Notes: "... we must have a religion which believes in men as Jefferson believed in them."

Reference: 2121

Notes: Influence of Winckelmann and his definition of classical beauty as "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur" on TJ. He knew Winckelmann's Geschicte der Kunst das Althertums and also his friend Charles-Louis Clerisseau.

Reference: 2548

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: 77

Notes: Sketch with interesting photographic illustrations.

Reference: 2549

Notes: Development of the Democratic Party portrayed as a result of conflict with the Federalists; argues for a "Janus-faced Jefferson."

Reference: 1376

Notes: Discusses slogans and songs associated with TJ during the election of 1800 and the subsequent eight years.

Reference: 78

Notes: Review essay on the first 15 volumes of The Papers which "contain more than enough material for a re-estimation," particularly in the volumes covering his time abroad. Two controlling groups of traits emerge: a "conventionality of mind and behavior" in the face of European culture and society, but "in his direct, tactical involvement with public affairs, he was as unconventional, as imaginative, resourceful, and tough as the best, or worst, of Old World politicians."

Reference: 79

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: 80

Notes: Chapters 1, 6, and 7 deal with TJ's appointment of Lewis as his secretary and with the purchase of Louisiana.

Reference: 81

Notes: Superficial.

Reference: 82

Notes: "His insistence on freedom of inquiry" is "equalled in eloquence by few;" yet at least once he "abandoned his high principles" by demanding that the University of Virginia's law professor be "uninfected with Federalist principles."

Reference: 2122

Notes: TJ contrasted with Hamilton: "He was more artificial as well as more original than Hamilton.... a thorough-going party man ... the whole tone of his mind was partisan." Baldwin's hero is Clay.

Reference: 1377

Reference: 84

Reference: 85

Notes: Anecdotes.

Reference: 83

Notes: Focus on Jeffersonians rather than on TJ; contends that ideology of the Revolution shaped the thinking of the Republican party in the early national years.

Reference: 1378

Notes: General note.

Reference: 2550

Reference: 2123

Notes: Jefferson Day speech at the Univ. of Virginia, June 4, 1943.

Reference: 86

Notes: General sketch.

Reference: 2124

Notes: Trivial

Reference: 96

Reference: 2551

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

Reference: 2552

Notes: TJ's design for a university prompted reforms in established schools and became the model for the state land grant schools. The University of Virginia has fallen on hard times, however, and does not fulfill its promise. Printed separately, Paris: Armand Colin, 1895. pp. 86.

Reference: 2553

Notes: Contends TJ has "anti-authority" and "inferiority" complexes.

Reference: 88

Notes: Personalities of Hamilton and TJ discussed as an illustration "of the application of the newer psychology to historical biography." TJ, an introvert in the Jungian mode, was terrified of his father, "a gruff giant with a tremendous temper," and he obtained "considerable of psychic release ... by assaults upon kings." Reworking of material in 88 infra.

Reference: 87

Notes: Bushnell's organicism opposed TJ's individualism, and Bushnell believed TJ had made the Civil War inevitable by substituting the social contract for the covenant.

Reference: 2125

Notes: Prints a mss. dated May 20, 1856, describing a visit to Monticello; visitors thought the sky room was a ball room.

Reference: 2554

Notes: Summarizes the dispute with Buffon and notices its political implications.

Reference: 2555

Reference: 89

Notes: Sketch

Reference: 2556

Notes: Sympathetic sketch.

Reference: 90

Notes: TJ's difficulties in bringing about the Univ. of Virginia; also printed separately, Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1973. pp. 18.

Reference: 2557

Notes: Biographical sketch; Independence Day Address.

Reference: 91

Notes: Described TJ's 1784 committee report on a form of temporary government for the Northwest Territory.

Reference: 1379

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 92

Notes: TJ as visitor in Paris; derivative.

Reference: 93

Notes: Isaac Shelby died on July 18th; pays particular attention to the deathbed scenes of TJ and Adams.

Reference: 94

Notes: No words.

Reference: 2558

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

Reference: 95

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

Reference: 1380

Notes: Unconvincing discussion of TJ as a "Rousseauist."

Reference: 97

Reference: 1381

Notes: Report on the National Gallery exhibit.

Reference: 2560

Notes: Speech at Monticello, cataloguing TJ's links with New York.

Reference: 98

Notes: Account of the passage of the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

Reference: 2126

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

Notes: Rpt. Wilmington, Del.: Thomas F. Bayard, 1907. pp. 38. In the Anas TJ claimed Bayard tried to bribe Samuel Smith to vote for Burr for president in 1800, or so Edward Livingston told him.

Reference: 1382

Reference: 1383

Notes: Fanciful version of TJ's work for religious freedom, complete with imagined dialogue.

Reference: 2127

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: Rambling essay; TJ introduced or fostered among other innovations the first full time clinical teaching in America, conservatism in drugging and bloodletting, and the development of a medical school in a university setting. Considerable attention also to the contributions of Robley Dunglison.

Reference: 2562

Notes: Account related to the issue of the 20¢ Monticello postage stamp on April 13, 1956.

Reference: 104

Notes: Includes some of TJ's drawings; shows the changing appearance.

Reference: 2565

Notes: On TJ's nail-making business. Technically successful, its accounts were not well managed, and since all due bills were not collected, it probably lost money in its later years.

Reference: 103

Notes: Issued to commemorate the visit of the Grolier Club to the University and to Monticello.

Reference: 2568

Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's silver based on account books and letters, including an account of the basis for the widely reproduced "Jefferson cups."

Reference: 2569

Notes: Short account of the house as it was in TJ's time and a discussion of research resources used in restoration and preservation.

Reference: 105

Notes: Account of TJ's nailery, joinery, and weaving shop operations at Monticello based on account books and archeological explorations.

