Notes: Sketch, probably from secondary sources.

Reference: 226

Notes: Brief introduction, some annotation, but basic source material.

Reference: 2648

Notes: Good popular account of the care of Monticello by Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy and his nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy, who owned the house from 1836 until 1923.

Reference: 227

Notes: Contends TJ's natural aristocracy of talent and virtue allowed the concept of the gentleman to become associated with that of democracy.

Reference: 2163

Notes: Recipes.

Reference: 2649

Notes: Claims judicial review is not at odds with TJ's principles; see reply by Arthur Krock, October 28, 1956. p. 6.

Reference: 1463

Notes: Contends against Henry Steele Commager that TJ believed in judicial as opposed to extrajudicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1464

Notes: Explains Supreme Court inconsistency on church-state cases by contending the Justices have 2 different understandings of religion, a Jeffersonian-Enlightenment view and a Madisonian-dissenter view.

Reference: 1465

Notes: Poem; rpt. NEA Journal. 42(1953), 248.

Reference: 2650

Notes: Intelligent overview of TJ's conception of legal theory and his knowledge of legal authorities.

Reference: 2164

Notes: TJ because of his overriding concern for individual liberty customarily thought of organization from the bottom up. He attempted to control the exercise of power in space by decentralization and to control it in time by regular rotation in office. "Hamilton is our great teacher of the organization and administration of public power; Jefferson, our chief expositor of its control."

Reference: 1466

Notes: Published as item # 1466.

Reference: 1467

Reference: 2165

Notes: Emphasizes the death of Adams and TJ on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration as God's "manifesting to us his special favor and protection, apparently revealing to all mankind that this is his chosen land."

Reference: 228

Notes: The founder of the Disciples of Christ visits TJ's grave and describes the religious situation at the Univ. of Virginia—the University had come to be dominated by the major sects in the short time since TJ's death. Campbell admired TJ for his stand on religious freedom and individual rights.

Reference: 2166

Notes: Sketch, little on TJ as governor

Reference: 230

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 232

Notes: School text.

Reference: 231

Reference: 229

Notes: Slightly expanded version of the previous item; extensive scholarship but not necessarily the right conclusion.

Reference: 2652

Notes: Authors claim to have discovered the lost original of Stuart's missing first portrait of TJ. However, see article by David Meschutt, noted below.

Reference: 2651

Notes: Overview of TJ as book collector.

Reference: 2653

Notes: TJ's life at Monticello; loose with the facts. Illustrated.

Reference: 233

Notes: Founder's Day Address, Univ. of Virginia. Theme is TJ's remark in a letter to Edward Rutledge, "There is a debt of service due from every man to his country ..."

Reference: 1468

Notes: A report from TJ's death bed.

Reference: 234

Notes: Examines the parts played by TJ, Monroe, and Meriwether Lewis, all Albemarle men. Praises TJ's "forehanded ... timely" plans for exploration of the new territory.

Reference: 1469

Notes: On editorial procedures and a survey of the Adams-TJ relationship.

Reference: 235

Notes: Argues that TJ's reputation in the South changed as Southerners were forced by abolitionism to reject natural law theory and its most famous advocate. Well researched but unannotated.

Reference: 1470

Reference: 2654

Notes: TJ was most probably influenced by William Small and "the enlightened thinking of Scottish higher education" which he represented. Yet TJ's views on education were apparently formed early in his life, and it is difficult to conclude with certainty that he was definitely influenced by the ideas of other theorists. DAI 30/05A, p. 1835.

Reference: 2655

Reference: 1471

Notes: Cooking, includes recipes.

Reference: 2656

Reference: 238

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 236

Notes: "The Monticello Papers, No. 1."

Reference: 237

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: Using an anecdote about TJ and his pet mockingbird, contends biographers need to be more sensitive to folklore and folklife.

Reference: 240

Notes: Stories adapted from radio plays broadcast on the "Cavalcade of America" program.

Reference: 239

Notes: TJ responded cautiously to Jose Joaquim de Maia's request for U.S. support of a Brazilian revolution for fear of antagonizing the Portuguese.

