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Thomas Jefferson : a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of writings about him (1826-1980)

© 1983, Frank Shuffelton, editor
Print version published by Garland Publishing (New York, 1983).

Electronic version published by the Electronic Text Center,
University of Virginia Library

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Name: O'Brien , Charles F.
Title: "The Religious Issue in the Presidential Campaign of 1800."

Publication: Essex Institute Historical Collections
Volume: 107
Date: (1971)
Pages: 82-93

Notes: Survey of religious dimension of ~ederalist campaign against TJ.

Reference: 1861

Name: O'Callaghan , E. B.
Title: "Jefferson Notes of Virginia."

Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 1
Date: (1857)
Pages: 52

Notes: Bibliographical note.

Reference: 3139

Name: O'Callaghan , E. B.
Title: "The Revised Proofs of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."

Publication: Historical Magazine
Volume: 13
Date: (1868)
Pages: 96-98

Notes: Bibliographic description.

Reference: 3140

Name: O'Donnell , James H., III
Title: "Logan's Oration: A Case Study in Ethnographic Authentication."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of Speech
Volume: 65
Date: (1979)
Pages: 150-56

Notes: "Logan's Oration is a moving and legitimate expression of Native American oratory."

Reference: 3142

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: Jefferson's Fine Arts Library for the University of Virginia, With Additional Notes on Architectural Volumes Known to Have Been Owned by Jefferson

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1956
Pages: pp.53

Notes: Includes a desiderata list for the Univ. of Virginia libraries, entries having to do with fine arts from TJ's 1825 Catalogue of the Univ. Library and a list of books now in the Univ. library from TJ's own libraries. Not the same as item #3149.

Reference: 3150

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: A Checklist of Writings on Thomas Jefferson as an Architect.

Publication: Publication No. 15
Publisher: American Association of Architectural Bibliographers
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1959
Pages: pp. 18

Notes: Also issued as Secretary's News Sheet, No. 43, University of Virginia Bibliographical Society. Approximately 150 entries.

Reference: 19

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: The Workmen at the University of Virginia, 1817-1826, With Notes and Documents

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 17
Date: 1959
Pages: 5-48

Notes: Explores TJ's difficulties in obtaining competent workmen and the proposals he received from craftsmen.

Reference: 3152

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Press
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1960
Pages: pp.62

Notes: Introduction discusses design and building of the Rotunda; lists and describes documents pertaining to construction; plates of influential designs and TJ's drawings.

Reference: 3148

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: Michele and Giacomo Raggi at the University of Virginia: With Notes and Documents

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 18
Date: 1960
Pages: 5-31

Notes: TJ's difficult dealings with Italian stonecutters hired to do the Corinthian and Ionic capitols for the Pavilions and the Rotunda.

Reference: 3151

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: Financing the Construction of the University of Virginia: Notes and Documents

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 23
Date: 1965
Pages: 5-34

Notes: Difficulties of TJ and Joseph C. Cabell in obtaining funds to build the University.

Reference: 3147

Name: O'Neal , William B.
Title: An Intelligent Interest in Architecture: A Bibliography of Publications about Thomas Jefferson together with an Iconography of the Nineteenth-Century Prints of the University of Virginia.

Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1969
Pages: pp. viii, 150

Notes: (American Association of Architectural Bibliographers Papers. No. 6). Lists articles and books that mention TJ even in passing and are not within the scope of this bibliography. Well annotated and very useful.

Reference: 20

Name: O'Neal , William Bainter
Title: Jefferson's Fine Arts Library, His Selections for the University of Virginia Together with His Own Architectural Books

Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1976
Pages: pp.xviii, 409

Notes: Full description and annotation of books in TJ's 1825 Catalogue of the Library of the Univ. of Virginia, plus relevant items from John V. Kean's 1825 Catalogue and the 1828 Catalogue, plus items from Sowerby on the Monticello "great" library.

Reference: 3149

Name: O'Neal , William Bainter and Frederick Doveton Nichols
Title: An Architectural History of the First University Pavilion

Publication: Magazine of Albemarle County History
Volume: 15
Date: 1956
Pages: 36-43

Notes: Account of the designing and construction of Pavilion VII under TJ's direction.

Reference: 3146

Name: Ogburn , Floyd, Jr.
Title: "Structure and Meaning in Thomas Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."

Publication: Early American Literature
Volume: 15
Date: (1980)
Pages: 141-50

Notes: Using concepts of linguistic analysis such as foregrounding and collocation, attempts to get at the "deep structure" of TJ's "pastoral." But since these passages are supposedly the two sublime passages about the Potomac and the Natural Bridge, the conclusion that TJ understood nature as order and proportion seems incomplete.

Reference: 3143

Name: Ogden , Octavius N.
Title: An Anniversary Oration, Delivered on the 13th of April, 1836, at the Request of the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia

Publisher: James Alexander
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1836
Pages: pp. 35

Notes: "On the new continent, the moral and intellectual creation seems to have been fashioned after the same bold sublimity of outline, that characterized the works of external nature."

Reference: 886

Name: Olgin , Joseph
Title: Thomas Jefferson: Champion of the People

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1960
Pages: pp. 192

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 887

Name: Oliver , John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Scientist."

Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 56
Date: (1943)
Pages: 460-67

Notes: Examines TJ's scientific activities during five periods of his life.