Reference: 2566

Notes: Checklist of first hand accounts, arranged chronologically.

Reference: 99

Notes: While there is no list of TJ's recommendations for reading by the very young, there are indications of books recommended to and read by his children and grandchildren prior to their 16th birthdays. Books are described and documented.

Reference: 2564

Notes: Mimeographed sheets. Discusses the sale of part of TJ's collection in Boston in 1828-1833; lists 51 paintings with descriptions from TJ's 1809 catalogue.

Reference: 2567

Notes: Thoughtful account of TJ's relations with women. Finds him "more thoughtful than sentimental, more conventional and utilitarian than advanced.

Reference: 106

Notes: Good discussion of TJ's acquisition of furniture over the years. Illustrated.

Reference: 2563

Notes: Well-researched account of the death and burial of TJ.

Reference: 102

Notes: Carefully researched account of the Hemings family in TJ's time reveals a set of able, intelligent workers.

Reference: 100

Notes: Collects Isaac Jefferson's Memoirs of a Monticello Slave and Hamilton Wilcox Pierson's Jefferson at Monticello, with an introduction by the editor.

Reference: 101

Notes: Members of Congress in 1790 voting on funding securities to assume state debts "represented the dominant interest of their respective constituencies rather than their personal interests" as TJ later charged in the Anas.

Reference: 1387

Notes: Argues that TJ's agrarianism is at the core of his political philosophy. If so, then in view of the triumph of capitalism and industrialism, what message has TJ for the Wilson Democrats who claim to derive their "New Freedom" from him?

Reference: 2128

Notes: A classic study. Final chapter focuses on "Jefferson's Economics and Politics" (415-67), and claims that TJ recognized the antagonism between capitalistic and agrarian interests and made the latter the peculiar concern of the Republican party. He claimed the Constitution as a Republican document, favored judicial control of legislation (until crossed by John Marshall), and came to espouse a wide suffrage free of property qualifications.

Reference: 1385

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

Reference: 107

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

Notes: "... republic--res publica—the public good, as incorporated in the idea of civilization, was for Mr. Jefferson a more fitting conception than democracy to be applied to American society..."

Reference: 2129

Notes: Note on TJ as architect.

Reference: 2570

Notes: Survey of scientific interests, based on secondary sources.

Reference: 2571

Reference: 108

Reference: 1388

Notes: Rambling praise.

Reference: 110

Notes: Laudatory oration.

Reference: 109

Notes: An important analysis of the premises underlaying the Declaration and its evolution from TJ's first draft. Considers also the literary qualities of the Declaration and its influence in the 18th century. A significant study which can be supplemented with but not replaced by Garry Wills' Inventing America. Rpt. with new introduction, New York: Knopf, 1942.

Reference: 2130

Notes: Also in AHR. 48(1943), 691-706. "In respect to fundamentals, Jefferson's political philosophy is still valid for us; in respect to what is more superficial—in respect to certain favorite institutional forms—it is outmoded." Latter particularly true in regard to "banks and speculation, cities and industrial communities," and TJ's laissez faire doctrines.

Reference: 2131

Notes: Compares TJ's code of 1776 for Virginia, Edward Livingston's for Louisiana, and David Dudley Field's for New York. Claims that TJ's was an expression of the Enlightenment and made way for penal code reforms in other states.

Reference: 1389

Notes: Interesting and extensive description of TJ's interests in time pieces and time keeping as well as of his designs for various clocks, including the Great Clock at Monticello. Illustrated.

Reference: 2575

Notes: Brief, informative note.

Reference: 2573

Notes: TJ as tinkerer and first administrator of the patent office.

Reference: 2572

Reference: 111

Notes: Survey of TJ's scientific interests; abridged version in Colonial Homes. 7(November/December 1981), 80-83.

Reference: 2574

Notes: Describes plans and ideas from TJ's memorandum books and other sources; discusses the influence of Kames, Whately, and others. Only one garden structure is actually known to have been built.

Reference: 2577

Reference: 2576

Notes: TJ masked ideological differences among the Patriots by conflating the ideology of the Real Whigs with that of the Evangelicals. DAI 39/02A, p. 879.

Reference: 2132

Notes: Loosely organized survey.

Reference: 112

Notes: Historical introduction and notes.

Reference: 1390

Notes: A volume in "The Nineteenth Century Series." Brief but perceptive account of TJ's administration tends to be critical of his inability to assess correctly practical problems of government.

Reference: 1391

Notes: Considers the treatment particularly after the Civil War of TJ as prophet of national democracy and the embarrassing question of his responsibility for the concept of nullification. Claims there has been no effect reinterpretation of TJ's ideas in light of the distinction drawn between allegiance to the rule of law and primary trust in the rule of the people

Reference: 113

Notes: Rambling, discursive account of the way in which TJ has been misread and underrated by subsequent political historians, often for partisan reasons, but also by thoughtlessly accepting the authority of Henry Adams.

Reference: 1392

Notes: Mostly quotations showing TJ was in favor of toleration.

Reference: 2133

Notes: A volume in the Teach Yourself History Library, points out the difficult questions about TJ but evades answering them.

Reference: 115

Notes: Inconclusive discussion of Fawn Brodie's claims.

Reference: 114

Notes: TJ was the best man of his time to guide the diplomacy of his country, even though his handling of affairs was hampered by his rivalry with Hamilton and by Hamilton's actions.

Reference: 1393

Notes: TJ's life in ballad form.

Reference: 2578

Notes: Describes an invitation from TJ, in Meriwether Lewis' hand, to DeWitt Clinton for "dinner and chess."