Reference: 1473

Notes: Federalist attack, not authentic memoirs.

Reference: 241

Notes: Contends the opinion that Adams wavered on action against the Barbary pirates and TJ took a firm hand is erroneous. Good account of controversies involving TJ and Adams on support and deployment of the Navy.

Reference: 1474

Notes: TJ's correspondence with Nicholas Gouin Dufief, who published in 1804 Nature Displayed, proposing to teach French by having students memorize whole sentences at a time.

Reference: 2658

Notes: Baron de Montlezun visits TJ, Monroe and Madison

Reference: 242

Notes: Explains why TJ was not fortunate in having Morellet as a translator.

Reference: 2657

Notes: TJ and Franklin gave "principal imaginative expression" to the idea of American progress in freedom; vaguely and generally developed statement.

Reference: 2167

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: An address calling for the continued teaching of the "fundamental political philosophy of Mr. Jefferson."

Reference: 2659

Reference: 1476

Notes: Picture book

Reference: 243

Notes: Smith was instrumental in breaking the electoral deadlock in February, 1801. "The evidence indicates Jefferson did not make a political bargain with (James A.) Bayard to secure his own election." Smith, however, seems to have suggested to Bayard that he was relaying Jefferson's assurances about Federalist office-holders.

Reference: 1477

Notes: Giuseppe Franzoni and Giovanni Andrei began the sculptural decoration of the Capitol building following a program set up by Latrobe and TJ. DAI 36/10A, p. 6346.

Reference: 2660

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: 5 presidential decisions; TJ's was to purchase Louisiana. Minor.

Reference: 1478

Notes: TJ's ideas of education echo Milton's, but there is no proof that he read Milton's "Of Education."

Reference: 2666

Notes: Not located; cited in Writings in American History (1907), #1452

Reference: 245

Notes: Argues that TJ favored an institutional framework to channel the mobility of his natural aristocracy, but that the anti-industrialism and suspicion of federal authority implicit in his thought obstructed the needed central planning, particularly by his political heirs.

Reference: 2168

Notes: Credits TJ with the invention of stratigraphy and describes his excavation of the Indian mound; abridged version of this published as "Mr. Jefferson's 'Dig."' American History Illustrated. 6(November 197 1), 38-41.

Reference: 2668

Notes: Survey of TJ's archaeological interests, his interest in the race question and the origin of races, his method of approach to primitive peoples, and his interest in Indian languages.

Reference: 2669

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

Reference: 246

Notes: TJ discussed throughout, particularly as president and party leader on pp. 170-90. TJ was able to consolidate the Republican's power in his first term, but infighting in his second term foreshadowed the difficulties his successors would meet.

Reference: 1479

Notes: School text: see also next entry

Reference: 248

Notes: TJ's relationship with the college from student days to the time of the founding of the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 2670

Notes: Sketchy

Reference: 247

Reference: 249

Notes: A history of TJ's administration strongly influenced by Henry Adams' history of the same period, but perhaps more federalist, more supercilious than Adams. Contends the War of 1812 discredited TJ's parsimonious defense spending, "philosophic" political weapons like the Embargo, and hostility to Britain.

Reference: 1480

Notes: On the question of authorship; TJ the author and not John Breckinridge.

Reference: 1481

Reference: 250

Reference: 251

Notes: Revised and published in part as The Origins of the American Party System (1956).

Reference: 1485

Notes: "Jefferson did not create a party; a widespread popular movement recognized and claimed him as its leader."

Reference: 1482

Notes: The Jay Treaty "altered party alignments and caused each group to close ranks."

Reference: 1483

Notes: Essays originally appeared in ~Q, 12(1956), 217-67, and as in the two previous items (pp. 217-67 not relevant to TJ). Standard work.

Reference: 1484

Notes: TJ attempted to organize European nations to engage with the U.S. in concerted action against the Barbary pirates.

Reference: 1486

Notes: Notes the range of TJ's attitudes toward French culture and his sympathy for the French people

Reference: 253

Notes: TJ's artistic interests discussed; he is "un clasicista con tendencias romanticas."

