Reference: 2056
Author: Waciuma, Wanjohi
Title: Intervention in Spanish Floridas, 1801-1813: A Study in Jeffersonian Foreign Policy
Publisher: Branden
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 371

Notes: no note

Reference: 456
Author: Waddell, Gene
Title: "The First Monticello."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 46
Date: (1987)
Extent: 5-29.

Notes: Well documented and illustrated essay claiming that TJ became an architect in the course of designing the first Monticello. This is one of the best-documented pre-Revolutionary buildings in the U. S., and TJ's records reveal that considerations of climate as well as aesthetics governed his selection of a site. They also show how far he relied on other sources for design, why he changed his plans during construction, how far he executed his designs, and why he largely destroyed the house. Argues that he later redesigned the house for aesthetic, rather than political, reasons.

Reference: 1260
Author: Wade, Mary Hazelton
Title: The Boy Who Loved Freedom: The Story of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1930)
Extent: pp. vii, 235

Notes: Juvenile biography

Reference: 1261
Author: Wagner, Julia
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The Man and Patriot
Publication: Creative Arts Studio
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1949)
Extent: pp.16

Notes: A script for an accompanying filmstrip.

Reference: 369
Author: Wagoner, Jennings L.
Title: "Honor and Dishonor at Mr. Jefferson's University: The Antebellum Years."
Publication: History of Education Quarterly
Volume: 26
Date: (1986)
Extent: 155-79.

Notes: Discusses the notion of honor as understood by TJ and other contemporary Southerners and its role in the honor code which TJ set up at the University and subsequent student disturbances. If TJ thought of honor as a moral guide, an inner attribute, the students, typical of later generations of Southerners, understood it in a somewhat different sense as an external mark of a gentleman.

Reference: 3383
Author: Wagoner, Jennings L.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a New Nation
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation
Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
Date: (1976)
Extent: pp. 41

Notes: Competent survey of TJ's educational interests, ideas, and accomplishments.

Reference: 58
Author: Wainwright, Loudon
Title: "A Lifetime with Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Life
Volume: 4
Date: (August, 1981)
Extent: 7.

Notes: Interview with Dumas Malone, discussing his work on TJ.

Reference: 2057
Author: Waite, Edward F.
Title: "Jefferson's 'Wall of Separation': What and Where?"
Publication: Minnesota Law Review
Volume: 33
Date: (1949)
Extent: 494-516

Notes: Not on TJ but on subsequent judicial interpretations of the separation of church and state issue.

Reference: 59
Author: Walker, Warren S.
Title: "Cooper's Yorkers and Yankees in the Jeffersonian Garden"
Publication: James Fenimore Cooper His Country and His Art: Papers from the 1980 Conference at State University College of New York Oneonta and Cooperstown , ed. George A. Test.
Publisher: n.p.,
Place of Publication: Oneonta:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 71-80.

Notes: By 1830 Cooper had overcome his initial Federalist reservations about TJ and came to admire him. He became an ardent advocate of Jeffersonian democracy which felt was threatened by the spread of Yankee emigrants to the West.

Reference: 984
Author: Walker, David
Title: "The Radical Reactionary"
Publication: Times Higher Education Supplement
Volume: 1103
Date: (December 24, 1993)
Extent: 13.

Notes: Does TJ have a legacy for the wider world? Despite his flaws and contradictions, yes, because without some version of the Jeffersonian faiths, “what becomes of human rights, democratic pluralism, or any of that bag of tricks that the West has exported world wide and seen re-presented in the United Nations. ”

Reference: 2058
Author: Walker, Francis Amasa
Title: "Jefferson's First Term" and "Jefferson's Second Term"
Publication: The Making of the Nation, 1783-1817
Publisher: Scribner's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1895)
Extent: 168-213

Notes: Balanced and standard account of events.

Reference: 1094
Author: Walkley, Ellen Jo
Title: “Lives Fit to Be Written: Self-Representation in the Republic of Letters.”
Publication: Ph. D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
Publication: DAI 56/05, 1782
Date: (1994)
Extent: Pp. 173.

Notes: First chapter discusses TJ's “Autobiography” and one by Mary Tyler as “seemingly paradigmatic voices of republican ideology ... [that] ostentatiously embrace the rhetoric of consensus. ”

Reference: 2059
Author: Wall, James M.
Title: "Consent of the Governed."
Publication: Christian Century
Volume: 93
Date: (1976)
Extent: 3-4

Notes: Editorial on TJ's basic principle of the necessary consent of the governed for a just government.

Reference: 3384
Author: Wall, Charles Coleman
Title: "Students and Student Life at the University of Virginia, 1825 to 1861."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1978)
Extent: 341

Notes: Examines the distance between TJ's plans for the discipline of students and the disciplinary regime actually imposed after October, 1825. This led to serious student disorder until a reform in 1842 restored some of the positive elements of TJ's model. DAI 40/02A, p. 1035.

Reference: 1391
Author: Wallace, Anthony F. C.
Title: "'The Obtaining Lands': Thomas Jefferson and the Native Americans"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West , Ronda ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Place of Publication: Albuquerque
Date: (1997)
Extent: 25-42.

Notes: Argues cogently that while TJ might have sincerely intended his statements about "civilizing " the American Indians, his desire to procure Indian land for white development and settlement, necessary for the security of the American republic, was the driving motive behind his Indian policies. The goal was either to make the Indians "disappear" into the European culture or remove west of the Mississippi, perhaps even to the Rocky Mountains.

Reference: 1263
Author: Wallace, M. G.
Title: "Monticello."
Publication: American Monthly Magazine
Volume: 22
Date: (1903)
Extent: 106-07

Notes: no note

Reference: 2060
Author: Wallace, D. D.
Title: "Jefferson's Part in the Purchase of Louisiana."
Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 19
Date: (1911)
Extent: 328-38

Notes: Argues that TJ did not seek the Louisiana acquisition but simply accepted it.

Reference: 2061
Author: Wallace, Henry A.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Practical Idealist
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1935)
Extent: pp. 2 1

Notes: Addresses before the Jeffersonian Union, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 1935. pp. 21, printed here for release to the press. "Jeffersonian democracy must take on modern equipment ... if an agrarian liberalism is to achieve a balance between agriculture and industry, it must offer more than what has been called 'an amiable go-as-you-please individualism."'

Reference: 3385
Author: Wallace, Henry A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Farmer, Educator, and Democrat."
Publication: Proceedings of the Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities
Volume: 51
Date: (1937)
Extent: 338-46

Notes: Eulogistic portrait of TJ as archetypical progressive.

Reference: 3386
Author: Wallace, Henry A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 28
Date: (1954)
Extent: 133-38

Notes: Discusses TJ's interest in farming and the difficulties of experimental farming.

Reference: 1264
Author: Walne, Peter
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Visits to Hertfordshire."
Publication: Hertfordshire Countryside
Volume: 30
Date: (1975)
Extent: 16-17

Notes: TJ visits Moor Park; interesting account.

Reference: 2062
Author: Walsh, Richard, ed.
Title: "Letters of Morris and Brailsford to Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: South Carolina Historical Magazine
Volume: 58
Date: (1957)
Extent: 129-44

Notes: Correspondence dealing with the exportation of rice to France; introduction and notes.

Reference: 1265
Author: Walter, L. Rohe
Title: Thomas Jefferson American Credo Stamp Ceremony, May 18, 1960
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1960)
Extent: pp. 8

Notes: First day of issue ceremony in Charlottesville for postage stamp bearing TJ's vow of hostility against every form of Tyranny.

Reference: 814
Author: Walters, Kerry S.
Title: “The Deistic Christian: Thomas Jefferson” in Rational Infidels: The American Deists .
Publisher: Longwood Academic Press
Place of Publication: Durango, CO.
Date: (1992)
Extent: 153-91.

Notes: Unsurprising view of TJ as a champion of reason and tolerance, who demythologized scripture and admired Jesus as a moral teacher. Says that of all the American deists, TJ “was most peoccupied with questions of virtue and justice. ” Criticizes his uncritical endorsement of common sense doctrines, however, and his inconsistent discussion of moral doctrine.

Reference: 1015
Author: Walters, Kerry S.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson: Reason and Free Enquiry Are the Only Effectual Agents against Error,” in The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic .
Publisher: University of Kansas Press
Place of Publication: Lawrence
Date: (1992)
Extent: 106-40.

Notes: Selections of TJ on religion and religious freedom with an introduction emphasizing his concern for freedom of conscience and for “scriptural demythologizing. ”

Reference: 1211
Author: Walters, Susan C.
Title: “Monticello: Change and Continuity,”
Publication: Historian
Volume: 57
Date: (1995)
Extent: 749-56.

Notes: A “photo-essay” on Monticello and the work of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to preserve it. Nothing new.

Reference: 1212
Author: Walterscheid, Edward C.
Title: “Patents and the Jeffersonian Mythology,”
Publication: The John Marshall Law Review
Volume: 29
Date: (1995)
Extent: 269-314.

Notes: TJ has achieved mythological status as the founder of the US patent system. Close and detailed examination of his actual involvements in the patent system, claims the author, reveals that his role has been exaggerated and somewhat misrepresented. Although he influenced the administration of the first patent system under the law of 1790, he did little or nothing to create the system, and while he significantly influenced the language of the Act of 1793, he neither drafted it nor was responsible for its content. He was responsible for changing from an examination system for patents to a registration system, but he later thought this was a mistake. He later expressed doubts about the wisdom of a patent system in general. He did advocate rules of patentability, including the basic tenet that a patentable invention must be unobvious to one skilled in the art to which it pertains. The Supreme Court's “reliance on this Jeffersonian mythology” to privilege his statements about patents has been characterized “as the use of pseudohistory in constitutional construction.”

Reference: 2481
Author: Walton, Craig
Title: "Hume and Jefferson on the Uses of History"
Publication: Philosophy and the Civilizing Arts: Essays Presented to Herbert W. Schneider, ed. Craig Walton and John P. Anton
Publisher: Ohio Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Athens
Date: (1974)
Extent: 103-25

Notes: Contends that TJ because he wanted to use history ideologically rejected Hume less for his historical judgments than for his skepticism; suggestive. Slightly revised version of this in Hume: A Re-Evaluation, ed. Donald W. Livingstone and James T. King. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1976. 389-403.

Reference: 229
Author: Wamsley, James S.
Title: "At Home with Tom Jefferson."
Publication: Reader's Digest
Volume: 125
Date: (August, 1984)
Extent: 161-62.

Notes: Condensation of the next item.

Reference: 230
Author: Wamsley, James S.
Title: "Digging for Jefferson."
Publication: GEO
Volume: 6
Date: (April, 1984)
Extent: 82-91, 122.

Notes: TJ's life at Monticello and the archaeological efforts going on under the direction of William Kelso to recover it. Illustrated.

Reference: 2063
Author: Wandell, Samuel H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Aaron Burr in Literature; Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Miscellany Relating to Aaron Burr and His Leading Political Contemporaries
Publication: Psyche Monographs
Volume: no. 6
Publisher: Kegan Paul
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1936)
Extent: 131-44

Notes: Sketch and short bibliography.

Reference: 985
Author: Wang, Xiaoxun
Title: “Jiefuxun Yu Zongjiao Ziyou” (Jefferson and Freedom of Religion)
Publisher: Shije Lishi (World History )
Volume: 2
Date: (1993)
Extent: 83-92.

Notes: Discussion of TJ's writings and actions in favor of religious freedom and against religious oppression. Emphasizes his commitment to the free exercise of religion, not merely separation of church and state. In Chinese.

Reference: 759
Author: Ward, Nathan.
Title: "Tabloid Wars."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 42
Date: (October, 1991)
Extent: 36

Notes: On TJ's backing of Philip Freneau as editor of the National Gazette in response to Hamilton's support of John Fenno's Gazette of the United States.

Reference: 1266
Author: Ward, Paul W.
Title: "Washington Weekly."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 142
Date: (1936)
Extent: 267-68

Notes: Criticizes proposals to spend 30 million for a TJ memorial in St. Louis.

Reference: 3387
Author: Ward, James E.
Title: "Monticello: An Experimental Farm."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1945)
Extent: 183-85

Notes: TJ experimented with crop rotation, farm machinery, deep plowing, horizontal plowing, new plants, and pest control.

Reference: 3388
Author: Ward, James E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Contributions to American Agriculture."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1935)
Extent: pp. iii, 256

Notes: no note

Reference: 3389
Author: Ward, James E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Contributions to Agriculture."
Publication: Congressional Record
Volume: 78 Congress, 1 Session. 89 (Appendix):
Date: (1769-70)
Extent: none given

Notes: Also in Univ. of Virginia News Letter. 19(April 15, 1943).

Reference: 2064
Author: Warde, William F.
Title: "Jefferson, Lincoln and Dewey."
Publication: International Socialist Review
Volume: 20
Date: (1959)
Extent: 88-92

Notes: Criticizes Dewey's liberal democracy, claiming TJ's and Lincoln's proclamation of the "right to revolution as the ultimate guarantee of all other democratic rights" brings them closer to Marxism than to "Deweyism."

Reference: 1095
Author: Wardle, Lynn D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson v. Casey"
Publication: The Human Life Review
Volume: 20
Date: (Summer, 1994)
Extent: 49-58.

Notes: Uses TJ's criticism of slavery and his account of the failure by one vote of the antislavery clause in the ordinance of 1784 to condemn Justice Anthony Kennedy's vote in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, thus missing a chance to overturn Roe v. Wade. More polemic than history.

Reference: 2065
Author: Warfield, Ethelbert D.
Title: "The Authorship of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798."
Publication: Magazine of Western History
Volume: 3
Date: (1886)
Extent: 574-86

Notes: John Breckinridge was the mover of the Resolutions, but their authorship is unclear.