Reference: 116

Notes: Soil Conservation Service Misc. Pub. 548. TJ as pioneer soil conservationist who practiced crop rotation, deep plowing, and contour plowing. Discusses mid-20th-century condition of his land.

Reference: 2579

Notes: General survey.

Reference: 2134

Notes: Descendents of Joseph Fossett, supposedly a son of Sally Hemings and TJ. Photographs.

Reference: 117

Notes: Brief sketch of TJ and John Adams.

Reference: 118

Notes: On the architecture and furnishings of Monticello.

Reference: 2580

Notes: Revised version of dissertation noted above; as a man interested in finding a science of society, TJ was a precursor of modern social science.

Reference: 2136

Notes: TJ's thinking was based especially upon Locke's and Kames's theories on natural law and natural rights. He can be considered a protosociologist because of his insights into the elements of social control and socio-psychological determinants of human behavior. He was both a theorist and activist, a "practical idealist." DAI 27/08A, p. 2622.

Reference: 2135

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: 119

Notes: Tribute to TJ's affection for France.

Reference: 120

Notes: Examines TJ's subpoena by Marshall in the Burr case and contends Marshall never recognized a principle of "executive privilege" exempting presidents from the force of law; goes on to examine the relevance of this for the Nixon-Watergate case. Shorter version published as "Jefferson v. Marshall in the Burr Case." American Bar Association Journal. 69(1974), 702-06.

Reference: 1394

Notes: Shortened version of an essay which originally appeared in Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, ed. Betts.

Reference: 2581

Notes: Emphasizes TJ's innovative design for the Rotunda, pointing out it is no mere slavish copy of earlier buildings.

Reference: 2582

Notes: Argues that the Ordinance of 1784 is not so strictly in accord with TJ's views as has been previously assumed, nor is the Northwest Ordinance so divergent from his opinions on new territories or from the Ordinance of 1784 itself.

Reference: 1395

Notes: Although TJ "had no philosophy of art, ... His esthetic ideas express ... a constellation of attitudes." TJ was "art as one of the first steps toward freedom." Claims a key to TJ's aesthetic principles is Hogarth's serpentine curve. A standard work, but a better is needed.

Reference: 2583

Notes: Claims TJ's views on the art of rhetoric are valid and modern because he emphasized the social values of communication, the importance of accuracy, brevity and simplicity, and a balance between sound reasoning and effective presentation.

Reference: 2584

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: 121

Notes: These pages describe a visit to the Univ. of Virginia and Monticello in November 1825, noting especially TJ's art collection.

Reference: 122

Notes: Surveys TJ's views of French society and character and gives a Marxist analysis of him as a thinker shocked by the "ugly manifestations" of capitalism in order to suggest that he had more in common with Robespierre and the Jacobins than with the Girondins. But since he derived most of his information from anti-Robespierrist sources, he leaned more toward the Girondins during their struggle with the Jacobins.

Reference: 2137

Notes: Jejune account of a deist TJ who waged rhetorical warfare on the Puritans.

Reference: 2138

Notes: Resolves TJ's defence of intellectual liberty and his seemingly contradictory attempts to combat erroneous positions he found in books like Montesquieu's Spirit, Hume's History, and Blackstone's Commentaries. Defends rationale of the Univ. of Virginia Board Visitor's resolution of March 4, 1825.

Reference: 2585

Notes: Correspondence reprinted with notes and commentary.

Reference: 2586

Notes: Brief account of the Monticello gardens.

Reference: 2588

Notes: Using TJ's letters and early views, discusses his interest in the early iconography of the University.

Reference: 2587

Notes: Account of TJ's interest in gardening and the plans of his original gardens as now restored at Monticello. Rpt. Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, 1971. pp. ix, 60.

Reference: 2590

Notes: Discusses TJ's family life and family. Letters printed in this collection are annotated and arranged chronologically.

Reference: 123

Notes: TJ's record of his gardens, substantially augmented by relevant passages from his correspondence, and by significant annotations. A veritable botanical biography.

Reference: 2591

Notes: Facsimile of the Farm Book with transcription, commentary, and supporting material arranged topically. Invaluable.

Reference: 2589

Notes: Surveys twentieth-century historical writing on TJ and Hamilton, arguing that treatment of them reflects both the prejudices of the writers and an increasing scholarly sophistication.

Reference: 124

Notes: Transcribes his expense account while delegate to Congress.

Reference: 125

Notes: "All the ideas and much of the language" came from the Virginia Bill of Rights, but TJ gave final expression to "the general American thought and feeling."

Reference: 1396

Notes: TJ, his Amati "fiddle," and its supposed peregrinations after his death. Folklore, treated here with little skepticism.

Reference: 2592

Notes: Address to the State Bar Association; two giants.

Reference: 1397

Notes: TJ was a force for reason, science, and enlightened leadership. One of the most interesting of the eulogies.

Reference: 126

Reference: 127

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

Reference: 128

Reference: 129

Notes: Slightly revised version of the 1962 dissertation (#1398)

Reference: 1399

Notes: TJ wished to lighten the burden of the negro slave and the Indian, but he was "governed by a desire to assure national unity ..." and he attempted to discourage the entry of slavery into national deliberation. DAI 24/05, p. 1987.

Reference: 1398

Notes: Argues that TJ "achieved an extraordinary mastery of his life." Also suggests TJ and Hamilton were competing for the love of a father figure (Washington) and this rivalry was complicated by their mutual admiration. Lyman H. Butterfield in reply generally agrees, but points to TJ's deficient sense of humor, his avoidance of conflict, his silences. Suggestive exchange.

Reference: 130

Notes: Psychological study claiming to demonstrate the inner harmony of TJ's mind as a result of his reconciliation of masculine, aggressive, executive characteristics with feminine, aesthetic, care-taking attributes.