Reference: 2673

Notes: A controversial, prize-winning novel which assumes Sally Hemings was TJ's mistress and explores the situation primarily from her supposed point of view. A good novel, but suspect as history.

Reference: 2674

Notes: Contends TJ conceives of property differently from Locke, and the "Jeffersonians' synthesis of rights and consent demonstrates the social basis of property without legitimizing the doctrines of laissez faire or social elitism."

Reference: 2170

Notes: Claims that TJ's notions of property, rights, and consent are more modern than Locke's and that his epistemological commitments are different. Revised version printed as "Jefferson's Unheavenly City: An Interpretation" in The Non-Lockean Roots of American Economic Thought, ed. Chaudhuri. Tucson: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1977. 17-29.

Reference: 2169

Notes: Version of this sketch also appears in Pace (Piedmont Airlines). January/February 1977. 21-23, 35

Reference: 254

Notes: On TJ's friendship with Lafayette and their meeting in 1824

Reference: 255

Notes: Yes, it says here.

Reference: 2171

Notes: Sketch emphasizing his role as "a member of the Enlightenment;" insignificant

Reference: 256

Notes: Biographical sketch; nothing new

Reference: 257

Notes: Popular, balanced account of the political struggles between the two men.

Reference: 1487

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

Reference: 2675

Notes: Prints letters of Madame de Stael for the first time in the original French; TJ's replies are in English

Reference: 259

Notes: Prints TJ's letter to Charles Macpherson, asking him to obtain if possible a copy in Gaelic of the Ossian poems, plus MacPherson's reply and the letter of James MacPherson, the Ossian forger, to Charles. TJ's letter was heavily corrected during its composition, suggesting he was anxious to make a favorable impression.

Reference: 2678

Notes: Best account of the Volney-TJ relationship, although the focus is on Volney here.

Reference: 2178

Notes: TJ's correspondence with the Countess d'Houdetot from 1785 to 1808, mostly before 1790, illuminated with extensive commentary

Reference: 258

Notes: Charts TJ's changing responses from approval to reservation toward Montesquieu.

Reference: 2174

Notes: An historical introduction, "Jefferson en France," and a biographical introduction to each correspondence. Notes.

Reference: 265

Notes: Analyzes the contents of a literary commonplace book and argues that it dates from an early period of TJ's life. Finds early evidence for an underlying stoic attitude, but also suggests several attitudes implied by some of the selections were merely of the moment.

Reference: 2677

Notes: Revised edition published Boston, 1939. Argues that the major influences on TJ's political thinking were classical and English sources, and that his ideas were essentially formed by the time he encountered most

Reference: 264

Notes: Rather slight discussion of TJ's interests; rpt. in American Scholar. 1(1932), 133-43.

Reference: 2681

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

Reference: 2177

Notes: "In his theories and his conduct can be distinguished a combination of international idealism, world-wide economic aspirations, and intense isolationism which cannot be reduced to a single formula."

Reference: 2172

Notes: Discusses the European response to TJ.

Reference: 261

Notes: TJ was more influenced by readings in Bolingbroke, Cicero, and Kames than by the philosophes he encountered after his trip to France. He was reluctant to involve himself with the more abstract speculations of the philosophers but took comfort in the doctrines of Epicurus and Enfield's philosophical handbook. His concern to find a practical rule of conduct and social morality made him an object of admiration for later French thinkers such as Cabanis, Volney, Thierry, and Comte.

Reference: 2175

Notes: TJ's involvement with the Society surveyed.

Reference: 2679

Notes: TJ, unlike Franklin, shunned popularity while in Europe, but through his letters, writings, and example he exerted a widespread influence.

Reference: 262

Notes: These pages are subheaded "Deux Grands Amateurs de Plantes: Chateaubriand et Thomas Jefferson." Brief.

Reference: 2680

Notes: TJ's correspondence reprinted, including letters to him, with ample commentary and explanation. Important on this topic.

Reference: 2176

Notes: Useful introduction describes the mss. and comments in detail on TJ's entries.

Reference: 2173

Notes: Introductory material puts the correspondence in historical and biographical context; letters in French are also translated.

