Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography
Works from the 1820's
Reference: 94
Author: Barry, William T.
Title: Speech of William T. Barry, Esq., on the Death of Adams, Jefferson, and Shelby. Delivered in Lexington on Tuesday, Fifteenth August, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty Six.
Publisher: John Bradford
Place of Publication: Lexington, KY
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 24
Notes:
Isaac Shelby died on July 18th; pays particular attention to the deathbed scenes of TJ and Adams.
Reference: 175
Author: Brackenridge, Henry M.
Title: A Eulogy on the Lives and Characters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. By the Hon. H. M. Brackenridge.
Publisher: W. Hasell Hunt
Place of Publication: Pensacola
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 18
Notes:
Touches comprehensively on the careers and accomplishments of both Adams and TJ and delivers equal praise.
Reference: 203
Author: Bryan, John H.
Title: Orations on the Death of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Newbern, on the 17th and 24th July 1826.By the Hon. John H. Bryan and the Hon. John Stanley.
Publisher: Watson and Machen
Place of Publication: Newbern, N.C
Date: (1826)
Extent: 3-10
Notes:
Bryan's oration on TJ was delivered on July 17th.
Reference: 228
Author: Cambreleng, C. C
Title: "Eulogy Pronounced in the City of New York, July 17th, 1826"
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies ....
Publisher: D.F. Robinson & Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 59-70
Notes:
Emphasizes the death of Adams and TJ on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration as God's "manifesting to us his special favor and protection, apparently revealing to all mankind that this is his chosen land."
Reference: 322
Author: Cushing, Caleb
Title: Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Pronounced in Newburyport, July 15, 1826
Publisher: Hilliard Metcalf
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 60
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826.
18-57. Praises their role as the great men of "the congress of seventy-six," who in a time of revolutionary excitement were the authors of a national literature of liberty.
Reference: 341
Author: Daveis, Charles Stewart
Title: An Address Delivered at Portland on the Decease of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, August 9, 1826
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 5.
Notes:
TJ's greatest achievement as president was the Louisiana Purchase, Adams's was the navy, but their real monument is the country itself.
Reference: 349
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Death of Jefferson and Adams."
Publication: Niles Register
Volume: 30
Date: (1826)
Extent: 329, 345, 368-75.
Notes:
TJ's death noted on July 8, Adams's on July 15, and the number for July 22 notices various "Testimonies of Respect for the Deceased Patriarchs."
Reference: 357
Author: DeWitt, William R.
Title: A Sermon on the Death of the Patriots and Statesmen, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, Delivered by the Rev. W. R. DeWitt, Pastor of the Presbyterian Congregation Harrisburg in the German Reformed Church, on Friday, the 22nd of July, 1826 in Compliance with a Request of the Citizens of Harrisburg
Publisher: Cameron & Krause
Place of Publication: Harrisburg
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 16.
Notes:
no note
Reference: 379
Author: Duer, William Alexander
Title: An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Pronounced by Request of the Common Council of Albany, at the Public Commemorative of Their Deaths, Held in That City on Monday the 31st of July, 1826
Publication: National Observer
Place of Publication: Albany
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp.20.
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826. 'In this splendid coincidence of events, ... what grateful and ingenuous heart hesitates to acknowledge an omniscient and benignant Providence?"
Reference: 411
Author: Emmons, William
Title: Sacred to the Memory of the Patriots John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Who Died July 4, 1826. Eulogy Pronounced at Salem, July 27, 1826
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp.4
Notes:
no note
Reference: 421
Author: Everett, Edward
Title: An Address Delivered at Charlestown, August 1 1826, In Commemoration of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: William L. Lewis
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 36.
Notes:
"the declining period of their lives presents ...
a new spectacle of
Reference: 437
Author: Anonymous
Title: The First Jubilee of American Independence; and, Tribute of Gratitude to the Illustrious Adams and Jefferson
Publisher: M. Lyon & Co.
Place of Publication: Newark, New Jersey
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 60
Notes:
"Tribute" on pp.
45-60 includes address delivered July 14, 1826, by Philip Courtland Hay.
Reference: 455
Author: Forsyth, John
Title: Eulogium on Adams and Jefferson, Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Augusta
Publisher: Brantly and Clarke
Place of Publication: Augusta, Ga.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 8
Notes:
no note
Reference: 504
Author: Grundy, Felix
Title: "Eulogy, Pronounced at Nashville Tennessee, August 3, 1826"
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies ....
Publisher: D.F. Robinson & Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 287-97
Notes:
Concentrates on TJ as the "great apostle of civil liberty."
Reference: 530
Author: Harper, Samuel H.
