Reference: 313
Author: Craighill, Robert T
Title: The Virginia "Peerage," or Sketches of Virginians Distinguished in Virginia's History
Publisher: William Ellis Jones
Place of Publication: Richmond
Date: (1880)
Extent: 1:143-227.

Notes: Washington was the father of his country, but TJ was the "author of the Republic."

Reference: 1401
Author: Black, Chauncey F.
Title: A Contrast. Jefferson and Hamilton, Democracy and Federalism. 1800-1881. The Same Parties and the Same Principles. A Plain Question. Shall the People Rule or Shall They Be Ruled
Publisher: O. Stuck
Place of Publication: York, Pa.
Date: (1880?)
Extent: pp. 13

Notes: no note

Reference: 559
Author: Holloway, Laura C.
Title: "Martha Jefferson"
Publication: The Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents. Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to the Present Time: 1789-1881
Publisher: Bradley and Co.
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1881)
Extent: 126-70

Notes: Account of Martha Jefferson Randolph

Reference: 620
Author: Jones, Charles W.
Title: Jeffersonian Democracy. Address on the Life and Work of Thomas Jefferson, Delivered on the Occasion of the Celebration of the 138th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson by the Essex County Democratic Club, Newark, N.J.
Publisher: Thomas McGill & Co.
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1881)
Extent: pp. 11

Notes: no note

Reference: 1230
Author: U.S. President, Rutherford B. Hayes
Title: The Desk upon which Mr. Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Message from the President of the United States. Transmitting the desk upon which the Declaration of Independence Was Written, Accompanied by a letter from the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, presenting the same to the United States.
Publication: 46th Congress, 2nd Session
Volume: No. 75 House of Representatives Ex. Doc.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1881)
Extent: none given

Notes: no note

Reference: 1476
Author: Case, Lyman W.
Title: "'A Hater of Shams' Discourses about the Declaration of Independence."
Publisher: Truth Seeker
Volume: 8
Date: (1881)
Extent: 322-23

Notes: no note

Reference: 3072
Author: Martin, Henry Austin
Title: "Jefferson as a Vaccinator."
Publication: North Carolina Medical Journal
Volume: 7
Date: (1881)
Extent: 1-34

Notes: Pioneering article includes facsimiles of nine letters from TJ to Benjamin Waterhouse. TJ and Waterhouse were careful to propagate perfect vaccine, unlike some other early American vaccinators.

Reference: 1457
Author: Burr, William Henry
Title: The Declaration of Independence A Masterpiece But How It Got Mutilated!
Place of Publication: Washington?
Date: (1881?)
Extent: pp. 11

Notes: Argues for Tom Paine as the author of the Declaration.

Reference: 95
Author: Bartley, Thomas Welles
Title: The Address of T.W. Bartley, Before the Jefferson National Monumental Association. Delivered October 16, 1882.
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp.7

Notes: Call for a monument to TJ in Washington, DC

Reference: 998
Author: Randall, Samuel Jackson
Title: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna., Ninety-eighth Commencement
Publisher: George H. McCully & Co.
Place of Publication: n.p.
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp. 20

Notes: Laudatory biographical survey of TJ.

Reference: 1220
Author: U.S. Congress
Title: Proceedings Had in the Senate and House of Representatives, April 23, 1880, On the Occasion of the Presentation of Thomas Jefferson's Writing-Desk to the United States By the Heirs of the Late Joseph Coolidge, Jr.
Publication: 47th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 44 House of Rep. Misc. Document
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1882)
Extent: 37

Notes: no note

Reference: 1948
Author: Schouler, James
Title: "First Administration of Thomas Jefferson" and "Second Administration of Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution. Vol. II. 1801-1817
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1882)
Extent: 1-204

Notes: Balanced view of TJ and his administration; conceded the usual flaws, no "military instinct," dissimulation, etc. , he is still a philosophic statesman who had some great successes as president and at least one failure (the Embargo). Suggests that had he made a tour of New England while president, much of the mutual distrust might have subsided.

Reference: 2421
Author: Remsburg, John E.
Title: Jefferson an Unbeliever
Publisher: Published by the Author
Place of Publication: Atchison, Kan.
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp. 12

Notes: TJ as freethinker, anti-clerical and materialist.