Reference: 263

Notes: TJ promotes Houdon. Taylor's introduction first appeared in The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin. 24(1928).

Reference: 2676

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

Reference: 260

Notes: Juvenile fiction, more fanciful than most of the stories featuring TJ.

Reference: 2682

Notes: Rambling survey, concluding that if TJ were alive today, he would not be far removed from orthodox Christianity.

Reference: 2179

Notes: Untangling for a popular audience TJ's mistaken reminiscences.

Reference: 266

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 2683

Notes: TJ "belongs in such company—the company of Plato and St. Paul." He would be surprised to find himself ranked in this company, given his opinions about them.

Reference: 267

Notes: Points out six criticisms historians have directed towards TJ's role in the Lewis and Clark expedition, and concludes the only justifiable objection to his planning of the expedition concerns his failure to ensure that the Expedition journals were published immediately after the return.

Reference: 1488

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

Reference: 2684

Reference: 2685

Notes: Everything TJ was and aspired to be gave him "the necessary temperament to become an eminent and dedicated gourmet." Good wine, good company, fresh food, and moderation.

Reference: 268

Reference: 2686

Notes: A somewhat superficial treatment of party organization and development.

Reference: 1489

Notes: Surveys TJ's librarianship and interest in books.

Reference: 2687

Notes: Survey.

Reference: 2688

Reference: 269

Notes: Explains the background of a brief bit of verse satirizing TJ as a tyrant written in 1808; unreliable in particulars.

Reference: 2689

Notes: Exonerates Michael Cresap from the murder of Logan's family but claims Logan's speech as reported by TJ is authentic.

Reference: 270

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 271

Reference: 1490

Notes: TJ and Franklin considered as men whose interests covered every branch of human activity and of nature.

Reference: 272

Notes: TJ working in the spirit of Leon Battista Alberti who also influenced Palladio. Rpt. in Thomas Jefferson: The Man ... His World ... His Influence, ed. Lally Weymouth. New York: Putnam's, 1973. 97-105.

Reference: 2690

Notes: Examines R. P. Warren's use of TJ in his long narrative poem, where he is "less important as an individual reconstructed from the past than as a symbol embodying Warren's critique of America's history and his hopes for America's future."

Reference: 2691

Reference: 273

Notes: Describes visit of Sir Augustus John Foster to Monticello.

Reference: 274

Notes: History of the Univ. library told in terms of its Jeffersonian origins; early chapters describe TJ's plans, later ones describe a working out of those plans in the ensuing century and a quarter.

Reference: 2695

Notes: Prints with introduction and extensive annotation two fragmentary mss. in TJ's hand containing notes on the minutes of the Virginia Council and General Court of 1625 and 1626 and a memorandum based on the 1652 records of the House of Burgesses.

Reference: 2692

Notes: 5 letters attesting in general terms to his esteem for TJ

Reference: 275

Notes: Long unfriendly sketch; "We regard him as the masterspirit of former mischievous inculcations, and his influence as the main promoting cause of all succeeding political malversations of 'the progressive Democracy'."

Reference: 276

Reference: 277

Notes: Sketch, with an account of Tarleton's raid

Reference: 278

Notes: Biographical sketch; "tide" as in tide of events. Minor.

Reference: 279

Notes: Carmichael was charge d'affaires in Spain while TJ was in Paris, and he continued there until 1794. Study based on correspondence between TJ and Carmichael but focus is on the latter.

Reference: 1491

Notes: Postage stamps with TJ's portrait.

Reference: 2694

Notes: A wide-ranging article with a few incisive pages (366-69) on the influence of Newtonian science on TJ.

Reference: 2695

Notes: Volume in Three Centuries of Science in America Series reprints 29 articles or pamphlets, each noted separately here.

Reference: 2696

Notes: Prints facsimile and transcription of a letter dated August 30, 1814 to John Minor on a program of reading suitable for his son, who wished to become a lawyer. Lengthy introduction comments on the letter's background and the nature of its advice.

