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
U Authors
Name: U.S. Commission for the Celebration of the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson
Title: Report...Pursuant to Section 7 of Public Resolution No. 100, Seventy-sixth Congress.
Publication: 77th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 12 Senate Document
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1941
Pages: 3
Notes: Recommends programs to celebrate TJ's 200th.
Reference: 1216
Name: U.S. Congress , Joint Committee on the Library
Title: Report to Accompany Bill S. No. 278, A Bill Authorizing the Purchase and Publication of the Papers and Manuscripts of the Late Thomas Jefferson
Publication: 30th Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 167 Senate Rep. Com.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1848
Pages: 3
Notes: Recommends purchase and preservation of papers in the hands of T.J. Randolph and briefly describes them.
Reference: 1221
Name: U.S. Congress. , Joint Committee on the Library
Title: Report on Bill S. 4087, Relative to the Proposed Purchase of the Manuscript papers and Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson
Publication: 51st Congress, 1st Session.
Volume: No. 1365 Senate Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1890
Pages: 3
Notes: Favors acquisition of papers now in the possession of Sarah N. Randolph and gives a short list.
Reference: 1217
Name: U.S. Congress
Title: "Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting a letter from the King of France, communicated to the Senate."
Publication: American State Papers. Foreign Relations
Publisher: Gales and Seaton
City: Washington
Date: 1832
Pages: 1:109
Notes: Letter from the French Court, 11 September 1790, testifying to the esteem and approbation of TJ as minister.
Reference: 2048
Name: U.S. Congress
Title: Proceedings Had in the Senate and House of Representatives, April 23, 1880, On the Occasion of the Presentation of Thomas Jefferson's Writing-Desk to the United States By the Heirs of the Late Joseph Coolidge, Jr.
Publication: 47th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 44 House of Rep. Misc. Document
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1882
Pages: 37
Reference: 1220
Name: U.S. Congress
Title: Joint Resolution to Provide for the Appointment of a National Agricultural Jefferson Bicentenary Committee to Carry Out Appropriate Exercises and Activities in Recognition of the Services and Contributions of Thomas Jefferson to the Farmers.
Publication: 78th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 47 Senate Joint Resolution
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1944
Pages: 2
Reference: 1218
Name: U.S. Congress
Title: Letter from the Secretary of state to Hon. D.W. Voorhees, Chairman of the Committee on the Library, Transmitting Letter of the Attorney-General in Relation to the Obstacles in the way of erecting a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson.
Publication: 46th Congress, 2nd session
Volume: No. 88 Senate Misc. Document Reference: 1219
Name: U.S. House of Representatives , Committee on the Library
Title: Papers Of Thomas Jefferson (To Accompany Bill H.R., No. 627)
Publication: 29th Congress, 2nd session
Volume: No. 39 House of Representatives Report
Publisher: Ritchie & Heiss
City: Washington
Date: 1847
Pages: 2
Notes: Essentially the same as #1221
Reference: 1222
Name: U.S. House of Representatives , Committee on Pensions
Title: Report to Accompany bill H.R. 999, A Bill Granting a Pension to the Sole Surviving Grandchild of the Author of the Declaration of Independence
Publication: 48th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 38 House Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1884
Pages: 3
Notes: Proposal to grant a pension to Septimia Randolph Meikleham
Reference: 1224
Name: U.S. House of Representatives , Committee on Pensions
Title: Views of the Minority on H.R. No.999, Granting a Pension to Mrs. Septimia R. Meikleham, Only Surviving Granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson. Jan. 22, 1884
Publication: 48th Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 38, Part 2 House of Representatives Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1884
Pages: 3
Notes: Opposed to granting civil pensions as a matter of principle.
Reference: 1225
Name: U.S. House of Representatives , Library Committee
Title: Site for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial; Hearing...on H.J. Res. 337
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1937
Pages: 129
Notes: Defenders of cherry blossoms speak out.
Reference: 1223
Name: U.S. House of Representatives
Title: Purchase of Monticello. Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 390.
Publication: 63d Congress, 3rd session
Volume: No. 1441 House of Representatives Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1915
Pages: 2
Notes: Proposes a Jefferson Memorial Commission to see after purchasing Monticello for the nation. See also 63d Congress, 2d Session. Senate Report No. 366.
Reference: 1227
Name: U.S. House of Representatives , Rules Committee
Title: Public Ownership of Monticello; Hearings...on S.Con.Res.24, Wednesday, July 24, 1912
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1912
Pages: 78
Notes: Mrs. Martin W. Littleton has her say.
Reference: 1226
Name: U.S. Library of Congress
Title: Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas Jefferson, April 13, 1943. A collection of the press-releases, the Exhibit catalogue, the musical and theatrical programs, etc., issued in connection with the occasion.
