Reference: 2056

Notes: Juvenile biography

Reference: 1260

Notes: A script for an accompanying filmstrip.

Reference: 1261

Notes: Competent survey of TJ's educational interests, ideas, and accomplishments.

Reference: 3383

Notes: Not on TJ but on subsequent judicial interpretations of the separation of church and state issue.

Reference: 2057

Notes: Balanced and standard account of events.

Reference: 2058

Notes: Examines the distance between TJ's plans for the discipline of students and the disciplinary regime actually imposed after October, 1825. This led to serious student disorder until a reform in 1842 restored some of the positive elements of TJ's model. DAI 40/02A, p. 1035.

Reference: 3384

Notes: Editorial on TJ's basic principle of the necessary consent of the governed for a just government.

Reference: 2059

Notes: Argues that TJ did not seek the Louisiana acquisition but simply accepted it.

Reference: 2060

Notes: Addresses before the Jeffersonian Union, Atlanta, Georgia, April 13, 1935. pp. 21, printed here for release to the press. "Jeffersonian democracy must take on modern equipment ... if an agrarian liberalism is to achieve a balance between agriculture and industry, it must offer more than what has been called 'an amiable go-as-you-please individualism."'

Reference: 2061

Notes: Eulogistic portrait of TJ as archetypical progressive.

Reference: 3385

Notes: Discusses TJ's interest in farming and the difficulties of experimental farming.

Reference: 3386

Reference: 1263

Notes: TJ visits Moor Park; interesting account.

Reference: 1264

Notes: Correspondence dealing with the exportation of rice to France; introduction and notes.

Reference: 2062

Notes: First day of issue ceremony in Charlottesville for postage stamp bearing TJ's vow of hostility against every form of Tyranny.

Reference: 1265

Notes: Contends that TJ because he wanted to use history ideologically rejected Hume less for his historical judgments than for his skepticism; suggestive. Slightly revised version of this in Hume: A Re-Evaluation, ed. Donald W. Livingstone and James T. King. New York: Fordham Univ. Press, 1976. 389-403.

Reference: 2481

Notes: Sketch and short bibliography.

Reference: 2063

Notes: Also in Univ. of Virginia News Letter. 19(April 15, 1943).

Reference: 3389

Reference: 3388

Notes: TJ experimented with crop rotation, farm machinery, deep plowing, horizontal plowing, new plants, and pest control.

Reference: 3387

Notes: Criticizes proposals to spend 30 million for a TJ memorial in St. Louis.

Reference: 1266

Notes: Criticizes Dewey's liberal democracy, claiming TJ's and Lincoln's proclamation of the "right to revolution as the ultimate guarantee of all other democratic rights" brings them closer to Marxism than to "Deweyism."

Reference: 2064

Notes: John Breckinridge was the mover of the Resolutions, but their authorship is unclear.

Reference: 2065

Notes: Emphasizes the role of John Breckinridge.

Reference: 2067

Notes: Background and authorship, effects of the Resolutions. TJ's draft supports a more radical states rights position than the toned down version of John Breckinridge, and Madison was more restrained yet.

Reference: 2066

Notes: Derivative account of Small, Wythe, and Fauquier.

Reference: 1269

Notes: Focus on Marbury vs. Madison.

Reference: 2070

Notes: "The practice of making reply addresses had become an unmitigated nuisance, wasting the time of both branches of Congress in purely futile debate."

Reference: 2072

Notes: TJ's services to American life and constitutional government discussed on pp. 44-52; generalities.

Reference: 2071

Notes: Fisher Ames' Republican brother reports on Federalist opposition to TJ.

Reference: 2069

Notes: Rumor based on the death of a slave of the same name.

Reference: 1268

Notes: TJ was the first president to send a written message to Congress instead of giving a speech; this was to end partisan friction over the custom.

Reference: 2068

Notes: TJ misremembered the date of signing the Declaration; also notes early celebrations of the Fourth as an expression of party spirit.

