)
Extent: 63-72.

Notes: Reviews Paine's supposed role in the 1803 purchase, including his correspondence with TJ, his support of Jeffersonian diplomacy, and his advice on matters relating to Louisiana. Paine was less successful when he recommended support for Toussaint and the rebel slaves in Saint Domingue. Rather exaggerates Paine's significance as an advisor to TJ.

Reference: 1258
Author: Vogt, Per
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Johan Grundt Tanum
Place of Publication: Oslo
Date: (1946)
Extent: pp.344

Notes: Biography in Norwegian.

Reference: 108
Author: Volker, Joseph F.
Title: "A Jefferson Commentary on Physiology and Theology."
Publication: Alabama Journal of Medical Sciences.
Volume: 19.
Date: (1982)
Extent: 365-67.

Notes: Describes and quotes TJ's correspondence with Lafayette, John Adams, and Francis Adrian van der Kemp on the subject of Pierre Flourens' Recherches experimentales sur les proprietes et les fonctions du systeme nerveux dans les animaux vertebres (1822). TJ was interested in evidence for the material basis of thought.

Reference: 2054
Author: Volz, Harry A. III
Title: "The Opposition of Virginia Republicans to Jefferson's Embargo."
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 20
Date: (1976)
Extent: 19-38

Notes: The minority Republicans in Virginia who opposed the Embargo included men who had hoped TJ's election as president would lead to fundamental reforms and a dismantling of all Federalist programs.

Reference: 2479
Author: Von Eckardt, Ursula M.
Title: "The Inalienable Right to the Pursuit of Happiness: The Meaning of the Concept Examined in the Declaration of Independence and in Related Texts."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: New School for Social Research
Date: (1953)
Extent: pp. 336

Notes: no note

Reference: 2480
Author: Von Eckardt, Ursula M.
Title: The Pursuit of Happiness in the Democratic Creed: An Analysis of Political Ethics
Publisher: Praeger
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1959)
Extent: pp.xvi,414

Notes: The right to the pursuit of happiness was not included in the Declaration "on the spur of the moment or as an after thought, but ... represents a central theme of Jefferson's complex political thought."

Reference: 1259
Author: Voorhees, Daniel W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Forty Years of Oratory ... Lectures, Addresses, and Speeches
Publisher: Bowen-Merrill
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1898)
Extent: 43-77

Notes: no note

Reference: 2055
Author: Vossler, Otto
Title: Die Americkanischen Revolutionsideale in ihren Verhaltnis zu den Europaischen; Untersucht an Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: R. Oldenbourg
Place of Publication: Munchen
Date: (1929)
Extent: pp. 197

Notes: See R. R. Palmer, "A Neglected Work." WMQ. 3rd ser. 12(1955), 462-71, for an account of this. Also translated by Catherine Philippon and Bernard Wishy as Jefferson and the American Revolutionary Ideal. Washington: Univ. Press of America, 1980. pp. xxxvi, 235.