Notes: Gift to Monticello of some of TJ's music books owned by a great-great-granddaughter.

Reference: 3117

Notes: Discusses TJ's architecture with perhaps more enthusiasm than scholarship. Numerous illustrations. Rpt. 1939, 1950.

Reference: 2799

Notes: Useful introduction studies relationship between TJ and DuPont de Nemours and their shared interests.

Reference: 260

Notes: Contends the differences between TJ and the Physiocrats concerning economic ideas were greater than the similarities.

Reference: 2177

Notes: Has sketches on TJ and "How Jack Jouett Saved Thomas Jefferson"

Reference: 404

Notes: An address on the anniversary of TJ's birth; TJ was an antimonopolist and opposed the concentration of economic power.

Reference: 1591

Notes: Rather superficial; revised ed. 1950.

Reference: 3079

Notes: Celebrates the Supreme Court decision of 1931, Near vs. State of Minnesota, as a confirmation of TJ's principles.

Reference: 1793

Notes: Argues that TJ was "among the foremost advocates of appropriate and progressive education for all, and of that cornerstone of democracy, the American public school." Still standard, but can be usefully supplemented. Rpt. in New York: Russell and Russell, 1964.

Reference: 2887

Notes: Account of the relationship between TJ and daughter Maria Jefferson Eppes.

Reference: 773

Notes: TJ in 1783 worked for the decimalization of coinage and later proposed similar rationalizations for all weights and measures. Although Congress took no action on this, he continued to promote the idea in his correspondence.

Reference: 2870

Notes: TJ's wedding gift to Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 725

Notes: Contends that by nature TJ was a private person deeply attached to his family.

Reference: 727

Notes: Describes the mastodon jawbones at the Univ. of Virginia which were given by TJ.

Reference: 2885

Notes: In the Builders of America Series; sentimental and uncritical.

Reference: 1119

Notes: The phrase is in fact TJ's and fit his conception of foreign policy, even though Washington gets credit.

Reference: 1914

Notes: Account of ceremonies and the speeches of Claude G. Bowers and James M. Beck.

Reference: 967

Notes: Prints a letter of TJ's dated July 3, 1801, and uses it as text for a defense of freedom of speech and religious freedom.

Reference: 2409

Notes: Focus is on historical background rather than on the Act or its passage per se.

Reference: 1903

Reference: 2456

Notes: Prints with notes address from Virginia General Assembly.

Reference: 1844

Notes: A policy of American neutrality cannot be credited to TJ alone, but this study argues that his efforts were indispensable in laying down a policy so truly impartial as that of the U.S. in 1793.

Reference: 2020

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

Reference: 2069

Reference: 347

Notes: Contends H. L. Mencken, Vachel Lindsay, E. L. Masters, et. al. are passe because their version of the "heritage of the sage of Monticello" is "spiritually bankrupt."

Reference: 2839

Notes: Description

Reference: 2821

Notes: What TJ was, including a farmer.

Reference: 670

Notes: TJ liked wine but disapproved of hard liquor.

Reference: 740

Reference: 3042

Notes: Discusses the antagonism of TJ and Marshall.

Reference: 1651

Notes: See also pp. 23-26; slight.

Reference: 2268

Notes: Describes TJ's interest in mathematics; he was more interested in application than in theory. Also printed separately and in Smith's The Poetry of Mathematics and Other Essays. New York: Scripta Mathematica, 1934. 49-70.

Reference: 3292

Notes: Review essay emphasizes TJ as a southern thinker and contends his "whole national outlook changed after the Missouri controversy."

Reference: 2391

Reference: 1963

Notes: TJ courts Rebecca Burwell and Martha Wayles Skelton.

Reference: 1106

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 1053

Notes: Review essay of book by I. T. Frary criticizes the underemphasis on TJ's European models.

Reference: 3241

Reference: 1056

Notes: Competent survey.

Reference: 3206

Notes: Organized thematically; compares opinions of Washington, TJ, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and Wilson.

Reference: 1982

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

Reference: 2499

Notes: TJ's inventions.

Reference: 3414

Notes: Adams and TJ were part of the oligarchic class, "A little group of privileged and public-spirited men" which occupied the presidency during the first fifty years of the nation's existence. The election of 1800 was no revolution; "in fact, there was no important change."

Reference: 1350

Notes: TJ's life in ballad form.

Reference: 2578

Notes: Tablet erected in Wales honoring TJ because of his Welsh ancestry.

Reference: 1180

Notes: Argues that TJ was not a deist or atheist despite attacks on him; he believed in the "over ruling providence of God" and in religious freedom.

Reference: 2251

Notes: Contends that the expedition was not intended with an eye to eventual acquisition of further territory.

Reference: 1649

Notes: Covers TJ's musicianship and interest in technological improvements, e.g. the metronome, Hopkinson's harpsichord improvements, etc.