Title: An Eulogium on the Late Thos. Jefferson & Jno. Adams, Pronounced in New Orleans, Aug. 16, 1826
Publisher: Lyman and Beardsleeq
Place of Publication: New Orleans
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 24
Notes:
no note
Reference: 554
Author: Hoge, James
Title: Proceedings of the United States Court, Gentlemen of the Bar, and Citizens of Columbus, in Testimony of Respect for the Late Thomas Jefferson ~ John Adams) also, the Discourse Delivered on the Occasion by the Rev. James Hoge. Published by Order of the Bar
Publisher: George Nashee & Co.
Place of Publication: Columbus, Ohio
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 20
Notes:
no note
Reference: 569
Author: Hubbard, Simeon
Title: A Dirge: On the Death of Our Illustrious 2d and 3d Presidents, hastily Composed on Hearing That of the Latter
Publisher: Office of the Norwich Courier
Place of Publication: Norwich, Conn.
Date: (1826)
Extent: broadside
Notes:
no note
Reference: 585
Author: James, John W.
Title: Eulogy on Thomas Jefferson, Delivered at the Columbian College, D.C., on the Fourth of October by W. James, a Member of the Senior Class.
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 8
Notes:
no note
Reference: 612
Author: Johnson, Alfred, Jr.
Title: Eulogy Delivered at Belfast, August 10, 1826, on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, at the Request of the Citizens of Belfast.
Publisher: E. Fellowes
Place of Publication: Belfast, Me.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 28
Notes:
no note
Reference: 615
Author: Johnson, Walter Rogers
Title: An Oration Delivered at Germantown, Pennsylvania, on the 20th July, 1826, in the Presence o the Citizens of Germantown, Roxborough, Bristol, and Penn Townships, Assembled to Commemorate the Virtues and Services of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams.
Publisher: Robert H. Small
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp.25
Notes:
A particularly dramatic oration in which an aged narrator extolls for a youthful audience the similar excellencies of the two patriarchs.
Reference: 616
Author: Johnson, William
Title: Eulogy on Thomas Jefferson, Delivered August 3, 1826, in the First Presbyterian Church of Charleston.
Publisher: C.C. Stebbing
Place of Publication: Charleston
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp.38
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies...
, Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826.
Full consideration of TJ's career and a defense of his policies, particularly claiming him to be a friend of commerce as opposed to speculation. Comments on the poverty of his later years.
Reference: 658
Author: Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo
Title: An Address Delivered in Chauncy Place Church before the Young Men of Boston, August 2, 1826, in Commemoration of the Deaths of Adams and Jefferson
Publisher: Ingraham & Hewes
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 31
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826.
173-92. One of the most rhetorically ornate of the eulogies.
Reference: 688
Author: Lee, Henry
Title: "The Late Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Niles Register
Volume: 31
Date: (1826)
Extent: 197-200
Notes:
Account of TJ's death; 2 letters from TJ to Lee relative to the Revolutionary War in Virginia in 1780-81.
Reference: 704
Author: Little, Robert
Title: A Funeral Sermon on the Death of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Ex-Presidents of the United States, Preached on Sunday Evening, July 16, 1826, in the First Unitarian Church, Washington City.
Publisher: Bartow & Brannan
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 22
Notes:
Pays particular attention to TJ and defends his religious opinions; argues that the simultaneous death is a sign of God's orderly governance of the universe.
Reference: 726
Author: Lyman, T. P. H.
Title: The Life of Thomas Jeffeson, Esq., LL.D., Late Ex-President of the United States. Arranged and Compiled from Original Documents
Publisher: D. & S. Neall
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. xi, 111.
Notes:
Apologetic biography of TJ as one of those who "not only go for men in the vast catalogue of nations; but they are men upon the list of reason, and of Heaven."
Reference: 837
Author: Mitchill, Samuel Latham
Title: A Discourse on the Character and Services of Thomas Jefferson. More Especially as a Promoter of Natural Science. Pronounced by Request, before the New York Lyceum of Natural History, on the 11th October, 1826
Publisher: G. & C. Carvill
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 67
Notes:
Concentrates on TJ's public activities.
Comments at length on the Notes and notices his connections and communications with the American Philosophical Society.
Claims that in his efforts to acquire information about the Louisiana Purchase he "placed himself before the world as one of the most substantial promoters of statistical, natural, and physical science."
Reference: 943
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Pecuniary Embarrassments of Jefferson."
Publication: Niles Register
Volume: 30
Date: (1826)
Extent: 35, 281, 390-91
Notes:
Notices the progress of a lottery arranged in TJ's behalf.