Reference: 1267

Notes: A poem in dialogue dealing with events and characters involved in the Kentucky tragedy in which TJ's nephews butchered a slave. One of the speakers is TJ. A new version was published in New York: Random House, 1979. pp. xiv, 141. This version gives Meriwether Lewis a more significant role, says Warren, and is the result of an extensive reworking of the text.

Reference: 3390

Notes: Examines pre-1776 declarations of rights and grievances, particularly the 1773 statement of Mendon, Mass., in order to suggest TJ was not the "author" of the Declaration so much as he was its draftsman. Poorly reasoned.

Reference: 2073

Notes: On the Eye of Thomas Jefferson exhibit.

Reference: 3391

Notes: Describes the letters in the Library of Congress and discusses Humboldt's interest in TJ and the United States.

Reference: 1270

Notes: TJ opposed the Commentaries and the common law so interpreted because of Blackstone's Tory bias, his "Mansfieldism."

Reference: 2482

Notes: On work before the Revolution and influences on it; identifies TJ's architectural mentor as Richard Taliaferro of Williamsburg. Attributes Brandon, Battersea, and the Randolph-Semple house in Williamsburg to him.

Reference: 3392

Notes: TJ sent a plan and suggestions for the house of John Brown in Frankfort.

Reference: 3393

Notes: TJ bought more furniture than any of his contemporaries, and his interest in architecture and decoration plus his fascination with gadgetry and technique better enabled him to appreciate the qualities of Louis XVI furniture.

Reference: 3394

Notes: TJ's aesthetic preferences surveyed.

Reference: 3395

Notes: Adapted from item #3394 above.

Reference: 3396

Reference: 1271

Notes: Note on Rudulph Evan's statue for the Memorial.

Reference: 3397

Notes: On Poplar Forest; excellent description with illustrations. See also the amplifying note in Antiques, 72(1957), 154, on a visit by George Flower.

Reference: 3398

Notes: Informative, detailed account of TJ's visit which, says the author, strengthened his anti-British prejudices; his introduction to English gardens was the only positive result of the trip.

Reference: 1272

Notes: In the series "Beacon Biographies of Eminent Americans."

Reference: 1274

Notes: TJ as courageous fighter of religious bigotry, class despotism, and all other kinds of oppression; intended in part as a reply to Theodore Roosevelt's characterization of TJ in his Winnin~ of the West. Revised edition published in 1927.

Reference: 1273

Notes: Informative note on TJ's interest in Diderot's Encyclopedie, Charles Joseph Panckoucke's Encyclopedie methodique, and Jean-Nicolas Demeunier's "dictionary," Economie Politique et diplomatique, to which he contributed.

Reference: 3399

Notes: Discusses a scrapbook of newspaper verse supposedly collected by TJ; highly unlikely.

Reference: 3401

Notes: TJ was a scientist in both the broadest and the narrow senses of the term; more laudatory than informative.

Reference: 3400

Notes: A rather mechanical and simplistic analysis intended for "the busy, rushing people of to-day." Focus on practical organization and administration of government, not on political theory or intellectual background of TJ's opinions.

Reference: 2483

Notes: TJ's younger daughter at her aunt's home.

Reference: 1275

Notes: Sketch ends with a call for "some patriotic national association" to take over Monticello.

Reference: 1276

Notes: Sketch emphasizing TJ's gardening and botanical interests.

Reference: 3402

Notes: Focus on Faulkner; contends that the "fierce economic, political and moral independence seen in Faulkner's yeomen reflects an intellectual position substantially identical to that of Thomas Jefferson whose tenets Faulkner may simply have assimilated from his society." DAI 33/10A, p. 5754.

Reference: 3403

Notes: Frequently reprinted; credits TJ with authorship of the Declaration and Adams with putting it through Congress. Their lives, spent in gaining for us the blessings of liberty, remind us of the duties which have devolved upon us from our fathers.

Reference: 1277

Notes: Webster visited Monticello in December, 1824; TJ talked about Patrick Henry and his experience in France among other topics.