Reference: 2066
Author: Warfield, Ethelbert Dudley
Title: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, An Historical Study
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1887)
Extent: pp. ix, 203

Notes: Background and authorship, effects of the Resolutions. TJ's draft supports a more radical states rights position than the toned down version of John Breckinridge, and Madison was more restrained yet.

Reference: 2067
Author: Warfield, Ethelbert D.
Title: "The New Light on the Kentucky Resolutions."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 44
Date: (1887)
Extent: 467-68

Notes: Emphasizes the role of John Breckinridge.

Reference: 1269
Author: Warner, Charles Willard Hoskins
Title: "Jefferson's Williamsburg Friends"
Publication: Road to Revolution: Virginia's Rebels from Bacon to Jefferson
Publisher: Garrett and Massie
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1961)
Extent: 131-42

Notes: Derivative account of Small, Wythe, and Fauquier.

Reference: 1267
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "Fourth of July Myths."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 2
Date: (1945)
Extent: 237-72

Notes: TJ misremembered the date of signing the Declaration; also notes early celebrations of the Fourth as an expression of party spirit.

Reference: 1268
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "How Jefferson's Death Was Reported in the Campaign of 1800"
Publication: Odd Byways in American History
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1942)
Extent: 127-35

Notes: Rumor based on the death of a slave of the same name.

Reference: 2068
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "How the President's Speech to Congress Was Instituted and Abandoned"
Publication: Odd Byways in American History
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1942)
Extent: 136-58

Notes: TJ was the first president to send a written message to Congress instead of giving a speech; this was to end partisan friction over the custom.

Reference: 2069
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "Jefferson, the Essex Junto, and the Law Craft"
Publication: Jacobin and Junto or Early American Politics as Viewed in the Diary Of Dr. Nathaniel Ames, 1758-1822
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1931)
Extent: 146-82

Notes: Fisher Ames' Republican brother reports on Federalist opposition to TJ.

Reference: 2070
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "Marshall, Jefferson, and the Judiciary"
Publication: The Supreme Court in United States History. Vol. 1. 1789-1835
Publisher: Little Brown
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1922)
Extent: 169-230

Notes: Focus on Marbury vs. Madison.

Reference: 2071
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: The Trumpeters of the Constitution
Publisher: Univ. of Rochester
Place of Publication: Rochester
Date: (1927)
Extent: pp. 85

Notes: TJ's services to American life and constitutional government discussed on pp. 44-52; generalities.

Reference: 2072
Author: Warren, Charles
Title: "Why Jefferson Abandoned the Presidential Speech to Congress."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 57
Date: (1924)
Extent: 123-72

Notes: "The practice of making reply addresses had become an unmitigated nuisance, wasting the time of both branches of Congress in purely futile debate."

Reference: 3390
Author: Warren, Robert Penn
Title: Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices
Publisher: Random House
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1953)
Extent: pp. xii, 230

Notes: A poem in dialogue dealing with events and characters involved in the Kentucky tragedy in which TJ's nephews butchered a slave. One of the speakers is TJ. A new version was published in New York: Random House, 1979. pp. xiv, 141. This version gives Meriwether Lewis a more significant role, says Warren, and is the result of an extensive reworking of the text.

Reference: 2073
Author: Washburn, Charles G.
Title: "Who Was the Author of the Declaration of Independence?"
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 38
Date: (1928)
Extent: 51-62

Notes: Examines pre-1776 declarations of rights and grievances, particularly the 1773 statement of Mendon, Mass., in order to suggest TJ was not the "author" of the Declaration so much as he was its draftsman. Poorly reasoned.

Reference: 1124
Author: Wasser, Hartmut, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität .
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: pp. 264.

Notes: Essays, in German, by various hands in a collection that originated in symposia at the Universities of Göttingen and Hamburg celebrating the 250 ^th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. Listed separately below.

Reference: 1213
Author: Wasser, Hartmut
Title: “Thomas Jefferson, Philosoph, Staatsman, Gelehrter und Literat”
Publication: in Wasser, ed. Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: 11-50.

Notes: “Thomas Jefferson, Philosopher, Statesmen, Scholar, and Writer. ” In German. An overview that prefaces this collection.

Reference: 1214
Author: Wasser, Hartmut
Title: “Zwischen Herrenrecht und Menschenrecht. Thomas Jefferson und das `amerikanische Dilemma,'”
Publication: in Wasser, ed. Thomas Jefferson: Historische Bedeuteung und Politische Aktualität
Publisher: Ferdinand Schöningh
Place of Publication: Paderborn
Date: (1995)
Extent: 173-201.

Notes: “Between the Rights of the State and Human Rights. ” In German. The dilemma involves negotiating the needs of the state for power to govern and individual rights to regulate one's own behavior and life.

Reference: 1281
Author: Wasser, Hartmut
Title: “Vom Leichtfertigen Umgang mit der Reputation Historischer Grössen: Thomas Jefferson's `Liebesleben' im Spiegel der Gegenwart,”
Publication: Amerikastudien
Volume: 41
Date: (1996)
Extent: 112-18. [Germany]

Notes: On TJ's present-day reputation, particularly as affected by representations of his emotional life such as in the Merchant/Ivory film, Jefferson in Paris , and in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's script for it. In German.

Reference: 1282
Author: Wasser, Hartmut
Title: “`Wir Halten den Wolf an den Ohren...': Thomas Jefferson und das Institut der Sklaverei,”
Publication: Amerikastudien/American Studies
Volume: 41
Date: (1996)
Extent: 33-48. [Germany]

Notes: “`We Hold the Wolf by the Ears': Thomas Jefferson and the Institution of Slavery. ” In order to understand TJ's involvement in slaveholding and his simultaneous championing of equality, we must, the author urges, guard against the dangers of “presentism” in our judgments. In German.

Reference: 1270
Author: Wasserman, Felix M.
Title: "Six Unpublished Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Germanic Review
Volume: 29
Date: (1954)
Extent: 191-200

Notes: Describes the letters in the Library of Congress and discusses Humboldt's interest in TJ and the United States.

Reference: 3391
Author: Wasserman, Burton
Title: "Exhibition in Sight."
Publication: School Arts
Volume: 76
Date: (1976)
Extent: 24-27

Notes: On the Eye of Thomas Jefferson exhibit.

Reference: 2482
Author: Waterman, Julian S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Blackstone's Commentaries"
Publication: Illinois Law Review
Volume: 27
Date: (1933)
Extent: 629-59

Notes: TJ opposed the Commentaries and the common law so interpreted because of Blackstone's Tory bias, his "Mansfieldism."

Reference: 3392
Author: Waterman, Thomas T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, His Early Works in Architecture."
Publication: Gazette des Beaux Arts
Volume: ser. 6. 24
Date: (1943)
Extent: 89-106

Notes: On work before the Revolution and influences on it; identifies TJ's architectural mentor as Richard Taliaferro of Williamsburg. Attributes Brandon, Battersea, and the Randolph-Semple house in Williamsburg to him.

Reference: 3393
Author: Watlington, Pat
Title: "The Building of 'Liberty Hall."'
Publication: Register of the Kentucky Historical Society
Volume: 69
Date: (1971)
Extent: 313-18

Notes: TJ sent a plan and suggestions for the house of John Brown in Frankfort.

Reference: 1393
Author: Watson, Martine Solomon
Title: "The Dynamics of Intertextuality: Re-reading the Declaration of Independence" in Rhetoric and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Thomas W. Benson.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Place of Publication: East Lansing
Date: (1997)
Extent: 91-111.

Notes: Argues that earlier abolitionists and woman's rights advocates articulated the new understanding of the Declaration and the imposition of it on the Constitution that Garry Wills credits to Lincoln in his
Title: Lincoln at Gettysburg
(1992). Specifically looks at the American Anti-Slavery Society's 1833 Declaration of Sentiments and the 1848 text of the same name adopted at the Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention as responding to TJ's Declaration and the earlier debates about its meaning and significance.

Reference: 1271
Author: Watson, Henry C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Lives of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Kelly & Bro
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1853)
Extent: 200-54

Notes: no note

Reference: 1272
Author: Watson, Ross
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Visit to England, 1786."
Publication: History Today
Volume: 27
Date: (1977)
Extent: 3-13

Notes: Informative, detailed account of TJ's visit which, says the author, strengthened his anti-British prejudices; his introduction to English gardens was the only positive result of the trip.

Reference: 1273
Author: Watson, Thomas E.
Title: The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1903)
Extent: pp. xxii, 534

Notes: TJ as courageous fighter of religious bigotry, class despotism, and all other kinds of oppression; intended in part as a reply to Theodore Roosevelt's characterization of TJ in his Winnin~ of the West. Revised edition published in 1927.

Reference: 1274
Author: Watson, Thomas E.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Small, Maynard
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1900)
Extent: pp. xv, 150

Notes: In the series "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans."

Reference: 3394
Author: Watson, F. J. B.
Title: "American and French Eighteenth-Century Furniture in the Age of Jefferson"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1976)
Extent: 271-93

Notes: TJ bought more furniture than any of his contemporaries, and his interest in architecture and decoration plus his fascination with gadgetry and technique better enabled him to appreciate the qualities of Louis XVI furniture.

Reference: 3395
Author: Watson, Francis J. B.
Title: "America's First Universal Man Had a Very Acute Eye."
Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 7
Date: (1976)
Extent: 88-95

Notes: TJ's aesthetic preferences surveyed.

Reference: 3396
Author: Watson, Francis J. B.
Title: "The Eye of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 110
Date: (1976)
Extent: 118-25

Notes: Adapted from item #3394 above.

Reference: 3397
Author: Watson, Jane
Title: "Jefferson Statue."
Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 34
Date: (1941)
Extent: 494-95

Notes: Note on Rudulph Evan's statue for the Memorial.

Reference: 3398
Author: Watson, Lucille McWane
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Other Home."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 71
Date: (1957)
Extent: 342-46

Notes: On Poplar Forest; excellent description with illustrations. See also the amplifying note in Antiques, 72(1957), 154, on a visit by George Flower.

Reference: 3399
Author: Watts, George B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the 'Encyclopedie' and the 'Encyclopedie methodique'"
Publication: French Review
Volume: 38
Date: (1965)
Extent: 318-25

Notes: Informative note on TJ's interest in Diderot's Encyclopedie, Charles Joseph Panckoucke's Encyclopedie methodique, and Jean-Nicolas Demeunier's "dictionary," Economie Politique et diplomatique, to which he contributed.

Reference: 2483
Author: Wayland, John Walter
Title: The Political Opinions of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Neale
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1907)
Extent: pp. 98

Notes: A rather mechanical and simplistic analysis intended for "the busy, rushing people of to-day." Focus on practical organization and administration of government, not on political theory or intellectual background of TJ's opinions.

Reference: 3400
Author: Wayland, John W.
Title: "Jefferson as a Scientist."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Extent: 358-59

Notes: TJ was a scientist in both the broadest and the narrow senses of the term; more laudatory than informative.

Reference: 3401
Author: Wayland, John W.
Title: "The Poetical Tastes of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 18
Date: (1911)
Extent: 283-99

Notes: Discusses a scrapbook of newspaper verse supposedly collected by TJ; highly unlikely.

Reference: 231
Author: Weatherman, Donald V.
Title: "Civic Education: A Dying Art?"
Publication: Improving College and University Teaching
Volume: 32
Date: (Winter, 1984)
Extent: 31-34.

Notes: A successful civic education program educates citizens in the basic principles and precepts of the American political system and keeps them informed on specific issues and controversies. Both TJ and Lincoln thought that civic education should address basic principles as well as specific issues. Reprinted in Social Studies 75 (May-June, 1984), 129-32.

Reference: 474
Author: Weaver, Jeanne Moore
Title: "Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson: Two American Philosophes Compared." Ph.D. dissertation. Auburn University,
Publication: DAI 2625-A.
Volume: 50
Date: (1988)
Date: (1990)
Extent: 829.

Notes: Compares TJ and Franklin as exemplars of Enlightenment ideals and "confirms the common assessment of Franklin and Jefferson as extraordinarily gifted and enlightened men." Finds TJ preferable as the better embodiment of the principles of the Enlightenment because of his "greater generosity, idealism, and integrity."

Reference: 1275
Author: Weaver, Bettie Woodson
Title: "Mary Jefferson and Eppington."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 19
Date: (1969)
Extent: 30-35

Notes: TJ's younger daughter at her aunt's home.

Reference: 1276
Author: Weaver, George Summer
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Third President of the United States"
Publication: The Lives and Graves of Our Presidents
Publication: Elder
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1884)
Extent: 119-62

Notes: Sketch ends with a call for "some patriotic national association" to take over Monticello.

Reference: 3402
Author: Weaver, Neal
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Statesman, Artist, Scientist, and One Man Horticultural Exchange."
Publication: Garden Journal
Volume: 26
Date: (1976)
Extent: 147-50

Notes: Sketch emphasizing TJ's gardening and botanical interests.

Reference: 3403
Author: Webb, Gerald Fred
Title: "Jeffersonian Agrarianism in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha: The Evolution of a Social and Economic Standard."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Florida State Univ
Date: (1972)
Extent: pp. 157

Notes: Focus on Faulkner; contends that the "fierce economic, political and moral independence seen in Faulkner's yeomen reflects an intellectual position substantially identical to that of Thomas Jefferson whose tenets Faulkner may simply have assimilated from his society." DAI 33/10A, p. 5754.

Reference: 525
Author: Webking, Robert H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The American Revolution and the Politics of Liberty
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Place of Publication: Baton Rouge:
Date: (1988)
Extent: 92-109.