Reference: 2697

Notes: Argues that "Jefferson's practical involvement with the system of black bondage indicates that, while his racist beliefs were generally congruent with his actions, his libertarian views about slavery tended to be mere abstractions. This is particularly true for the years after 1785."

Reference: 2180

Notes: TJ discussed on pp. 9-27; popular.

Reference: 1492

Notes: TJ developed a "persistent and enduring affection for whig history," including the myth of an Anglo-Saxon democracy which "he was optimistic enough to believe ... would be re-established on an enduring basis in America."

Reference: 2183

Notes: TJ's reading of whig history as background for his Summary View as well as for his whole career. This is the key to "his peculiar historical optimism, ... his staunch faith that the past could be successfully adapted to the future in America."

Reference: 2182

Notes: Prints and comments on four reading lists given to Joseph C. Cabell, two of them from TJ.

Reference: 2698

Notes: Author later publishes as H. Trevor Colbourn.

Reference: 2181

Notes: Charles Brockden Brown, an admirer of TJ in the 1790's, became sharply critical of him and his administration, particularly in his pamphlet on the Embargo.

Reference: 1493

Reference: 280

Notes: Biographical sketch of TJ's nephew and ward.

Reference: 281

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: Sketch in a volume written for the Pioneer Youth of America.

Reference: 282

Notes: Argues that TJ's proposed plan of government for the Northwest Territory, made in 1784, was the model for the Ordinance of 1787. Coles was Monroe's private secretary and Governor of Illinois.

Reference: 1494

Notes: Reviews major reevaluations of TJ since the progressives and presents them both as correction and vindication of Henry Adams' History.

Reference: 283

Notes: Meticulous account of TJ's early use of graph paper, but refrains from calling him the inventor of this method, although there is no evidence for anyone before him.

Reference: 2699

Notes: Usual anecdotes and a fair amount of misinformation.

Reference: 285

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 287

Notes: Contends that TJ's travel notes prepared for John Rutledge, Jr. and Thomas Lee Shippen do not prove his philistinism as argued by Gilbert Chinard. Reprints the notes.

Reference: 2703

Notes: Surveys Rutledge's career, concludes there is no evidence for his authorship of the Geffroy forgeries, but he may have been implicated in the publication of Callender's scurrilities.

Reference: 1495

Notes: Miniature portrait by John Trumbull which TJ gave to Maria Cosway is rediscovered in Italy.

Reference: 2702

Notes: Letters to Wm. Hilliard, Boston bookseller, pertinent to acquisitions for the new University. Interesting introduction by the editor.

Reference: 2701

Notes: Reconciles them in their common love of country.

Reference: 291

Notes: Contends that TJ because of his belief in man's right to govern himself opposed the principle of judicial review, but he also recognized the rights of minorities under "Nature's law" and judicial review is the only way to secure these.

Reference: 1496

Reference: 292

Notes: Note reviewing studies of TJ.

Reference: 293

Reference: 289

Notes: Portrays Federalist opposition to national purchase of TJ's library. Rpt. in author's The Search for a Usable Past. New York: Knopf, 1967. 99-105.

Reference: 290

Notes: Juvenile; emphasizes TJ as proponent of religious freedom.

Reference: 288

Notes: Popular condensation of item #2186.

Reference: 2185

Notes: Claims that John Adams saw men as prisoners of the past, but TJ believed men could "triumph over history." The Jeffersonians Americanized the idea of progress.

Reference: 2189

Notes: Surveys TJ's connections with the Enlightenment; he alone "of the great galaxy of the philosophes embraced the whole of Enlightenment philosophy."

Reference: 2187

Notes: TJ considered as an Enlightenment man.

Reference: 2186

Notes: Argues that the Old World imagined the Enlightenment, but the New World realized it in government bused on faith in Nature and Reason.

Reference: 2188

Notes: Reproduces and gives the history of the full-length portrait done by Thomas Sully in 1821.

Reference: 2705

Notes: Note on an aquatint portrait circa 1798 done by Kosciuszko.

Reference: 2704

Notes: Arts in America are not yet to the level TJ dreamed of.