Reference: 3276
Author: Shepherd, Henry E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Philologist."
Publication: American Journal of Philology
Volume: 3
Date: (1882)
Extent: 211-14

Notes: TJ as friend to neology.

Reference: 3359
Author: Tutwiler, Henry
Title: Address of H. Tutwiler, A.M., LL.D., of Alabama Before the Alumni Society of the University of Virginia, Thursday, June 29th, 1882
Publication: Chronicle Book and Job Office
Place of Publication: Charlottesville
Date: (1882)
Extent: pp. 14

Notes: An appeal not to change TJ's administrative structure of the Univ. and an argument for its wisdom.

Reference: 11
Author: Foster, W. E.
Title: "Jefferson's Administrations."
Publication: Providence Public Library Monthly Reference Lists
Volume: 3
Date: (1883)
Extent: 21-22

Notes: no note

Reference: 301
Author: Cooke, John Esten
Title: "Jefferson, The 'Apostle of Democracy"'
Publication: Virginia. A History of the People
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1883)
Extent: 405-09

Notes: Slight sketch.

Reference: 600
Author: Anonymous, none
Title: The Jefferson Monument. Correspondence Relating Thereto
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1883)
Extent: pp. 3.

Notes: Letters from James Rollins and Mary B. Randolph.

Reference: 859
Author: Morse, John T., Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1883)
Extent: pp.vi,351

Notes: In the American Statesmen Series; often reprinted, influential, and vigorously critical biography from a basically Federalist point of view.

Reference: 1031
Author: Robins, Elizabeth
Title: "The Old Jefferson House, Philadelphia."
Publication: Harper's Weekly
Volume: 27
Date: (1883)
Extent: 228

Notes: House at S. W. corner of Seventh and Market about to be razed; picture.

Reference: 1623
Author: Fuller, Melville W.
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: Dial
Volume: 4
Date: (1883)
Extent: 4-6

Notes: Review essay on Morse's Jefferson and Lodge's Hamilton; TJ and Hamilton are types of the two great parties, one believing in strict, the other in free construction of the constitution. Faults Morse's bias.

Reference: 1697
Author: Houghton, Walter R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Administrations"
Publication: History of American Politics (Non-Partisan) Embracing a History of the Federal Government and of Political Parties in the Colonies and United States from 1607-1882
Publisher: F. T. Neeley
Place of Publication: Indianapolis
Date: (1883)
Extent: 159-72

Notes: Republicanism becomes "responsible" once in power.

Reference: 1858
Author: Norcross, Jonathan
Title: The History of Democracy Considered as a Party Name and as a Political Organization
Publisher: Published for the Author by G. P. Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1883)
Extent: 65-78

Notes: Democrats are demagogues, dissolute and perpetually dissatisfied, but TJ was a Republican (GOP), "although he did many very naughty things that looked like Democratic deeds." Doubts that he wrote the "treasonable" Kentucky Resolutions.

Reference: 191
Author: Brooks, Erastus
Title: Address by Hon. Erastus Brooks. What True Democracy Means: as Illustrated in the Life and Character of Thomas Jefferson. Delivered Before the Jefferson Club of New Brighton, S.I.... Printed for Circulation on the Birthday Anniversary April 2, 1884.
Publication: Richmond County Democrat Steam Job Print
Place of Publication: Tompkinsville, NY
Date: (1884)
Extent: pp. 27

Notes: no note

Reference: 417
Author: Evans, Charles H.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Kings Without Crowns or Lives of American Presidents With a Sketch of the American Constitution
Publisher: William P. Nimmo
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date: (1884)
Extent: 65-90

Notes: Uncritical sketch

Reference: 550
Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth
Title: "The Early American Presidents."
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 68
Date: (1884)
Extent: 548-60

Notes: Historical sketch.

Reference: 1224
Author: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Pensions
Title: Report to Accompany bill H.R. 999, A Bill Granting a Pension to the Sole Surviving Grandchild of the Author of the Declaration of Independence
Publication: 48th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 38 House Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1884)
Extent: 3

Notes: Proposal to grant a pension to Septimia Randolph Meikleham

Reference: 1225
Author: U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Pensions
Title: Views of the Minority on H.R. No.999, Granting a Pension to Mrs. Septimia R. Meikleham, Only Surviving Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Jan. 22, 1884
Publication: 48th Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 38, Part 2 House of Representatives Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1884)
Extent: 3

Notes: Opposed to granting civil pensions as a matter of principle.

