Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography
Works from the 1860's



Reference: 212
Author: Bulfinch, Thomas
Title: "Jefferson's Private Character."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 91
Date: (1860)
Extent: 107-18
Notes: Review of Randall's biography; revelation of TJ's private life justifies high opinion formed by readers of his Writings in 1829 and after.



Reference: 230
Author: Campbell, Charles
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1860)
Extent: 603-06
Notes: Sketch, little on TJ as governor



Reference: 302
Author: Cooke, John Esten
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 39
Date: (1860)
Extent: 32 1-41
Notes: Biographical sketch.



Reference: 903
Author: Page, Thomas J
Title: "Jefferson and Macaulay."
Publication: Virginia University Magazine
Volume: 4
Date: (1860)
Extent: 515-24
Notes: no note



Reference: 1107
Author: Smith, Charles Card
Title: "The Life of Thomas Jefferson. By Henry S. Randall, LL.D
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 91
Date: (1860)
Extent: 107-18
Notes: TJ's true character was revealed after his death by publication of his letters and testimony of those who knew him intimately.



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: 250
Author: Chanut, J
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Nouvelle Biographie G£ n£rale depuis les Temps les Plus Recule's jusqu'a Nos Jours
Publisher: Firmin Didot Freres
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1861)
Extent: 611-31
Notes: no note



Reference: 388
Author: DuMing, E. O.
Title: "Private Character of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: New Englander
Volume: 19
Date: (1861)
Extent: 648-73
Notes: Review of Randall's Life. Attacks Bulfinch's North American Review article, claiming that TJ "Whatever may be said of his intellectual eminence or distinguished public services, has certainly, never been esteemed for moral purity or practical piety."



Reference: 576
Author: Ingersoll, Charles Jared
Title: Recollections, Historical, Political, Biographical, and Social, of Charles J. Ingersoll. By Experience, Presenting Annals, With Portraiture of Personages of This Country, From Genet's Arrival in 1792, to the Purchase of Louisiana in 1803
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1861)
Extent: pp. x, 458
Notes: Cited in Johnston, not seen.



Reference: 850
Author: Moreau, Henry
Title: "Les Fondateurs de l'Union Americaine et la Crise Actuelle."
Publication: Correspondant
Volume: 54
Date: (1861)
Extent: 315-36
Notes: Review essay occasioned by Witt's book on TJ and Guizot's Etude sur Washington, accepts Witt's analysis of TJ.



Reference: 970
Author: Pierson, Hamilton W.
Title: "Jefferson at Monticello."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 5
Date: (1861)
Extent: 366-69
Notes: Memoirs of Edmund Bacon, overseer at Monticello from 1806 until 1822, and letters to him from TJ.



Reference: 1645
Author: Grayson, W. S.
Title: "The Legation of Thomas Jefferson.: Is the Declaration of Independence at War with the Institution of Domestic Slavery?"
Publication: DeBow's Review
Volume: 31
Date: (1861)
Extent: 136-47
Notes: Doctrines of TJ and Christianity lead "by plain steps of logic, to agrarianism." All men were created equal, but since the creation, circumstances have changed and slavery is legitimate.



Reference: 1826
Author: Mayes, R. B.
Title: "The Divine Legation of Thomas Jefferson.: Are All Men Created Free?: Are All Men Created White?"
Publication: DeBow's Review
Volume: 30
Date: (1861)
Extent: 521-32
Notes: Taken literally, the Declaration contradicts the Bible, which suggests "man" as exclusively applicable to the white race.



Reference: 390
Author: Duycinck, Evert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: National Portrait Gallery of Eminent Americans
Publisher: Johnson, Fry & Co.
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1862)
Extent: 1:117-34.
Notes: no note



Reference: 1684
Author: Hillard, George S.
Title: "Citizen Genet."
Publication: Littell's Living Age
Volume: 72
Date: (1862)
Extent: 729-40
Notes: Discusses the Genet episode in light of correspondence published in Witt's Thomas Jefferson.



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: 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: 2338
Author: Livermore, George
Title: An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and and as Soldiers. Read Before the Massachusetts Historical Society, August 14, 1862
Publisher: John Wilson
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1862)
Extent: pp. 215
Notes: Also in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 6(1863), 86-248. Touches on TJ and quotes from statements opposing slavery and from those describing the black race's supposed intellectual inferiority.



Reference: 1187
Author: Thompson, Daniel Pierce
Title: A Talk with Jefferson
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 26
Date: (1863)
Extent: 833-35
Notes: Account of his visit with TJ in 1822



Reference: 1656
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Hamilton and Jefferson."
Publication: Littel's Living Age
Volume: 81
Date: (1864)
Extent: 613-16
Notes: Review of Riethmuller's Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries presents TJ as the origin of slave-holding, secessionist, oligarchic principles and Hamilton as transmitter "to the thinkers of the North ... political sobriety, that sober respect for law, that preference for legal freedom to popular license, that belief in a true national life" which characterizes Lincoln.



Reference: 1923
Author: Riethmiller, Christopher James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries; or, The Rise of the American Constitution
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
Place of Publication: London
Date: (1864)
Extent: 269-302
Notes: Noble, high-minded Hamilton opposed by TJ, the crafty, sans-culotte.



Reference: 2449
Author: Sheldon, J.
Title: "Jefferson by the Light of 1863."
Publication: Continental Monthly
Volume: 5
Date: (1864)
Extent: 129-38
Notes: "His works are an arsenal where these weapons of sedition are arranged ready for use."



Reference: 389
Author: Duycinck, Evert
Title: "Jefferson and Coleridge."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 9
Date: (1865)
Extent: 24-25
Notes: Describes Coleridge's notes in vol. IV of the 1829 London edition of the Memoirs .... Coleridge thought he was "onesided."