Reference: 2706

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

Reference: 2707

Notes: TJ was a genuine educational innovator who was concerned with education for everyone and at all levels; however, his notion of progressively selective education was not accepted, for "the doctrine of equality of status came in conflict with the notion of equality of opportunity." But the 1960's are different from previous times, and TJ's ideas are more relevant.

Reference: 2708

Reference: 295

Notes: Callender began his career in England by publishing two attacks on Samuel Johnson.

Reference: 296

Reference: 297

Notes: Argues that TJ as a model of republicanism applicable to French society; prefaces an abridged translation of T. J. Randolph's Memoirs. ... from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 1497

Notes: Sketch, not particularly informative.

Reference: 298

Notes: Discusses letters written over nearly a fifty year period.

Reference: 299

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

Reference: 1498

Notes: Claims that Monroe with the concurrence of TJ and Madison intended the Monroe Doctrine to set out a policy allying the U.S. and Britain as guarantors of South American independence against the Holy Alliance. 'Into the Venezuelan question the Monroe Doctrine, as originally intended, never entered."

Reference: 1499

Notes: On TJ's efforts to introduce the cork oak in America, now being reattempted during war time. Seen only as an offprint.

Reference: 2709

Notes: Develops TJ's conception of freedom and observes no significant modification of his basic ideas in the fifty years of his life after 1776.

Reference: 2190

Notes: Contends that the famous dinner table agreement among Hamilton, Madison, and TJ in June of 1790 had little real effect on the enactment of the compromise which provided for federal assumption of state debts and a national capital on the Potomac. However, see item # 1419.

Reference: 1501

Notes: A useful bibliographical essay on the politics of the period from 1789-1815. Another version printed as "The Federal Era: Hamiltonian or Jeffersonian?" in Interpretations of American History, ed. Grob and Billias. New York: Free Press, 1972. 243-59.

Reference: 5

Notes: Coxe, although a supporter of Hamilton's financial policies, was personally attracted to TJ and shared many of his ideas on commercial policy. He provided TJ with notes and data which were of material aid for the Report on Whale Fisheries and the Report on Commerce.

Reference: 1500

Notes: Fiction.

Reference: 2710

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 302

Notes: Romanticized account of TJ in the Williamsburg days.

Reference: 300

Notes: Focus on the young TJ, much romanticized.

Reference: 303

Notes: Slight sketch.

Reference: 301

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

Reference: 1502

Notes: Notes the progress of liberty, praises TJ, and dreams of Western expansion and manifest destiny.

Reference: 1503

Notes: TJ believed in the brotherhood of man; "... the 'federation of the world' would be for him no mere empty phrase."

Reference: 304

Notes: Describes the wedding journey from Monticello to Boston of TJ's granddaughter, Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 305

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

Reference: 306

Reference: 2700

Notes: Brief description of and extracts from letters and papers presents to the MHS.

Reference: 308

Reference: 307

Notes: TJ demonstrated the usefulness of intelligence in democratic government, but "the intellectual leader in politics in those days was his own brains trust."

Reference: 1504

Notes: Informed, thorough survey.

Reference: 2711

Notes: TJ mentioned in passing as a typical "Jeffersonian"; describes the impact of Jeffersonian theory upon the House's assertion of independence from the Executive.

Reference: 1505

Notes: Focuses on the relationship between Burke and Paine in 1787-89; Paine passed information on the French Revolution on to Burke, including a letter from TJ to Paine, dated July 11, 1789.

Reference: 309

Notes: Claims that the "muddle-headed" president satirized by Washington Irving in The Knickerbocker History, who believed in hands-off government but tried forcibly to impose his intellectual fancies, is an earlier version of Wilson's espousal of the League of Nations.

Reference: 1506

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

Notes: A volume in the popular Chronicles of America series.

Reference: 1508

Notes: Claims TJ did not allow his own prejudices and animosities or his convictions on religious matters to affect his actions as a statesman and educator. TJ was impartial toward the exercise of religion, but he did not retreat into that "neutrality which is the benign disguise for wholly secular education."

Reference: 2191

Reference: 310

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 311

Notes: Informative accordion-fold broadside for visitors to the Rotunda.

