Reference: 393
Author: E. E., ?
Title: "Interesting Letters from Jefferson and Jackson."
Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 2nd ser. 8
Date: (1870)
Extent: 50

Notes: Identifies a namesake of TJ, Thomas Jefferson Grotjan, to whom he wrote a letter later commented upon and approved of by Andrew Jackson.

Reference: 909
Author: Parker, Theodore
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Historic Americans
Publisher: H. B. Fuller
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1870)
Extent: 235-95

Notes: A lecture on TJ, never delivered. TJ "exhibited no spark of genius, nor any remarkable degree of original talent," but "His strength lay in his understanding the practical power." He was notable as a consistent opponent of slavery and as a believer in the common man.

Reference: 506
Author: Guernsey, A. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Family."
Publication: Harper's Monthly
Volume: 43
Date: (1871)
Extent: 366-80.

Notes: Review essay occasioned by Sarah Randolph's Domestic Life.

Reference: 999
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences
Publisher: Harper Bros
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1871)
Extent: pp. xiii, 432

Notes: The private Jefferson, by his great-granddaughter. Still useful, often reprinted.

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: 3382
Author: Anonymous
Title: "The Virginia State Capitol."
Publication: The Old Dominion
Volume: 5
Date: (1871)
Extent: 483-91

Notes: Touches on TJ as architect.

Reference: 80
Author: Baird, W.
Title: "The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences. By his Great-grandaughter, Sarah N. Randolph."
Publication: Southern Magazine
Volume: 10
Date: (1872)
Extent: 495-502

Notes: Review essay using the occasion to praise TJ for his efforts to resist the Federal usurpation of state's powers which had produced the recent difficulties.

Reference: 715
Author: Lossing, Benson J.
Title: "Jefferson Caricatured."
Publication: American Historical Record
Volume: 1
Date: (1872)
Extent: 63-66.

Notes: On a caricature of TJ putting the Constitution upon an "Altar to Gallic Despotism" after the disclosure of the Mazzei letter.

Reference: 910
Author: Parton, James
Title: "College Days of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 16-33

Notes: First of twenty-two installments later published in 1874 as The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Listed here in order of publication rather than alphabetically.

Reference: 911
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson a Student of Law."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 179-97

Notes: no note

Reference: 912
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson a Virginia Lawyer."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 312-31

Notes: no note

Reference: 913
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the House of Burgesses of Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 395-412

Notes: no note

Reference: 914
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the Service of Revolutionary Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 517-34

Notes: no note

Reference: 915
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson in the Continental Congress."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 29
Date: (1872)
Extent: 676-94

Notes: no note

Reference: 916
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson a Reformer of Old Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 32-49

Notes: no note

Reference: 917
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson Governor of Virginia."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 174-92

Notes: no note

Reference: 918
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Sore-Head."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 273-88

Notes: no note

Reference: 919
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson American Minister in France."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 405-24

Notes: no note

Reference: 920
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Jefferson's Return from France in 1789."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 547-65

Notes: no note

Reference: 921
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Meeting of Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 30
Date: (1872)
Extent: 704-19

Notes: no note

Reference: 2748
Author: De Vere, Maximilian Schele
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Pet."
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 44
Date: (1872)
Extent: 815-26

Notes: On TJ and the founding of the University.

Reference: 542
Author: Hemings, Madison
Title: "Life among the Lowly."
Publication: Pike County Republican
Place of Publication: (Waverly, Ohio)
Date: (1873)
Extent: 4

Notes: Rpt. in Brodie, Thomas Jefferson (1974), 471-76, as "Reminiscences of Madison Hemings." Supposedly the autobiography of one of Sally Heming's children. Handle with care.

Reference: 922
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Cabinet of President Washington."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 29-44

Notes: no note

Reference: 923
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Secretary of State."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 163-79

Notes: no note

Reference: 924
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Quarrel of Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 257-75

Notes: no note

Reference: 925
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Exploits of Edmond Genet in the United States."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 385-405

Notes: no note

Reference: 926
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Presidential Campaign of 1796."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 542-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 927
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The French Imbroglio of 1798."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 31
Date: (1873)
Extent: 641-60

Notes: no note

Reference: 928
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Presidential Election of 1800."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 27-45

Notes: no note

Reference: 929
Author: Parton, James
Title: "The Art of Being President Gathered from the Experience of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 129-48

Notes: no note

Reference: 930
Author: Parton, James
Title: "President Jefferson's Chief Measures."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 298-318

Notes: no note

Reference: 931
Author: Parton, James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Last Years."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 32
Date: (1873)
Extent: 393-412

Notes: no note

Reference: 1002
Author: Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
Title: The Last Days of Jefferson
Publication: Jeffersonian Print
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1873)
Extent: Broadside

Notes: Comments on James Parton's article in the Atlantic Monthly (#931 above); criticizes numerous inaccuracies in Edmund Bacon's reminiscences and defends Thomas Mann Randolph.

