Notes: Examines the correspondence and the friendship between Rush and TJ and contends that the differences between them were rooted in Rush's Christianity and TJ's deism. Discusses Rush's efforts to convert TJ and TJ's preference for Dugald Stewart and Tracy to the apologists Rush urged him to read.

Reference: 2204

Notes: Argues that much of Hutchin's philosophy derives from the classical liberalism of Locke and TJ.

Reference: 2763

Notes: Praises TJ's educational ideals.

Reference: 2729

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

Reference: 2728

Notes: Good popular account.

Reference: 327

Notes: Rpt. Charlottesville: Jack Jouett Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1966. pp. 11. Account of Jack Jouett's ride, "a significant minor exploit."

Reference: 326

Reference: 2730

Notes: Loosely organized sketch of TJ's antagonism to Marshall and Marshall's handling of the Burr trial.

Reference: 1529

Notes: Criticism of Fawn Brodie and Gore Vidal for defaming the Founders.

Reference: 325

Notes: Somewhat frantic refutation of Fawn Brodie, Gore Vidal, and Barbara Chase-Riboud.

Reference: 328

Notes: Rejects the Callender scandals about TJ and Sally Hemings as given new currency by Fawn Brodie.

Reference: 329

Reference: 330

Notes: Discusses TJ's and Latrobe's correspondence on the design of the Capitol building.

Reference: 2731

Notes: TJ the "Patriarch of our party," whose election was the people's first authentic and empathetic ratification of the entire Democratic creed.

Reference: 331

Notes: Authors discuss TJ's educational theories as consistent with his philosophy, public utterances, and public writings. Nothing new.

Reference: 2200

Notes: For new Americans; "More than anyone else among our patriot fathers, Jefferson expressed the ideals that we call American."

Reference: 332

Notes: Argues that since the Declaration by intention advanced accepted ideas, it is not an isolated document and must be interpreted in company with other state papers, e.g. the Virginia Bill of Rights, etc. Concludes the Declaration is a political, not a social, statement.

Reference: 1530

Notes: Bound with Dane's A General Abridgment and Di~est of American Law, With Occasional Notes and Comments. vol. 9. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. The Appendix examines the relationship of state and federal governments in light of the debates on Foot's resolution in the U.S. Senate and the appearance of TJ's writings in the 1829 edition. Blames many of the loose constructions of the Constitution on TJ's writings since 1775 and criticizes his credulosity and jealousy concerning supposed monarchists and aristocrats.

Reference: 1531

Notes: Review essay warning those who wish to fly to TJ's bosom for comfort, "it isn't a very comfortable place."

Reference: 333

Notes: Collects reminiscences from people in the Charlottesville area who supposedly remembered TJ; interesting if not reliable.

Reference: 334

Reference: 1533

Reference: 335

Notes: "...one distinction is Jefferson's, and Jefferson's alone—he founded a party, not for a day, but for all time."

Reference: 1532

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 2732

Notes: Pro-Burr, treatment of TJ biased accordingly.

Reference: 336

Notes: A relatively early survey of TJ's activities in this field.

Reference: 1534

Reference: 1535

Notes: Large cast, stilted dialogue, federalists as villains; focus on the election of 1800.

Reference: 2733

Notes: Contends TJ's descendants tried to hide the truth; assumes Hemings affair without question.

Reference: 337

Notes: Enthusiastic support for the Fawn Brodie thesis.

Reference: 338

Notes: TJ represented majority American opinion in thinking that the U.S. could incorporate Lower Louisiana only after its population and institutional foundations of its culture were thoroughly Americanized. The pivotal issue was the conflict between the Creoles' continental civil law and Anglo-American common law. DAI 33/07A, p. 3507. See previous item.

Reference: 1537

Notes: Examines TJ's efforts to supplant civil law in Louisiana Territory with common law. Concentrates on controversy in Lower Louisiana (Orleans Territory).

Reference: 1536

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

Reference: 1538

Notes: Preface and notes, facsimiles of the music.

Reference: 2734

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

Reference: 339

Notes: Invented dialogue in the costume drama manner and fanciful psychologizing. Rpt. as Thomas Jefferson: Fighter for Freedom and Human Rights. New York: Ungar, 1961. pp. 352.