Reference: 2816

Notes: Account of TJ's interest in good cooking and good wines; one of the better efforts in this line.

Reference: 2978

Notes: Unveiling of a memorial tablet for TJ in Glyceiriog.

Reference: 555

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 2862

Notes: "the times require a Jeffersonian Hamilton or a Hamiltonian Jefferson..." FDR is no strict Jeffersonian, but TJ would probably "bestow his apostolic blessing ... as the new President buckles on his Hamiltonian sword."

Reference: 757

Notes: Malone on TJ in a nutshell.

Reference: 777

Notes: Discusses TJ's connections with Italy: Mazzei, Carlos Bellini, and his trip there in 1787.

Reference: 673

Notes: Ticknor visited TJ at Monticello, discussed books and education with him. "Through achievements at the University of Virginia, which was the idol of his old age, Jefferson inspired young Ticknor in his efforts for reforms at Harvard, especially in the direction of elective studies."

Reference: 3044

Notes: Reconciles TJ's political theories with "communism" if not necessarily with Marxism.

Reference: 2396

Reference: 881

Notes: TJ, "a muddled mischief-maker," is responsible for almost everything the author dislikes about the U.S.

Reference: 1889

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

Reference: 2482

Notes: Rejects the Bellarmine influence on the Declaration theory because of TJ's prejudices against Jesuits.

Reference: 2512

Notes: Note on TJ's inventions; cellophane (not invented by him! ), used now to protect bedcovers.

Reference: 2667

Reference: 1454

Notes: Marble bust acquired from the heirs of Destutt de Tracy; see also similar report in Art Digest. 9(November 1, 1934), 10.

Reference: 2602

Notes: Promotional pamphlet linking TJ to national expansion and St. Louis in order to justify the monument there.

Reference: 589

Notes: On the museum's 5 Houdons, including the recently acquired bust of TJ.

Reference: 3199

Notes: Mistakenly calls TJ the architect of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, Kentucky, but the ascription rests only on family tradition. Illustrated.

Reference: 2542

Notes: If TJ is the "especial hierophant of the natural rights of man," natural rights as a theoretical basis of democracy were undermined by Bentham by the time TJ died, even though Jeffersonianism is compatible with utilitarianism

Reference: 244

Notes: Sketchy

Reference: 247

Notes: Ph.D. dissertation abstract; claims TJ believed in equality of moral responsibility and moral action and in the equality of participants in the social contract but not in racial equality nor in equality of mind and character. Considers the implication of this for American institutions.

Reference: 2184

Notes: The U.S. should return to TJ's policy of automatically recognizing whatever government comes to power in a foreign country, regardless of its security of tenure.

Reference: 1475

Notes: TJ's success was an accident of history and luck; he is overrated as an architect and did not practice the simple life he is believed to have preached.

Reference: 2764

Notes: TJ set the example for the inauguration of subsequent vice-presidents. Discussion of the elections of 1796 and 1800 on pp. I 20-33.

Reference: 1668

Reference: 3001

Reference: 2275

Notes: Identifies Boyle as painter of a portrait previously ascribed to Rembrandt Peale.

Reference: 2911

Reference: 586

Notes: Laudatory biographical address.

Reference: 1084

Notes: TJ's library described, 346-51.

Reference: 3236

Notes: Describes and quotes from letters by TJ and Adams commenting on a passage from Theognis of Megara on breeding.

Reference: 3170

Notes: As early as August 1822 TJ began advocating an American system; influenced by the writings of the Abbe Pradt, he developed the idea in letters with the Abbe Correa and James Monroe. TJ "more than any other individual was responsible for the basic doctrine of Monroe's message of 1823."

Reference: 1946

Notes: Rather one-sided view of TJ as an opponent of slavery.

Reference: 2364

Notes: Traces two strains of thought in TJ, "one theoretical or philosophical, the other more strictly legal."

Reference: 2415

Notes: TJ's legal and historical studies led him to the conclusion that the union of church and state was politically unsound.

Reference: 2377

Notes: Hamilton defended against Jeffersonian aspersions; neither TJ nor Franklin Roosevelt see the American situation as clearly as Hamilton did in his emphasis on "centralized sovereignty" in politics and economics.

Reference: 836

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

Reference: 3420

Reference: 1994

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: 2497

Notes: Note on TJ's interest in Indian Languages and the loss of his vocabularies.

Reference: 2920

Reference: 2546

Notes: Rpt. in The Territorial Delegate to Congress and Other Essays. Ann Arbor: G. Wahr, 1950. Anecdotes from William Plumer's diary, including dining at the White House with TJ.

Reference: 1443

Notes: Priestley found in TJ his most agreeable contact among the leaders of the American Revolution.

