Notes: Sketchy, dwelling upon TJ's apparent "coldness" toward his mother.

Reference: 422

Notes: TJ's plea for religious liberty in this section embodies the substance of the argument of 1776 in support of his Resolutions for Disestablishing the Church of England and for Repealing Laws Interfering with Freedom of Worship.

Reference: 2224

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

Reference: 1591

Notes: History of Sully's two portraits, the life study and the full length portrait.

Reference: 2780

Notes: Contains four poems on TJ.

Reference: 2781

Notes: School text; only one paragraph on his presidency.

Reference: 423

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

Reference: 1592

Notes: TJ valued politics and was eager to give American citizens the chance to participate in politics at various levels, but he was decidedly "less enthusiastic in his valuation of government." DAI 31/09A, p. 4853.

Reference: 2225

Notes: An inspiration to loyal Americans.

Reference: 424

Notes: One source of William Wells Brown's novel was the Callender scandal about Sally Hemings.

Reference: 2785

Notes: Good account of the development of the "Black Sal" legend and of the subsequent history of the Hemings family, but does not always treat sources critically.

Reference: 2783

Notes: Chronology of Clotel indicates TJ could not be father of Clotel or Althea.

Reference: 2784

Notes: Illustrated account of TJ's plans.

Reference: 2786

Notes: TJ's action was not the outcome of base commercialism nor of imperialism but of a sense of national self-preservation.

Reference: 1593

Notes: Brief account of the flower gardens; illustrated.

Reference: 2787

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 427

Notes: Colorful but not very informative.

Reference: 426

Notes: Details, both technical and political, on TJ's proposal to build a covered drydock at Washington large enough to hold 12 Constitution-class frigates.

Reference: 2788

Notes: On TJ, Monticello, and Uriah Phillips Levy's acquisition and renovation of it.

Reference: 2789

Notes: British; prepared for the Age of Revolution Course Team.

Reference: 428

Notes: Argues that TJ's Notes is an attempt to control the chaos he felt to be around him in the early 1780's, and to understand its coherent structure we must recognize the way in which it "turns upon English common law and the great, humanistic legal compendia of the Enlightenment." Suggestive.

Reference: 2790

Notes: The New Dears "suggestion that Mr. Jefferson was a liberal is, of course, merely an absurd and very juvenile bit of apocrypha."

Reference: 1594

Notes: Intelligent examination of TJ's beliefs, based upon a thoughtful discussion of The Life and Morals of Jesus. Places TJ somewhere between Priestley and Paine.

Reference: 2226

Notes: Explains how and why the text of the Declaration was altered when it was inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in 1941.

Reference: 429

Notes: On the house where TJ drafted the Declaration.

Reference: 430

Notes: Surveys TJ's career as a lawyer; his belief in a "higher law" is evidence that he lived in "the romantic period of our history."

Reference: 431

Notes: First 45 pages cover TJ, Monticello, and the Jeffersonian foundation of the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 436

Notes: Claims TJ was so clever in satisfying his own followers and in not alienating the masses of the opposition that patronage ceased to be an issue by 1809.

Reference: 1595

Notes: Contends that TJ enunciates Lockean social compact theory in the Declaration but offers a much more radical, "almost anarchical" version in his later statements about the earth belonging to the living.

Reference: 2227

Notes: Contends that TJ and other founding fathers advocated the principle of separation of powers not out of fear of executive power so much as out of a wish for greater administrative efficiency.

Reference: 1596

Notes: Argues that the best answer to TJ's Query xix in Notes is found in the

Reference: 2791

Notes: Discusses the historical basis for the charges.

Reference: 2228

Notes: Anecdotal.

Reference: 434

Notes: TJ as host.

Reference: 433

Notes: TJ is "the earnest but cool-headed representative of the rural English free-holders that won magna Charta and overthrew the usurpations of the Stuarts."

Reference: 435

Notes: TJ's portrayal of George Washington suggests Eisenhower.

Reference: 1597

Notes: About TJ's opinions on study of the classics and his educational plans for Virginia. "Reprinted from the Alumni Bulletin for April, 1918, October, 1918, and January and April, 1919."

Reference: 2792

Notes: Questions and answers.

Reference: 438

Notes: Rpt. in his The Spirit of the Revolution.... Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. Describes a mss. in TJ's hand, endorsed "Constitution of Virginia first ideas of Th: J. communicated to a member of the Convention."

Reference: 1598

Notes: Compares TJ and Adams as representative men of the American Revolution whose characters and careers bear closely on the origin of political parties in the U.S.

