Notes: Review essay occasioned by the edition of TJ's Memoirs, Correspondence, Miscellanies (1849). Praises TJ but criticizes the editor for including the "Anas," of which we should have been spared.

Reference: 580

Notes: "The model Democrat and President."

Reference: 581

Notes: "Criticizes Wm. Rives' address to the alumni of the Univ. of Virginia for his "unlimited laudation" of TJ, who "in this country at least has done more to injure religion than any person who ever lived."

Reference: 582

Notes: Prints letters of Thornton, secretary to the British Minister, which comment inter alia on TJ as Secretary of State.

Reference: 1705

Notes: Letters to and from TJ concerning John Pernier, Lewis's free mulatto servant, who was accused by some of Lewis's murder.

Reference: 583

Notes: Lewis advised TJ on which officers to retain and which to dismiss when the Army was reduced in size in 1801.

Reference: 1706

Notes: Informative account of TJ's interest in the trans-Mississippi West and its exploration. Although TJ "continually altered his policies to overtake reality," he held to three constant beliefs: the old confederacy east of the Mississippi should remain intact; the West should be developed by Americans, "forming whatever free and independent principalities they wished," and eventually the whole North and South American continents would be peopled by free and independent allies.

Reference: 2916

Notes: Uses TJ's selections, but in the modern translation of the Bible by R. P. Weymouth. Long introduction by the editor, who describes himself as "President, College for Social Engineers, Washington, D.C." A curious, cranky performance.

Reference: 2292

Notes: Corner of Seventh and Market Streets, site of J. Graff's house.

Reference: 584

Notes: TJ used and promoted Charles Joseph Panckoucke's Encyclopedie Methodique.

Reference: 2917

Notes: Intended to refute TJ's accusation of Cresap as murderer of Logan's family.

Reference: 2918

Notes: TJ's agrarian ideology strengthened the ante-bellum South's "quasi-feudalism," but this could not prevail in a nation devoted to his proposition that all men are created equal. Rpt. in Jaffa's Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965. 42-66.

Reference: 2293

Notes: "One cannot be equally tolerant then, and certainly Jefferson was not, of opinions destructive and of opinions not destructive of the regime of liberty itself." Rpt. in Equality and Liberty: Theory and Practice in American Politics. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1965. 168-89.

Reference: 2295

Notes: On what TJ meant by man's equality; argues that it is a necessary basis for authority grounded on consent of the governed.

Reference: 2294

Notes: Portrays Beckley as a committed party man who was an enthusiastic supporter of TJ, who in turn appointed him as the first Librarian of Congress in 1802.

Reference: 1707

Reference: 585

Reference: 586

Notes: Brief extract from Memoirs of a Monticello Slave: As Dictated to Charles Campbell. see #708.

Reference: 587

Notes: Entertaining in the White House, including some recipes. Minor.

Reference: 607

Notes: Sketch of the career of James Thomson Callender.

Reference: 609

Notes: Touches on Callender's circulation of the Sally Hemings rumors.

Reference: 608

Notes: TJ was in Germantown because of the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia of the previous summer. Historical introduction and notes supplement sixty-three letters written at this time, TJ's accounts, the Ana entries describing cabinet meetings in Germantown, and Walter R. Johnson's eulogy of July 20, 1826.

Reference: 610

Notes: TJ in common with the rest of these figures was primarily a writer on politics and government, was centrally concerned with morality, was devoted to restraint of government, and saw America as "a new, special kind of nation." DAI 34/0lA, p. 276.

Reference: 2933

Notes: Argues that Burr was the victim, first of TJ's political intrigue to keep him from a second term as vice-president, then again of TJ's "vindictive persecution" in the matter of the treason trials.

Reference: 1715

Notes: An attempted vindication of Burr; development and expansion of the author's 1898 paper.

Reference: 1714

Notes: Detailed study of the effects of the Embargo and responses to it. It "stimulated manufactures, injured agriculture, and prostrated commerce." TJ gave in reluctantly to opposition to the Embargo in order to avert civil war.

Reference: 1716

Notes: Brief, illustrated account of life in the White House.