Reference: 977
Author: Potter, Henry
Title: "Eulogy, Pronounced in Fayetteville, North-Carolina, July 20th, 1826"
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies ....
Publisher: D. F. Robinson & Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 129-38
Notes:
Praises especially TJ's authorship of the Virginia act of religious toleration.
Reference: 986
Author: Anonymous
Title: Proceedings of the Committee Appointed by the Citizens of New York, At Their Meeting Held for the Relief of Mr. Jefferson
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 8
Notes:
Announces a scheme to help TJ by purchasing lottery tickets, then destroying them; published in May, just before his death.
Reference: 1011
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Reflections Suggested by the Obsequies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Christian Examiner
Volume: 3
Date: (1826)
Extent: 315-30
Notes:
Interesting essay-review of ten eulogies on TJ and Adams.
Reference: 1045
Author: Rowan, Stephen N.
Title: An Address, Delivered July 12, 1826, in the Middle Dutch Church, at the Request of the Common Council, on Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: William Davis, Jr
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 36
Notes:
General praise without considering TJ and Adams in any detail.
Reference: 1072
Author: Anonymous
Title: A Selection of Eulogies Pronounced in the Several States, In Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: D. F. Robinson and Norton and Russell
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 426
Notes:
Contains nineteen eulogies, the most well known being Webster's and Wirt's.
Eulogies are listed separately here.
Reference: 1074
Author: Sergeant, John
Title: An Oration Delivered in Independence Square, in the City of Philadelphia, on the 24th of July, 1826, in Commemoration of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
Publisher: H. Carey and I. Lea
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 44
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826. "Henceforward the names of Jefferson and Adams can never be separated from the Declaration of Independence." TJ and Adams offered as exemplars of the principles of the Declaration.
Reference: 1086
Author: Shaw, John Angier
Title: Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson Delivered August 2, 1826, By Request of the Inhabitants of Bridgewater
Publisher: Samuel W. Mortimer
Place of Publication: Taunton, Mass.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 20
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
li.
Robinson, 1826.
155-71.
Reference: 1116
Author: Smith, Samuel
Title: "Eulogy, Pronounced in Baltimore, Maryland, July 20th 1826"
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies ....
Publisher: D. F. Robinson
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 7 1-90
Notes:
Claims TJ's last words were "I resign my Soul to my God, and My daughter to my country!"
Reference: 1118
Author: Smith, Sheldon
Title: "Eulogy, Pronounced at Buffalo, New York, July 22nd, 1826"
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies ....
Publisher: D. F. Robinson
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 91-96
Notes:
no note
Reference: 1124
Author: Sprague, Joseph E.
Title: An Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Pronounced August 10, 1826, at the Request of the Town of Salem
Publisher: Warwick Palfrey, Jr
Place of Publication: Salem, Mass.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 48
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826. 235-71. TJ's "noblest effort, though unsuccessful, has been for the emancipation of slaves." Claims that it rained on July 4, 1826, and the rainbow "gave assurance that the offerings of these patriots had been accepted."
Reference: 1125
Author: Sprague, Peleg
Title: Eulogy on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Pronounced in Hallowell July 1826 at the Request of the Committees of the Towns of Hallowell, Augusta, and Gardiner
Publisher: Glazier & Co.
Place of Publication: Hallowell, Maine
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 22
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies ....
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826., 139-53. The Declaration considered "as a great, solemn, political act, ... demands our highest veneration," and its truth has changed the world. TJ and Adams became "the patriarchs of America, and saw their children in the land of promise."
Reference: 1127
Author: Stanford, John
Title: A Discourse on the Death of the Honorable Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Delivered in the Chapel at Bellevue, N. York
Publisher: E. Conrad
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 20
Notes:
Text of the sermon is Zechariah 1:5, "Your Fathers, Where are they?" turns this into a jeremiad.
One of the more interesting eulogies.
Reference: 1129
Author: Staughton, William
Title: Sermon Delivered in the Capitol of the United States; on Lord's Day, July 16, 1826; at the Request of the Citizens of Washington, on the Death of Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Adams
Publisher: Columbian Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 32
Notes:
no note
Reference: 1133
Author: Stevens, Charles
Title: Funeral Eulogy, on the Characters of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Pronounced on the 1st August, 1826, Before the Inhabitants of Pineville, S.C. And Published at Their Request
Publisher: Philip Hoff
Place of Publication: Charleston
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 18
Notes:
no note
Reference: 1189
Author: Thornton, William F.
Title: Eulogy, Pronounced at Alexandria, District of Columbia, August 10, 1826
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies
Publisher: D.F. Robinson
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 329-46
Notes:
Praises TJ's "extraordinary power of intense reflection."