Notes: Describes TJ's political thought as contained in the Summary View and the Declaration. Notes that Summary View is the first major work by an American political thinker of the period to concentrate upon the King and not merely on Parliament. Makes the usual point about the Declaration's "harmonizing sentiments" and emphasizes its basis in natural rights and individual self-interest rather than in larger social concerns. A rather conventional and conservative portrayal of TJ as an unthreatening political thinker.

Reference: 1277
Author: Webster, Daniel
Title: A Discourse in Commemoration of the Lives and Services of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Delivered at Faneuil Hall, Boston, August 2, 1826
Publisher: Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp.62

Notes: Frequently reprinted; credits TJ with authorship of the Declaration and Adams with putting it through Congress. Their lives, spent in gaining for us the blessings of liberty, remind us of the duties which have devolved upon us from our fathers.

Reference: 1278
Author: Webster, Daniel
Title: "Memorandum of Mr. J's Conversations"
Publication: Private Correspondence
Publisher: Little Brown
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1857)
Extent: 1:364-73

Notes: Webster visited Monticello in December, 1824; TJ talked about Patrick Henry and his experience in France among other topics.

Reference: 1279
Author: Webster, Nathan Burnham
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1890)
Extent: pp. 7

Notes: Separate printing of Chambers' Encyclopedia entry.

Reference: 2075
Author: Webster, Sidney
Title: Two Treaties of Paris and the Supreme Court
Publication: Harper
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1901)
Extent: 1-27

Notes: Discusses in the first chapter TJ's legal problems in annexing the Louisiana Territory to the U. S.

Reference: 3404
Author: Webster, Donald B., Jr.
Title: "The Day Jefferson Got Plastered."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 14
Date: (1963)
Extent: 24-27

Notes: J. H. I. Browere makes a life-mask of TJ that almost proves to be his death-mask.

Reference: 1280
Author: Wecter, Dixon
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Gentle Radical"
Publication: The Hero in America, A Chronicle of Hero Worship
Publisher: Scribner's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1941)
Extent: 148-180

Notes: Examines TJ's reputation with particular attention to his canonizing by the New Deal.

Reference: 2076
Author: Weeder, Elinor Janet
Title: "Wilson Cary Nicholas, Jefferson's Lieutenant."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1946)
Extent: pp. iii, 144

Notes: no note

Reference: 1281
Author: Weeks, Elie
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Elk Hill."
Publication: Goochland County Historical Society Magazine
Volume: 3
Date: (1971)
Extent: 6-11

Notes: Account of TJ's purchases at Elk Hill from 1778 to 1799, when he sold his property there; conjectural drawing by Calder Loth.

Reference: 1096
Author: Weidlich, Thomas
Title: "Court Tries Jefferson for Crimes, Hypocrisy: Founding Father Stands Accused of Leading His Nation Astray, of Not Living up to His Billing"
Publication: National Law Journal
Volume: 16
Date: (June 27, 1994)
Extent: A10.

Notes: A mock trial held by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York found TJ not guilty of charges that he did not put into practice the ideals he enunciated in the Declaration. Cited against him were his slave holdings and land deals. Chief Justice William Rehnquist presided, and the audience served as jury.

Reference: 3405
Author: Weil, Ann
Title: My Dear Patsy, A Novel of Jefferson's Daughter
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1941)
Extent: pp. 315

Notes: Juvenile fiction; Martha, "Patsy," Jefferson falls in love with "Tom" Randolph.

Reference: 370
Author: Weiland, Steven
Title: "Jefferson and Erikson, Politics and the Life Cycle."
Publication: Biography
Volume: 9
Date: (1986)
Extent: 290-305.

Notes: Analyzes Erikson's Dimensions of a New Identity ( TJCAB #414), arguing for its importance as a style of cultural history integrating the legacy of orthodox psychoanalysis with Erikson's work linking psychoanalysis to other disciplines and to historical circumstances. The book is also a record of crucial elements in Erikson's own life history, particularly his incorporation of distinctly American themes, here figured in the life work and character of TJ, into his own theoretical and clinical work. Erikson sees TJ as both unique and prototypical of American aspirations, enduring conflicts, and their potential reconciliation; for Erikson, TJ is a "remote but timely therapeutic model, displaying in a political career the forms of synthesis potential in the ego."

Reference: 1394
Author: Weisberger, Bernard A.
Title: "Jefferson's Mistress?"
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 48
Date: (November 1997)
Extent: 14-16.

Notes: A meditation on why the possible liason between TJ and Sally Hemings matters to us by the editor who brought Fawn Brodie's paper to
Title: American Heritage
in January, 1972. We need to recognize that historians of differing ethnic and racial backgrounds "are likely to have differing but equally sustainable viewpoints. We need to recognize, not fight, that reality." TJ remains heroic for him, however, because of his utterances on freedom, even though his slave holding and possible exploitation of Sally Hemings are dismaying.

Reference: 1282
Author: Weisman, Morris
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Commercial LHW Journal
Volume: 48
Date: (1943)
Extent: 32-35

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 3406
Author: Weiss, Harry B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Economic Entomology."
Publication: Journal of Economic Entomology
Volume: 37
Date: (1944)
Extent: 836-41

Notes: Surveys TJ's references to insects; although he was not an entomologist, he was "the only president of the United States who thought seriously enough about insects to write about them in his letters and to stress the need for more specific study of them."

Reference: 986
Author: Weisz, Pam
Title: "Jefferson's Other Home: Poplar Forest."
Publication: Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities
Volume: 14
Date: (March/April 1993)
Extent: 13-16.

Notes: Account of TJ's life at Poplar Forest, relying in part on recent archaeological and preservationst work there. Notes that TJ's original arrangement of the kitchen wing suggests a matter-of-fact attitude toward the presence of slaves in contact with the family; later Victorian owners took steps to physically separate family members and slaves.

Reference: 2077
Author: Welling, James C.
Title: "The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 118
Date: (1874)
Extent: 256-93

Notes: Review essay of volumes arguing that TJ borrowed from the supposed Mecklenburg Declaration; finds the stories of the Mecklenburg Declaration belong "to the domain of fable."

Reference: 371
Author: Wells, Samuel J.
Title: "International Causes of the Treaty of Mount Dexter, 1805."
Publication: Journal of Mississippi History
Volume: 48
Date: (1986)
Extent: 177-185.

Notes: Argues that this treaty, the first Choctaw cession of land to the U. S., signalled a definite change in federal Indian policy from appeasement to acquisition of native American territory. The shift was subtle as well as complex, befitting the character of its major architect, TJ. Emphasizes the role of international pressures, particularly the presence of Spain on the U.S. border, over mere "land greed" as an explanatory factor. Claims TJ valued peace with the Indians over mere territorial gains; he initially sidelined the treaty when in 1805 it did not cede strategically desirable land but dusted it off in 1808 when strategic needs of the U.S. changed.

Reference: 588
Author: Wells, Jane Flaherty
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Neighbors: Hore Browse Trist of `Birdwood' and Dr. William Bache of `Franklin.'"
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 47
Date: (1989)
Extent: 1-13.

Notes: Describes TJ's relations with two young Philadelphians he encouraged to settle near him. They each ran into financial difficulties, and TJ bailed them out with presidential appointments. Trist's son, Nicholas, later married TJ's granddaughter, Virginia Randolph.

Reference: 167
Author: Welsh, Frank S.
Title: "Restoration of the Exterior Sanded Paint at Monticello."
Publication: APT Bulletin
Volume: 15 (#2)
Date: (1983)
Extent: 2-10.

Notes: Account of restoring the sand finish paint, made by dusting dry sand over a freshly painted surface so as to imitate the appearance of stone. The east and west portico columns were originally done this way, as were the east front rustication and the door and window frames within the portico.

Reference: 3407
Author: Welsh, Frank
Title: "The Art of Painted Graining."
Publication: Historical Preservation
Volume: 29
Date: (1977)
Extent: 32-37

Notes: Discusses techniques of imitating wood grain with paint and describes its use at Monticello, where the author is paint and color conservator.

Reference: 2078
Author: Welter, Rush
Title: "The Adams-Jefferson Correspondence, 1812-1826."
Publication: American Quarterly
Volume: 2
Date: (1950)
Extent: 234-50

Notes: Suggest that Adams tended to lead the correspondence in its rather fitful analysis of "the problem of man." He saw this problem under three heads: the nature of man, man's civil state, and the extent and uses of human learning.

Reference: 760
Author: Wenger, Mark R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Tenant."
Publication: Winterthur Portfolio
Volume: 26
Date: (Winter, 1991)
Extent: 249-65.

Notes: In 1790 and 1791TJ rented houses in New York and Philadelphia to live in while he was Secretary of State. In each case he persuaded the landlord to make extensive changes to the building, and he prepared designs for the work. These renovations display a strategy of seclusion that profoundly influenced the rebuilding of Monticello in 1796. Author discusses how each design functioned as a social environment and how together they anticipated the rebuilding TJ would shortly begin at Monticello.

Reference: 987
Author: Wenger, Mark R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia State Capitol"
Publication: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume: 101
Date: (1993)
Extent: 77-102.

Notes: Considers dating of some of TJ's architectural drawings on the basis of the paper used. Examines his efforts to design a new capitol for Williamsburg and examines how he used that plan for the state house in Richmond. Places his architectural work in the context of creating an effective, impressive symbolism for government.

Reference: 1215
Author: Wenger, Mark
Title: “Thomas Jefferson, The College of William and Mary, and the University of Virginia,”
Publication: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume: 103
Date: (1995)
Extent: 339-74.

Notes: Discusses the impact TJ's experience at William and Mary had on his thinking about education, particularly as expressed in his plans for the University of Virginia. Good account of living conditions at the College during TJ's years, noting faculty dissension caused in part by overlapping religious and political authority. The College in TJ's years was “out of control, utterly prostrate. ” William and Mary also exercised a positive influence, and TJ's early plans for reform and his architectural drawings for new buildings point the way to the later plans for the University. TJ thought of his experience in the College and the desired experience for University students as immersion in a “sentimental family.

Reference: 1395
Author: Wenger, Mark R.
Title: "Jefferson's Design for Remodeling the Governor's Palace"
Publication: Winterthur Portfolio
Volume: 32
Date: (Winter 1997)
Extent: 223-42.

Notes: Careful examination of a body of architectural drawings TJ did, probably in 1779-81 while he was governor, show him apparently thinking about how to possibly rebuild the Governor's Palace in Williamsburg. Although TJ lived there briefly in 1779-80, the Assembly passed two days after his election a bill moving the government to Richmond. Therefore, these drawings are more architectural exercises than real plans for a renovation, and the author claims that one of these drawings is quite possibly intended as a residence to be erected at Poplar Forest, showing a desire to build there that preceded by a quarter century any actual building there. While some details of the designs reflect TJ's "interest in public symbols and metropolitan culture, all of the plans were suffused with the idea of privacy." While this desire for privacy and seclusion is in many ways typical of TJ, it was also a growing part of the Virginia culture he inhabited.

Reference: 988
Author: Wernick, Robert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Stuff of Greatness: At Monticello, A Big Birthday for the Former Owner."
Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 24
Date: (May, 1993)
Extent: 80-93.

Notes: Illustrated account of Monticello and its furnishings, inspired by the 1993 exhibit.

Reference: 1228
Author: Wernick, Richard
Title: Cassation: Music Tom Jefferson Knew: for Oboe, Horn, and Piano .
Publisher: T. Presser
Place of Publication: Bryn Mawr
Date: (1996)
Extent: pp. 33.

Notes: A suite based on music that Jefferson either heard or played. [in NYPL]

Reference: 1283
Author: Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson
Title: "Glimpses of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Emory University Quarterly
Volume: 9
Date: (1953)
Extent: 48-55

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 989
Author: Wertime, Richard A.
Title: "The Landscape Genius."
Publication: Archaeology
Volume: 46
Date: (May/June, 1993)
Extent: 50-55.

Notes: On the landscape architecture and archaeological projects of Shadwell, Monticello, and Poplar Forest. Interviews William Kelso on his work on the ruins at Shadwell which seems to have finally pinpointed its location. Kelso notes that Shadwell, the oldest of the TJ-related sites, probably had more slaves who were native to Africa, and it had a fence separating the living spaces of the white owners from the slaves. Monticello, with its much more racially and culturally diverse society and a more complex internal economy, had slaves and masters living in proximity on the hilltop.

Reference: 60
Author: West, Susan
Title: "Jefferson as Scientist."
Publication: Science News.
Volume: 119
Date: (May 9, 1981)
Extent: 298-99.

Notes: Coinciding with a Smithsonian exhibit on the topic, offers a brief sketch of TJ's scientific interests.

Reference: 990
Author: West, John G., Jr
Title: "Monticello's New Democrat: What William Jefferson Clinton Can Learn from Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Policy Review
Volume: 64
Date: (Spring1993)
Extent: 58-60.

Notes: Notes Clinton's nods to TJ, hopes that he will emulate TJ's agenda: support for limited government, a reinvigorated federalism, respect for the Constitution, and defense of political liberty. “The bad news for the president is that such an agenda would not look anything like what he has been proposing so far. ” (This journal is published by the Heritage Foundation, a center for conservative thought.)

Reference: 1309
Author: West, Thomas G.
Title: Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America.
Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
Place of Publication: Lanham, MD.
Date: (1997)
Extent: pp. xv, 219.