City: Washington
Date: 1943
Pages: unpag
Notes: A unique scrapbook with all printed ephemera issued by the Library, plus photographs; in Rare Books Division of the Library.
Reference: 1228
Name: U.S. Library of Congress
Title: The Jefferson Bicentennial 1743-1943
Publisher: Library of Congress
City: Washington
Date: 1943
Pages: broadside
Notes: List of exhibits at the library and a note by Archibald Macleish.
Reference: 1229
Name: U.S. President , Rutherford B. Hayes
Title: The Desk upon which Mr. Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence. Message from the President of the United States. Transmitting the desk upon which the Declaration of Independence Was Written, Accompanied by a letter from the Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, presenting the same to the United States.
Publication: 46th Congress, 2nd Session
Volume: No. 75 House of Representatives Ex. Doc.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1881
Pages: none given
Reference: 1230
Name: U.S. Senate , Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Title: Report to Accompany Joint Resolution S.R.6, That the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds be Instructed to Consider the Expediency of Providing for the Protection of the Statue of Jefferson Now in the Open Air in the Grounds of the Executive Mansion, the Same Being a Work of Art by an Eminent French Sculptor
Publication: 43d Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 138 Senate Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1874
Pages: 5
Notes: Gives interesting account of Uriah P. Levy's gift of 1834 and its subsequent history.
Reference: 1233
Name: U.S. Senate , Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
Title: Purchase of Monticello; Hearing...on S.J. Res. 153, A Bill Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to Acquire by Purchase the Estate Known as Monticello
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1917
Pages: 26
Notes: The DAR interests itself in TJ and Monticello
Reference: 1232
Name: U.S. Senate , Library Committee
Title: Public Ownership of Monticello, Hearing...on S.J. Res. 92, A Joint Resolution Providing for the Purchase of the Home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1912
Pages: 57
Notes: Mrs. Martin W. Littleton appeals to the senate.
Reference: 1231
Name: U.S. Senate
Title: Report: The Select Committee to whom was referred a bill concerning Martha Randolph, daughter and only surviving child of Thomas Jefferson
Publication: 22d Congress, 1st session
Volume: No. 107 Senate document
City: Washington
Date: 1832
Pages: 5
Notes: Proposes to relieve her financial difficulties with a grant of western land; discusses TJ's economic sacrifices for his country.
Reference: 1234
Name: U.S. Sesquicentennial of American Independence and the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Title: Official plan for the Nationwide Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Adoption of the Declaration of American Independence
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1926
Pages: 12
Reference: 1236
Name: U.S. Sesquicentennial of the American Independence and the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Title: Report of the...Commission
Publication: 70th Congress, 1st Session
Volume: No. 54 Senate document
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1928
Pages: 76
Notes: Programs and texts of speeches given under various phases of this patriotic extravaganza.
Reference: 1235
Name: Ulich , Robert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: History of Educational Thought
Publisher: American Book Co.
City: New York
Date: 1950
Pages: 242-57
Notes: Sketch of his ideas emphasizes educational theories.
Reference: 2476
Name: Ultan , Roslye R.
Title: "A Comparative Study of the Educational Philosophies of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Rush."
Publication: unpub. typescript
Publisher: Dickinson College Library
Date: 1958
Pages: pp. 35
Reference: 3365
Name: Umbreit , Kenneth
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Founding Fathers, Men Who Shaped Our Tradition
Publisher: Harper
City: New York
Date: 1941
Pages: 1-103
Notes: Undistinguished short biography.
Reference: 1215
Name: Underwood , Benjamin Franklin
Title: Jefferson: The Free-Thinking Philosopher and Statesman; His Religious Views Presented from His Own Writings; His Views on Slavery, Religious Liberty and Other Subjects
Publisher: Times Print
City: Seymour, Ind.
Date: 188?
Pages: pp. 21
Notes: Contends that TJ was a theist, but he rejected the ideas of the Bible as an inspired book or Christianity as a revealed religion. His views were the same as those of Paine, and they were far in advance of those of his age.
Reference: 2477
Name: Upshur , Abel P.
Title: Mr. Jefferson
Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 6
Date: 1840
Pages: 642-50
Notes: Essay review of Tucker's LIFE; comments on the difficulty of TJ getting a fair hearing.
Reference: 1239
Name: Upton , Harriet Taylor
Title: The Family of Jefferson
Publication: Our Early Presidents, Their Wives and Children, from Washington to Jackson
Publisher: D. Lothrop
City: Boston
Date: 1891
Pages: 149-88
Notes: Appeared earlier in WIDE AWAKE, 26(March 1888), 249-59. Conventional sketch.
Reference: 1240