Reference: 1278

Notes: J. H. I. Browere makes a life-mask of TJ that almost proves to be his death-mask.

Reference: 3404

Notes: Separate printing of Chambers' Encyclopedia entry.

Reference: 1279

Notes: Discusses in the first chapter TJ's legal problems in annexing the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.

Reference: 2075

Notes: Examines TJ's reputation with particular attention to his canonizing by the New Deal.

Reference: 1280

Reference: 2076

Notes: Account of TJ's purchases at Elk Hill from 1778 to 1799, when he sold his property there; conjectural drawing by Calder Loth.

Reference: 1281

Notes: Juvenile fiction; Martha, "Patsy," Jefferson falls in love with "Tom" Randolph.

Reference: 3405

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 1282

Notes: Surveys TJ's references to insects; although he was not an entomologist, he was "the only president of the United States who thought seriously enough about insects to write about them in his letters and to stress the need for more specific study of them."

Reference: 3406

Notes: Review essay of volumes arguing that TJ borrowed from the supposed Mecklenburg Declaration; finds the stories of the Mecklenburg Declaration belong "to the domain of fable."

Reference: 2077

Notes: Discusses techniques of imitating wood grain with paint and describes its use at Monticello, where the author is paint and color conservator.

Reference: 3407

Notes: Suggest that Adams tended to lead the correspondence in its rather fitful analysis of "the problem of man." He saw this problem under three heads: the nature of man, man's civil state, and the extent and uses of human learning.

Reference: 2078

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 1283

Notes: If TJ were here, he'd be "a good Truman Democrat."

Reference: 1284

Notes: Thoughtful discussion of TJ's religion, claiming it is no vacuous deism but a notion of a religious a priori as foundational; compares him to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Reference: 2484

Notes: Argues that Helvetius represents an egocentric view of man, descending from Locke, which holds that morality is the result of education, but that TJ's views are sociocentric in the tradition of Shaftesbury and the Scottish moralists and that he advocated a psychology of innate faculties.

Reference: 2485

Notes: Introduction to the numerous aspects of TJ with essays by several hands, noted separately here.

Reference: 1285

Notes: TJ as host in Washington, D. C.

Reference: 1286

Notes: Refers to the death of TJ and Adams, ends by asking "how far we are living up to Mr. Jefferson's doctrines."

Reference: 1287

Notes: General account.

Reference: 3408

Notes: Finds no strong evidence for the influence of Robert Bellarmine on TJ.

Reference: 2487

Notes: Contends that TJ can be seen as the norm for a genuine liberalism as opposed to the claims of conservatives for his patronage.

Reference: 2486

Notes: TJ continued to oppose slavery all his life, hoped younger men would take up the cause, and "in dealing with slavery was a real political seer and giver of oracles."

Reference: 2079

Notes: Argues for the existence of an agreement between TJ and James Lemen to work against introduction of slavery into the Northwest Territory.

Reference: 2080

Notes: Informs TJ about what has happened to education since his death.

Reference: 3410

Notes: TJ in his First Inaugural typified the position of the "old Republicans," in his Second Inaugural he typified the position of the "new Republicans" who were dominant after 1815. Although not interested in the normal procedures of day to day administration, TJ was "as skillful as his Federalist predecessors in using administrative means for far-reaching political ends." His first term was marked by successful innovations in policy and administration, but his second ended in the disaster of the Embargo. TJ's "significance in American history flows much less from his contribution to the art of administration than from his convictions about democracy."

Reference: 2081

Notes: Examines the Hamilton-TJ feud on pp. 213-31 and concludes that Washington, TJ, and Hamilton "did not present a combination which long corresponded" to the requirements of effective administration.

Reference: 2082

Notes: TJ's copy of Thomas Blackwell's An Enquiry into the Life and Writings of Homer contains on its fly leaf a quotation from Hume's "Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences," also quoted by Hamilton in Federalist 85.