Reference: 131

Notes: Discussion of TJ's architectural designs, the possible influences on them—most interestingly by Charles Kelsall—and their realization.

Reference: 2594

Notes: Ride to warn TJ of Tarleton's approach to Monticello.

Reference: 133

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 134

Notes: A "research tool ... for the student;" very basic.

Reference: 2

Notes: TJ gives a lesson in Americanism.

Reference: 136

Notes: Discusses TJ's library and compares it to the size and complexity of modern libraries.

Reference: 2595

Notes: Photograph of statue for the St. Louis Jefferson Memorial.

Reference: 2596

Notes: How TJ and other Americans in Paris coped with the Revolution.

Reference: 137

Notes: Account of the "sentimental life" of TJ's protege and secretary in France, 1784-1789, deals with the relationship between Short and TJ.

Reference: 138

Reference: 1401

Notes: "Where Jefferson stood then, William Jennings Bryan stands now." Draws parallels.

Reference: 1402

Notes: "He was far more the father of the second republican party than of the democracy.

Reference: 1400

Notes: Brief comments on TJ's library and its acquisition by the nation.

Reference: 2597

Notes: TJ made possible the dream of manifest destiny; minor.

Reference: 1403

Notes: Sketch of TJ as philosopher; argues that he thinks of the moral sense in utilitarian terms and as answerable to reason and calculation. Therefore, it is not a conscience and its judgments are relative.

Reference: 2139

Notes: TJ's interest in science led him to pioneer in medical education.

Reference: 2598

Notes: Claims TJ can be a polemical weapon for the modern humanist in "proselytizing of the masses."

Reference: 2140

Notes: Superficial; rpt. in A Mirror for Greatness. New York: McGraw Hill, 1975. 107-35 in revised form.

Reference: 139

Notes: TJ's concern for children's diseases, mostly in his own family.

Reference: 2599

Notes: Laudatory sketch.

Reference: 140

Notes: On TJ as architect, in Danish.

Reference: 2600

Notes: Sketchy coverage of TJ as president, pp. 1-32.

Reference: 1404

Notes: Discusses natural law doctrine and contends that TJ's use and understanding of this was dominated by a curious complex of traditions— protestant, Aristotelian, Epicurean—which seemed axiomatic to him. But he used his philosophy to regulate his life.

Reference: 2141

Notes: TJ performed valuable service in refuting Buffon's theories which were used for political and propaganda purposes.

Reference: 2601

Notes: Anecdotes about TJ stressing his sociability.

Reference: 141

Notes: Printed: Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1924. Psychological portrait, but based on Morse's and Parton's lives of TJ.

Reference: 142

Notes: TJ the Apostle of Democracy, etc.

Reference: 2142

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

Reference: 143

Notes: On his work for civil rights with focus on years 1775-76.

Reference: 1405

Notes: Both TJ and Madison disapproved of parties, but in "the face of an opposition whose unity they exaggerated" they became increasingly aware of the need for a cohesive and organized party. Yet, their "suspicions of party activities in general ... account for a number of their mistaken comments on the changed nature of American parties as evident by the early 1800's." DAI 26/02, p. 1135.

Reference: 2143

Notes: Describes an exhibit which opened in Paris in January, 1975.

Reference: 144

Notes: On the scientific ideas and work of a group of men associated for the most part with the American Philosophical Society, called by Boorstin "the Jeffersonian Circle" with TJ as the ordering center for their discrete investigations. Valuable, informative study of scientific ideas of the age, but generalizes too easily from one particular figure to "Jeffersonian" in general. TJ treated passim.

Reference: 2144

Notes: Discusses the implications of the Declaration, arguing, "The awareness of the peculiarity of America had not yet by any means led Jefferson to a rash desire to remake all society and institutions."

Reference: 1406

Notes: Life at Monticello. TJ, like Washington, "took to broad and impersonal a view of farming. He and Washington, in effect, ran two very expensive agricultural experiment stations.

Reference: 145

Notes: TJ's administration was "compounded of three ingredients—liberalism, nationalism, and a healthy dose of common sense." Emphasizes TJ's pragmatic approach, but on debatable strategies like the embargo simply weighs up the pros and cons.

Reference: 1408

Notes: Review essay taking to task Forrest McDonald's Presidency of Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 1407

Notes: Fanciful portrait of TJ in despair, unaware of the Treaty of Ghent; blames the war on him.

Reference: 146

Reference: 147

Notes: A volume in the Twayne United States Authors Series; competent introduction which pays particular attention to his aesthetic interests and literary gifts.

Reference: 148

Notes: "Jefferson not only set forth the ends but also planned constructively the means of attaining liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, and the consent of the governed." He took at various times an interest in land planning, education, transportation, industrial enterprise, and planning for the general welfare.

Reference: 1409

Notes: Uncritical sketch of TJ's education, his interest in the classics, and early days at the Univ. of Virginia. Nothing of value on his literary art or practice.

Reference: 2603

Notes: Account of material from the Huntington on exhibit there.

Reference: 149

Notes: The first installment of this influential biography of TJ, this volume focuses on the years from 1789 to 1801 and on the political events and life of these years.

Reference: 1412

Notes: TJ was a master politician in the service of democracy because of his "soul." Impressionistic.

Reference: 1415

Notes: Fund raising effort for Monticello.

Reference: 153

Notes: An introduction to a course of readings which includes Bower's Jefferson and Hamilton.

Reference: 151

Reference: 155

Reference: 1418

Notes: TJ is a "living, vital principle" who opposes the enemies of democracy at home and abroad.

Reference: 150

Notes: TJ as an advocate of religious freedom, particularly as it has touched Roman Catholics.