Reference: 2626

Notes: "A towering monument symbolizing the spirit of Jefferson and the ideal of American democracy, arresting the eye of visitors from afar, a sign of the forward look of the people of St. Louis."

Reference: 988

Notes: Maps the Democratic Party's repudiation of the radical, democratic ideas of TJ, chiefly in terms of speeches in Congress. Sees slavery as the key issue.

Reference: 1384

Notes: Sketch

Reference: 2556

Notes: Argues that conservative appeals to TJ's authority against the New Deal are mistaken in their understanding of him.

Reference: 107

Notes: Breezy analysis of the failure to build a Jeffersonian, i.e. egalitarian, state upon a Hamiltonian system of finance.

Reference: 1349

Notes: The Jeffersonian demand for freedom of speech is crucial for the protection and advancement of science, especially at a time when politicians are attempting to direct and dictate the course of science.

Reference: 2605

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 2800

Notes: Account of TJ's excavation of an Indian mound.

Reference: 2801

Notes: Thoughtful discussion, claiming TJ's democratic individualism can be preserved and strengthened by more emphasis on governmental authority; a New Deal defense.

Reference: 1638

Notes: Prints without comment Macaulay's letter to Henry S. Randall, stating, "I cannot reckon Jefferson among the benefactors of mankind."

Reference: 728

Notes: Describes collections in the St. Louis Jefferson Memorial.

Reference: 653

Notes: "... long before 1803 Thomas Jefferson was the primary statesman in the United States' struggle for unrestricted use of the greatest river system on the continent, and ... he followed for a number of years a systematic policy to attain this national good."

Reference: 1678

Notes: A letter from TJ to Robert Livingston, minister at Paris, shows his determination and skill in diplomatic moves to obtain Louisiana, despite Henry Adams' claims to the contrary.

Reference: 1803

Notes: Brief introduction and extensive notes; letters deal with foreign affairs and political matters for the most part.

Reference: 745

Notes: Sketch of TJ's interests in mammoths and the megalonyx.

Reference: 3156

Notes: TJ's letter of June 24, 1826 to Roger C. Weightman draws upon Richard Rumbold's dying speech quoted in Burnet's History of His Own Times.

Reference: 2416

Notes: Also New York: Liveright, 1936. pp. xi, 128. An attempt to establish the fundamental likenesses of TJ and Mussolini; a bit of Poundian special pleading that has convinced no one. American edition contains an additional letter from Pound.

Reference: 1899

Reference: 3388

Notes: TJ was a good master who favored emancipation.

Reference: 1145

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: 2500

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: 2061

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: 1332

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: 2498

Reference: 33

Notes: Limited edition promotional brochure which includes a drawing of the proposed memorial, a grandiose project looking as if it had been a project of Albert Speer. They settled for the Gateway Arch.

Reference: 590

Notes: TJ was, and still is, the greatest and most influential American exponent of both Liberalism and Americanism." Goes on to define TJ's liberalism, follow its progress through American history, and call for a great liberal leader in the 1930's, since FDR took a Hamiltonian turn.

Reference: 45

Notes: TJ's presidency which "marked the consolidation of the triumph of democracy."

Reference: 1414

Notes: On the rough draft of the Declaration and TJ's authorship.

Reference: 1380

Notes: Brief remarks from Franklin D. Roosevelt, Carter Glass, George C. Perry

Reference: 1161

Notes: On the rediscovery of Ribera's Penitent Magdalen which TJ purchased from the St. Severin collection in 1785.

Reference: 3338

Notes: Explaining to a British audience why American politicians of different persuasions all appeal to the authority of TJ.

Reference: 187

Notes: Brief sketch, rpt. in Revolution to Reconstruction. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. 85-133.

Reference: 201

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 206

Notes: The Beard thesis popularized and applied to the development of corporations. TJ opposed to "monopolies," i.e. corporations, and thus he should not be co-opted by conservative politicians of 1936. TJ believed in strict construction, among other reasons, because of fears of the U. S. Bank's potential ability to drain the earnings of agriculture.

Reference: 1386

Reference: 310

Notes: Explores the background of TJ's famous phrase; useful.

Reference: 2243

Notes: A letter from the ghost of TJ with advice on the political and social issues of 1936. Author draws from TJ's writings to form a pastiche.

Reference: 1472

Notes: Collection of short notes on TJ's character.

Reference: 306

Notes: Covers TJ's plans for a Virginia school system; its weakness was its failure to provide for general supervision or leadership.

Reference: 2728

Notes: Offers a nearly complete record of the correspondence on vaccination between TJ and Waterhouse, the first American physician to recognize the significance of Edward Jenner's discovery. In 1800 TJ successfully planted cowpox at Monticello and was distributing vaccination matter.

Reference: 2851

Reference: 2291

Notes: TJ as a reproach to Hitler and the Nazis; urges Olympic athletes to turn their backs on the Swastika.