Reference: 720
Author: Ludlow, J. M.
Title: "A Gallery of American Presidents."
Publication: Macmillan's Magazine
Volume: 12
Date: (1865)
Extent: 292-94
Notes: Superficial sketches of early presidents, including TJ.



Reference: 1515
Author: Crane, William
Title: Anti-Slavery in Virginia: Extracts from Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Washington and others Relative to the "Blighting Curse of Slavery."
Publisher: J. F. Weishampel
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date: (1865)
Extent: pp. 23
Notes: TJ quoted and cited as an anti-slavery advocate.



Reference: 2016
Author: Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Nouveaux Essais de Critique et d'Histoire
Publication: Hachette
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1865)
Extent: 171-87
Notes: Review essay on Witt's Thomas Jefferson, agrees with Witt that TJ was an ambivalent character, by turns "actif et impuissant," who was to a large degree responsible for the descent of the U. S. into "la de'mocratie brutale."



Reference: 2236
Author: Fowler, Samuel
Title: "The Political Opinions of Jefferson."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 101
Date: (1865)
Extent: 313-35
Notes: Review essay on Randall's biography. An Hegelian critique of TJ, claiming that for all of his great services and talents, his flaw was his commitment to individualism. Upon the "doctrine of state rights and local self-government ... will defend his reputation as statesman and philosopher." But "This is the day of great nations.... We are at an immeasurable distance from the times when Jefferson could describe us as 'one nation towards others, separate governments among ourselves."'



Reference: 141
Author: Bogart, William H. ("Sentinel")
Title: Who Goes There? or, Men and Events.
Publisher: Carleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1866)
Extent: 37-40
Notes: Anecdotes about TJ stressing his sociability.



Reference: 846
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Monticello, The Home of Jefferson, Near Charlottesville, Virginia."
Publication: Harper's Weekly
Volume: 10
Date: (1866)
Extent: 345
Notes: Two engraved views, brief description of condition of Monticello and TJ's grave in 1866.



Reference: 1650
Author: H. B. D., ?
Title: "The Citizen Genet."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 10
Date: (1866)
Extent: 329-44
Notes: Prints correspondence of TJ and Genet with extracts from newspapers of the period.



Reference: 36
Author: Abbott, John S. C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Lives of the Presidents of the United States of America, From Washington to the Present Time.
Publisher: B.B. Russell
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1867)
Extent: 97-147
Notes: Anecdotal sketch, emphasizing TJ's humane and generous qualities.



Reference: 548
Author: Henry, William Wirt
Title: Character and Public Career of Patrick Henry Comments upon Mr. Jefferson's Letter
Place of Publication: Richmond?
Date: (1867)
Extent: pp. 8
Notes: Responding to an article in the Richmond Dispatch, defends Henry and calls for publication of all of TJ's correspondence with William Wirt. In one letter TJ had claimed Henry was "avaritious and rotten-hearted."



Reference: 936
Author: Anonymous
Title: "Patrick Henry. 1. A Memorandum by Thomas Jefferson. 2. Mr. Jefferson and Patrick Henry. 3. Thomas Jefferson and His Contemporaries."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: n.s. 2
Date: (1867)
Extent: 90-96
Notes: Prints controversy from the New York World, 2 August, 1867, and 3 August, 1867, over TJ's notes on Patrick Henry prepared for William Wirt, Henry's biographer.



Reference: 933
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson" and "The Wife of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: People's Book of Biography: or, Short Lives of the Most Interesting Persons of All Ages and Countries
Publisher: A. S. Hale & Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1868)
Extent: 566-73
Notes: no note



Reference: 1599
Author: Flanders, Henry
Title: "A Glance at Two of Our Presidents."
Publication: Lippincott's Magazine
Volume: 2
Date: (1868)
Extent: 261-71
Notes: Compares TJ and Adams as representative men of the American Revolution whose characters and careers bear closely on the origin of political parties in the U. S.



Reference: 1632
Author: Gillet, Ransom H.
Title: Democracy in the United States. What It Has Done, What It Is Doing, and What It Will Do
Publisher: Appleton
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1868)
Extent: 13-41
Notes: A history of the Democratic Party; indicated pages cover election of 1800 through the Embargo, including a sketch of TJ's life and a section on his political principles.



Reference: 3140
Author: O'Callaghan, E. B.
Title: "The Revised Proofs of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 13
Date: (1868)
Extent: 96-98
Notes: Bibliographic description.



Reference: 77
Author: Bagby, George W.
Title: "Waifs from Monticello."
Publication: Lippincott's Magazine
Volume: 4
Date: (1869)
Extent: 205-07
Notes: Describes a few leaves from one of TJ's account books, claiming they illustrate his "particularity in manners of business" and his considerate attention to his slaves.



Reference: 403
Author: Ellett, Elizabeth F
Title: Jefferson's Administration
Publication: The Court Circles of the Republic, or the Beauties and Celebrities of the Nation: Illustrating Life and Society under Eighteen Presidents; Describing the Social Features of the Successive Administrations From Washington to Grant
Publisher: Hartford Publishing, Co.
Place of Publication: Hartford
Date: (1869)
Extent: 57-79
Notes: Comments on TJ's ladies and fashion in Washington, 1801-08.



Reference: 552
Author: Anonymous
Title: Historical Account of the Washington Monument in the Capitol Square, Richmond, Ve. With Biographical Sketches of Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, George Mason, Thomas Nelson, and Andrew Lewis: also a Brief Notice of the Houdon Statue of Washington
Publisher: W. A. R. Nye
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1869)
Extent: pp. 16
Notes: no note