Notes: No single chapter devoted to TJ, but he is treated throughout as the author attempts to disprove the "complaints about [the Founders'] supposed racism, sexism, and elitism" made by "many of our leading sophisticates today." Sees "the equality principle" of the Declaration at the center of the American polity, and explicates this to argue that "every leading Founder" opposed slavery, cared for the poor by supporting private property rights, protected women's rights by supporting "the core private association of a free and civilized society: lifelong marriage and the family," supported a broad franchise, and welcomed immigrants who would be able "to assimilate to the American way of life." Hopes to prove this with "factual and objective scholarship," and does effectively critique many ahistorical indictments of the founders, but the argument is tendentious, verges on special pleading, and is sometimes founded on texts read out of context, e.g. on p. 136 quotes from TJ's letter to Joseph Milligan, 6 April 1816, to prove his "principled opposition to government redistribution of income." TJ's point, however, is that taxes can be laid on property or on income "if equally and fairly applied to all" and that if "the overgrown wealth of an individual be deemed dangerous to the State, the best corrective is the law of equal inheritance to all in equal degree." TJ's language seems to support more than one reading here.

Reference: 1396
Author: West, Elliott
Title: "Great Dreams, Great Plains: Jefferson, the Bents, and the West"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West , Ronda ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Place of Publication: Albuquerque
Date: (1997)
Extent: 155-72.

Notes: Wide-ranging essay, not particularly centered on TJ in any convincing fashion, but arguing that the Jeffersonian vision of the West reflected both Zebulon Pike's account of an arid desert and the rosier reports of Lewis and Clark of the West as a garden for democracy. Previous dwellers on the high plains, however, lived there in small numbers and used in moderation the resources of the plains, principally its "protein sink" in the form of vast herds of buffalo. These first inhabitants were engaged in complex networks of trade with carbohydrate-rich (and protein poor) neighbors, but in the nineteenth century trade focused on resources found at either end of the routes across the plains and used up the plains' resources as it passed across. The Indians' introduction of vast herds of horses also contributed to the problem. The trading enterprises of William and Charles Bent exemplify some of the problems, but also "suggest the need to understand the West and its lands, not through the flawed visions that grew from the time of Thomas Jefferson, but through Jefferson's larger legacy, a commitment to intellectual breadth and a practical knowledge of living with the possible."

Reference: 1284
Author: West, Murray
Title: "Jeffersonianism."
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 127
Date: (1952)
Extent: 4

Notes: If TJ were here, he'd be "a good Truman Democrat."

Reference: 168
Author: Wetmore, Robert George
Title: "Seditious Libel Persecutions in 1806 in the Federal Court in Connecticut: United States v. Tapping Reeve and Companion Cases."
Publication: Connecticut Bar Journal
Volume: 57
Date: (1983)
Extent: 196-210.

Notes: Prosecutions of ardent Federalist Tapping Reeve for libeling TJ raises questions about TJ's genuine commitment to civil liberties. This will not be new to readers of Leonard Levy, but it is a good account of the Reeve case. TJ knew what was going on in Connecticut, but he apparently made no comment on it nor tried to stop it. Does not explain why he made no comment on the case.

Reference: 2484
Author: Wettstein, A. Arnold
Title: "Religionless Religion in the Letters and Papers from Monticello."
Publication: Religion in Life
Volume: 45
Date: (1976)
Extent: 152-60

Notes: Thoughtful discussion of TJ's religion, claiming it is no vacuous deism but a notion of a religious a priori as foundational; compares him to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Reference: 2485
Author: Weyant, Robert V.
Title: "Helvetius and Jefferson: Studies of Human Nature and Government in the Eighteenth Century."
Publication: Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Volume: 9
Date: (1973)
Extent: 29-41

Notes: Argues that Helvetius represents an egocentric view of man, descending from Locke, which holds that morality is the result of education, but that TJ's views are sociocentric in the tradition of Shaftesbury and the Scottish moralists and that he advocated a psychology of innate faculties.

Reference: 1285
Author: Weymouth, Lally, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1973)
Extent: pp. 254

Notes: Introduction to the numerous aspects of TJ with essays by several hands, noted separately here.

Reference: 1286
Author: Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth
Title: "Jeffersonian Simplicity"
Publication: Social Life in the Early Republic
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1902)
Extent: 102-03

Notes: TJ as host in Washington, D. C.

Reference: 1287
Author: Wharton, Isaac T.
Title: An Oration Delivered on the Fourth of July, 1827, in the State House, in the City of Philadelphia, ....
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1827)
Extent: pp. 16

Notes: Refers to the death of TJ and Adams, ends by asking "how far we are living up to Mr. Jefferson's doctrines."

Reference: 3408
Author: Wharton, James
Title: "Jefferson, Expert on Wines."
Publication: The Commonwealth: The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 26
Date: (1959)
Extent: 4, 8, 65-66

Notes: General account.

Reference: 2486
Author: Whealon, John F.
Title: "American Liberalism: Its Meaning and Consistency."
Publication: Mid-America
Volume: 39
Date: (1957)
Extent: 73-84

Notes: Contends that TJ can be seen as the norm for a genuine liberalism as opposed to the claims of conservatives for his patronage.

Reference: 2487
Author: Whealon, John F.
Title: "The Great 'Preamble': Did Bellarmine Influence Jefferson? A Look at the Record."
Publication: Commonwealth
Volume: 42
Date: (1945)
Extent: 284-85

Notes: Finds no strong evidence for the influence of Robert Bellarmine on TJ.

Reference: 1216
Author: Whitcomb, Claire
Title: “Curators and Costumers,”
Publication: Victoria
Volume: 9
Date: (March, 1995)
Extent: 115-17.

Notes: On creating historically appropriate costumes for the Merchant/Ivory Jefferson in Paris.

Reference: 2079
Author: White, Andrew D.
Title: "Jefferson and Slavery."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 9
Date: (1862)
Extent: 29-40

Notes: TJ continued to oppose slavery all his life, hoped younger men would take up the cause, and "in dealing with slavery was a real political seer and giver of oracles."

Reference: 2080
Author: White, Horace
Title: "Jefferson-Lemen Compact."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 101
Date: (1915)
Extent: 144

Notes: Argues for the existence of an agreement between TJ and James Lemen to work against introduction of slavery into the Northwest Territory.

Reference: 2081
Author: White, Leonard D.
Title: The Jeffersonians: A Study in Administrative History, 1801-1829
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1951)
Extent: pp. xiv, 572

Notes: TJ in his First Inaugural typified the position of the "old Republicans," in his Second Inaugural he typified the position of the "new Republicans" who were dominant after 1815. Although not interested in the normal procedures of day to day administration, TJ was "as skillful as his Federalist predecessors in using administrative means for far-reaching political ends." His first term was marked by successful innovations in policy and administration, but his second ended in the disaster of the Embargo. TJ's "significance in American history flows much less from his contribution to the art of administration than from his convictions about democracy."

Reference: 2082
Author: White, Leonard D.
Title: "Public Administration Under the Federalists"
Publication: The Gaspar G. Bacon Lectures on the Constitution of the United States, 1940-1950
Publisher: Boston Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1953)
Extent: 197-247

Notes: Examines the Hamilton-TJ feud on pp. 213-31 and concludes that Washington, TJ, and Hamilton "did not present a combination which long corresponded" to the requirements of effective administration.

Reference: 2488
Author: White, Lucia
Title: "On a Passage by Hume Incorrectly Attributed to Jefferson."
Publication: Journal of the History of Ideas
Volume: 37
Date: (1976)
Extent: 133-35

Notes: TJ's copy of Thomas Blackwell's An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer contains on its fly leaf a quotation from Hume's "Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences," also quoted by Hamilton in Federalist 85.

Reference: 2489
Author: White, Morton and Lucia
Title: "The Irenic Age: Franklin, Crevecoeur, and Jefferson"
Publication: The Intellectual Versus the City, From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1962)
Extent: 6-20

Notes: For TJ "the republic and the city joined hands only in a marriage of convenience."

Reference: 2490
Author: White, Morton
Title: The Philosophy of the American Revolution
Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1978)
Extent: pp. xii, 299

Notes: TJ discussed passim. Analyzes the philosophical backgrounds and positions of the founding fathers with particular attention to the issues of the self-evidence of truth, moral sense, natural law, and natural rights.

Reference: 3410
Author: White, John W.
Title: "A Letter to Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: New England Social Studies Bulletin
Volume: 14
Date: (1956)
Extent: 5-13

Notes: Informs TJ about what has happened to education since his death.

Reference: 169
Author: Whitehead, John S.
Title: "Caught Between Two Worlds: Mr. Jefferson's University and the Literature of American Higher Education."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 82
Date: (1983)
Extent: 206-15.

Notes: Essay inspired by Virginius Dabney's Mr. Jefferson's University (1981), comparing it to other recent studies of institutions of higher learning. Where many of them go beyond the traditional parochialism of such works, this history seems still caught up in it in various ways. Given the significance of TJ's founding vision for the University, we might have hoped for a better, more thoughtful account of how his institution evolved.

Reference: 1289
Author: Whitehill, Jane
Title: "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: PMHB
Volume: 85
Date: (1961)
Extent: 78-81,211-15

Notes: Review essay of the first 15 volumes of the Papers discusses editorial decisions and the insights offered by the material into the character of TJ.

Reference: 1290
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir
Title: "The Union of New England and Virginia."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 40
Date: (1964)
Extent: 516-30

Notes: TJ's connections with New England: John Adams, George Ticknor, Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 2083
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Letter of 20 May 1826 to James Heaton on the Abolition of Slavery
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1967)
Extent: pp. 20

Notes: Intro. by the editor, facsimile, and note by Julian P. Boyd.

Reference: 3411
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir
Title: The Many Faces of Monticello
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1965)
Extent: pp. 14

Notes: Architectural evolution of Monticello briefly considered.

Reference: 3412
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Architect"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1973)
Extent: 159-77

Notes: Surveys TJ's architectural activities with a review of the most significant literature.

Reference: 3413
Author: Whiting, F. A., Jr.
Title: "Facts from the Fine Arts Commission; Further Light on the Jefferson Memorial Controversy."
Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 31
Date: (1938)
Extent: 348-49, 372-74

Notes: Reviews the controversy.

Reference: 3414
Author: Whiting, Margaret A.
Title: "The Father of Gadgets."
Publication: Stone and Webster Journal
Volume: 49
Date: (1932)
Extent: 302-15

Notes: TJ's inventions.

Reference: 991
Author: Whitman, Betsy Blizard
Title: "Meet Mr. Jefferson"
Publication: Learning
Volume: 21
Date: (April/May, 1993)
Extent: 46-52.

Notes: Suggested activities to introduce students (approx. 8-12 years of age?) to TJ's life and accomplishments.

Reference: 1291
Author: Whitney, David C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The American Presidents
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1969)
Extent: 27-40

Notes: no note

Reference: 1292
Author: Whitton, Mary Ormsbee
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of Women"
Publication: First First Ladies 1789-1865: A Study of the Wives of the Early Presidents
Publisher: Hastings House
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1948)
Extent: 39-53

Notes: TJ, his wife and daughters; he was conservative in regard to women's rights, and "the saga of the three Jefferson ladies" illuminates "the myth of the plantation system."

Reference: 3415
Author: Whitty, J. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Bull Moose."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 95
Date: (1912)
Extent: 211

Notes: Notes TJ's gift to Buffon.

Reference: 1293
Author: Wibberley, Leonard
Title: A Dawn in the Trees; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1776-1789
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1964)
Extent: pp. 188

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 1294
Author: Wibberley, Leonard
Title: The Gales of Spring; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1789-1801
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1965)
Extent: pp. 180

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 1295
Author: Wibberley, Leonard
Title: Man of Liberty; A Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1968)
Extent: pp. vii, 404

Notes: Combines 4 separately printed books; good biography for younger readers.

Reference: 1296
Author: Wibberley, Leonard
Title: Time of the Harvest; Thomas Jefferson, the Years 1801-1826
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1966)
Extent: pp. 170

Notes: no note

Reference: 1297
Author: Wibberley, Leonard
Title: Young Man from the Piedmont; The Youth of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1963)
Extent: pp. 184

Notes: Juvenile biography covering the years 1743-1776.

Reference: 3416
Author: Wickard, Claude R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Founder of Modern American Agriculture."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1945)
Extent: 179-80

Notes: TJ lauded as pioneer agricultural scientist.

Reference: 2491
Author: Wicks, Elliott K.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Religious Man with a Passion for Religious Freedom."
Publication: Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church
Volume: 36
Date: (1967)
Extent: 271-83

Notes: Intelligent survey, but nothing new.

Reference: 1097
Author: Wieseltier, Leon
Title: "Notes on the State of Virginia"
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 211
Date: (September 19, 1994)
Extent: 58.

Notes: Monticello as a “folly of enlightenment,” “irrelevant to America. ” Not so the nearby Civil War battlefield at Spottsylvania.

Reference: A85
Author: Wiesen, David S.
Title: "Ancient History and Early American Education"
Publication: The Usefulness of Classical Learning in the Eighteenth Century: Papers Presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, ed. Susan Ford Wiltshire.
Publisher: American Philological Association,
Place of Publication: [University Park, PA]:
Date: n.d. [1977?]
Extent: 53-69.

Notes: Survey of changing attitudes toward history as part of the university curriculum ends with TJ's ideas for the University of Virginia where the tendency to separate the study of ancient history from the study of classical languages culminates.

Reference: 1298
Author: Wiggins, James Russell
Title: Jefferson Through the Fog
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1959)
Extent: pp. 18

Notes: TJ and the issues of 1959, education, desegregation, science, etc.

Reference: 2084
Author: Wiggins, James R.
Title: "Jefferson and the Press"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1973)
Extent: 141-57

Notes: Survey of TJ's attitudes toward and involvement with the press; he "believed in freedom of the press more unreservedly than any President of the United Sates before or since."