Reference: 2322

Notes: Claims Freneau "made no editorial bargain with Jefferson, but had founded his paper independently, his interest in the translator's office and Jefferson being only incidental to his main purpose."

Reference: 789

Notes: Conservative's lament; the New Deal has "violated all your principles."

Reference: 564

Notes: Brief account of the rise of the party system behind TJ and Hamilton; criticizes Claude Bowers for partisanship.

Reference: 1967

Reference: 3231

Notes: Studies the assassination of TJ's character by his political enemies, particularly during his presidency.

Reference: 825

Notes: Brief account of the creation of the Univ. of Virginia as a democratic institution.

Reference: 3265

Notes: Jefferson, Lenin and Socrates in after dinner conversation.

Reference: 2433

Notes: Argues that through control of the courts the Hamiltonians have subverted TJ's vision of liberty, i.e. state rights, strict construction, and laissez faire; claims the Fourteenth Amendment is a plutocratic instrument.

Reference: 1866

Notes: Conjuration of the figures of TJ and Lincoln to guard against some uncertain danger; New Deal? Plutocrats? Confused.

Reference: 994

Notes: Sketch and short bibliography.

Reference: 2063

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

Reference: 1266

Notes: Descriptive account of the Garden Book.

Reference: 3356

Notes: Good account of the controversy over John Russell Pope's design for the Memorial; illustrated.

Reference: 2924

Notes: Letter protesting the design.

Reference: 3014

Notes: TJ was not the father of the land-grant college, "but he was its prophet."

Reference: 2640

Notes: Covers TJ's attacks on the court and Marbury vs. Madison as a general background for FDR's difficulties with the court.

Reference: 1998

Notes: Brief account of the controversy over the Memorial design and the architect, John Russell Pope.

Reference: 3089

Notes: Full account of the dispute over the Jefferson Memorial.

Reference: 2559

Notes: Mildly critical of the proposed design; illustrated.

Reference: 2919

Notes: Extracts from original material discussing farming.

Reference: 2771

Reference: 2654

Notes: Also in Congressional Record of May 3, 1937. The New Deal version of TJ's opposition to courts.

Reference: 1592

Notes: Architectural and historical bits for potential tourists.

Reference: 2826

Notes: Compares the grandiosity of the proposed Memorial to TJ's "almost Spartan simplicity;" explains how Pope got the commission.

Reference: 2675

Notes: On TJ's political ideas; he was the "father of Populism," but he also "initiated the great American custom of driving the money changers out of the temple and inviting them home to lunch."

Reference: 2271

Notes: Criticizes classicism of the Jefferson Memorial and other official buildings.

Reference: 3028

Reference: 2939

Notes: Federalist view of the Chase impeachment effort and of Marbury vs. Madison.

Reference: 1704

Reference: 1790

Notes: Argues that the TJ Memorial has called into question the doctrinaire neo-classicism of Washington, D.C. Since TJ's own architecture was committed to his time, we should be committed to ours and consider the plan of Le Corbusier.

Reference: 2904

Notes: Letter protesting the proposed memorial in Washington: "it should be democratic architecture of today, not imperial pomp."

Reference: 3077

Notes: TJ himself was a progressive architect; on the Memorial design.

Reference: 2902

Notes: A suite of six poems on TJ and Monticello.

Reference: 3019

Reference: 3198

Reference: 818

Notes: Introduction identifies Brown as a Virginian gone West who carried on a long correspondence with TJ; annotated.

Reference: 894

Library Committee
Title: Site for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial; Hearing...on H.J. Res. 337

Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1937
Pages: 129

Notes: Defenders of cherry blossoms speak out.

Reference: 1223

1937

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Name: 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
Pages: 338-46

Notes: Eulogistic portrait of TJ as archetypical progressive.

Reference: 3385

1938

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Name: Bishop , H. O.
Title: "Twenty Minutes with Jefferson."

Publication: National Republic
Volume: 25
Date: 1938
Pages: 1-2, 16

Notes: TJ gives a lesson in Americanism.

Reference: 136

1938

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Name: Adams , Randolph G.
Title: "Notes and Queries."

Publication: Colophon
Volume: n.s. 3
Date: 1938
Pages: 134-39

Notes: Contains 7 bibliographic notes on TJ, his papers, and Notes

Reference: 1

1938

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "What Next, Mr. Jefferson?"

Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 31
Date: 1938
Pages: 301

Notes: On the Jefferson Memorial controversy.

Reference: 3409

1938

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "Guests and Gadgets."

Publication: Christian Science Monitor Magazine
Date: 1938
Pages: 15

Notes: Monticello inventions.

Reference: 2844

1938

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Name: Agar , Herbert
Title: Pursuit of Happiness: The Story of American Democracy

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. 387

Notes: First 3 chapters (1-103) on TJ und his development of democratic principles and on the beginning of the Democratic party during his presidency.