Reference: 2145

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

Reference: 1414

Notes: TJ's Summary View justified the revolutionary movements of South America and led up to the Monroe Doctrine; discusses connections with South American revolutions.

Reference: 1410

Notes: TJ fought for the freedom of speech, religious freedom, and academic freedom.

Reference: 2146

Notes: Discusses TJ's South American connections: the Brazilian revolutionaries he met in Nimes, Francisco Miranda, etc., and his support of inter-American solidarity.

Reference: 1417

Reference: 156

Notes: Argues for TJ as a revolutionist, iconoclast, and radical who defined the American way of life.

Reference: 152

Notes: The first volume in Bowers' biographic trilogy, but the last written; concentrates on the "human Jefferson" as the foundation for the successes of the later political Jefferson.

Reference: 157

Notes: Claims that the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and the election of TJ in 1800 forestalled "the most powerful attempt in our history to destroy the elemental freedoms."

Reference: 1411

Notes: TJ chapter is a sentimental and imprecise paean to him as a defender of democratic freedom.

Reference: 1416

Notes: TJ's demand for a bill of rights was justified by the threats to civil liberty periodically generated by demagogues and sensationalists.

Reference: 1413

Reference: 154

Notes: Discusses TJ's difficulties in trying to grow vinifera grapes and his encouragement of efforts to use native grapes. Prints correspondence with John Adlum, who was growing vines on his estates in Maryland and Washington, D. C.

Reference: 2604

Notes: Rejects Cooke's argument (see below, #1501) that there was no real connection between the federal assumption of state debts and the decision to put the capital on the Potomac. Rejoinder by Cooke.

Reference: 1419

Notes: Argues that TJ and not Hamilton was the realist in foreign policy; TJ understood the national interest, but "Hamilton's foreign policy was based constantly upon what he wanted the United States to become, not upon what it was or was likely to be." The Nootka Sound crisis revealed the distance between their policies; the Jay Treaty "made war inevitable."

Reference: 1420

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: Boyd was historian of the Commission; this report helped lay the way for the Princeton edition of the papers.

Reference: 166

Notes: Discusses context and prints correct copy of the letter of September 23, 1800 to Rush in which he swears eternal hostility against tyranny over the mind of man.

Reference: 164

Notes: Analyzes facsimiles of all known drafts. Useful.

Reference: 1422

Notes: On the discovery of a mss. fragment of the Declaration, in TJ's hand.

Reference: 1428

Notes: TJ's defense of freedom of speech and of opinion used as the basis for a tract for the times. Brief discussion of his defense of Nicholas Dufief, his Philadelphia provider of French books.

Reference: 2148

Notes: Contends that TJ as political realist understood the need for, in Blackstone's words, "due regulation and domestic order," but he never swerved from opposition to any attempt to coerce opinion. "Dissent and the threat of revolution ... would serve as proof of our courage and strength." The Jeffersonian example particularly needs to be remembered today (1948).

Reference: 2150

Notes: Argues that TJ's belief in reason and individual freedom was neither naive nor shallow and that "his understanding of the relation of a people to its land" was an important contribution to the bond of national union.

Reference: 2149

Notes: On the June 21, 1826 letter to R. S. Weightman.

Reference: 162

Notes: The text finally adopted by Congress was the result of collaboration upon the part of TJ and John Dickinson, "however unwilling each was to accept the work of the other."

Reference: 1424

Notes: Farewell note to Lyman Butterfield, recalls TJ's gift to Margaret Bayard Smith of a potted geranium when he left Washington in 1809.

Reference: 161

Notes: Even so, few of the voices now claiming TJ's authority are authentic echoes of his.

Reference: 170

Notes: Applauds TJ's faith in principle, in the rights of man, and in knowledge, but notes that, paradoxically, increasingly exact, predictive

Reference: 165

Notes: On editing the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Reference: 168

Notes: Rpt. from Seminar, An Academic Journal. 2(Spring 1957). TJ illustrates the proper behavior of a citizen in a republic, a challenger of conventional beliefs but a respecter of people's right to govern themselves.

Reference: 167

Notes: Careful, extensive account of TJ's writing of his memoir on the megalonyx—how he initially was led to believe it was "of the lion kind," how he came to realize it was in fact related to the megatherium, a recently discovered fossil sloth. He might have avoided the initial error had he remembered the drawing of the megatherium by Juan Bautista Bru he had acquired in Paris.

Reference: 2607

Notes: TJ's diplomatic skill played an important role in gaining an acceptable consular convention with France, despite Jay's opposition.

Reference: 1427

Notes: "What the world of Jefferson has to offer us ... is only an abstraction and an example drawn from an era that may be wholly irrelevant in the world we face."

Reference: 159

Notes: Discusses TJ as letter writer and identifies Munford; a miniature book.

Reference: 2606

Notes: Suggestive study of the "inexplorable protagonists of two opposed views of society." If neither was suited for the other's position, TJ ultimately is the more significant figure because of his relativism which enabled him to respect the role of an independent judiciary in spite of his temptations to curb it.

Reference: 1421

Notes: Surveys the variety of Christmas celebration in 18th century Virginia and discusses in particular TJ's visit at Christmas, 1759, to Colonel Nathaniel Dandridtge. TJ, however, does not mention in his letters festive activities at Christmas, even though he clearly practiced some of the traditions. Best piece on the subject.

Reference: 169

Notes: Rpt. separately; comments on the range of TJ's opinions and the usefulness of Foley's compilation.

Reference: 160

Notes: Account of the shipment in 1790 of TJ's acquisitions in France.

Reference: 163

Notes: Evaluates an eminent Jefferson scholar's work on TJ.