Reference: 2712

Notes: What TJ would think of America now.

Reference: 312

Notes: Selected comments of TJ on religion, with brief comments by the editor.

Reference: 2192

Notes: Peripherally about TJ. "Jefferson and his successors, largely influenced by his direct suggestion and advice," used every possible opportunity to gain the Floridas.

Reference: 1509

Notes: TJ's desire to gain the Floridas influenced his whole attitude toward both Bonaparte and the Spanish colonies.

Reference: 1510

Notes: Argues that TJ is a much more significant writer for American literature than Jonathan Edwards. His memoir (not referred to as an autobiography until the 20th century) shows how TJ's "life is, first of all, his writing." He suppresses his self "in order to make a life of representation and a representative life." He tends "toward seeing his life as a result of the history he has made by writing." Goes on to infer a "symbolic narrative" in the Autobiography, concerned with parricides and patrimonies.

Reference: 2713

Notes: Juvenile fiction.

Reference: 2714

Notes: Note on TJ's interest in Spanish language and culture and his encouragement of others to study it.

Reference: 2715

Notes: Although TJ's critical statements on literary matters are scattered, he clearly valued emotive force in written expression, applying the term sublime rather generally to whatever he liked, but he did not divorce his sense of the sublime from the function of reason and the need for an ordered lucidity.

Reference: 2716

Notes: TJ's architecture establishes his spirit at the Univ. of Virginia; mostly photographs. Rpt. Univ. of Vir~inia Alumni News. 48(March 1962), 4-12.

Reference: 2717

Notes: Account of journalistic and literary attacks on TJ while in the White House. "He was the first of the Presidents to recover fully from the ordeal of the Presidency," since political calumny never touched his vanity as it had Adams, and, unlike Washington, he outlived his calumniators.

Reference: 1511

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

Notes: Focuses on attitudes before 1790; "There is considerable evidence that some of Jefferson's early views were not entirely inconsistent with the favorable attitudes toward manufacturing he later exhibited." DAI 26/04, p. 2158.

Reference: 2193

Notes: Another edition, Washington: n.p., 1856. pp. 28. Quotes TJ extensively on the evils of slavery in order to argue against its extension.

Reference: 1513

Notes: Full account of the controversy over Logan's speech; concludes that Logan gave a speech, but not that passing under his name, and TJ acted in good faith when writing the Notes.

Reference: 2718

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

Reference: 313

Notes: Contrasts TJ and Robespierre as respectively the "ideological founding fathers of the liberal and totalitarian forms of popular government."

Reference: 2194

Notes: The new century requires new solutions for its problems, but the old principles of TJ are still the basis of a free society: states rights, separation of powers, honest men in office.

Reference: 1514

Notes: Illustrated sketch; no. 5 in the American Historical Series.

Reference: 314

Notes: TJ quoted and cited as an anti-slavery advocate.

Reference: 1515

Notes: The tendency to pay lip-service to TJ while practice has followed Hamilton is explained by "the fact that American democracy as it has evolved through the years is not the practice of theory but primarily of circumstances."

Reference: 1516

Notes: Lecture on democracy for undergraduates; contends that TJ's theory of government rested on trust in the virtue of citizens, and if selfishness kept a good society from appearing, government would have to act as "widely as necessary," a la FDR.

Reference: 2196

Notes: Laudatory sketch on TJ as author of the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom.

Reference: 2195

Notes: Documents a variety of structures TJ had a hand in.

Reference: 2719

Notes: "Written for use in Public Schools of Virginia, Week of April 6-13, 1924."

Reference: 315

Notes: Discusses instruments TJ bought or owned.

Reference: 2720

Notes: A documented account of TJ's musical life, of the musical milieu in which he moved, the music he enjoyed, and the instruments he played. Reprints the 1783 catalogue of his music library and a catalogue of the Monticello music collection. Best book on this; authoritative.

Reference: 2722

Notes: Revised and published as the following item. DAI 33/04A, p. 1632.

Reference: 2721

Notes: Juvenile biography of Martha Jefferson Randolph.