Reference: 1351

1938

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Name: Anonymous
Title: A Selection of Original Plans and Drawings by Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Huntington Library
City: San Marino, Cal.
Date: 1938
Pages: unpag.

Notes: An exhibit arranged for a visit of the Southern California chapter of the American Institute of Architects at the Huntington Library. Preface by William McCay; notes.

Reference: 3264

1938

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Name: Broun , Heywood
Title: "Shades of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 95
Date: 1938
Pages: 305

Notes: It is less preposterous for Earl Browder and the Communist Party to claim TJ as comrade than it is for the extreme right to claim him as one of their own.

Reference: 1439

1938

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Name: Churchill , Henry S.
Title: "The Jefferson Memorial."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 96
Date: (1938)
Pages: 20

Notes: Letter to the Editor protesting the proposed Jefferson Memorial design.

Reference: 2684

1938

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Name: Eastman , Fred.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Men of Power: Sixty Minute Biographies
Publisher: Cokesbury Press
City: Nashville
Date: 1938
Pages: 1:9-50.

Reference: 397

1938

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Name: Crabites , Pierre
Title: "President Roosevelt, Jefferson and the South."

Publication: Catholic World
Volume: 146
Date: (1938)
Pages: 405-11

Notes: Contends that FDR in extending federal authority is following TJ's example and that the South from the beginning of the country has in fact favored such extension.

Reference: 1512

1938

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Name: Dumbauld , Edward
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Pennsylvania."

Publication: Pennsylvania History
Volume: 5
Date: (1938)
Pages: 157-65

Notes: Biographical conjunctions.

Reference: 385

1938

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Name: Davis , Richard Beale
Title: "Forgotten Scientists in Old Virginia."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 46
Date: (1938)
Pages: 97-111

Notes: TJ introduced Francis Walker Gilmer to the Abb'e Corea and encouraged interest in science in Virginia after 1800.

Reference: 2739

1938

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Name: Lancaster , Dabney S.
Title: "The Influence of Thomas Jefferson on Modern Education."

Publication: Bulletin of Sweet Briar College
Volume: 21
Date: 1938
Pages: 11-20

Notes: TJ advocated practical subjects, the elective system, use of original authors, and a broad system of public education.

Reference: 3008

1938

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Name: Hart , Andrew De Jarnette, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Influence on the Foundation of Medical Instruction at the University of Virginia."

Publication: Annals of Medical History
Volume: n.s. 10
Date: (1938)
Pages: 47-60

Notes: Discusses TJ's work for the University, particularly in terms of his search for a medical professor. He projected a broad training in fundamentals rather than in a narrowly practical course.

Reference: 2857

1938

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Name: Kerchendorfer , Paul R.
Title: "Jefferson's 'Writing Box,' Officially the Declaration Box."

Publication: National Historical Magazine (formerly D.A.R. Magazine).
Volume: 72
Date: 1938
Pages: 12-15

Reference: 637

1938

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Name: McGirr , Newman E.
Title: "Notes on Thomas Jefferson and the National Library."

Publication: D.C. Libraries
Volume: 9
Date: 1938
Pages: 27-28

Reference: 3056

1938

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Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Jefferson Memorial."

Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 31
Date: (1938)
Pages: 315-18

Notes: On the controversy over the design.

Reference: 2963

1938

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Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Cook Book

Publisher: Garrett and Massie
City: Richmond
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. 111

Notes: Introduction on TJ and cooking; recipes and notes from a mss. in the Massachusetts Historical Society as well as recipes from the book of Virginia Randolph Trist, TJ's granddaughter. Rpt. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1976. pp. vii, 120.

Reference: 2987

1938

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Name: Haskell , Douglas
Title: "Hamilton Captures Jefferson."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 147
Date: (1938)
Pages: 674

Notes: "Lets not have an Andy Mellon memorial to the great Jefferson." Blames Mellon for picking John Russell Pope as architect of the Memorial.

Reference: 2859

1938

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Name: Pettengill , Samuel B.
Title: Jefferson, The Forgotten Man

Publisher: America's Futures Inc.
City: New York
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. xvii, 249

Notes: An anti-New Deal TJ by a Democratic congressman who felt the New Deal of 1932 was "essentially Jeffersonian" but had moved away "to the principles of centralized government." Focus is on the New Deal, not TJ.

Reference: 966

1938

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Name: Pound , Ezra
Title: "The Jefferson-Adams Correspondence."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 244
Date: (1938)
Pages: 314-24

Notes: Admittedly random notes discussing TJ in relation to the Mediterranean paideuma, money, Flaubert, etc. in support of the claim that TJ and Adams were civilized men in a civilized world. rpt. in Pound, Selected Prose, 1909-1965. New York: New Directions, 1973. 147-58, as "The Jefferson-Adams Letters as a Shrine and a Monument."