Reference: 158

Notes: Detailed, thorough account of TJ's wooden copy and subsequent model in silver of the askos belonging to Francois Seguier of Nimes. Information also on TJ's visit to Nimes and his relations with Charles Louis Clerisseau.

Reference: 2609

Notes: Examines the conditions surrounding TJ's writing of A Summary View; discusses relationship of this to his Declaration of Rights for the Albemarle freeholders, and suggests the Survey may in its earliest form have been intended for delivery by Patrick Henry.

Reference: 1425

Notes: Conjectural account of the now missing draft of the Declaration as approved by Congress. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania has a unique proof copy of the first half of the Declaration as printed by John Dunlap.

Reference: 1423

Notes: Three page discussion of TJ's letter to William Green Munford, June 18, 1799; facsimile and transcription.

Reference: 171

Notes: Historical introduction to a letter dated March 20, 1787, from TJ to the Comtesse de Tesse on his travels in southern France and her reply.

Reference: 2608

Notes: Rpt. separately and thus seen. The importance of learning at a time of transition, illustrated with reference to TJ; peripheral.

Reference: 2147

Notes: Illustrated pamphlet.

Reference: 2151

Notes: Introductory note and family correspondence selected from the author's To the Girls and Boys

Reference: 172

Notes: Historical notes and commentary accompany the letters.

Reference: 174

Notes: 91 questions and answers for students.

Reference: 173

Notes: Touches comprehensively on the careers and accomplishments of both Adams and TJ and delivers equal praise.

Reference: 175

Notes: Reprints the Pensacola eulogy of August 1826, 157-82; includes also "Western Antiquities, Communicated in a Letter to Thomas Jefferson," 192-205, arguing for Mexican influence on the moundbuilders.

Reference: 2610

Notes: A federalist view of TJ's presidency, charging that ultimately "his political opinions and conduct served to lessen, in some measure, the stability and permanency of the republic; by emboldening visionary and unprincipled men, many of whom were aliens, and who could vociferate most loudly for liberty, but had not a due respect for law or the Constitution."

Reference: 1428

Notes: Two poems.

Reference: 2611

Notes: Asserts that Faulkner's admiration for his furmers and hill folk is an allegiance to "the Jeffersonian ideal of 'independent' men.

Reference: 2612

Notes: Claiborne's recommendations were far more bellicose than TJ's responses.

Reference: 1430

Notes: "...before Jefferson became President in 1801, the basic principles of his administration's Indian policy had been pre-determined for him by the 1796 Indian trade and intercourse act, and by Representative William C. C. Claiborne of Tennessee."

Reference: 1429

Notes: Argues that Madison was not a mere satellite of TJ as suggested by Henry Adams and others; Madison in many cases led TJ in policy making, for example in pointing out to him the political implications of the French loss of Haiti, a base of support needed if the French were to retain Louisiana.

Reference: 1431

Notes: Good sketch of the Madison-TJ relationship, arguing for Madison as an independent thinker equal to TJ.

Reference: 1432

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 2613

Notes: Sketch of Trist as TJ's secretary and grandson-in-law and friend of Jackson.

Reference: 177

Notes: His belief in absolute equality, his being a thorough-going democrat are myths. Punctures straw men. Revised version published as "Puncturing Some Jeffersonian Mythology." Southern Quarterly. 6(1968), 175-90.

Reference: 2153

Notes: Has a "Foreward" by Edward Mattos and "On Jefferson" by 1. P. Soliongco.

Reference: 176

Notes: Contends TJ was "a deeply spiritual man,~ although his opposition to established churches and the doctrine of the Trinity antagonized various of his contemporaries. "In all things religious or political he was motivated by one consuming passion—that of the necessity of freedom for the human body, mind, and spirit."

Reference: 2152

Notes: American voters have accepted Jackson's version of democracy and rejected TJ's, partly because TJ preserves strong aristocratic tendencies.

Reference: 1433

Notes: A short biographical sketch of Trist, who was TJ's last private secretary and who married his granddaughter, Virginia Randolph.

Reference: 178

Notes: There were only a small number of appointments made in New York, but they were moderately successful in the long run in helping to build a base for the Republican party.

Reference: 1434

Notes: John C. Ogden wrote for Duane's Aurora a series of attacks upon New England Federalists, hurling the charges of illuminatism back upon them. Peripherally about TJ.

Reference: 1435

Reference: 179

Notes: Pre-revolutionary literature on farming was adapted for the most part from English sources and had little relevance for the American situation. Despite the idealizations of pastoral poetry, observers of actual American farmers often found them lazy and ignorant. "Jefferson's forceful idealism" claims the author, "rescued American pride."

Reference: 2615

Notes: Letter of Harry Innes, November 29, 1781, noted as unlocated in the Papers, 6:159.

Reference: 180

Notes: Describes in some detail TJ's "Whether Christianity Is a Part of the Common Law" and his subsequent opinion on this.

Reference: 2154

Notes: TJ as philosopher of free enterprise and individualism

Reference: 181

Notes: TJ set forward the doctrine of interposition in its classic form in the Kentucky Resolutions.

Reference: 1436

Notes: TJ's descendant, H. P. Meikleham, owned a clock made in Paris for TJ by Paul Moinet; illustrated.

Reference: 2616

Notes: Review essay of biographical volumes by Dumas Malone and Merrill Peterson, criticizing them for being "extremely protective of (TJ's) inner life," particularly in regard to his sex life and Sally Hemings.

Reference: 183

Notes: Claims that the evidence showing TJ as the father of Sally Hemings' children, while not conclusive, is suggestive.

Reference: 182

Notes: Discusses the difficulties in maintaining American political heroes; even TJ is in question because of his attitudes toward blacks and the Sally Hemings affair.