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: 1502
Author: Cooke, John Esten
Title: "The Virginia Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Magazine of American History
Volume: 11
Date: (1884)
Extent: 369-95

Notes: Points out the similarity between TJ's Declaration and George Mason's Declaration of Rights.

Reference: 1583
Author: Eggleston, George Cary
Title: "Our Twenty-One Presidents. 1. The First Ten : From Washington to Tyler."
Publication: Magazine of American History
Volume: 11
Date: (1884)
Extent: 89-109

Notes: TJ on pp. 96-99; "His administration stamped the country with that republican character which it had never really possessed before."

Reference: 2003
Author: Stanwood, Edward
Title: "Jefferson and Burr" and "Jefferson Re-elected"
Publication: A History of Presidential Elections
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1884)
Extent: 30-50

Notes: "This History ... professes to be little more than a record of the circumstances of such elections." A somewhat expanded account appears in his A History of the Presidency.

Reference: 1034
Author: Robinson, William E.
Title: Speech of Hon. William E. Robinson of New York, in the House of Representatives, Friday, March 14, 1884
Publisher: n.p.
Date: (1884?)
Extent: pp. 16

Notes: Points out that extremely generous pensions have been awarded to the widows of Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, and Garfield in the same year one was refused to TJ's last living grandchild.

Reference: 128
Author: Bigelow, John
Title: "Jefferson's Financial Diary."
Publication: Harper's Magazine
Volume: 70
Date: (1885)
Extent: 534-42

Notes: Detailed description with extracts from TJ's account book from 17911803.

Reference: 246
Author: Chamberlain, Mellen
Title: "The Authentication of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 2nd ser. 1
Date: (1885)
Extent: 273-98

Notes: The Declaration was not signed on the Fourth as Adams and TJ later remembered, but on August 2, or later in some cases

Reference: 251
Author: Chapman, Charles C
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Portraits and Biographies of the Governors of Illinois, and of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Chapman Brothers
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1885)
Extent: 27-32

Notes: no note

Reference: 593
Author: Anonymous, none
Title: "Jefferson and Madison."
Publication: Harper's Weekly
Volume: 29
Date: (1885)
Extent: 363

Notes: Describes the tombs of the two men.

Reference: 739
Author: Mackay, Charles
Title: The Founders of the American Republic, A History and Biography With a Supplementary Chapter on Ultra-Democracy
Publisher: Wm. Blackwood
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date: (1885)
Extent: 208-92

Notes: Positive view of TJ which shows him as more friendly to the British people and more opposed to slavery than he probably was in fact.

Reference: 1005
Author: Raynor, E. C.
Title: "Communication: Jefferson and John Leland."
Publication: Granite Monthly
Volume: 8
Date: (1885)
Extent: 240

Notes: Rejects the accusation that TJ paid Leland for the mammoth cheese.

Reference: 1102
Author: Simpson, Lloyd D.
Title: Notes on Thomas Jefferson, By a Citizen of Maryland
Publisher: Sherman & Co.
Place of Publication: Philadelphia
Date: (1885)
Extent: pp. 182

Notes: Analyzes TJ's character in order to prove that he more than anyone else has fostered "the restlessness, the self-assertion, the restiveness under parental control, the diminished reverence for all that is sacred and venerable," etc. which now exists among us.

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

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

Reference: 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: 1630
Author: Getchell, George H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Our Nation's Executives and Their Administrations
Publisher: Getchell and Fuller
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1885)
Extent: 40-48

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 3047
Author: Luther, Frederick N.
Title: "Jefferson as a Naturalist."
Publication: Magazine of American History
Volume: 13
Date: (1885)
Extent: 379-90

Notes: Survey of TJ's scientific interests.