Reference: 1599

Notes: Accuses TJ of spoiling Americans by leading them to expect happiness as a birthright. Silly.

Reference: 439

Notes: Monticello described.

Reference: 440

Notes: Popular biography; nothing new.

Reference: 442

Notes: Account of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation's successful effort to acquire and restore Monticello.

Reference: 443

Reference: 441

Notes: On Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 445

Notes: Jeffersonian prosecution of Harry Croswell for libel; he was editor of the Federalist journal, The Wasp, of Hudson, N.Y. and was defended in court by Hamilton.

Reference: 1600

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 444

Notes: The general assumption that the plan of Washington, D.C. results from the cooperation of TJ and L'Enfant is wrong; TJ looked on disapprovingly and was pleased when L'Enfant was discharged.

Reference: 2793

Notes: Examines the contemporary relevance of TJ's political ideas. Many of them no longer apply and the only way to have equality as he wished is to contradict the principles of individualism and the right to acquire and own property. Attempts to be provocative, but not very thoughtful.

Reference: 1601

Notes: Good account of plans to explore the Red River, particularly the freeman expedition of 1806; suggests that Spanish opposition here and the capture of Pike in 1807 put an end to TJ's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase.

Reference: 1602

Notes: TJ established "the reign of popular government and robust Americanism."

Reference: 446

Notes: Prints in full the letter accusing Peter Carr of being Sally Hemings' lover; Randall's authority was Thomas Jefferson Randolph.

Reference: 447

Reference: 1603

Notes: Discusses TJ's attitudes toward France; claims he was the only one of the founding fathers to remain a friend of France, largely because of his experiences while minister there.

Reference: 1605

Notes: Review article on DeConde's This Affair of Louisiana.

Reference: 1604

Notes: Note on TJ and Washington as gardeners.

Reference: 2794

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

Reference: 448

Notes: TJ's statements on practically everything, referenced to the Washington edition of 1853-54 and the Ford edition of 1892-97. An after-dinner speaker's delight.

Reference: 2229

Notes: Account of visits by Indian delegates; argues that TJ's philanthropic attitudes toward the Indians were negated by the distance between white and Indian cultures. Illustrated by Saint-Memin portraits and with a note on him.

Reference: 1606

Notes: Surveys TJ's religious opinions and asserts he adopted Unitarian views late in life and would have joined a Unitarian church if Joseph Priestley had come to Charlottesville. Rpt. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, under the title The Religion of Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 2231

Notes: Survey points out the importance of an educated citizenry for TJ's trust in democratic reform.

Reference: 2232

Notes: Discusses Priestley's influence on TJ's views and the evolution of the Life and Morals out of the Syllabus of 1803. Useful.

Reference: 2230

Notes: Facsimile of the rough draft and fragments, together with the Dunlap broadside; annotated, but not significant.

Reference: 1607

Notes: Examines the origins and implications of the phrase in the Declaration and compares it as a statement of natural law right to scholastic theory.

Reference: 2233

Notes: Uses extracts from TJ's account books in a discussion of his private life.

Reference: 450

Notes: Discusses TJ's early revisions of the Notes.

Reference: 2795

Notes: Prints letter of October 28, 1795 to James Madison.

Reference: 449

Notes: Compares what purports to be TJ's rough draft and the fair copy of the Resolutions.

Reference: 1608

Notes: Introduction, followed by texts of 1st inaugural address, Declaration of Independence, and A Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. "Recognition of the principles for which he fought does not, however, imply endorsement of his methods and instruments."

Reference: 451

Notes: Editorial comment stringing together bits on the classics from their correspondence.

Reference: 2796

Notes: Describes TJ's 1776 proposal.

Reference: 1611

Notes: Ford inquires about the authenticity of a letter known only in a late transcription.

Reference: 452

Notes: Includes letters of Edward Carrington and others to TJ and Madison concerning ratification of the Constitution; no notes.

Reference: 1609

Notes: Claims that TJ was weak in controversial writing and incompetent to reply to Hamilton's pseudonymous papers, so he encouraged Freneau, Duane, and Callender. Eventually he turned his back on the malignancy of the press which he had encouraged.

Reference: 1610

Notes: Short introduction to letters from a Republican pamphleteer.

Reference: 1612

Notes: Brief introduction followed by correspondence relevant to the TJ-Callender relationship, including letters from Callender to TJ, letters to and from Madison, Monroe, and Abigail Adams. Rpt. Brooklyn Historical Printing Club, 1897. pp. 45.