Reference: 184

Notes: Controversial biography focusing on TJ's private life and its relation to his public life. Has been criticized both on the grounds of historical accuracy and psychological method, but if the claims for TJ's sexual liaisons are fully unsupported, the handling of his response to the death of his wife and his dealing with grief is interesting.

Reference: 185

Notes: On Sally Hemings' descendants and family traditions linking them to TJ as ancestor; a more assertive continuation of claims made in the author's Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 186

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

Reference: 187

Notes: Review essay occasioned by Saul Padover's biography; suggests that TJ's self-chosen epitaph is not a rejection of public honors but an underlying "scepticism of the permanence of any political form."

Reference: 188

Notes: TJ's life at Monticello. Illustrated.

Reference: 189

Notes: TJ at Monticello was visited by Frenchmen like Chastellux, and his style of living showed the influence of his stay in France.

Reference: 2617

Notes: Because of spoliation of the land and poor government planning TJ's dream of an independent citizenry is threatened by the specter of Marx's proletariat.

Reference: 1437

Notes: Sympathetic but only vaguely accurate sketch of TJ as a revolutionary politician.

Reference: 1438

Reference: 190

Reference: 191

Reference: 192

Notes: Focus on Bryant and the composition of his anti-TJ satire.

Reference: 2618

Notes: TJ an important referential figure throughout, but here drawn as a democratic idealist shaped by the French Enlightenment and "the earliest crystallization of what might be called the American prophetic tradition, of Whitman's Pioneers, the 'trust thyself' of Emerson and Lincoln's mystical faith in the wisdom of the people."

Reference: 193

Notes: Character sketch, praising TJ as a prophetic idealist.

Reference: 2619

Notes: Review essay proclaiming TJ as the greatest American after Washington and Franklin.

Reference: 194

Reference: 195

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

Notes: "Jefferson was no Communist, but the Communist Party can claim his as one of its principal precursors."

Reference: 1440

Notes: Photographic illustrations.

Reference: 196

Notes: Account of The Life and Morals of Jesus.

Reference: 2155

Reference: 1441

Notes: Compares TJ's recommendations for aspiring lawyers with Augustus B. Woodward's memorandum of 1802.

Reference: 2620

Notes: TJ discussed passim; argues that after his election to the presidency he was "able in his thinking to detach the principles of democracy from the French Revolution and attach them solely to America, where he believed they were assured by the Republican victory" of 1800.

Reference: 2156

Notes: TJ proposed granting land in Orleans territory to recipients willing to perform military service if needed.

Reference: 1445

Notes: Discusses TJ's preparation of his manual of parliamentary usage done for the U.S. Senate.

Reference: 1444

Notes: Detailed account of the constitutional issues raised by the Louisiana Purchase and the deliberations by TJ and Congress over them.

Reference: 1442

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: TJ asks Thornton for some sketches and gets a lengthy reply. Minimal supporting comment.

Reference: 2621

Notes: Cassette tape. "Vital History Cassettes, May 1976, no. 1." Brown and Wolff discuss TJ's aesthetic and political ideas.

Reference: 2622

Reference: 197

Notes: Provenance of TJ's portable desk and an account of the copies made of it.

Reference: 198

Notes: Commentary on scientific aspects of Notes; claims the essay on climate in query vii may be the most influential section of the book.

Reference: 2623

Notes: Argues that there was little if any internal revolution in Virginia and that TJ himself was not very radical; discusses legislative action on entail, primogeniture, franchise, education, and religion to show that only in the last two areas was TJ in advance of his peers.

Reference: 1446

Notes: Recounts TJ's paper on the megalonyx.

Reference: 2624

Notes: Survey of the commonplaces of republican ideology.

Reference: 2157

Notes: TJ's philosophical background, particularly Bacon, Locke, and Epicurus. This essay incorporated in the author's Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 2158

Notes: A volume in the Great American Thinkers series; competent introduction to TJ for non-specialists.

Reference: 2159

Notes: An antislavery novel, the first by an American black writer, it does not make a great deal of TJ's parentage of Clotel, but it does quote him on the evils of slavery and then accuse him of hypocrisy.

Reference: 2625

Notes: Leland thought up and organized the presentation of the mammoth cheese on New Years Day, 1802.

Reference: 199

Notes: Well-informed paper puts TJ's chemical ideas in historical context.

Reference: 2627

Notes: Wide-ranging but somewhat disjointed survey of TJ's scientific interests. Also bound separately.

Reference: 2628

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

Reference: 2626

Notes: Note on TJ's chemical interests; pp. 575-76 reprint his 1791 "Report on the Method for Obtaining Fresh Water from Salt," the first document of a chemical nature to be published by the U. S. government.

Reference: 2629

Notes: TJ as friend of the common man.

Reference: 200

Notes: TJ's resistance to the anti-French war hysteria of 1798 is worth thinking about for Americans in 1947.

Reference: 1447

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

Reference: 201

Notes: TJ was "the first of the long line of notable American expansionists."

Reference: 1448

Notes: The first volume in this five volume work covers TJ's involvement with the University as planner, architect, and rector. Best history of the University as a whole.

Reference: 2630

Reference: 202

Notes: Examines the economic policies of TJ and Hamilton and minimizes their practical differences.

Reference: 1449

Notes: Translation of La Republique Americaine. Paris: Gallimard, 1958. Discusses TJ's role in creating the American republic, comparing him to Saint~ust and seeing him as a revolutionary who recognized "the concrete dimension of time." Claims the Declaration is "totally devoid of ideological fanaticism, empty abstractions, all excess." Hamilton's economic system laid a solid foundation for national unity which TJ could not reject, yet his warnings about the Hamiltonian system remind us of the threat "a vast and complex machinery of industry" poses to individual liberty.