Reference: 1194
Author: Tillinghast, Joseph Leonard
Title: Eulogy Pronounced in Providence, July 17, 1826, Upon the Characters of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, Late Presidents of the United States, By Request of the Municipal Authorities
Publisher: Miller & Grattan
Place of Publication: Providence
Date: (1826)
Extent: 28
Notes:
Praises TJ for the omitted anti-slavery passage in the Declaration.
Reference: 1210
Author: Turner, Edward
Title: Eulogy Pronounced at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, August 10, 1826
Publication: A Selection of Eulogies...
Publisher: D.F. Robinson
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1826)
Extent: 273-85
Notes:
no note
Reference: 1213
Author: Tyler, John
Title: A Funeral Oration on the Death of Thomas Jefferson, Delivered at the Request of the Citizens of Richmond, on the 11th of July, 1826
Publisher: Shepherd & Pollard
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1826)
Extent: 12
Notes:
Also in A Selection of Eulogies...
Hartford: D.
F.
Robinson, 1826.
TJ praised as a philosophic democrat who will be remembered for the Declaration; quotes from TJ's letter of June 24 to Roger C. Weightman.
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: 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: 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: 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: 2777
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Eulogies on Jefferson and Adams."
Publication: American Quarterly Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1826)
Extent: 54-77
Notes:
Reviews A Selection of Eulogies (1826); concentrates on the rhetorical performance of the speakers and has little to say about TJ and Adams.
Reference: 2918
Author: Jacob, John J.
Title: Biographical Sketch of the Life of the Late Captain Michael Cresap
Publisher: J. M. Buchanan
Place of Publication: Cumberland, Md.
Date: (1826)
Extent: pp. 123
Notes:
Intended to refute TJ's accusation of Cresap as murderer of Logan's family.
Reference: 126
Author: Biddle, Nicholas
Title: Eulogium on Thomas Jefferson, Delivered Before the American Philosophical Society, on the Eleventh Day of April 1827.
Publisher: Robert H. Small
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1827)
Extent: pp. 55
Notes:
TJ was a force for reason, science, and enlightened leadership.
One of the most interesting of the eulogies.
Reference: 399
Author: Eaton, William
Title: "A Poem on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Searsburgh Poetry
Publisher: For the author
Place of Publication: Williamstown, Mass.
Date: (1827)
Extent: 34-37.
Notes:
Doggerel verse eulogy by a precursor of Julia Moore; seems to think TJ wrote the Constitution.
Reference: 477
Author: Gilpin, Henry Dilwood
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence,
ed. John Sanderson.
Publisher: R. W. Pomeroy
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1827)
Extent: 7:9-148.
Notes:
no note
Reference: 691
Author: Lemesle, Charles
Title: Eloge de Thomas Jefferson, Ancien President des Etats-Unis d'Amerique du Nord, Membre Honoraire de la Societe Linneenne de Paris
Publication: Au Secretariat de la Societe Linneenne
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1827)
Extent: pp. 11
Notes:
"Extrait des Annales Linneennes pour 1826."
Praises TJ's interest in science and notes his connections in the international community.
Reference: 1117
Author: Smith, Samuel Harrison
Title: Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of Thomas Jefferson; Delivered in the Capitol, Before the Columbian Institute, on the Sixth of January, 1827, and Published at Their Request
Publisher: S. A. Elliott
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1827)
Extent: pp. 38
Notes:
Extensive survey of TJ's life.
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: 2336
Author: List, Frederick
Title: Outlines of Political Economy, in a Series of Letters Addressed by Frederick List, esq. Late Professor of Political Economy at the University of Tubingen in Germany, to Charles J. Ingersoll, Esq., Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Manufacturers and the Mechanic Arts. To Which is Added the Celebrated Letters of Mr. Jefferson to Benjamin Austin, and of Mr. Madison to the Editors of the Lynchburg Virginian
Publisher: Samuel Parker
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1827)
Extent: pp. 40
Notes:
Attempt to enlist TJ posthumously as a partisan of the American System .
Reference: 122
Author: Bernhard, Karl, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.
Title: Reise Sr. Hoheit der Herzos Bernhard zu Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach durch Nord-Amerika in den Jahren 1825 und 1826. Hrs. von Heinrich Luden.
Publisher: Wilhelm Hoffman
Place of Publication: Weimar
Date: (1828)
Extent: 1: 296-99
Notes:
These pages describe a visit to the Univ.
of Virginia and Monticello in November 1825, noting especially TJ's art collection.