Reference: 3145

Name: Oliver , John William
Title: "Science and the 'Founding Fathers."'

Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 48
Date: (1939)
Pages: 256-60

Notes: Discusses TJ and the patent office; he originally examined every patent application himself.

Reference: 3144

Name: Oppenheimer , J. Robert.
Title: "Encouragement of Science."

Publication: Science News Letter
Volume: 57
Date: 1950
Pages: 170-72

Notes: TJ's letter to William Green Munford is suffused with the idea of progress and with Q recognition that science and political life are relevant to each other. Rpt. Science. 111(1950), 373-75.

Reference: 3154

Name: Orico , Osvaldo
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Homens da America Libertadores de Povos do Continente
Publisher: Editora Getulio Costa
City: Rio de Janeiro
Date: 1944
Pages: 65-82

Reference: 888

Name: Ormsbee , Thomas Hamilton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Own Oriental Lowestoft."

Publication: American Collector
Volume: 14
Date: 1946
Pages: 5

Notes: Illustrated note on TJ's Chinese-made Lowestoft punch bowl and pitcher.

Reference: 3155

Name: Osborn , Henry Fairfield
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Pioneer in American Paleontology."

Publication: Science
Volume: n.s. 69
Date: (1929)
Pages: 410-13

Notes: A speech recapitulating the history of American paleontology; only two paragraphs on TJ.

Reference: 3157

Name: Osborn , Henry Fairfield
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Paleontologist."

Publication: Science, n.s.
Volume: 82
Date: (1935)
Pages: 533-38

Notes: Sketch of TJ's interests in mammoths and the megalonyx.

Reference: 3156

Name: Osborn , Robert W.
Title: "Portrait of a Revolutionary: Thomas Jefferson and the Coming of the American Revolution."

Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Fort Hays State College
Date: 1969
Pages: none given

Reference: 1864

Name: Osgood , Ernest S.
Title: "A Prarie Dog for Mr. Jefferson."

Publication: Montana: The Magazine of Western History
Volume: 19
Date: 1969
Pages: 54-56

Notes: Account of a prairie dog sent to TJ by Lewis and Clark from Fort Madison.

Reference: 3158

Name: Osgood , John C.
Title: "How, Thomas Jefferson, Can We Provide Simultaneously for Excellence and Egalitarianism?"

Publication: Mount Holyoke Alumni Quarterly
Volume: 59
Date: (1975)
Pages: 85-88

Notes: Remarks on TJ's ideas about education; title question not answered.

Reference: 3159

Name: Oshiba , Ei
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Gakushu Bunku Co.
City: Kobe
Date: 1951
Pages: pp. 191

Notes: In Japanese.

Reference: 889

Name: Ostrander , Gilman M.
Title: "Jefferson and Scottish Culture."

Publication: Historical Reflections
Volume: 5
Date: (1978)
Pages: 233-48

Notes: Contrasts TJ's admiration for the thought of the Scottish Enlightenment to his vigorous disapproval of Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism in Virginia; he never thought of Scottish learning as distinctively Scottish.

Reference: 2388

Name: Ostrander , Gilman M.
Title: "Lord Kames and American Revolutionary Culture"

Publication: Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye, ed. Joseph Waldmeir
Publisher: Michigan State Univ. Press
City: East Lansing
Date: 1978
Pages: 168-79

Notes: Argues in rather general terms for the importance to TJ of Kames's Essays on Morality and Natural Religion.

Reference: 2389

Name: Ostrander , Gilman M.
Title: "New Lost Worlds of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 7
Date: (1979)
Pages: 183-88

Notes: Review essay of books on TJ's philosophy; praises Garry Wills' emphasis on the importance of the Scottish Enlightenment but points out this is hardly the new idea Wills thinks it is.

Reference: 2390

Name: Otis , William Bradley
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Great American Liberals, ed. Gabriel Richard Mason
Publisher: Starr King Press
City: Boston
Date: 1956
Pages: 17-24

Notes: TJ a great leader produced by a great crisis.

Reference: 890

Name: Ottenburg , Louis
Title: "A Testamentary Tragedy: Jefferson and the Wills of General Kosciuszko."

Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 44
Date: 1958
Pages: 22-26

Notes: Kosciuszko left four wills and three estates in three countries when he died in 1817; TJ, named executor in the first will, declined the executorship because of his age. It took 30 years to settle the estate.

Reference: 891

Name: Owsley , Clifford
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His First Inaugural"

Publication: Inaugural
Publisher: Olympic Press
City: New York
Date: 1964
Pages: 126-41

Notes: An eccentric rhetorical analysis of TJ's speech; finds it a "great speech" with a "Survival quotient" of 85 out of a possible 100 points.

Reference: 3161

Name: Owsley , Frank L.
Title: "Two Agrarian Philosophers: Jefferson and DuPont de Nemours."

Publication: Hound & Horn
Volume: 6
Date: (1932)
Pages: 166-72

Notes: Review essay emphasizes TJ as a southern thinker and contends his "whole national outlook changed after the Missouri controversy."

Reference: 2391

Name: Owsley , Frank Lawrence
Title: "The Foundations of Democracy."

Publication: Southern Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1936)
Pages: 708-20

Notes: Argues that through control of the courts the Hamiltonians have subverted TJ's vision of liberty, i.e. state rights, strict construction, and laissez faire; claims the Fourteenth Amendment is a plutocratic instrument.

Reference: 1866

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