Reference: 978

1938

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Name: Moley , Raymond
Title: "The Wisdom of a Ghost."

Publication: Newsweek
Volume: 12
Date: 1938
Pages: 44

Notes: TJ knew how to build a party, but the Democrats of 1938 fail to heed his example.

Reference: 1842

1938

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Name: Setzler , Edwin Boinest, Edwin Lake Setzler, and Hubert Holland Setzler
Title: The Jefferson Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Reader

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. xiv, 198

Notes: "The present text is an attempt—a belated attempt, it is true—to write the type of Anglo-Saxon grammar which Jefferson said should be prepared.

Reference: 3268

1938

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Name: 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
Pages: 348-49, 372-74

Notes: Reviews the controversy.

Reference: 3413

1938

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Name: Williams , Morley Jeffers
Title: "A Site for a Memorial."

Publication: Magazine of Art
Volume: 31
Date: (1938)
Pages: 268-70

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

Reference: 3421

1938

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Name: Williams , Edna Glenn
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and the Negro."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Howard Univ.
Date: 1938
Pages: none given

Reference: 2085

1938

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Name: Van Ward , Roland
Title: "The Geological and Geographical Writings of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: M.S. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1938
Pages: pp. 219

Reference: 3371

1938

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Name: Stenberg , Richard R.
Title: "The Jefferson Birthday Dinner, 1830."

Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 4
Date: (1938)
Pages: 334-45

Notes: Does not discuss use of TJ by either the Jacksonians or Calhounians.

Reference: 1130

1938

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Name: Stowe , William McF.
Title: "The Influence of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic Principles Upon Abraham Lincoln's Thinking on the Question of Slavery."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Boston Univ.
City: Boston
Date: 1938
Pages: none given

Reference: 2466

1939

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Name: Anonymous
Title: Jefferson Memorial Woes: Strike is Latest in the Series of Rows Harassing Project

Publication: Newsweek
Volume: 14
Date: 1939
Pages: 22

Reference: 599

1939

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "Living Faces."

Publication: Saturday Evening Post
Volume: 211
Date: 1939
Pages: 24

Notes: On the J. H. I. Browere life mask.

Reference: 3040

1939

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Name: Dauer , Manning J
Title: "The Two John Nicholases, Their Relationship to Washington and Jefferson."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 45
Date: (1939)
Pages: 338-53.

Notes: Historians have not always distinguished between John Nicholas, the Republican member of Congress from 1793-1801, and John Nicholas of Albemarle, Federalist and long time clerk of the county court. The latter Nicholas exposed the Langhorne forgery to Washington, but ascribed it to TJ instead of its real author, Peter Carr.

Reference: 339

1939

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Name: Garwood , Wilmer St. John
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Su Vida y Su Obra

Publisher: Instituto Cultural Argentina-Norteamericano
City: Buenos Aires
Date: 1939
Pages: none given

Notes: Pamphlet explaining the American way.

Reference: 473

1939

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Name: Grigg , Milton L.
Title: "Restoration of Thomas Jefferson's Gardens at Monticello;"

Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 6
Date: 1939
Pages: 11-12

Notes: TJ's ideas about gardens and attempts to realize them at Monticello.

Reference: 2841

1939

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Name: Friederech , Werner P
Title: Der Philosoph der Revolution: Thomas Jefferson

Publication: Werden und Wachsen der U.S.A. in 300 Jahren
Publisher: A Francke
City: Bern
Date: 1939
Pages: 48-54

Reference: 460

1939

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Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "Jefferson in Paris."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 248
Date: (1939)
Pages: 73-86

Notes: On TJ's social life.

Reference: 646

1939

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Name: Jones , Anna C.
Title: "Antlers for Jefferson."

Publication: New England Quarterly
Volume: 12
Date: (1939)
Pages: 333-48

Notes: John Sullivan, governor of New Hampshire, gets a moose skin for TJ to present to Buffon in 1787; fullest article on this.

Reference: 2937

1939

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Name: Hudnut , Joseph
Title: "Temple for Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: 98
Date: (1939)
Pages: 190-91

Notes: Criticizes the Jefferson Memorial for its pompously pretentious architecture.

Reference: 2903

1939

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Name: Oliver , John William
Title: "Science and the 'Founding Fathers."'

Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 48
Date: (1939)
Pages: 256-60

Notes: Discusses TJ and the patent office; he originally examined every patent application himself.

Reference: 3144

1939

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Name: Rosenberg , Arthur
Title: "Robespierre and Jefferson"

Publication: Democracy and Socialism, A Contribution to the Political History of the Past 150 Years
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1939
Pages: 10-21

Notes: Both Robespierre's and TJ's revolutions failed because of the "bourgeois-capitalistic spirit of the age" and because of the leaders' failure to understand "the actual social processes of their time."