Reference: 340

Notes: TJ's greatest achievement as president was the Louisiana Purchase, Adams's was the navy, but their real monument is the country itself.

Reference: 341

Notes: Advice for those interested in collecting material relevant to TJ.

Reference: 2735

Notes: Account of the TJ-Adams friendship.

Reference: 342

Notes: A Kentucky Federalist's pamphlet on the Burr episode; brief notes by Isaac Joslin Cox and Helen Swineford.

Reference: 1539

Notes: Juvenile fiction.

Reference: 2736

Notes: Sentimental anecdotes for young readers.

Reference: 343

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 346

Notes: Juvenile; social and political life in TJ's Virginia and a biographical sketch.

Reference: 344

Notes: Young readers; emphasizes TJ's "farm boy" origins and covers his life up through the Declaration.

Reference: 345

Notes: The 13th Amendment is "Jefferson's posthumous contribution to the cause of human freedom," as he expressed it in the Declaration of Independence. Neglects the complexities of TJ's attitude toward slavery.

Reference: 2201

Notes: Lewis Littlepage was an adviser to Stanislaus Augustus 11 of Poland and corresponded with TJ. His long letter of December 26, 1791, is a full report on European politics.

Reference: 1540

Notes: "...racism is not a sufficient explanation for the discrepancy between Jefferson's anti-slavery pronouncements and his long record of inaction.... but rather ... his lifelong membership in a planter class whose wealth and power derived from the ownership of slaves."

Reference: 1542

Notes: Examines TJ's equivocal and indecisive position on slavery, pointing out that "when the chips were down" he was loyal to his class and society.

Reference: 1541

Notes: TJ's education and practice as a lawyer; rpt. in American Bar Association Journal. 13(February 1927), 63-68.

Reference: 1543

Reference: 347

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

Reference: 2739

Notes: The introduction focuses on Corea, but a sizeable portion of the well-annotated correspondence is to or from TJ.

Reference: 2737

Notes: Analyzes TJ's holdings; he "had posterity more in mind when he acquired Virginiana than he did when gathering more general materials." Rpt. with an added note in Literature and Society in Early Virginia, 1608-1840. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1973. 192-232.

Reference: 2741

Notes: Examines a wide range of activity by a large number of characters, but contains a great deal of information about TJ throughout. Very useful for background.

Reference: 2740

Notes: Rice made a marginal note in his copy of the Notes, arguing for miraculous action in putting fossils on mountain tops.

Reference: 2742

Notes: Analyzes libraries and book holdings in the colonial South; TJ and his books discussed passim.

Reference: 2738

Notes: Transcribes five letters to Francis Walker Gilmer about the search for a faculty for the new university, with notes and commentary. Letters not in Davis's Correspondence of TJ and Gilmer.

Reference: 2743

Notes: Introduction focuses on Gilmer and his role in finding faculty for TJ's university.

Reference: 348

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

Reference: 1544

Notes: A debate over TJ's opinions on the proper relationship between religious instruction and public education. Father Davis accuses Butts of incorrectly turning TJ into an "ardent secularist"; Butts points to TJ's insistence that schools of religion be independent of the University of Virginia.

Reference: 2744

Notes: Review essay on John Chester Miller, The Wolf by the Ears, suggests that "Nature and Slavery were two great problems for Jefferson" in his use of 18th-century rationalist language.

Reference: 1545

Notes: Argues for a similarity of TJ's views to Williams' and for a Baptist influence on his ideas about religious liberty. Unconvincing. Similar material in the chapter of the same title in Dawson's Baptists and the American Republic. Nashville: Broadman Press, 1956. 15-45.

Reference: 2202

Notes: General account.

Reference: 50

Notes: On TJ and the founding of the University.

Reference: 2748

Notes: Discusses TJ's democratic principles, his correspondence with Dupont de Nemours, and "El Testamento de Jefferson" on slavery and its consequences.

Reference: 49

Notes: William Vans Murray criticizes TJ's closing of the legations at The Hague and Lisbon; DeConde portrays Murray as a conscientious diplomat, almost uniquely responsible for working out the Convention of 1800 with the French.

Reference: 1547

Notes: Pierre Auguste Adet, the Directory's minister to the United States, attempted to electioneer for TJ in 1796 in hopes of restoring the French alliance and overthrowing the Jay Treaty, but his efforts were counterproductive on the whole.