Reference: 1299
Author: Wilberger, Carolyn H.
Title: "A Tale of Four Travelers: American and Russian Views of Eighteenth-Century France."
Publication: Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Conference on Foreign Languages
Volume: 28
Date: (1977)
Extent: 39-42

Notes: Franklin, TJ, Fonvizin, and Karamzin; claims TJ "felt threatened by the sophistication of the French aristocracy."

Reference: 1300
Author: Wilbur, Margaret Eyer
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Liberty
Publisher: Liveright
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1962)
Extent: pp. 417

Notes: Popular biography with invented dialogue.

Reference: 61
Author: Wilcox, R.
Title: "Monticello: An Early American Prototype for Solar Architecture"
Publication: Proceedings of the Sixth National Passive Solar Conference
Publisher: International National Solar Energy Society,
Place of Publication: Newark, DE:
Date: (1981)
Extent: 860-64.

Notes: Discusses briefly TJ's use of siting, thermal mass in Monticello's structure, shutters, and glazing as ways to manipulate solar energy in order to heat or cool his house.

Reference: 1397
Author: Wilentz, Sean
Title: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 216
Date: (March 10, 1997)
Extent: 32-40.

Notes: Thoughtful review essay inspired by books by Joseph Ellis, Conor Cruise O'Brien, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Ken Burns's television special. Why are TJ's current critics so shrill, Wilentz asks, and why do so many of them come from the left? TJ's fate has paralleled that of twentieth-century American liberalism, and as liberalism has encountered it's own intellectual and political crises, TJ's contradictions become harder to explain away and more profoundly disturbing to liberal writers. Finds O'Brien's work seriously flawed as history and as rhetorical argument, praises Gordon-Reed's work, and suggests that Ellis's portrait, while astute in many ways, fails to capture TJ's greatness.

Reference: 3417
Author: Wiley, Wayne Hamilton
Title: "Academic Freedom at the University of Virginia: The First Hundred Years: From Jefferson through Alderman."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1973)
Extent: pp. 399

Notes: TJ's radical measures to assure intellectual liberty at the University --faculty tenure, full powers of decision in the conduct of scholarly work, opportunity to assist in administering the affairs of the University (TJ provided not for a president but an annually rotating faculty chairmanship): assured a tradition that held up well, with a few blemishes, for the first century. DAI 34/08A, p. 4817.

Reference: 1301
Author: Wilkins, William
Title: Eulogium of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Pronounced at itts urg, on the 24th August, 1826
Publisher: Johnston & Stockton
Place of Publication: Pittsburgh
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 36

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 347-77 .

Reference: 526
Author: Will, George F.
Title: "Gorbachev, Meet Jefferson."
Publication: Newsweek
Volume: 112
Date: (December 19, 1988)
Extent: 76.

Notes: "Jefferson's message, not Robespierre's or Marx's, is the one reverberating today." On the failure of Marxism, not about TJ.

Reference: 992
Author: Will, George F.
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Comes to Town."
Publication: Public Interest
Volume: 112
Date: (Summer, 1993)
Extent: 50-59.

Notes: Asks if TJ is still instructive to us? “Or has he become a glittering anachronism” because we have become a largely urban and suburban society? Notes TJ's condemnation of cities but contends that by asserting the values of personal independence, beginning with education and finding fruition in work, “the Jefferson legacy can live downtown. ”

Reference: 62
Author: Williams, M.
Title: "Sir William Petty, Thomas Jefferson, and the Down Survey: A Fresh Perspective on the U. S. Public Land System."
Publication: Surveying & Mapping
Volume: 41
Date: (March, 1981)
Extent: 77-81.

Notes: Suggests the importance of Petty's 1656 Down Survey of Ireland as a formative influence on TJ and the American land system. It was notable for its rational subdivision of land (although not in rectangular pieces) and for its public deed registry, features of TJ's 1784 proposal for the Northwest Territories. TJ owned both Petty's Survey of Ireland and his Political Arithmetic , which also seems to have been influential.

Reference: 232
Author: Williams, Richard L.
Title: "Atop a `little mountain' in Virginia, Jefferson cultivated his botanical bent."
Publication: Smithsonian
Volume: 15
Date: (July 1984)
Extent: 68-77.

Notes: Describes the variety of TJ's gardening interests and the continuing work of the staff of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation to restore the grounds of Monticello.

Reference: 1398
Author: Williams, Robert A., Jr
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Indigenous American Storyteller"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson and the Changing West , Ronda ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Place of Publication: Albuquerque
Date: (1997)
Extent: 43-74.

Notes: Argues that TJ's positive legacy for American Indians can derive from an ability to see him in terms of traditional understandings of the figure and activity of the storyteller, who passes on truths while adding to them, keeping alive what is useful from older stories and silently rejecting what is not. TJ's stories about Indian savagism and inferiority fall into the latter category, but his stories about natural rights have great power for indigenous peoples seeking to maintain their rights to their culture, laws, and lands. Points to TJ's theory of the Norman yoke as a powerful example of an enabling story. Interesting and suggestive argument, but not without some internal contradictions and purposeful simplifications of TJ's take on Indians.

Reference: 1302
Author: Williams, Edwin
Title: "Biographical Sketch" and "Administration of Jefferson"
Publication: The Presidents of the United States, Their Memoirs and Administrations
Publisher: E. Walker
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1849)
Extent: 107-64

Notes: "... rather the policy of the politician than the policy of the statesman, the legislator, the lawgiver, or the patriot."

Reference: 1303
Author: Williams, T. Harry
Title: "On the Couch at Monticello."
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 2
Date: (1974)
Extent: 523-29

Notes: Review essay prompted by Brodie's Thomas Jefferson argues that she has misused psychoanalytic and psychological techniques in interpreting TJ's private life.

Reference: 2085
Author: Williams, Edna Glenn
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and the Negro."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Howard Univ
Date: (1938)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 2086
Author: Williams, John Sharp
Title: Thomas Jefferson, His Permanent Influence on American Institutions
Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1913)
Extent: pp. ix, 330

Notes: Praise for TJ's influence as revolutionist, democratizer of state and federal institutions, diplomat, president, and for his encouragement of freedom of religion and of education.

Reference: 2492
Author: Williams, Kenneth Rayner
Title: "The Ethics of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Boston Univ
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1962)
Extent: pp. 247

Notes: TJ believed that morality rested on the relation of man to man, but that religion was a private affair. The government had moral obligations to respect the natural rights of free men, although Indians and Negroes were barred from citizenship because of the supposed inferiority of their culture or race. DAI 23/05, p. 1744.

Reference: 3418
Author: Williams, Edward K.
Title: "Jefferson's Theories of Language."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Wyoming
Date: (1948)
Extent: pp. viii, 89

Notes: no note

Reference: 3419
Author: Williams, John Sharp
Title: The University of Virginia and the Development of Thomas Jefferson's Educational Ideas: Speech ... delivered at the St. Louis Meeting of the Association of State Universities 1904
Publisher: unknown
Place of Publication: Charlottesville?
Date: (1904)
Extent: pp. 16

Notes: Emphasizes the democratic features of the Univ. of Virginia as a consequence of TJ's ideas.

Reference: 3420
Author: Williams, Morley J.
Title: "The Gardens of Monticello."
Publication: Landscape Architecture
Volume: 24
Date: (1934)
Extent: 64-71

Notes: Informative discussion of attempts to discover TJ's original gardens.

Reference: 3421
Author: Williams, Morley Jeffers
Title: "A Site for a Memorial."
Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 31
Date: (1938)
Extent: 268-70

Notes: Contends the logical site for the Memorial is across the Potomac.

Reference: 527
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Adams Stalking Jefferson."
Publisher: Grand Street
Volume: 7
Date: (Summer, 1988)
Extent: 140-53.

Notes: An insightful essay exploring Henry Adams's quest for the "meaning" of TJ, a meaning ultimately found in TJ's profound ironies and in Adams's own humor.

Reference: 589
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Liberte, Egalite, Animosite."
Publication: American Heritage
Volume: 40
Date: (July/August, 1989)
Extent: 36-45.

Notes: Describes the changing response to the French Revolution as seen through the reactions of TJ and others who were first supportive, then put off as revolutionary violence escalated out of control. Nothing unexpected.

Reference: 641
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Jefferson: The Uses of Religion" and "Jefferson: The Protection of Religion"
Publication: in Under God: Religion and American Politics.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1990)
Extent: 354-72.

Notes: The first essay discusses TJ's changing notions about Christianity, leading up to his preparation of his reformed gospels. Points to the early and significant influence of Bolingbroke, but maintains that TJ was not indifferent to the religion held by Americans. He did not separate religion and politics at the time of writing the Declaration, using Protestant fears of Catholicism as part of his argument. The second essay claims that the Statute for Religious Freedom was intended to protect the purity of religion, putting TJ in the camp of Roger Williams on this point, although he did not know Williams's work.

Reference: 993
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: “The Aesthete.”
Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 41
Date: (August 12, 1993)
Extent: 6-10.

Notes: Review essay of Susan Stein's catalogue for the 1993 exhibit at Monticello. Criticizes TJ for a dedication to beauty and refinement that “reflected an urge to hover above the squalor and slavery that existed below him on his mountaintop. ” Discusses TJ's mania for collecting, his expensive schemes for insuring his own comfort wherever he lived, even to the extent of rebuilding rented quarters. A strong argument, if ultimately a bit one-sided.

Reference: 994
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Jefferson's Other Buildings."
Publication: The Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 271
Date: (January, 1993)
Extent: 80-89.

Notes: Discusses five buildings that TJ knew or designed and how they figured in his life: Tuckahoe, his boyhood home; John Page's Rosewell; Madison's Montpelier; Barbourville, a mansion he designed, and Poplar Forest.

Reference: 1304
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Uncle Thomas's Cabin."
Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 21
Date: (1974)
Extent: 26-28

Notes: Criticizes Fawn Brodie's inaccuracies.

Reference: 2087
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "The Strange Case of Mr. Jefferson's Subpoena."
Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 21
Date: (1974)
Extent: 15-19

Notes: Review essay of Malone's Jefferson the President: Second Term, focusing on the Burr trial and the subpoena of TJ. Worth attention, but see item # 1806.

Reference: 2088
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "An Un-American Politician."
Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 21
Date: (1974)
Extent: 9-12

Notes: Continues review essay in previous item, discussing Malone's defense of TJ against the critique of Leonard Levy's Jefferson and Civil Liberties.

Reference: 2493
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: Garden City, N.Y.
Date: (1978)
Extent: pp. xxvi, 398

Notes: Argues that the Declaration has been frequently misunderstood because of a failure to place its terms accurately in the context of eighteenth-century thought. An important book which reveals a great deal about TJ's attitudes toward science, ethics, slavery, etc. and illuminates his connections to Francis Hutcheson and the moral sense philosophers as well as to the Scottish common sense school; it is not so trail-breaking, however, as it pretends.

Reference: 2494
Author: Wills, Garry
Title: "Prolegomena to a Reading of the Declaration"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1973)
Extent: 69-79

Notes: To understand the Declaration we must bring ourselves to understand the meaning TJ's words had for him, for example what he meant when he called himself a farmer.

Reference: 2089
Author: Willson, Beckles
Title: "Jefferson (1785-89)"
Publication: America's Ambassadors to France (1777-1927), A Narrative of Franco-American Diplomatic Relations
Publisher: John Murray
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1928)
Extent: 17-39

Notes: Contends TJ failed to understand the situation in France because he did not recognize the lengths to which the revolution would go.

Reference: 63
Author: Wilson, Douglas
Title: "The American Agricola: Jefferson's Agrarianism and the Classical Tradition."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 80
Date: (1981)
Extent: 339-54.

Notes: Important discussion of the classical influences on TJ's agrarian ideal. TJ knew that he was not describing the inclinations of many of his fellow citizens, who farmed not for virtue but cash, and his comments on Notes and elsewhere on agriculture as a way of life voice a moral preference rather than a fully accurate description of American rural life. Roman writers were more important for him than Greek, especially Horace and, above all, Virgil. Rejects Leo Marx's description of the pastoral element in TJ as "a case of mistaken identity," and astutely points to the importance of Virgil's Georgics rather than the Eclogues for TJ. The georgic mode was not a literary fantasy for him but was connected to the real connections he witnessed between industriousness, virtue, and self-reliance. Previously listed as #2495 in TJCAB .

Reference: 233
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Sowerby Revisited: The Unfinished Catalogue of Thomas Jefferson's Library."
Publication: William and Mary Quarterly
Volume: 41
Date: (1984)
Extent: 615-28.

Notes: Review essay occasioned by the reprinted edition of Sowerby's Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson . Gives full credit to the magnitude and usefulness of Sowerby's work but discusses some problems and limitations pertaining to it, not all of them her responsibility. The author notes that not all of the books TJ is known to have possessed are included and that the treatment of the 1783 manuscript catalogue of the library is "unfortunate," particularly in regard to the effort to reestablish TJ's original arrangement of books within the chapters of the 1815 catalogue. Important essay for anyone using the Sowerby Catalogue

Reference: 278
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Early Notebooks."
Publication: William and Mary Quarterly
Volume: 42
Date: (1985)
Extent: 433-51.

Notes: Attempts to view the notebooks as a group of related documents and to date the entries in them as accurately as possible. Examines the complications surrounding the dated entries in the Case and Fee books, the Garden Book, the Farm Book, and the Memorandum Books. A careful and detailed consideration of the entries in the three commonplace books follows; includes some discussion of the unpublished equity law commonplace book. One conclusion author arrives at is that TJ was reading Montesquieu's Esprit and Beccaria perhaps as late as when he came to revise the laws of Virginia. This is an important piece of scholarship which cannot be easily summarized, however, and ought to be consulted by anyone interested in TJ's reading or his intellectual development in general.