Reference: 1450

Notes: In German. Examines TJ's interest in Old English against the background of a developing scholarship before and after his time.

Reference: 2631

Notes: Bryan's oration on TJ was delivered on July 17th.

Reference: 203

Notes: Discussion of firsthand accounts and anecdotes about TJ.

Reference: 204

Notes: Note on editions held.

Reference: 2632

Notes: Offers information on his writing habits and his various systems for duplicating his letters, particularly the copying press and the polygraph. He began to use the press in 1785 and turned to the polygraph in 1804, after which copies are sometimes difficult to distinguish from originals.

Reference: 2633

Notes: TJ would not crucify mankind on a cross of gold, nor would he increase the permanent army, or attempt to make subjects of the Filipinos. "The Renaissance of Jeffersonian principles is at hand."

Reference: 2160

Notes: Meandering note on TJ's spiritual greatness in general.

Reference: 2161

Notes: If TJ were here now, he would oppose monopolies and vote Democratic.

Reference: 205

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 206

Notes: Univ. of Virginia founder's Day speech, praising TJ's variety and his interest in education.

Reference: 207

Notes: Rejects the idea proposed in an earlier communication to this journal that TJ was an Episcopalian.

Reference: 2162

Reference: 2634

Notes: TJ discussed passim; covers the controversy over religion which culminated in 1786 with the passage of TJ's Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

Reference: 1451

Reference: 208

Notes: TJ still best example of presidential conduct at a time when "centralization and imperialism together threaten ... our very life as a republic."

Reference: 209

Notes: TJ was asked in 1802 to choose a design for the U.S. Military Philosophical Society.

Reference: 210

Notes: Study of TJ's belief in the right of each generation to write its own laws.

Reference: 1452

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: 212

Notes: Documents Lincoln's knowledge of TJ; notes that TJ and Lincoln were in essential agreement on the advantages of gradual emancipation and the colonization of freed slaves.

Reference: 213

Notes: Charming account of TJ's friendship with Maria Cosway, but does not satisfactorily come to grips with the complexities of his character or of the historical context.

Reference: 214

Notes: Account of archival collections of TJ's papers.

Reference: 215

Notes: Competent survey of TJ's musical interests.

Reference: 2635

Reference: 2636

Notes: Amusing account of meeting TJ on a road near Monticello in 1822.

Reference: 216

Notes: Explains Marbury vs. Madison and how it established the principle of judicial review.

Reference: 1453

Reference: 1454

Notes: Focus on mineralogical activities of the APS, not much on TJ; he contributed specimens collected by Lewis and Clark and was aware of geologists' activities, but seems to have had little part in the Society's mineralogical enterprises.

Reference: 2637

Notes: Argues that TJ was responsible for overturning the Madisonian model of the Constitution by leading the development of a strategy of majority rule through parties. An important statement.

Reference: 1455

Notes: Albemarle Art Association Pamphlets, No. 26. Describes TJ's collection at Monticello briefly, gives a "glossary" of ten paintings on the same subjects or by the same painters as listed in TJ's catalogues.

Reference: 2638

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

Reference: 1457

Notes: Not only was Paine Junius, he also wrote the Declaration, or so it says here.

Reference: 1456

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 2639

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

Reference: 2640

Notes: Description of TJ's first inauguration, arguing against the legend that he rode rather than walked to the ceremony.

Reference: 1458

Notes: Rpt. in Jefferson and the Arts: An Extended View, ed. William Howard Adams (item # 2521). Best catalogue on the life portraits; discusses their history, condition, iconographic importance, etc.

Reference: 2641

Notes: Discusses Crevecoeur, William Bartram, and TJ's Notes; his "landscape of conflict" encouraged "pragmatic exploration."

Reference: 2642

Notes: Illustrated account of the competition to design the U. S. Capitol; TJ treated passim and on 83-85.

Reference: 2643

Notes: Praises TJ for his principles and commitment to civil and political liberty, yet is deeply suspicious of those who supported him and whom he supported: "hack libellers, ... half-rebellious democratic societies made up chiefly of the mobs of the large cities, ... moonshiners of the mountains." Because of this and similar contradictions, "Perhaps no great writer on politics ... needs to have his sayings and acts analysed more carefully than does Jefferson."

Reference: 1459

Reference: 218

Notes: Less about TJ than an attack upon governmental regulation and taxation; an anti-New Deal Jefferson.

Reference: 217

Notes: U.S. came of age in the summer of 1826 because deaths of TJ and Adams "awakened in every thoughtful citizen a consciousness of the republican ideals the two patriots had exemplified."

Reference: 222

Notes: Suggests possibility TJ injured his wrist while visiting the Desert de Retz on September 16, 1786. Interesting description of the Desert.

Reference: 221

Notes: Good account of how Rush fostered the reconciliation of TJ and Adams

Reference: 219

Notes: Describes the plans and editorial procedures of the edition of the Papers published by Princeton Univ. Press under the editorship of Julian P. Boyd.

Reference: 2645

Notes: The plan of preparing handbills encouraging Hessian officers and men to desert was not particularly successful because they did not reach the Germans in any quantity.

Reference: 1461

Notes: Includes facsimile of "Ode to the Mammoth Cheese,..." Focus on Leland but discusses his support of TJ and relations with him.

Reference: 1460

Notes: Emphasizes TJ's collection as the Library's "true heart."

Reference: 2644

Notes: Comments on the friendship and the location of mss. letters.

Reference: 220

Reference: 2646

Notes: Juvenile fiction.

Reference: 2647

Reference: 223

Notes: Presents TJ as thoroughgoing supporter of separation in church and state; nothing new.

Reference: 1462

Notes: conventional generalities

Reference: 225

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