Reference: 1613

Reference: 453

Notes: Short biography, followed by a selection of TJ's writings arranged alphabetically by topic.

Reference: 454

Notes: Quotes TJ's letter to Monroe, June 18, 1813, on "the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier." That and his comments on military training in the Rockfish Gap Report show that he would not be opposed to universal military training in spite of his opposition to European militarism.

Reference: 1614

Notes: Argues that the greatest enemy to religious freedom has been the pulpit; TJ in his defense of religious freedom found his greatest opposition there.

Reference: 2234

Reference: 455

Notes: World War I "reveals the march of Jefferson's ideals." Exposition of TJ's democracy for which the world is to be made safe.

Reference: 2235

Notes: Gossipy account of diplomatic affairs.

Reference: 1615

Notes: British diplomat visits Monticello, pp. 143-61; TJ discussed there and passim. Interesting but predictably biased.

Reference: 456

Reference: 11

Notes: Circumstantial account of TJ's establishment of the Patent Office.

Reference: 1616

Notes: Review essay on Randall's biography. An Hegelian critique of TJ, claiming that for all of his great services and talents, his flaw was his commitment to individualism. Upon the "doctrine of state rights and local self-government ... will defend his reputation as statesman and philosopher." But "This is the day of great nations.... We are at an immeasurable distance from the times when Jefferson could describe us as 'one nation towards others, separate governments among ourselves."'

Reference: 2236

Notes: Juvenile fiction; protagonists are fictional Randolph cousins of TJ during the British invasion of Virginia.

Reference: 2798

Notes: Declares that TJ should be treated as a source of energy for American democracy and not as a book of rules for specific situations.

Reference: 457

Notes: Contends Marxism is a perfected form of Jeffersonian democracy; "Lenin, in a more advanced age than that of Jefferson, voiced Jefferson's faith in democracy with his great slogan, 'Through democracy to socialism."'

Reference: 2237

Notes: Argues that TJ's racism and failure to act unequivocally in opposition to slavery demonstrate that "the ideology of the American Revolution was not really egalitarian."

Reference: 1617

Notes: Explains why TJ was ready to send troops to back up Gov. Claiborne's veto of the proposed legal system of 1806, supposedly because it claimed a "democratic" right to own slaves.

Reference: 1618

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 2800

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

Reference: 2799

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

Reference: 2801

Notes: Emphasizes the positive side of TJ's position toward slavery in response to attacks on his failure to take a more aggressive position on abolition. Argues that TJ and his contemporaries set in motion the process leading toward abolition, even if in trying to have it both ways, TJ also gave informal sanction to the lower South's worst racial fears and helped to deepen those fears.

Reference: 2238

Reference: 458

Notes: Claims Adams conceived of land tenure as basically personal in nature, depending on contracts between individual agents. TJ denied that the English King ever had a right to grant land in the colonies and held that Americans possessed their land in absolute domain like their Saxon forefathers.

Reference: 1619

Reference: 459

Notes: Collection of documents illustrating the fortunes of the Jeffersonian politics of equality and human rights vs. property rights and limitless economic opportunity.

Reference: 1620

Notes: Analyzes text of the Declaration; suggests that TJ touches all the colonies in the course of the list of grievances, establishing a common interest in independence.

Reference: 1621

Notes: Readable but dated account of the historical background of the Declaration, its composition and acceptance, its philosophical background (Lockean), and the nature of the grievances it claims.

Reference: 1622

Reference: 460

Notes: Report on a descendant of TJ who acts his ancestor in a play "Meet Thomas Jefferson"

Reference: 461

Notes: Argues strongly that Humboldt did not visit TJ at Monticello.

Reference: 2802

Notes: Detailed account of Humboldt's visit and meeting with TJ

Reference: 462

Notes: TJ's liberal religion.

Reference: 2239

Reference: 463

Notes: "Foreward" by Ernest G. Mittelberger; generalized comments on TJ and wine.

Reference: 2803

Reference: 464

Reference: 2804

Notes: Short generality.

Reference: 2805

Notes: Claims he is "among the most religious men to have been President, far more so than many who have been nominal members of churches."

Reference: 2240

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

Reference: 1623

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ's botanical interests and comments. Finds his botanical claim to fame rests not in adding to contemporary understanding of plants but in encouraging botanical activities on the Lewis and Clark expedition and at the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 2806

Notes: Of all Americans, TJ was most influenced by Beccaria, particularly in the Declaration and the Virginia Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments.

Reference: 2241

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