Reference: 108
Author: Beard, Reed
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Brief Biographies of American Presidents, Embracing an Authentic Account of the Lives and Times of Our Presidents from the Ancestry of Washington to Cleveland's Administration.
Publisher: Spring, Emerson, and Co.
Place of Publication: Lafayette, Ind.
Date: (1886)
Extent: 102-42

Notes: no note

Reference: 1171
Author: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson as a Lawyer
Publication: The Columbia Jurist
Volume: 2
Date: (1886)
Extent: 479-80

Notes: Slight sketch

Reference: 1575
Author: Durrett, Reuben T.
Title: "The Resolutions of 1798 and 1799."
Publication: The Southern Bivouac
Volume: 4
Date: (1886)
Extent: 577-88, 658-64, 760-70

Notes: Claims the Kentucky Resolutions were the foundation of the Republican organization against the Federalists and the "broad platform of the great Democratic party." Discusses authorship, by TJ then amended by John Breckinridge.

Reference: 1703
Author: Irelan, John Robert
Title: History of the Life, Administration, and Times of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States
Publisher: Fairbanks and Palmer
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date: (1886)
Extent: pp. 541

Notes: Concludes that TJ's most positive accomplishment as president was to leave the Federalist structures in place; accepts most of the old Federalist charges against TJ as truthful, or mostly so.

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: 27
Author: Tompkins, Hamilton Bullock
Title: Bibliotheca Jeffersoniana: A List of Books Written by or Relating to Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1887)
Extent: pp. 187

Notes: no note

Reference: 121
Author: Bernard, John
Title: "Recollections of President Jefferson"
Publication: Retrospectives of America 1797-1811.
Publication: Harper
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1887)
Extent: 232-42

Notes: "His heart was warmed with a love for the whole human race; a bonhomie which fixed your attention the instant he spoke ... his conversational powers capable of discussing moral questions of deepest seriousness, or the lightest themes of humor and fantasy."

Reference: 854
Author: Morrill, Justin S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Self-Consciousness of Noted Persons
Publisher: Ticknor
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1887)
Extent: 24-26

Notes: By "self-consciousness" the author means self-praise; private edition published in 1882.

Reference: 883
Author: Nicolay, John G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Home."
Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 34
Date: (1887)
Extent: 643-53

Notes: The building of Monticello.

Reference: 1135
Author: Stockton, Frank R.
Title: "The Later Years of Monticello."
Publication: The Century Magazine
Volume: 34
Date: (1887)
Extent: 654-58

Notes: The fate of Monticello after TJ's death and its condition in 1887.

Reference: 1136
Author: Stoddard, William O.
Title: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: White, Stones, and Allen
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1887)
Extent: pp. viii, 358

Notes: TJ on pp. 175-358; focuses on years before TJ's presidency and takes his side.

Reference: 1731
Author: Kean, Robert G. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Legislator."
Publication: Virginia Law Journal
Volume: 11
Date: (1887)
Extent: 705-24

Notes: TJ's career as a legislator was both effective and forward looking; rpt. separately, Lynchburg, 1887. pp. 20.

Reference: 1833
Author: Merriam, J. M.
Title: "Jefferson's Use of the Executive Patronage."
Publication: American Historical Association Papers
Volume: 2
Date: (1887)
Extent: 47-52

Notes: Abstract of a delivered paper contending that TJ made far more removals than commonly believed, and he increasingly emphasized political opposition as a cause for removal.

Reference: 1915
Author: Randolph, Sarah N.
Title: The Kentucky Resolutions in a New Light
Publication: Nation
Volume: 44
Date: (1887)
Extent: 382-84

Notes: Role of TJ in promoting the Kentucky Resolutions by way of meetings with Wilson Cary Nicholas and the Breckinridges.

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: 2420
Author: Remsburg, John E.
Title: The Fathers of Our Republic: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin. A Lecture Delivered Before the Tenth Annual Congress of the American Secular Union, in Chickering Hall. New York, November 13, 1886
Publisher: J. P. Mendum
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1887)
Extent: pp. vi, 45

Notes: TJ as freethinker, the enemy of priestcraft, on pp. 13-22.

Reference: 2646
Author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
Title: "The Death of Jefferson"
Publication: Songs of History
Publisher: New England Publishing Co.
Place of Publication: Boston
Date: (1887)
Extent: none

Notes: no note

Reference: 3053
Author: MacDonald, William
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Tax on Knowledge."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 64
Date: (1887)
Extent: 298-99

Notes: TJ lobbied in 1821-24 for exemption from duties of all books and other articles generally used in acquiring information.