Reference: 2934

Notes: Information on the plan and contents of the wine cellar in the Williamsburg governor's palace.

Reference: 611

Notes: "An attempt to begin an examination of the means by which American Indian ideas figured into the formation of the emerging United States polity." DAI 40/12A, p. 6392.

Reference: 2300

Reference: 612

Notes: Volume in the Chronicles of America series; an account of the presidential administrations of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase, western expansion, spread of democracy to the Spanish republics.

Reference: 1717

Notes: Juvenile biography; TJ moralized.

Reference: 613

Notes: On the character of TJ and Hamilton and their changing reputations; claims their visions were mutually compensating.

Reference: 614

Notes: Education is essential for national defense; Founder's Day Address at the Univ. of Virginia, April 13, 1950.

Reference: 2935

Reference: 1718

Reference: 2301

Notes: "We must continue to be willing to experiment" in social, political, and natural sciences.

Reference: 2302

Notes: A particularly dramatic oration in which an aged narrator extolls for a youthful audience the similar excellencies of the two patriarchs.

Reference: 615

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies..., Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. Full consideration of TJ's career and a defense of his policies, particularly claiming him to be a friend of commerce as opposed to speculation. Comments on the poverty of his later years.

Reference: 616

Notes: Describes TJ's role with particular attention to the process of acquisition of his library by the nation.

Reference: 2936

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 618

Reference: 617

Notes: Also separately printed.

Reference: 16

Notes: Argues that TJ significantly developed techniques for presidential leadership, particularly in finding extra-constitutional sources of power. He used his immense prestige, patronage, the press, and the social advantages of his office to capitalize upon his position as leader of his party. "The effective use of this rudimentary machinery of party as an instrument of presidential power was one of Jefferson's most important contributions to the presidency." Excellent book.

Reference: 1719

Notes: Revised and published as Jefferson and the Presidency. DAI 33/12A, p. 6983.

Reference: 1720

Reference: 619

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

Reference: 2937

Reference: 620

Notes: Brief survey, praises TJ's planning for the interaction of separate secular and religious educational institutions at the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 2303

Notes: Cooking surveyed.

Reference: 2938

Reference: 2939

Notes: Argues that TJ's faith in the moral sense, man's social duties, and the need for a responsible government are central to his philosophy, and American novelists have tended to surrender belief in all three.

Reference: 2940

Notes: What TJ meant by the "common sense of the subject." "He wrote in general terms because he was making a general appeal to the enlightened minds of the Europe of his age," and these readers would have perceived the rhetorical nature of the accusations against George III. Also discusses the Declaration's place in American history.

Reference: 2304

Notes: Restates accepted notion that TJ changed his opinion about Montesquieu for reasons both personal and political, but adds that in this change TJ "reflects a general movement of European critical opinion."

Reference: 2305

Notes: Defends the Mecklenburg Declaration; written from secondary sources, mostly Federalist. See Edwin Miles' 1957 article, noted below.

Reference: 621

Reference: 1721

Notes: Relies on Rodney H. True's 1916 article but speculates on the existence of pecan-hickory hybrids descended from TJ's pecan trees at Monticello.

Reference: 2941

Notes: Argues that TJ's "derogation of the Negro revealed the latent possibilities inherent in an accumulated popular tradition of Negro inferiority; it constituted, for all its qualifications, the most intense, extensive, and extreme formulation of anti-Negro 'thought' offered by any American in the thirty years after the Revolution. Yet Thomas Jefferson left to Americans something else which may in the long run have been of greater importance—his prejudice for freedom and his larger equalitarian faith." An important book.

Reference: 2306

Notes: Standard account of Jouett's ride, with additional biographical and genealogical information on him.

Reference: 622

Notes: Text describes how TJ lived at Monticello; numerous illustrations emphasize architecture and furnishings.

Reference: 2942

Notes: Juvenile biography

Reference: 623

Notes: Rpt. in his Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: The Author, 1851. 191-205. Sympathetic sketch defending TJ from charges of infidelity.

Reference: 624

Notes: TJ is responsible for Louis Seize style furnishings becoming the "official style of the United States almost to the present day."

Reference: 2943

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