Reference: 1550

Notes: Synthesizes diplomatic history and domestic political history of the period 1789-1797, considered in terms of the consequences and complications caused by the French alliance of 1778; TJ discussed passim.

Reference: 1546

Notes: Account of TJ's difficulties with Gouverneur Morris as minister to France.

Reference: 1549

Notes: Argues that "an expansionist Anglo-American ethos, rooted in the colonial experience, ... continues into the first years of the new American nation and emerges during the Louisiana affair as a kind of pious imperialism." Pocuses on the acquisition of Louisiana and discusses TJ throughout.

Reference: 1548

Notes: TJ's and Dewey's liberalism "is at least of the same 'family'; their view of human nature is not."

Reference: 2203

Notes: Abstract drawn from thesis; see following item.

Reference: 2205

Notes: Contends TJ's educational philosophy rested on his epistomology, hence it is "an expression of his value theory."

Reference: 2207

Notes: The ends of education for TJ grew directly out of his theory of value; education was an instrument of society and was to be encouraged in order to realize individual and social possibilities of liberty and happiness. DAI 23/02, p. 551.

Reference: 2206

Notes: Yugoslavia. Discusses TJ's role in the development of the Republican party.

Reference: 1551

Notes: Contends that TJ's policy of getting Indians off their land was practically successful in the short run but a moral failure which "will forever remain a blot" on his record.

Reference: 1552

Notes: Focus on Humboldt; TJ mentioned—meeting of the two in Washington was "the moral climax of Humboldt's American travels."

Reference: 2747

Notes: Humboldt in 1804 visited TJ, who was interested in his information on Spanish America and in his scientific observation.

Reference: 2746

Notes: A casebook in the "Problems in American Civilization" series.

Reference: 1553

Reference: 1554

Notes: Argues that attitudes toward the Declaration correspond directly with those held about its author.

Reference: 353

Notes: Argues suggestively that TJ regarded the expedition, planned before the actual purchase, as a means to hasten the expansion of the U.S. to the Pacific.

Reference: 1555

Reference: 354

Notes: Competent introduction to the political and historical context of the Marbury case, which established the principle of judicial review. Discusses TJ's quarrels with Marshall and the consequences of the decision.

Reference: 1556

Notes: Intelligently discusses TJ's law practice, based upon an examination of his casebook, fee book, and account books.

Reference: 356

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

Reference: 2208

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

Reference: 355

Reference: 357

Notes: Attacks the interpretation of the Declaration as a democratic manifesto and the Constitution as a reactionary check. Argues that the "social contract theory upon which the Declaration is based teaches not equality as such but equal political liberty."

Reference: 2210

Notes: Contends that the Declaration of Independence was not a democratic document, pledging the nation to a democratic form of government, but one that put the idea of equal liberty at the base of American political existence.

Reference: 2209

Notes: Letters (1809-23) to George Ticknor and David Bailie Warden, with introduction and notes.

Reference: 358

Notes: "Lecturas para muchachas"

Reference: 359

Notes: TJ and statesmen of his time had an articulated philosophy of government, but present day politicians do not analyze their implicit political ideas. They must, however, if we are to preserve the free society envisioned by TJ.

Reference: 2211

Notes: TJ advises a cousin on study for the law and reports on balloon ascensions.

Reference: 360

Notes: Discusses aesthetic treatises which shaped TJ's taste, his acquisition and display of paintings and sculpture, and the eventual disposition of his collection. Claims that by 1790 TJ's collecting interests had moved from the "rather haphazard" to focus on representations of eminent men and things pertinent to American history.

Reference: 2749

Notes: Somewhat fanciful sketch

Reference: 361

Notes: Sketch with emphasis on agricultural interests.

Reference: 2750

Notes: Examines responses of historians from 1943-1975 to TJ's reasoning on racial equality. Argues that modern historians, like TJ, have been unable to resolve contradictory naturalistic and idealistic strains of Enlightenment thought.

Reference: 2212

Notes: TJ's interests in the western territories and his visions of exploration presented as a key to Lewis's career.

Reference: 2751

Notes: TJ's advice for young Americans to be educated at home is similar to present day policies of countries such as Ghana. Reprints TJ's letter of October 15, 1785 to J. Bannister, Jr.