Reference: 1934

1939

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Name: Monsell , Helen Albee
Title: Tom Jefferson: A Boy in Colonial Days

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: New York
Date: 1939
Pages: pp. 168

Notes: Juvenile biography in the Childhood of Famous Americans Series. Often reprinted.

Reference: 839

1939

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Name: Schachner , Nathan
Title: "Jefferson: A Slippery Politician."

Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 46
Date: (1939)
Pages: 49-55

Notes: Politicians of every stripe quote him because "Jefferson was the most inconsistent of men."

Reference: 1944

1939

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Name: Padover , Saul K.
Title: "Introduction"

Publication: Democracy By Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton-Century
City: New York
Date: 1939
Pages: 1-20

Notes: TJ's thoughts on democracy are based on his belief in personal liberty.

Reference: 2392

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Name: Birdwell , A. W.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Author of American Liberty.

Publisher: Star Engraving Co.
City: Houston
Date: 194?
Pages: pp. 14

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 134

1940

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Architect."

Publication: American Society Legion of Honor Magazine
Volume: 11
Date: (1940)
Pages: 187-89

Notes: An appreciation of TJ's taste; superficial.

Reference: 3330

1940

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Name: Antrim , Doron K.
Title: "Our Musical Presidents."

Publication: Etude
Volume: 58
Date: 1940
Pages: 299, 337, 349

Notes: Insignificant and poorly informed.

Reference: 70

1940

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson Letter on Third Term."

Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 45
Date: 1940
Pages: 25

Notes: Reports sale and quotes in part from an autograph letter of January 10, 1804, to the North Carolina Assembly in which he rejects the notion of a third term.

Reference: 1710

1940

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Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson Edits the Bible."

Publication: Time
Volume: 36
Date: 1940
Pages: 70-71

Notes: Brief comments on The Life and Morals of Jesus.

Reference: 2297

1940

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Name: Baugh , Albert C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Linguistic Liberal"

Publication: Studies for William A. Read; A Miscellany Presented by Some of His Colleagues and Friends, eds. Nathaniel M. Caffee and Thomas A. Kirby
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
City: University, La.
Date: 1940
Pages: 88-108

Notes: Surveys TJ's interest in Old English and in the history of the language; contends his liberalism consisted of trust in usage rather than grammatic rules and a belief in the continuity of the development of English.

Reference: 2561

1940

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Name: Dewey , John, ed.
Title: The Living Thoughts of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Longmans
City: New York
Date: 1940
Pages: pp. 173.

Notes: Selections from TJ with a thirty page introduction by Dewey, who presents him as an intellectual committed to action and as a private man with a public life.

Reference: 355

1940

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Name: Corbin , John
Title: "Toward the Revolution of 1800" and "Power Politics"

Publication: Two Frontiers of Freedom
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1940
Pages: 193-220

Notes: Claims that the contemporary crisis is reducible to the competing claims of liberty and social order under legal authority and the resolution lies in understanding the creation and development of the U.S. and a democratic republic. These chapters focus on the TJ / Hamilton rivalry, presenting TJ as a champion of liberty that undermines itself when taken to extremes.

Reference: 1507

1940

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Name: Devries , Julian
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Lives of the Presidents
Publisher: World
City: Cleveland
Date: 1940
Pages: 33-53.

Reference: 354

1940-41

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Name: Cappon , Lester J
Title: "A Postscript from Monticello, July 4, 1826."

Publication: Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society
Volume: 1
Date: 1940-41
Pages: 25-30

Notes: A report from TJ's death bed.

Reference: 234

1940

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Name: Dewey , John
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Faith."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 16
Date: (1940)
Pages: 1-13

Notes: "... The essentially moral nature of Jefferson's political philosophy is concealed from us at the present time because of the change that has taken place in the language in which moral ideas are expressed." Yet his position may well be the best one from which to defend democracy against contemporary critics.

Reference: 2208

1940

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Name: Dorfman , Joseph
Title: "The Economic Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 55
Date: (1940)
Pages: 98-121

Notes: Claims TJ's underlying premise through all the shifts in his positions was a belief that "republican government would endure only as long as opportunities and resources for the acquisition of property were available to an ever increasing population."

Reference: 2213

1940

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Name: Darling , Arthur Burr
Title: "Jefferson's Policy: Peace and Expansion" and "Jefferson's Planning in America"

Publication: Our Rising Empire, 1763-1803
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1940
Pages: 390-420, 456-84

Notes: These chapters in a history of national expansion cover TJ's direction of diplomacy with France prior to actual negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase and the process itself of acquiring Louisiana. Suggestive.