Reference: 316

Notes: TJ's "policy was at bottom the old fatal policy of drift ... Hamilton's ... one of energetic and intelligent assertion of the national good."

Reference: 1517

Notes: The Democratic Party's "assiduous and indomitable attempts to revive Jeffersonian principles is the oldest and worst joke in American politics." FDR had recently appealed to the political thought of TJ as a standard for the Party.

Reference: 1518

Notes: In order to explain how "our government became the queer, crippled thing which it is," contends that the original Constitution was subverted by "anti-federalist" Jeffersonians, who frustrated the establishment of a unitary system with a dominant central government by reinterpreting the Constitution according to their principles. Focus is on the early struggles in the Supreme Court, TJ. vs. Marshall, etc. and on the implications of the fourteenth amendment. Enormously documented, passionately argued legal history which will seem wrong-headed to many readers. Even so, throws light on TJ and his difficulties with the judiciary and with Marshall.

Reference: 1519

Notes: Rpt. as The Unitarianism of Thomas Jefferson. On TJ's rational religion.

Reference: 2197

Notes: Prints with informative comment a letter from de Stael to TJ, dated February 12, 1817.

Reference: 317

Notes: TJ as champion of states rights.

Reference: 1520

Notes: pp. 21-153 are on TJ as founder and planner.

Reference: 2723

Notes: Popular history of events leading up to the Declaration.

Reference: 1521

Notes: On the need to acquire Monticello for the nation; "... the mansion itself is decaying." Originally in New York Sun, August 24, 1902, and rpt. at least once after 1912.

Reference: 318

Notes: See the author's later The Jeffersonian Republicans.

Reference: 1522

Notes: Focuses on the development of the Republican party on a broad front but also contains a good deal specifically on TJ's role. Rejects the idea of TJ as the organizing genius who singlehandedly brought it all together, although his political shrewdness made him an effective party leader after he returned to political life in 1796. The best book on this subject.

Reference: 1523

Reference: 1525

Notes: Washington diary of Gallatin's niece, who dined with TJ.

Reference: 319

Notes: TJ "brought to the presidency the most system in administration and the strongest leadership that the office had yet experienced," even though he left Federalist-designed structures essentially intact. He made the cabinet system work because of his talent for organization, his reliance on discussion and persuasion rather than authority, and his ability to preserve harmony among men of conflicting temperaments. He was also able to mobilize the power of his party, and he kept the government open to the people. A well-researched and significant book.

Reference: 1524

Notes: Excellent illustrated study of contemporary portraits, engravings, medals, caricatures, etc.

Reference: 2724

Notes: Detailed account of the scholarly and popular reputation of the Mecklenburg Declaration; TJ's rejection of it prompted antiJeffersonian reactions.

Reference: 1526

Notes: Lincoln often quoted TJ as presidential authority for his own decisions.

Reference: 320

Notes: Discusses TJ, pp. 80-88, stressing his thought on the role of environment in shaping men's thinking; mostly a generalizing sketch.

Reference: 2199

Notes: Discussion on TJ's law career and of the Reports of 1769-72.

Reference: 1527

Notes: A Biography in a series designed to present great Americans "in entertaining form, free from glamour." A deglamorized TJ is nearly indistinguishable from a Hamiltonian view.

Reference: 321

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. 18-57. Praises their role as the great men of "the congress of seventy-six," who in a time of revolutionary excitement were the authors of a national literature of liberty.

Reference: 322

Notes: Prints for the first time letters from TJ to John Wayles Eppes and Francis Eppes regarding the disposition of Poplar Forest; with commentary.

Reference: 323

Reference: 6

Notes: Cites TJ's belief in generational revision of constitutions and calls for an "advisory urban constitutional convention" to address social injustices which are roots of crime.

Reference: 1528

Notes: Discusses the rationale and motives behind TJ's instructions to Lewis and Clark, particularly in regard to the collection of scientific data.

Reference: 2725

Notes: Lewis responds to TJ's instructions as he lays in supplies and equipment.

Reference: 2726

Notes: Account of the live specimens sent by Lewis and Clark in 1805.

Reference: 2727

Notes: Traces a remote family connection.

Reference: 324

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