Reference: 2752

Notes: Encourages Mrs. Martin W. Littleton's campaign to acquire Monticello for the nation

Reference: 362

Notes: Superficial sketch written for high school history teachers.

Reference: 363

Notes: Insignificant

Reference: 364

Notes: TJ disliked the judiciary's relative independence from the other branches and opposed the Supreme Court's custom of delivering a general opinion.

Reference: 1557

Notes: Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz made inevitable the Embargo, which destroyed TJ's popularity and political effectiveness.

Reference: 1558

Notes: TJ was from the time of his death until after the Civil War a forsaken prophet, except in so far as he was seen as the spokesman for states rights.

Reference: 1559

Notes: "Inaugural-Dissertation zur Bewerbung um die Doctorwurde bei der hohen philosophischen Facultat der Universitat." Covers TJ's political involvement in the early 1790's.

Reference: 1560

Notes: Uncritical antiquarianism, but useful

Reference: 365

Notes: TJ's proposed observatory on Montalto next to Monticello was architecturally conservative, and the astronomical problems were not carefully considered as they were in the tower built by David Rittenhouse.

Reference: 2753

Notes: TJ's career narrated by piecing together bits of his own writing; selections are too brief; commentary jejune

Reference: 367

Notes: Popular; dismisses scandals about Sally Hemings and gives an account of TJ's relations with wife, daughters, and Maria Cosway.

Reference: 368

Notes: Popular account of background, contents, and reception of the Declaration.

Reference: 1561

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

Reference: 2213

Notes: Argues that TJ's peculiar fusion of idealistic morality and political realism in directing foreign policy laid the ground for subsequent difficulties.

Reference: 1562

Notes: TJ's work for education.

Reference: 2755

Notes: Correspondence between TJ and Robley Dunglison, the physician he brought from London to be on the faculty of the University. Appendix discusses TJ's medical ideas.

Reference: 2754

Notes: Review essay finds Randall's biography of TJ verbose and dull but agrees with his highly favorable assessment of TJ.

Reference: 369

Notes: Philatelic notes on stamps bearing TJ's portrait

Reference: 370

Notes: Sketch of TJ as he was when the Marquis de Chastellux met him in 1782, at Montice

Reference: 372

Notes: Biography covering TJ's life through his service as Secretary of State.

Reference: 371

Notes: A novelist's history of the years from Yorktown until TJ's first term, played out in terms of the Hamilton-TJ rivalry, and closing with the Burr-Hamilton duel.

Reference: 1563

Notes: On TJ and architecture; misleadingly suggests he was inspired by Greek architecture. Adapted from the author's Prospects of a Golden Age. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959.

Reference: 2756

Notes: Argues that if the organization of society has changed, human nature has not, and TJ still can teach us about democracy. A passion for freedom is the best weapon against communism.

Reference: 373

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 374

Notes: Political and social history of the years 1800-1830 with TJ as a central figure.

Reference: 1564

Notes: Claims TJ did not consistently practice the doctrines of equality he preached in the Declaration; accepts TJ's paternity of Sally Heming's children as fact.

Reference: 375

Notes: TJ spoke to the right of free choice and the right of dissent.

Reference: 2214

Notes: Claims that "When democracy is construed as political processes establishing political equality and majority rule, Jefferson cannot be considered a democrat to the same extent as the dissident groups in the Revolutionary era." Discusses TJ's draft of a constitution for Virginia and his reform bills during his governorship.

Reference: 1565

Reference: 376

Reference: 7

Notes: Juvenile; traces history of Washington, D.C. unti 1809 with emphasis on life during TJ's administration.

Reference: 377

Notes: Analyzes TJ's role in the appointment of Story and reasons for his objections to him, including the fear that he would be on the Supreme Court if the batture case were appealed. Claims TJ had some influence on Madison's appointments, but Madison was basically his own man. Well informed.

Reference: 1566

Reference: 378

Notes: Ohio Republicans acted to remove St. Clair as a response to the Territorial Legislature's Division Act of 1801.

Reference: 1567

Reference: 2757

Notes: Finds the roots of the fantasy of "migrationism" in ideas like TJ's about colonization of free blacks; only a page on TJ.