Reference: 372
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Jefferson's Library"
Publication: Thomas Jefferson: A Reference Biography, ed. Merrill D. Peterson (see above).
Publisher: Scribners,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date: (1986)
Extent: 157-180.

Notes: A good, substantive account of TJ's interest in and acquisition of books, noting his changing aims for the scope of his library. Describes TJ's vigorous efforts to replace and extend the Shadwell library lost to fire; suggests that in the years in France he added at least two thousand volumes. Argues that by the time of his Presidency, his purchases reveal a grand plan for a library whose utility would be well beyond his merely personal use. Discusses his classification system and the final library.

Reference: 528
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "The Fate of Jefferson's Farmer."
Publication: North Dakota Quarterly
Volume: 56
Date: (Fall, 1988)
Extent: 23-34.

Notes: A thoughtful essay which answers the question of what happened to TJ's agrarian ideal by arguing that while it at first seemed to fit American conditions, it ultimately had "little appeal as a practical goal for a nation of restless achievers." It survived as an ideal, however, as the Agrarian Myth, championed in recent years by Wendell Berry and others, but the perils of prosperity have done in many American farmers as they did TJ himself. Comments on the numerous reasons for TJ's economic failure and likens his situation to that recently experienced by a number of farmers in the American Midwest.

Reference: 535
Author: Wilson. Douglas L.
Title: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Second Series: Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book, ed. Douglas L. Wilson.
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Place of Publication: Princeton:
Date: (1989)
Extent: xx, 242.

Notes: A new, definitive edition of the text which Gilbert Chinard originally published in 1928 as TJ's Literary Bible , with supporting annotation, an accurate rendering of the text, and a proposed dating of the entries. The dating analysis is made on the basis of TJ's handwriting and is explained in an appendix. He seems to have entered a substantial portion of quotations from his reading before December, 1762, and the last principal period of activity covered the years 1768-1773. Includes an excellent introduction, a descriptive analysis of the manuscript, a description of entries in the manuscript not by TJ, and tables analyzing the content of the entries.

Reference: 590
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Jefferson vs. Hume."
Publication: William and Mary Quarterly
Volume: 46
Date: (1989)
Extent: 49-70.

Notes: Argues that TJ's hostility to Hume's History of England is a more complex matter than usually assumed and needs to be viewed in the political and personal contexts in which he read it. Hume's debunking of the Saxon myth and his contention that the civil wars of the seventeenth century were precipitated by encroachments of Commons on royal prerogative went to the heart of the emerging political, constitutional understanding of TJ's generation. TJ seems to have dropped Hume from his recommended reading lists for young men only around 1800, however, and after 1805 he began to advocate John Baxter's redaction of Hume in its place. Claims that TJ's and Adams's fear of the "Toryizing" of Hume's history was justified at least in one sense, and their attacks on Hume were a kind of rear guard action on behalf of a Revolutionary ideology that had lost its hold on the young. TJ recommended Baxter as a primer for young readers, but he went on reading Hume himself since he regarded him as a great historical writer. His fears about Hume's influence were based partly on his own early experience of reading the History and partly on his ideas about education.

Reference: 642
Author: Wilson, Douglas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Legacy of a National Library."
Publication: Wilson Library Bulletin
Volume: 64
Date: (February, 1990)
Extent: 37-41.

Notes: Well-informed and gracefully written account of TJ's interest in books, his building of a working library and use of it, and its foundational direction for the Library of Congress, most notably in terms of the breadth of his interests and the classification system he devised.

Reference: 761
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "What Jefferson and Lincoln Read."
Publication: The Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 267
Date: (January, 1991)
Extent: 51-62.

Notes: Systematic comparison of reading habits of TJ and Lincoln, whoduring his term as a U. S. representative could have consulted TJ's own books in the Library of Congress. TJ and Lincoln were each "hard students," but TJ continued to be a serious reader throughout his life where Lincoln did relatively little serious reading after establishing himself in the law. However, Lincoln, unlike TJ, did continue to read poetry and Shakespeare throughout his adult life.

Reference: 815
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Character Issue."
Publication: The Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 270
Date: (November, 1992)
Extent: 57-74.

Notes: Thoughtful defense of TJ against charges of racism, having an affair with Sally Hemings, etc. Argues for careful look at evidence; cautions against the dangers of presentism in historical analysis.

Reference: 816
Author: Wilson, Stephen
Title: “Pound's American Revolutions” in Ezra Pound and America, ed. Jacqueline Kaye.
Publisher: Macmillan
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1992)
Extent: 181-99.

Notes: Discusses Pound's notion of the Cantos as “a poem including history” by examing his imaginative and political use of the American Revolution and the figures of TJ and John Adams for his own political ends. The collocation of Sigismundo Malatesta and TJ points to his sense of the American Revolution as a revival of renaissance and Roman ideal city states and of the founders not as democrats but as patrician republicans. Pound quotes TJ as an anti-monarchist rather than as a democrat.

Reference: 846
Author: Wilson, Richard Guy, ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Creation of An Architectural Masterpiece .
Publisher: Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: pp. 93.

Notes: Contains essays by Patricia C. Sherwood and Michael Lasala, the editor, and James Murray Howard, all described below. Foreword by Anthony Hirschel explains how the book was published to coincide with a museum exhibit in honor of TJ's 250th birthday. Illustrated.

Reference: 995
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Dating Jefferson's Early Architectural Drawings"
Publication: Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume: 101
Date: (1993)
Extent: 53-76.

Notes: Points out that Kimball and others who have tried to date TJ's architectural drawings have overlooked the usefulness of examining his changing style of penmanmanship in the late 1760s. Considers specifically drawings for the first Monticello and concludes that very few date before 1770. Also, many of the drawings Kimball dated to the early 1770s are somewhat later, particularly his drawing K34, and a later dating must be considered for some of the important decisions about the design of the first Monticello.

Reference: 996
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Jefferson and the Republic of Letters," in Jeffersonian Legacies , ed. Onuf.
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 50-76.

Notes: Excellent discussion of TJ as a writer with particular attention to Notes , his research into Christianity, his "Thoughts on English Prosody," his epistolary style, and the brief on the batture. Notes the peculiarity of one of America's writers of real importance being a man who avoided publication "almost as assiduously as he wrote" and explains it in terms of TJ's sensitivity to criticism, his passionate and excitable nature, and "his brooding self-consciousness and self-regard."

Reference: 997
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Library and the French Connection."
Publication: Eighteenth-Century Studies
Volume: 26
Date: (1993)
Extent: 669-85.

Notes: Engaging discussion of TJ's interest in books by French authors, in French culture, and in his acquisition of books in France. Discusses as examples of French texts that had an impact on his own thinking Fénelon's Télémaque and Marmontel's Belisarius and also the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert.

Reference: 998
Author: Wilson, Douglas L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Library and the Skipwith List."
Publication: Harvard Library Bulletin
Volume: n. s. 3
Date: (Winter, 1992-1993)
Extent: 56-72.

Notes: Informative and important discussion of the books TJ proposed for the library of his prospective brother-in-law, Robert Skipwith, in the famous letter of 1771. Warns that the letter cannot simply be read as a reflection of TJ's interests, because he was taking Skipwith's own tastes and demands into account. For example, the Skipwith list includes very few of the classical authors of whom TJ was fond, and it includes a great deal of fiction that never made its way into the catalogue of TJ's great library. Provides a list of the books on the Skipwith list that TJ apparently never acquired for his great library, and, based upon valuable unpublished research by Gregory A. and Cynthia Z. Stiverson, catalogues the titles on the list apparently not available in Williamsburg at the time.

Reference: 999
Author: Wilson, Richard Guy
Title: “Jefferson's Lawn: Perceptions, Interpretations, Meanings,”
Publisher: Bayly Art Museum
Place of Publication: in Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 47-74.

Notes: Discusses the critical and architectural response to TJ's design for a University. Looks both at the buildings later added to his plan and at the renovations by Stanford White and others of his original buildings. Also discusses the impact the design had on visitors and how it was represented in later illustrations and descriptions. An interesting and suggestive essay on the architectural life history of a site.

Reference: 1098
Author: Wilson, Wendell E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)"
Publication: The Mineralogical Record
Volume: 25
Date: (November-December, 1994)
Extent: 145-46.

Notes: Claims that TJ was an avid mineral collector, among his other scientific interests. His collection was aided by his contacts with naturalists and mineralogists in Paris. He built what was in effect a private museum at Monticello, although his collection does not survive.

Reference: 1305
Author: Wilson, Rufus Rockwell
Title: "The Jeffersonian Epoch"
Publication: Washington The Capital City and Its Part in the History of the Nation
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1901)
Extent: 1:67-96

Notes: Focus on life in Washington during TJ's presidency.

Reference: 1306
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Title: "A Calendar of Great Americans."
Publication: The Forum
Volume: 16
Date: (1894)
Extent: 715-27

Notes: Reprinted in Mere Literature. Boston, 1896. 196-99. "Jefferson was not a thorough American because of the strain of French philosophy that permeated and weakened all his thought."

Reference: 1307
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Title: "Jefferson-Wilson, A Record and a Forecast. Extracts from 'A History of the American People' by Woodrow Wilson."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 197
Date: (1913)
Extent: 289-94

Notes: The newly elected Democratic president on the first Democrat.

Reference: 1308
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Title: "The Spirit of Jefferson."
Publication: Princeton Alumni Weekly
Volume: 6
Date: (1906)
Extent: 551-54

Notes: "It is the spirit, not the tenets of the man, by which he rules us from his urn."

Reference: 2090
Author: Wilson, Clyde
Title: "The Jeffersonian Conservative Tradition."
Publication: Modern Age
Volume: 14
Date: (1969)
Extent: 36-48

Notes: Argues that modern conservatives must have a proper historic self-image that includes TJ as representative of republicanism, constitutionalism, and federalism (i.e. sharing of power among federated individual states).

Reference: 2091
Author: Wilson, Woodrow
Title: "What Jefferson Would Do: Part of Address Delivered at Jefferson Day Banquet, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York: April 13, 1912."
Publication: Congressional Record, 62nd Congress, 2nd Session
Date: (192?)
Extent: 48: 4747-48

Notes: Rpt. in Wilson, College and State, Educational, Literary and Political Papers (1875-1913). New York: Harper, 1925. 2:424-29. TJ "would have acted upon the facts as they are" and called for tarrif and currency reforms.

Reference: 2495
Author: Wilson, Douglas
Title: "The American Agricola: Jefferson's Agrarianism and the Classical Tradition."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 80
Date: (1981)
Extent: 339-54

Notes: Excellent discussion of the classical foundations for TJ's agrarianism, particularly Virgil's Georgics.

Reference: 2496
Author: Wilson, Francis G.
Title: "On Jeffersonian Tradition."
Publication: Review of Politics
Volume: 5
Date: (1943)
Extent: 302-21

Notes: Reviews TJ's positions and their continuity. If much of the intellectual tradition TJ admired has crumbled by our own time, his basic ideas are still valid; if we reject Destutt de Tracy, we hold on to the Declaration of Independence.

Reference: 3422
Author: Wilson, James Southall
Title: "Best Sellers in Jefferson's Day."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 36
Date: (1960)
Extent: 222-37

Notes: Examines the day books of the Virginia Gazette in the 1750's and '60's; discusses, among others, TJ's purchases.

Reference: 3423
Author: Wilson, Judith
Title: "Barbara Chase-Riboud: Sculpting Our History."
Publication: Essence
Volume: 10
Date: (1979)
Extent: 12-13

Notes: Interview with the author of Sally Hemings.

Reference: 3424
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Agricultural Jefferson Recognized."
Publication: Extension Service Review
Volume: 15
Date: (1944)
Extent: 55

Notes: "He truly had extension blood in his veins."

Reference: 3425
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Jefferson and His Moldboard Plow."
Publication: Land
Volume: 3
Date: (1943)
Extent: 59-64

Notes: Detailed and informative account of the plow and TJ's farming practices.

Reference: 3426
Author: Wilson, Milburn L.
Title: "Jefferson, Father of Agricultural Science."
Publication: Extension Service Review
Volume: 14
Date: (1943)
Extent: 74

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 3427
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Jefferson's Interest in Farming and Scientific Agriculture."
Publication: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Extension Division News
Volume: 25
Date: (1943)
Extent: 12

Notes: no note

Reference: 3428
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Survey of Scientific Agriculture."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 86
Date: (1942)
Extent: 52-62

Notes: Claims TJ's paper on the moldboard plow has the greatest historical significance among the agricultural publications included in the first six volumes of the APS Transactions.

Reference: 3429
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Agricultural Engineering."
Publication: Agricultural Engineering
Volume: 24
Date: (1943)
Extent: 299-303

Notes: Full review of TJ's farming practices and farming technology.

Reference: 3430
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson-Farmer."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 87
Date: (1943)
Extent: 216-22

Notes: Discursive survey of TJ's contributions to agricultural science and education.

Reference: 3431
Author: Wilson, M. L.
Title: "Why Agriculture Honors Jefferson."
Publication: Congressional Record
Volume: 78 Congress, I Session. 89(Appendix)
Date: unknown
Extent: 4544-46

Notes: no note

Reference: 1309
Author: Wilstach, Paul M., ed.
Title: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1812...1826)
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1925)
Extent: pp. 197

Notes: Selected and abridged texts with editorial commentary.

Reference: 1310
Author: Wilstach, Paul
Title: "A Great Man's Gift to His Grandson."
Publisher: St. Nicholas
Volume: 55
Date: (1928)
Extent: 699-700

Notes: TJ willed Poplar Forest to Francis Eppes.

Reference: 1311
Author: Wilstach, Paul
Title: Jefferson and Monticello
Publisher: Doubleday
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1925)
Extent: pp.xiii,258

Notes: Biographical account of TJ's life at Monticello has interesting anecdotes. Comprehensive, although uncritical, social history of Monticello.