Reference: 1577
Author: E., none
Title: The Declaration of Independence. Thomas Paine the Author
Publisher: n. p
Date: (1887?)
Extent: pp.2

Notes: no note

Reference: 143
Author: Bolton, Sarah Knowles
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Famous American Statesmen
Publisher: Crowell
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1888)
Extent: 67-98

Notes: Chapter in a companion book to her Poor Boys Who Became Famous; often reprinted.

Reference: 1498
Author: Conway, Moncure Daniel
Title: "Randolph and Jefferson"
Publication: Omitted Chapters of History Disclosed in the Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph
Publisher: Putnam's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1888)
Extent: 187-210

Notes: Discusses the relationship between Randolph, Washington's Attorney General, and TJ; finds that in 16 out of 19 "party divisions" in the Cabinet Randolph voted with TJ.

Reference: 1653
Author: Halsey, J. J.
Title: "Nullification."
Publication: Dial
Volume: 8
Date: (1888)
Extent: 245-47

Notes: Review essay on Warfield's The Kentucky Resolution, taking issue with the contention that Breckinridge made radical changes to TJ's original proposal.

Reference: 2517
Author: Adams, Herbert B.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the University of Virginia
Publication: Bureau of Education Circular of Information
Volume: No. 1
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1888)
Extent: pp. 308

Notes: Extensive but unfocused study of TJ and the University.

Reference: 4
Author: Anonymous
Title: Classified List of Manuscripts, Books, Correspondence, Etc. of Thomas Jefferson, Offered by Purchase to the United States by Sarah N. Randolph.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Place of Publication: Washington
Date: (1889)
Extent: pp.5

Notes: Includes 3660 letters by TJ, manuscripts of the Farm Book, Garden,Book, book of cases, fee book, and much else.

Reference: 448
Author: Foley, John P.
Title: "Outdoor Life of the Presidents. No. 2. Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Outing
Volume: 13
Date: (1889)
Extent: 250-59

Notes: Sketch of TJ as horseman, gardener, natural historian.

Reference: 1111
Author: Smith, Helen Ainslie
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: One Hundred Famous Americans
Publisher: G. Routledge and Sons
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1889)
Extent: 68-73

Notes: no note

Reference: 1201
Author: Townsend, Virginia f.
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Our Presidents or the Lives of the Twenty-Three Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Worthington
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1889)
Extent: 59-102

Notes: "Of the first three Presidents Thomas Jefferson had, perhaps, the most lovable personality."

Reference: 1211
Author: Tuttle, Kate A.
Title: The First Bell and Clock of the University
Publication: University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 5
Date: (1889)
Extent: 111-13

Notes: TJ planned for the bell and clock

Reference: 1341
Author: Adams, Henry
Title: History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Scribner's
Place of Publication: New York
Date: (1889)
Extent: 2 vols. pp.446;456

Notes: This, along with the two volumes appearing in 1890 on TJ's second term, is a masterly account, one of the great works of American historiography, but it must be read carefully because of Adams' prejudices about TJ's character.

Reference: 2528
Author: Allen, E. A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Study of English."
Publication: Academy
Volume: 4
Date: (1889)
Extent: 1-10

Notes: TJ as a pioneer in urging the study of language upon philological principles.

Reference: 3351
Author: Trent, William P.
Title: English Culture in Virginia A Study of the Gilmer Letters and an Account of the English Professors Obtained by Jefferson for the University of Virginia
Publication: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Volume: 7th Ser. No. 5-6
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
Place of Publication: Baltimore
Date: (1889)
Extent: pp. 141

Notes: The development of the University idea and Francis Walker Gilmer's role as TJ's friend and agent. Interesting but outdated.

Reference: 2477
Author: Underwood, Benjamin Franklin
Title: Jefferson: The Free-Thinking Philosopher and Statesman; His Religious Views Presented from His Own Writings; His Views on Slavery, Religious Liberty and Other Subjects
Publisher: Times Print
Place of Publication: Seymour, Ind.
Date: (188?)
Extent: pp. 21

Notes: Contends that TJ was a theist, but he rejected the ideas of the Bible as an inspired book or Christianity as a revealed religion. His views were the same as those of Paine, and they were far in advance of those of his age.