Reference: 1646
Author: Green, Benjamin E.
Title: Opinions of John C. Calhoun and Thomas Jefferson on the Subject of Paper Currency
Publisher: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1873)
Extent: pp. 26

Notes: no note

Reference: 2026
Author: Thompson, Lewis O.
Title: "The Administration of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Presidents and Their Administrations. A Handbook of Political Parties for Every Voter
Publisher: John W. Robinson
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1873)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 2115
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Old and New
Volume: 7
Date: (1873)
Extent: 135-37

Notes: Letter to the editor of the North American Review in 1830, taking exception to an article; despite his errors, "Mr. Jefferson had a mind. I did hope to see in the North American Review at least traces of a mind grappling with it."

Reference: 2412
Author: Poole, William Frederick
Title: Anti-Slavery Opinions Before the Year 1800 Read Before the Cincinnati Literary Club November 16, 18 Which is Appended a Fac Simile Reprint of Dr. George Buchanan's Oration on the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery
Publisher: Robert Clarke & Co.
Place of Publication: Cincinnati
Date: (1873)
Extent: pp. 82, 20

Notes: TJ's opinion of the evils of slavery quoted on pp. 25-41; Buchanan's oration was dedicated to TJ.

Reference: 2662
Author: Anonymous
Title: Catalogue of a Private Library, Comprising a Rich Assortment of Rare Standard Works, Many in Fine Bindings, ... Also the Remaining of the Late Thomas Jefferson ... the Whole to Be Sold by Auction at the Clinton Hall Sale Rooms. The Messers. Leavitt Auctioneers
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1873)
Extent: pp. 44

Notes: pp. 36-41 describe items once belonging to TJ and now offered by his grandson Francis Eppes; also for sale are ten letters.

Reference: 300
Author: Cooke, John Esten
Title: "Jefferson as a Lover."
Publication: Appleton's Journal
Volume: 12
Date: (1874)
Extent: 230-32.

Notes: Romanticized account of TJ in the Williamsburg days.

Reference: 932
Author: Parton, James
Title: Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
Publisher: James R. Osgood
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1874)
Extent: pp. vi, 764

Notes: An apologetic biography, the most important to appear between Randall's and Morse's.

Reference: 1058
Author: Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Premiers Lundis
Publisher: Michel Levy Freres
Place of Publication: Paris
Date: (1874)
Extent: 1:126-53

Notes: Review essay originally appearing February 4, 1833, on L. P. Conseil's Melanges ....

Reference: 1089
Author: Sheldon, F.
Title: "Parton's Life of Jefferson."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 118
Date: (1874)
Extent: 405-15

Notes: Review essay criticizing Parton for errors in taste and "painting his angel all white and his devil all black." Instead, TJ was a clever party manager who was an impractical visionary too often motivated by vanity and rhetoric.

Reference: 1233
Author: U.S. Senate: Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Title: Report to Accompany Joint Resolution S.R.6, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be Instructed to Consider the Expediency of Providing for the Protection of the Statue of Jefferson Now in the Open Air in the Grounds of the Executive Mansion, the Same Being a Work of Art by an Eminent French Sculptor
Publication: 43d Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 138 Senate Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1874)
Extent: 5

Notes: Gives interesting account of Uriah P. Levy's gift of 1834 and its subsequent history.

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: 2992
Author: Kirtland, Jared Potter, ed.
Title: Song of Jefferson and Liberty. By Robert Treat Paine. Also Song of Moll Carey. By Theodore Dwight. History and Notes by Jared P. Kirtland
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1874)
Extent: pp. 16

Notes: Gives words of both songs; Paine's song composed for the celebration at Wallingford, Conn. of TJ's first inaugural. Note describes the ceremony, claims the anniversary of the inauguration was celebrated in several towns in Connecticut for some years thereafter. Other song is anti-republican; Moll Carey was a notorious New York madam.

Reference: 140
Author: Bloss, George M. D.
Title: "Jefferson, the Second Vice-President and the Third President of the United States"
Publication: Historic and Literary Miscellany
Publisher: R. Clarke and Co.
Place of Publication: Cincinnati
Date: (1875)
Extent: pp. 62-67

Notes: Laudatory sketch.