Reference: 1312
Author: Wilstach, Paul
Title: "Jefferson Out of Harness."
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 4
Date: (1925)
Extent: 63-68

Notes: TJ's sense of humor as revealed in his letters.

Reference: 1313
Author: Wilstach, Paul. ed.
Title: "Reconciliation: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 138
Date: (1924)
Extent: 811-19

Notes: Discussion of the correspondence from 1812 on, with extracts.

Reference: 1314
Author: Wilstach, Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Patriots Off Their Pedestals
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1927)
Extent: 145-82

Notes: Domestic, familiar TJ, told via anecdotes.

Reference: 1315
Author: Wilstach, Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Secret Home."
Publication: Country Life
Volume: 53
Date: (1928)
Extent: 41-43

Notes: On Poplar Forest.

Reference: 3432
Author: Wilstach, Paul M.
Title: "Jefferson's Little Mountain."
Publication: National Geographic Magazine
Volume: 55
Date: (1929)
Extent: 481-503

Notes: Describes features of Monticello, its design and how TJ lived there. Illustrated.

Reference: 2497
Author: Wiltse, Charles Maurice
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy; a Dual Tradition."
Publication: American Political Science Review
Volume: 28
Date: (1934)
Extent: 838-51

Notes: Finds two streams of thought in TJ's political philosophy: a democratic emphasis on individualism and a socialist emphasis on the welfare of the whole. The democratic and socialist positions are closely linked; the first is a rejection of political absolutism, the second of economic absolutism.

Reference: 2498
Author: Wiltse, Charles Maurice
Title: The Jeffersonian Tradition in American Democracy
Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina Press
Place of Publication: Chapel Hill
Date: (1935)
Extent: pp.xii,273

Notes: Thoughtfully examines how the "political liberalism of accumulated centuries passes through Jefferson into the Democratic tradition" by discussing his views on the state and on the law while emphasizing the flexibility and breadth of his ideas.

Reference: 2499
Author: Wiltse, Charles Maurice
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Study of the Philosophy of the State."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Cornell Univ
Date: (1932)
Extent: pp. 264

Notes: Thorough-going investigation of TJ's political ideas treated as a coherent system. Revised version published as item #2498.

Reference: 2500
Author: Wiltse, Charles M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson on the Law of Nations."
Publication: American Journal of International Law
Volume: 29
Date: (1935)
Extent: 66-81

Notes: TJ at times shows a tendency to move away from older natural law theory in favor of a sociological interpretation of international law. His theory of the social contract assumed the state of nature to be a state of peace, and he made this fundamental pacifism the goal of his dealings in international affairs.

Reference: 2501
Author: Wiltshire, Susan Lord
Title: "Jefferson, Calhoun, and the Slavery Debate: The Classics and the Two Minds of the South."
Publication: Southern Humanities Review
Volume: 11
Date: (1977)
Extent: 33-40

Notes: Argues for two classical traditions in the South; one associated with the Enlightenment, looking to antiquity for models of freedom, the other looking for sanctions to maintain the status quo. TJ and Calhoun represent these.

Reference: 1316
Author: Windley, Lathan A.
Title: "Runaway Slave Advertisements of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Journal of Negro History
Volume: 63
Date: (1978)
Extent: 373-74

Notes: Prints an advertisement from the Virginia Gazette of Sept. 21, 1769, without any significant comment.

Reference: 3433
Author: Wing, DeWitt C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Pioneer in Genetic Science."
Publication: Journal of Heredity
Volume: 35
Date: (1944)
Extent: 173-74

Notes: Note surveying TJ~s interest in livestock breeding and scientific agriculture.

Reference: 1317
Author: Winstock, Melvin G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Making a Nation
Publisher: Making a Nation Co.
Place of Publication: Portland, Oregon
Date: (1923)
Extent: 109-30

Notes: no note

Reference: 1318
Author: Winston, Alexander
Title: "Mr. Jefferson in Paris."
Publication: American Society Legion of Honor Magazine
Volume: 35
Date: (1964)
Extent: 139-50

Notes: Survey, nothing new.

Reference: 1319
Author: Wirt, F. A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Celebration."
Publication: Agricultural Engineering
Volume: 25
Date: (1944)
Extent: 192, 196

Notes: Report on agriculturalists' pilgrimage to Monticello.

Reference: 1320
Author: Wirt, William
Title: A Discourse on the Lives and Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Who Both Died on the Fourth of July 1826: Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Washington, in the Hall of Representatives of the United States, on the Nineteenth of October, 1826
Publisher: Gales & Seaton
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 69

Notes: Often reprinted; includes a description of Monticello and its resident sage.

Reference: 33
Author: Wise, W. Harvey, Jr. and John W. Cronin.
Title: A Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Riverford Publishing
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1935)
Extent: pp. 72

Notes: no note

Reference: 1321
Author: Wise, Henry A.
Title: Seven Decades of the Union. The Humanities and Materialism, Illustrated by A Memoir of John Tyler, With Reminiscences of Some of His Great Contemporaries.
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1871)
Extent: 35-51

Notes: Discusses TJ and events of his administration; claims one of his great contributions to science was bringing Ferdinand Hassler, the geodesist, to America.

Reference: 1322
Author: Wise, James Waterman
Title: Thomas Jefferson Then and Now, 1743-1943: A National Symposium
Publisher: Bill of Rights Sesquicentennial Committee
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1943)
Extent: pp. 143

Notes: 54 prominent Americans contribute brief panegyrics.

Reference: 2502
Author: Wise, Jennings C.
Title: The Legacy of Jefferson: An Appeal to the Alumni of the University
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (194?)
Extent: pp. 15

Notes: Claims TJ was an occult "mystic" of the cabbalistic, Masonic variety, e.g. the ten pavilions at the University symbolize "the ten Sephirothal emanations of the Great Wisdom." This lore needs to be taught in the law school in order to combat "the Browders and Tugwells" of the author's day.

Reference: 2503
Author: Wishy, Bernard
Title: "John Locke and the Spirit of '76."
Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 73
Date: (1958)
Extent: 413-25

Notes: Reviews the Lockean background of the Declaration and TJ's understanding of individual rights in view of Wilmoore Kendall's conservative interpretation of Locke; evidence does not support reading "radically individualistic political theory" into the Declaration.

Reference: 1099
Author: Witham, Larry
Title: "Fact and Fiction Mix to Color History on the Silver Screen"
Publication: Insight on the News
Volume: 10
Date: (December 5, 1994)
Extent: 32-33.

Notes: Historians are troubled about reports on the forthcoming Merchant/Ivory film, Jefferson in Paris . In the face of uncertainty about whether the TJ and Sally Hemings story is fact or fiction, it seems problematic that films should become historical arbiters.

Reference: 1323
Author: Witt, Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Correspondance. 1. La Revolution Americaine et la Revolution Francaise."
Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 8
Date: (1857)
Extent: 536-86

Notes: Discusses TJ's life through his mission to France and his arrival at the opinion that the decisions of one generation should not bind the next.

Reference: 1324
Author: Witt, Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Correspondance. IV. Jefferson dans la Retraite."
Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 29
Date: (1860)
Extent: 78-108

Notes: TJ's retirement of all his actions does him the most honor.

Reference: 2092
Author: Witt, Cornelis de
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Etude Historique sur la De'mocratie Am'ericaine
Publisher: Didier et cie
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1862)
Extent: pp. iv, 568

Notes: Strongly critical of TJ; he put the American republic on its downward slide to mobbishness and rebellion. Translated by R. S. H. Church as Jefferson and the American Democracy: An Historical Study. London: Longman, 1862. pp. xxviii, 448. Originally published in part in four numbers of Revue des Deux Mondes.

Reference: 2093
Author: Witt, Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Corr~spondance. II. Formation et Triumphe du Parti Democratique aux Etats Unis."
Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 15
Date: (1858)
Extent: 332-72

Notes: The struggles with Hamilton and the problems with foreign relations in the 1790's.

Reference: 2094
Author: Witt, Cornelis de
Title: "Thomas Jefferson. Sa Vie et Sa Correspondance. III. Le Parti Democratique aux Affaires."
Publication: Revue des Deux Mondes
Volume: ser. 2. 22
Date: (1859)
Extent: 353-91

Notes: Covers TJ's presidency, concluding that the executive power of the presidency has never recovered from his weakening of it snd that the difficulties the country faces today are an almost inevitable consequence of his politics. Printed separately, Paris: J. Claye, 1859. pp. 39.

Reference: 1325
Author: Wittke, Carl F.
Title: Jefferson Lives on. A Lecture Delivered at The Ohio State University, October 26, 1942
Publisher: Ohio State Univ
Place of Publication: Columbus
Date: (1942)
Extent: pp.22

Notes: Survey of TJ's character and achievements, calling on Americans "to expand his conception of individual rights."

Reference: 1326
Author: Witty, Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: A Free Nation; The Beginning of the United States
Publication: Highlights for Children
Place of Publication: Columbus, Ohio
Date: (1975)
Extent: 4-5

Notes: no note

Reference: 1327
Author: Wold, Karl C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826"
Publication: Mr. President, How Is Your Health?
Publisher: Bruce Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: Saint Paul, Minn.
Date: (1948)
Extent: 23-33

Notes: no note

Reference: 1328
Author: Wolff, Philippe
Title: "Jefferson on Provence and Languedoc."
Publication: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Western Society for French History
Volume: 3
Date: (1975)
Extent: 191-205

Notes: Examines TJ's letters written during his tour of southern France and compares him favorably as a traveller to Arthur Young.

Reference: 1329
Author: Wolff, Philippe
Title: "Le voyage de Thomas Jefferson en Provence et Languedoc en 1787.
Publication: Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise
Volume: 48
Date: (1976)
Extent: 595-613

Notes: Similar to the previous item.

Reference: 3434
Author: Wolkowski, Leszek August
Title: "Polish Commission for National Education, 1773-1794: Its Significance and Influence on Russian and American Education."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Loyola Univ. of Chicago
Date: (1979)
Extent: pp. 216

Notes: Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours worked for the Polish Commission in 1774, drew upon his experience when he sent TJ his proposal for American Education in 1800. DAI 39/12A, pp. 7195-96.

Reference: 3435
Author: Woltz, Dawn Daniel
Title: The Flowers Grown and Shown at Monticello
Publisher: Michie Company
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1977)
Extent: pp. xv, 141

Notes: Discusses present day plantings.

Reference: 109
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: "The Bigger the Beast the Better."
Publication: American History Illustrated.
Volume: 17
Date: (no. 8, 1982)
Extent: 30-37.

Notes: Account of the controversy with Buffon over the relative size of European and American life forms. For a popular audience.

Reference: 1000
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: "Jefferson in His Time."
Publication: The Wilson Quarterly
Volume: 17
Date: (Spring, 1993)
Extent: 38-51.

Notes: Considers the status of TJ as the representative American in view of the critiques of his character made in the last 3 decades. Sketches TJ as a man of his time and finds that his words transcend his time, even if he himself did not. Sees him as becoming self-isolated and as turning inward in his final years. But his belief in the people and their ability to govern themselves and in the future are the source of his “symbolic power” in the American imagination.

Reference: 1001
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: “Jefferson Within Limits.”
Publication: The New York Review of Books
Volume: 40
Date: (May 13, 1993)
Extent: 6-9.

Notes: Review essay based on Onuf, ed. Jeffersonian Legacies . Describes the conference at which the essays originated and focuses on the introduction of questions about slavery and TJ's slaveholding. Argues that Americans make a mistake in idealizing “our so-called 'founding fathers'. ” If we insist on making Jefferson into the representative America, we “will end up stressing our deficiencies and ignoring just how far we have progressed since the eigtheenth century.

Reference: 1002
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: "The Trials and Tribulations of Thomas Jefferson," in Jeffersonian Legacies , ed. Onuf,
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1993)
Extent: 395-417.

Notes: Examines the contemporary critical understanding of TJ against the background of critiques of American society and polity. In our time he has been exposed as a knee-jerk liberal and as a racist slave owner who fathered children with one of his slaves. “The Jefferson that emerges out of much recent scholarship therefore resembles the America many critics have visualized in the past three decades---self-righteous, guilt-ridden, racist, doctrinaire, and filled with liberal pieties that under stress are easily sacrificed. ” Argues against this view that TJ was never in control of nor fully understood “the democratic revolution that he himself supremely spoke for. ” Sees TJ as “the pure American innocent” who in his later years turned inward and cut himself off from the larger world. His life-long faith in the natural sociability of people linked to a contempt for the modern state energized a radicalism that had consequences he did not foresee.

Reference: 1217
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson and the Idea of Equality,”
Publication: American Enterprise Institute Newsletter,
Date: (April, 1995)
Extent: n.p.?

Notes: Brief comment on the transformative power of the idea of human equality in the early republic and American society in general. For more accessible versions, see Wood's 1992 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, or his 1996 article in the Fordham Law Review.

Reference: 1283
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: “Thomas Jefferson, Equality, and the Creation of a Civil Society,”
Publication: Fordham Law Review
Volume: 64
Date: (1996)
Extent: 2133-47.

Notes: Argues that TJ's proposition that all men are created equal is “the most powerful proposition in American history, bar none. ” TJ's equality is moral equality, “in the most basic social sense -- the capacity of ordinary people to look others in the eye and treat them as equals and to expect to be treated as equals in return. ” This is at the center of the possibility of a modern civil society and the modern humanitarian sensibility.

Reference: 1399
Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Title: "Liberty's Wild Man"
Publication: New York Review of Books
Volume: 44
Date: (February 20, 1997)
Extent: 23-26.