Reference: 1538

1940

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Name: Ciolli , Antoinette
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Man of Science."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Brooklyn College
Date: 1940

Reference: 2685

1940

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Name: Eubanks , Seaford W.
Title: "A Vocabulary Study of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Missouri
Date: 1940

Reference: 2776

1940

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Name: Conant , James
Title: "Education for a Classless Society: The Jeffersonian Tradition."

Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 165
Date: (1940)
Pages: 593-602

Notes: On the necessity of revitalizing the Jeffersonian tradition in education.

Reference: 2707

1940

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Name: Kimball , Marie G.
Title: "More Jefferson Furniture Comes Home to Monticello."

Publication: Antiques
Volume: 38
Date: (1940)
Pages: 20-22

Notes: Updates article in Antiques of 12(1927), item #2992.

Reference: 2983

1940

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Name: Keller , William P.
Title: "Jefferson Refutes a Tory Argument."

Publication: Americana Illustrated
Volume: 34
Date: (1940)
Pages: 447-57

Notes: Transcription of notes by TJ on early attempts to settle Virginia, particularly by Raleigh; links this to TJ's claim that Americans themselves financed American settlement.

Reference: 1733

1940

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Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: The Furnishing of Monticello

Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1940
Pages: pp. 32

Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's furniture then and now. Often reprinted; after 1946 in Charlottesville by the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

Reference: 2980

1940

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Name: Kuper , Theodore Fred
Title: "Thomas Jefferson Ordered the Life of Houdon Insured."

Publication: New England Pilot
Volume: 25
Date: 1940
Pages: 267-70

Notes: TJ had John Adams insure the life of Houdon when he came to America to model the statue of Washington.

Reference: 674

1940

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Name: Lee , Lawrence
Title: "The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: VQR
Volume: 16
Date: (1940)
Pages: 78-80

Notes: Poem; also in The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Scribner's, 1940. 43-45.

Reference: 3020

1940

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Name: Lotts , Velma Capps
Title: "Jefferson's Pre-Presidential Criticism of the Federal Judiciary."

Publication: Marshall Review
Volume: 3
Date: 1940
Pages: 27-33

Notes: Competent survey, but nothing new.

Reference: 1780

1940

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Name: Hudson , Rector
Title: "Captain Christopher Hudson Insures Jefferson's Safety."

Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 22
Date: (1940)
Pages: 97-101

Notes: Hudson warned TJ of Tarleton's approach, but only after Jack Jouett had already delivered his warning.

Reference: 570

1940

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Name: Honeywell , Roy J.
Title: "President Jefferson and His Successors."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 46
Date: (1940)
Pages: 64-75

Notes: Examines TJ's correspondence with Madison in the latter's presidency and finds that although TJ gave advice in the interests of party unity, there is in fact little evidence for his dominating Madison QS a "party oracle."

Reference: 1690

1940

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Name: Ludlow , L. L.
Title: "The Vision of Jefferson."

Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 6
Date: (1940)
Pages: 479-80

Notes: TJ is "the greatest humanitarian 19 centuries have produced since the great human God trod the hills of Nazareth."

Reference: 721

1940

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Name: Hoslett , Schuyler D.
Title: "Jefferson and England: The Embargo as a Measure of Coercion."

Publication: Americana
Volume: 34
Date: (1940)
Pages: 39-54

Notes: The embargo had a measurable economic effect, but it was not continued for long enough to have a political effect.

Reference: 1695

1940

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Name: Nelson , Virginia Armistead
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Sureties of Magna Carta."

Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 2
Date: (1940)
Pages: 255-58

Notes: TJ was descended from ten of the Magna Carta sureties.

Reference: 874

1940

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Name: Quinn , Patrick F.
Title: "Agrarianism and the Jeffersonian Philosophy."

Publication: Review of Politics
Volume: 2
Date: (1940)
Pages: 87-104

Notes: The agrarian claim to a Jeffersonian tradition is valid, but it is not necessarily true that the American people is basically Jeffersonian as claimed.

Reference: 2417

1940

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Name: Tarr , Harry A.
Title: "Builders of American Democracy. 7. Thomas Jefferson: Believer in the Common Man."

Publication: Scholastic
Volume: 37
Date: 1940
Pages: 15-16

Reference: 1148

1940

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Name: Woodfin , Maude Howlett
Title: "Ex-President Jefferson's Plans for Virginia."

Publication: Social Science
Volume: 15
Date: (1940)
Pages: 341-51

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

Reference: 2096

1940

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Name: Spengler , Joseph J.
Title: "The Political Economy of Jefferson, Madison, and Adams"

Publication: American Studies in Honor of William Kenneth Boyd, ed. David K. Jackson
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1940
Pages: 3-59

Notes: TJ's economic views owed little to the Physiocrats but much to Adam Smith, Hume, and Postlethwayte's dictionary.

Reference: 2458

1940

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Name: 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
Pages: pp. 125

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

Reference: 2505

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