Reference: 324
Author: Cutter, Abram E.
Title: "Edward Gibbons and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Volume: 29
Place of Publication: none given
Date: (1875)
Extent: 233-37

Notes: Traces a remote family connection.

Reference: 652
Author: Kingsley, W. V
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: National Quarterly Review
Volume: 30
Date: (1875)
Extent: 283-303

Notes: Systematically minimizes TJ's character and achievements; holds him responsible for the Civil War because the Declaration planted the seed of liberty.

Reference: 947
Author: Perkins, John L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1822."
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 4
Date: (1875)
Extent: 413-14

Notes: Prints a letter from each to the other, with minimal comment.

Reference: 1288
Author: Anonymous, none
Title: "Where Was the Declaration of Independence Written?"
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 4
Date: (1875)
Extent: 62-63

Notes: Editor's note commenting on disputed locations; replied to by Agnes Y. McAllister, pp. 223-25, who argues for the house on the southwest corner of Seventh and Market Streets.

Reference: 119
Author: Benson, Samuel P.
Title: "Origin of Article VIII., Literature in the Constitution of Maine."
Publication: Collections of the Maine Historical Society
Volume: 7
Date: (1876)
Extent: 239-42

Notes: Governor William King stated that TJ wrote "the substance if not the exact words" of the article on education in the Maine Constitution.

Reference: 303
Author: Cooke, John Esten
Title: "The Writer of the Declaration. A Familiar Sketch."
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 53
Date: (1876)
Extent: 211-16

Notes: Focus on the young TJ, much romanticized.

Reference: 729
Author: McCabe, James D
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Centennial Book of American Biography, Embracing the Biographies of the Great Men Whose Deeds Illustrate the First One Hundred Years of American Independence.
Publisher: P. W. Ziegler
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1876)
Extent: 145-77

Notes: no note

Reference: 856
Author: Morris, Nellie Hess
Title: "The Great Committee, and Its Great Chairman of the 'Masterly Pen'."
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 7
Date: (1876)
Extent: 17-22

Notes: Biographical sketch of members of the committee to write the Declaration.

Reference: 1193
Author: Ticknor, George
Title: Visit to Jefferson at Monticello
Publication: Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor
Publisher: James R. Osgood
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1876)
Extent: 1:34-38

Notes: Ticknor visited TJ on February 4-7, 1815, and sent a rather full account to his father, printed here.

Reference: 1544
Author: Davis, Thomas J.
Title: A Sketch of the Life, Character, and Public Services of Thomas Jefferson, with Some Account of the Aid He Rendered in Establishing Our Independence and Government
Publisher: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1876)
Extent: pp. 179

Notes: Despite the title, covers TJ only through the end of 1776; focuses on the writing of the Declaration and on TJ in the Continental Congress.

Reference: 1898
Author: Poole, William Frederick
Title: "Dr. Cutler and the Ordinance of 1787."
Publication: North American Review
Volume: 122
Date: (1876)
Extent: 235-39

Notes: TJ not the author of the Ordinance of 1787, although in 1784 he did bring forward the anti-slavery provision in the act of 1784.

Reference: 223
Author: Buttre, Lilian C.
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: American Portrait Gallery. With Biographical Sketches of Presidents, Statesmen,..
Publisher: J. C. Buttre
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1877)
Extent: 1:141-42

Notes: no note

Reference: 1000
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: "Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph"
Publication: Worthy Women of Our First Century, ed. Mrs. O. d. Wister and Miss Agnes Irwin
Publisher: Lippincott
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1877)
Extent: 9-70

Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha Jefferson Randolph.

Reference: 2001
Author: Springer, William M. and George Willard
Title: The Electoral Votes. Proceedings and Debates of Coneress Relatine to Counting the Electoral Votes for President and Vice-President of the United States
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1877)
Extent: 16-39

Notes: 44th Congress, 2nd Session. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 13. Materials relating to counting the electoral votes in the elections of 1800 and 1804.

Reference: 2552
Author: Barnard, Henry?
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: American Journal of Education
Volume: 27
Date: (1877)
Extent: 513-50

Notes: Memoir and survey of TJ's views on education and his work to further it.

Reference: 3210
Author: Raffensperger, Edwin B.
Title: "Who Killed the Logan Family?"
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 11
Date: (1878)
Extent: 187-93

Notes: Claims Michael Cresap did not kill Logan's family and that Logan could not have made the speech ascribed to him in TJ's Notes.