Reference: 476
Author: Gilpin, Henry D.
Title: A Biographical Sketch of Thomas Jefferson.
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1828)
Extent: pp. 245-372
Notes:
From the Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, but pagination different from below.
Positive view of TJ, but aware that he is still a figure who can arouse party differences.
Reference: 1345
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Title: Letter of the Hon. John Quincy Adams, in Reply to a Letter of the Hon. Alexander Smyth, to His Constituents
Publisher: Gales & Seaton
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1828)
Extent: pp. 16
Notes:
Defends himself against charges of attempting to ridicule TJ and of voting against the Louisiana Purchase for reasons of faction; prints a letter from TJ to William Dunbar, dated July 17, 1803, showing similar constitutional scruples.
Reference: 1631
Author: Giles, William Branch
Title: To the Public
Publisher: T. W. White
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1828)
Extent: pp.17
Notes:
Letters and papers illuminating the contretemps between Giles and T.
J.
Randolph over the publication of TJ's letter to Giles dated December 25, 1825, in which it was purported TJ approved of John Adams' politics.
Reference: 2664
Author: Anonymous
Title: Catalogue of the Library of the University Arranged Alphabetically ....
Publisher: Gilmer, Davis and Co.
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1828)
Extent: pp. 1
Notes:
Facsimile edition, Charlottesville: Alderman Library, 1945.
Catalogue of the original Univ.
of Virginia library as shaped by TJ's recommendations.
Reference: 489
Author: Goodrich, Charles A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence
Publisher: William Reed
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1829)
Extent: 380-405
Notes:
no note
Reference: 693
Author: Levasseur, Antoine
Title: Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825
Publisher: Carey and Lea
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1829)
Extent: 1:212-21
Notes:
Describes Lafayette's visit to TJ at Monticello.
Reference: 1344
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Title: Correspondence Between John Quincy Adams, Esquire, President o the United States, and Several Citizens of Massachusetts Concerning the Charge of a Design to Dissolve the Union Alleged to Have Existed in That State
Publication: Daily Advertiser
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1829)
Extent: pp. 80
Notes:
Controversy raised by the publication of TJ's letter of Dec.
25, 1825 to William Branch Giles, claiming J.
Q.
Adams had intimated treasonous intentions on the part of the Massachusetts Federalists at the time of the Embargo.
Reference: 1713
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson's Law Reports."
Publication: Virginia Literary Museum
Volume: 1
Date: (1829)
Extent: 129-33
Notes:
Notes that TJ's executor had recently published some reports from the old General court, collected by or reported by TJ.
Reference: 1807
Author: Madison, James
Title: Letters on the Constitutionality and Policy of Duties, for the Protection and Encouragement of Manufactures
Publisher: Thomas W. White
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1829)
Extent: pp. 27, 4
Notes:
Prints extracts from TJ's letters in support of congressional power to set protective duties.
Reference: 2610
Author: Brackenridge, Henry M.
Title: Speeches on the Jew Bill, in the House of Delegates of Maryland, by H. M. Brackenridge, Col. W.G.D. Worthington, and John S. Tyson, Esquire. Together with an Argument on the Chancery Powers. and An Eulogy of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, etc by H. M. Brackenridge
Publisher: J. Dobson
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1829)
Extent: pp.276
Notes:
Reprints the Pensacola eulogy of August 1826, 157-82; includes also "Western Antiquities, Communicated in a Letter to Thomas Jefferson," 192-205, arguing for Mexican influence on the moundbuilders.
Reference: 2663
Author: Anonymous
Title: Catalogue of President Jefferson's Library. A Catalogue of the extensive and valuable Library o the late President Jefferson (copied from the original MS., in his hand writing, as arranged by himself,) to be sold at auction, at the Long Room Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington City. By Nathaniel P. Poor, on the 27th February, 1829
Publisher: Gales and Seaton
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1829)
Extent: pp. 14
Notes:
The final library.
Page 2 shows TJ's scheme of classification according to the faculties of the human mind.
Reference: 2878
Author: Anonymous, none
Title: "Herbert, Francis." "Ghosts on the Stage."
Publication: The Talisman for 1830
Publisher: E. Bliss
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1829)
Extent: 49-57
Notes:
Account of a visit to Monticello and a conversation with TJ demonstrating his love and knowledge of the classics and his opinions about presenting ghosts on stage in productions of plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, and some Greek tragedies.
Interesting but perhaps fabulous.
Reference: 3346
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Thoughts on Visiting the Grave of Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Literary Magazine
Volume: 1
Date: (1829)
Extent: 133
Notes:
Poem, signed "Zenobia."