Notes: Review essay on Conor Cruise O'Brien's
Title: The Long Affair
(1996) deeply critical of that book for its fundamentally ahistorical and tendentious account of TJ. Concedes that Jefferson is an eighteenth-century slaveholder "who remains inextricably enmeshed in a lost and distant past," but that his statements in behalf of liberty and equality have echoed in the world's culture for the last two centuries.

Reference: 1330
Author: Wood, Wallace
Title: "Jefferson, A.D. 1743-1826, American Statesman"
Publication: The Hundred Greatest Men. Portraits of the One Hundred Greatest Men of History
Publisher: Appleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1885)
Extent: 438-40

Notes: no note

Reference: 2095
Author: Wood, John
Title: The Suppressed History of the Administration of John Adams, (from 1797 to 1801), as Printed and Suppressed in 1802. By John Wood.... Now Republished with Notes, and an Appendix, by John Henry Sherburne....
Publisher: Walker & Gillis
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1846)
Extent: pp.390

Notes: A republican account of the period of the Alien and Sedition Laws, reprinted to connect the Federalists with the Whigs.

Reference: 1331
Author: Woodbridge, Margaret
Title: "Monticello."
Publication: U.S. Tobacco Review
Volume: Winter
Date: (1978)
Extent: 4-8

Notes: no note

Reference: 3436
Author: Woodburn, Robert Orvis
Title: "An Historical Investigation of the Opposition to Jefferson's Educational Proposals in the Commonwealth of Virginia."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: American Univ
Date: (1974)
Extent: pp. 231

Notes: Focuses particularly on response to TJ's "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" (1779) and his "Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education" (1817). DAI 35/llA, p. 7096.

Reference: 1332
Author: Woodfin, Maude Hewlett
Title: "Contemporary Opinion in Virginia of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Essays in Honor of William E. Dodd, ed. Avery Craven
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1935)
Extent: 30-85

Notes: TJ rarely mingled in popular gatherings, but his reputation steadily increased in Virginia, with the exception of the setbacks caused by his governorship and the Mazzei letter. As he revealed himself as a republican reformer, he gained popular support but was also more sharply attacked by some members of his own class. He never attained the general respect tended to Washington.

Reference: 2096
Author: Woodfin, Maude Howlett
Title: "Ex-President Jefferson's Plans for Virginia."
Publication: Social Science
Volume: 15
Date: (1940)
Extent: 341-51

Notes: TJ in retirement has many opinions but is reluctant to push any of them in public, except for the University.

Reference: 3437
Author: Woodfin, Maude H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and William Byrd's Manuscript Histories of the Dividing Line."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 1
Date: (1944)
Extent: 363-73

Notes: How TJ identified the author of the "History of the Dividing Line" and obtained the manuscript of the "Secret History" for the American Philosophical Society.

Reference: 279
Author: Woods, Mary N.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia: Planning the Academic Village."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 44
Date: (1985)
Extent: 266-83.

Notes: Relates the plan of the University of Virginia as an institutional building type to hospital and school designs available to TJ through his library or professional contacts. Notes the comparative novelty of his plans, but suggests that he may have been influenced in the idea of an academical village by Quatremere de Quincy's first volume on architecture in the Encyclopedie Methodique . Suggests that questions of sanitation and ventilation may have drawn his attention to hospital designs such as Wren's Chelsea Hospital, the Royal Hospital at Plymouth, or the proposals of Jean-Baptiste le Roy. TJ may also have been influenced by Benjamin Latrobe, particularly because of his sensitivity to the relationship between design and student discipline.

Reference: 280
Author: Woodson, Minnie Shumate
Title: "Researching to Document the Oral History of the Thomas Woodson Family: Dismantling the Sable Curtain."
Publication: Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
Volume: 6
Date: (1985)
Extent: 3-12.

Notes: Oral tradition, kept in the family until after the publication of Fawn Brodie's work maintains that Thomas Woodson was another son of TJ and Sally Hemings, possibly the Tom who supposedly died in infancy. Long on family tradition, short on important evidence, but, nevertheless, Woodson and his family are an interesting group in their own right.

Reference: 698
Author: Woodson, Minnie Shumate
Title: The Sable Curtain
Publication:
Publisher: Stafford Lowery Press,
Place of Publication: Washington, D. C.:
Date: (1987)
Extent: pp.381, 12.

Notes: Fiction. A novel exploring the life of Thomas Woodson, whose family has maintained that he was Sally Hemings's first child by TJ, conceived in Paris and born in the United States. According to the story here, Thomas Hemings was sent away from Monticello by TJ because he talked to outsiders and revealed the family secret. He goes to the farm of Josiah Woodson and takes a new last name. Based on genealogical research that documents the descendants of Thomas Woodson but cannot prove the last link in the chain to Sally Hemings.

Reference: 2504
Author: Woodson, Carter G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Thoughts on the Negro."
Publication: Journal of Negro History
Volume: 3
Date: (1918)
Extent: 55-89

Notes: Documents interspersed with comment, illustrating TJ's views on blacks, slavery, and abolition.

Reference: 34
Author: Woodward, Frank E.
Title: Reference List of Works Relating to Thomas Jefferson.
Place of Publication: Malden, Mass.
Date: (1906)
Extent: pp. 4

Notes: no note

Reference: 1333
Author: Woodward, Carl R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Survives."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1945)
Extent: 185

Notes: Testimonial.

Reference: 3438
Author: Woodward, Charles L.
Title: "Do You Care Anything About This?"
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1895)
Extent: Broadside

Notes: Circular offering for sale copies of the separate printing of Ford's edition of TJ's Notes.

Reference: 2097
Author: Woolery, William Kirk
Title: The Relation of Thomas Jefferson to American Foreign Policy, 1783-1793.
Publication: Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Historical and Political Science
Volume: Series 65, no. 2.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date: (1927)
Extent: pp. viii, 128

Notes: "As minister to France and as Secretary of State, (TJ) attacked every problem of American diplomacy, and the systems and principles he followed were, in practically every case, followed by the United States. It is the purpose of this study to investigate the chief problems and the reasoning Jefferson applied to them in the period 1783-

Reference: 1400
Author: Woolf, Eugene T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743-1825" (sic) in Odyssey of the Mind: A Voyage of Discovery.
Publisher: Southern Utah University Press
Place of Publication: Cedar City, UT.
Date: (1997)
Extent: 52-59.

Notes: Sketch of TJ as exemplary hero of the Enlightenment. Familiar story. Illustrated with photographs of a statue of TJ by Jerry Anderson.

Reference: 1334
Author: Wootan, James B.
Title: Monticello, Its Sage and His Home Town
Publisher: Monticello Hotel
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1927?)
Extent: pp. 14

Notes: Jeffersonian folklore, preserved (or invented) by William Page, one of the first guides to Monticello after it opened to the public.

Reference: 817
Author: Wrabley, Raymond B., Jr
Title: "Nation-Building and the Presidency: Competing National Visions at the Founding"
Publication: Presidential Studies Quarterly
Volume: 22
Date: (1992)
Extent: 261-77.

Notes: Describes Hamilton's vision of a strong national government and TJ's agrarian, republican vision and discusses their continuing influence on the modern presidency. The challenges of liberal democracy as first articulated by TJ and Hamilton continue to provide the fundamental basis of political conflict in the U. S.

Reference: 1336
Author: Wranek, William. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Homebuilder."
Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 15
Date: (1951)
Extent: 1-9

Notes: Sketch of the owner of Monticello.

Reference: 3439
Author: Wranek, William H.
Title: "Charlottesville and the University: A Jeffersonian View."
Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 21
Date: (1963)
Extent: 5-11

Notes: TJ wished to appoint Thomas Cooper as professor of chemistry at the University; prints a recently discovered letter from him to Cooper, dated September 1, 1817.

Reference: 3440
Author: Wranek, William H.
Title: "Jefferson's Mountaintop Mansion."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 19
Date: (1952)
Extent: 33-35, 69

Notes: Description.

Reference: 3441
Author: Wranek, William H.
Title: "Planned by Thomas Jefferson, The University of Virginia Continues to Progress Under Able Administration."
Publication: The Iron Worker
Volume: 15
Date: (1951)
Extent: 1-15

Notes: Sketch of TJ's University; peripheral.

Reference: 3442
Author: Wranek, William H.
Title: "The Renovation of Jefferson's House."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 20
Date: (1953)
Extent: 13-14, 39

Notes: no note

Reference: 64
Author: Wright, Esmond
Title: "The Great Little Madison: Father of the Constitution."
Publication: Proceedings of the British Academy
Volume: 67
Date: (1981)
Extent: 227-47.

Notes: Raises the question, "was he a mere imitator, as he was certainly an admirer, of Thomas Jefferson?" but does not pursue it closely enough but does defend Madison from the charge. A conventional portrait of Madison, peripheral to TJ, although cited in some indexes.

Reference: A86
Author: Wright, Louis B. and Julia H. Macleod
Title: "Mellimelli: A Problem for President Jefferson in North African Diplomacy."
Publication: Virginia Quarterly Review
Volume: 20
Date: (1944)
Extent: 555-65.

Notes: Sidi Soliman Mellimelli was an envoy sent by the Bey of Tunis in 1805. He and his gaudily dressed and flamboyant retinue at first were a public sensation but were later seen as a nuisance because of their drinking, brawling, and expense. TJ and Madison, the Secretary of State, had great difficulties in getting them to return home.

Reference: 1337
Author: Wright, Chester
Title: An Address, On the Death of the Venerable and Illustrious Adams and Jefferson, Ex-presidents of the United States, Delivered Before a Large Concourse of Citizens at Montpelier Vermont, July 25, 1826
Publisher: George W. Hill
Place of Publication: Montpelier
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 19

Notes: Stresses TJ's role as a defender of religious freedom and as a figure of national unity, as in "We are all Republicans, We are all Federalists."

Reference: 2098
Author: Wright, Louis B.
Title: "The Founding Fathers and 'Splendid Isolation."'
Publication: Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume: 6
Date: (1942)
Extent: 173-96

Notes: Washington's and TJ's desire to keep out of European wars was prompted by realistic assessment of national strength and weakness, but "Jefferson's vision of collaboration between English-speaking peoples to maintain peace and justice in the Western Hemisphere" justifies eventual interventionism.

Reference: 2505
Author: Wright, Esmond
Title: "An Eighteenth-century Pragmatist; A Study of the Sources of Jefferson's Political Ideas."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: (1940)
Extent: pp. 125

Notes: His origins are English, not French, and his ideas were expressed in terms of American situations.

Reference: 2506
Author: Wright, Esmond
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian Idea"
Publication: British Essays in American History, ed. H. C. Allen and C. P. Hill
Publisher: Edward Arnold
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1957)
Extent: 61-82

Notes: TJ as "rationalist, naturalist, and empiricist." If his ideas about the function of government are outmoded, his values are of continuing importance.

Reference: 2507
Author: Wright, Louis B.
Title: The Obligation of Intellectuals to Be Intelligent: Some Commentary from Jefferson and Adams
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1974)
Extent: pp. 15

Notes: TJ as an intellectual was able to adapt his idealism ~to the necessity of being practically intelligent." Both TJ and Adams disliked foggy philosophers such as Plato or Rousseau; youthful academics of today devoted to Marcuse or Marx should take notice. A veiled hit at opponents of U. S. involvement in Viet Nam.

Reference: 3443
Author: Wright, John Kirtland
Title: "Notes on Measuring and Counting in Early American Geography" and "Notes on Early American Geopiety"
Publication: Human Nature in Geography: Fourteen Papers, 1925-1965
Publisher: Harvard Univ. Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1966)
Extent: 204-93

Notes: Two wide-ranging essays which touch at several points on TJ's accomplishments as a geographer in Notes. Suggestive and useful for background.

Reference: 3444
Author: Wright, Louis B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Classics."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 87
Date: (1943)
Extent: 223-33

Notes: "Although Jefferson read widely and knew the French and English philosophers and historians of his own age, his thinking was chiefly influenced by the writers of antiquity."

Reference: 2099
Author: Wyllie, John Cook, ed.
Title: "The Second Mrs. Wayland, An Unpublished Jefferson Opinion on a Case in Equity."
Publication: American Journal of Legal History
Volume: 9
Date: (1965)
Extent: 64-68

Notes: Opinion dated August 16, 1782, on the estate of Adam Wayland.

Reference: 2508
Author: Wyllie, John Cook
Title: Jefferson's Prayer Book
Publisher: Bibliographical Society of the Univ. of Virginia
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1952)
Extent: pp. (20)

Notes: Facsimile of pages containing genealogical and other information from the Book of Common Prayer belonging to Peter, then Thomas Jefferson; commentary and bibliographical note.

Reference: 3445
Author: Wyllie, John Cook
Title: "The Jefferson-Randolph Copies of An Anonymous Work Entered Three Ways by Sabin."
Publication: VMHB
Volume: 56
Date: (1948)
Extent: 80-83

Notes: Describes presentation copies of John Francis Dumoulin's An Essay on Naturalization sent to TJ and prints Dumoulin's letters to him.

Reference: 2100
Author: Wyman, William I.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Patent System."
Publication: Journal of the Patent Office Society
Volume: l
Date: (1918)
Extent: 5-8

Notes: Note on TJ's work as first patent commissioner and his changing attitude toward the value of the patent system.

Reference: A87
Author: Wynne, Edward A.
Title: "Improving Student Discipline in the 80's: The Revival of Deterrence."
Publication: Contemporary Education
Volume: 52
Date: (1980)
Extent: 30-35.

Notes: Shows TJ's ability to adapt promptly and appropriately to problems of student disorder in 1825 at the University, and compares it to our contemporary society's apparent unwillingness to let go of simplistic illusions about the same problem in our time.