Reference: 2215

Notes: Note on the St. Memin drawing.

Reference: 2758

Notes: TJ changed his mind and was willing to admit clergymen to the legislature.

Reference: 1568

Notes: "Jefferson illustre bien la 'conscience ambiguee' de l'intellectuel radical americain qui reconnait certes les bases du systeme 'democratique' mais s'oppose a ses manifestations concre'tes."

Reference: 2759

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 'In this splendid coincidence of events, ... what grateful and ingenuous heart hesitates to acknowledge an omniscient and benignant Providence?"

Reference: 379

Notes: Rpt. in Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin. 3rd ser. 14 (July 1921), 47-53.General praise.

Reference: 380

Notes: Biographical conjunctions.

Reference: 385

Notes: He passed through several times, was there with the Congress.

Reference: 386

Notes: "At present a complete answer cannot be given."

Reference: 387

Notes: Thorough study of TJ's travels; offers valuable insights on his personality and character and information on conditions and items of interest in the places he visited.

Reference: 383

Notes: "Translated in part from Thomas Jefferson, American Tourist."

Reference: 382

Notes: Contends that local government in which citizens most immediately participate is one of the basic features of Jeffersonian democracy.

Reference: 1570

Notes: Phrase by phrase examination of the Declaration which explores the intellectual and historical background of TJ's ideas and expressions. The second half of the title here is somewhat misleading.

Reference: 2216

Notes: TJ's library contained valuable legal mss. and a unique copy of the Virginia statutes from 1734 to 1772. The courts often treated his library as being in effect a depository of public records. Hening's Statutes at Large were in part a result of TJ's legal and historical scholarship.

Reference: 2761

Notes: When TJ was governor, he probably rented a house on the northwest corner of what is now the intersection of 12th and Franklin.

Reference: 381

Notes: Surveys TJ's positions on constitutional law and the Constitution. Contends that he led the nation to view the Constitution as "an instrument of democracy."

Reference: 1571

Reference: 1569

Notes: Reviews TJ's career as lawyer; in 1816 Stephen Kingston asked his opinion on a case before the Pennsylvania courts, but TJ declined to become involved.

Reference: 1573

Notes: TJ on the theory of the law of nations.

Reference: 2217

Notes: Documents their visits to English estates: helpful.

Reference: 2760

Notes: The best book-length study of TJ's legal education, his achievements as a lawyer, his work as a lawmaker, and his stature as a legal scholar and commentator on the law.

Reference: 1572

Notes: Discusses TJ's connections with the city of Washington, including the roles in creating and establishing the national capital, his architectural activities, and his life as a resident

Reference: 384

Notes: Review of Randall's Life. Attacks Bulfinch's North American Review article, claiming that TJ "Whatever may be said of his intellectual eminence or distinguished public services, has certainly, never been esteemed for moral purity or practical piety."

Reference: 388

Notes: TJ is best known to geographers for his studies in weather and climate, although a legitimate claim could be made for him as the Father of American Geography on the basis of the Notes.

Reference: 2762

Notes: TJ items on pp 77-80

Reference: 8

Reference: 9

Notes: Mostly concerned with attacking the "Rule of the Millionaires" by appealing to Jeffersonian principles; pp. 445-79 sketch TJ's accomplishments.

Reference: 1574

Notes: Traces the background of the phrase "are, and of right ought to be" from the Declaration of Independence to Swift's Drapier's Letters, the Bill of Rights of 1689, and Pope Boniface VIII.

Reference: 2218

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

Reference: 1575

Reference: 390

Notes: Describes Coleridge's notes in vol. IV of the 1829 London edition of the Memoirs .... Coleridge thought he was "onesided."

Reference: 389

Notes: Makes a tenuous argument for Jeffersonian influence on the Decembrists, mostly through Destutt de Tracy whom they read. Quotes no Russian who read TJ.

Reference: 2219

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

Reference: 2764

Notes: Rpt. after 1851 as The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Reference: 391

Notes: First 100 pages attack TJ as secretary of state and as president; classic Federalist view.

Reference: 1576

Notes: "... the main purpose of the writer will be to show, that the estimate which the federalists formed of his principles and character, political, moral and religious, was not merely justified but strictly correct."

Reference: 392

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