Reference: 2488

Notes: TJ discussed passim. Analyzes the philosophical backgrounds and positions of the founding fathers with particular attention to the issues of the self-evidence of truth, moral sense, natural law, and natural rights.

Reference: 2490

Notes: For TJ "the republic and the city joined hands only in a marriage of convenience."

Reference: 2489

Notes: Review essay of the first 15 volumes of the Papers discusses editorial decisions and the insights offered by the material into the character of TJ.

Reference: 1289

Notes: TJ's connections with New England: John Adams, George Ticknor, Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 1290

Notes: Architectural evolution of Monticello briefly considered.

Reference: 3411

Notes: Surveys TJ's architectural activities with a review of the most significant literature.

Reference: 3412

Notes: Intro. by the editor, facsimile, and note by Julian P. Boyd.

Reference: 2083

Notes: Reviews the controversy.

Reference: 3413

Notes: TJ's inventions.

Reference: 3414

Reference: 1291

Notes: TJ, his wife and daughters; he was conservative in regard to women's rights, and "the saga of the three Jefferson ladies" illuminates "the myth of the plantation system."

Reference: 1292

Notes: Notes TJ's gift to Buffon.

Reference: 3415

Notes: Juvenile biography covering the years 1743-1776.

Reference: 1297

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 1293

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 1294

Reference: 1296

Notes: Combines 4 separately printed books; good biography for younger readers.

Reference: 1295

Notes: TJ lauded as pioneer agricultural scientist.

Reference: 3416

Notes: Intelligent survey, but nothing new.

Reference: 2491

Notes: Survey of TJ's attitudes toward and involvement with the press; he "believed in freedom of the press more unreservedly than any President of the United Sates before or since."

Reference: 2084

Notes: TJ and the issues of 1959, education, desegregation, science, etc.

Reference: 1298

Notes: Franklin, TJ, Fonvizin, and Karamzin; claims TJ "felt threatened by the sophistication of the French aristocracy."

Reference: 1299

Notes: Popular biography with invented dialogue.

Reference: 1300

Notes: TJ's radical measures to assure intellectual liberty at the University --faculty tenure, full powers of decision in the conduct of scholarly work, opportunity to assist in administering the affairs of the University (TJ provided not for a president but an annually rotating faculty chairmanship)—assured a tradition that held up well, with a few blemishes, for the first century. DAI 34/08A, p. 4817.

Reference: 3417

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 347-77 .

Reference: 1301

Reference: 2085

Reference: 3418

Notes: "... rather the policy of the politician than the policy of the statesman, the legislator, the lawgiver, or the patriot."

Reference: 1302

Notes: Emphasizes the democratic features of the Univ. of Virginia as a consequence of TJ's ideas.

Reference: 3419

Notes: Praise for TJ's influence as revolutionist, democratizer of state and federal institutions, diplomat, president, and for his encouragement of freedom of religion and of education.

Reference: 2086

Notes: TJ believed that morality rested on the relation of man to man, but that religion was a private affair. The government had moral obligations to respect the natural rights of free men, although Indians and Negroes were barred from citizenship because of the supposed inferiority of their culture or race. DAI 23/05, p. 1744.

Reference: 2492

Notes: Informative discussion of attempts to discover TJ's original gardens.

Reference: 3420

Notes: Contends the logical site for the Memorial is across the Potomac.

Reference: 3421

Notes: Review essay prompted by Brodie's Thomas Jefferson argues that she has misused psychoanalytic and psychological techniques in interpreting TJ's private life.

Reference: 1303

Notes: To understand the Declaration we must bring ourselves to understand the meaning TJ's words had for him, for example what he meant when he called himself a farmer.

Reference: 2494

Notes: Continues review essay in previous item, discussing Malone's defense of TJ against the critique of Leonard Levy's Jefferson and Civil Liberties.

Reference: 2088

Notes: Review essay of Malone's Jefferson the President: Second Term, focusing on the Burr trial and the subpoena of TJ. Worth attention, but see item # 1806.

Reference: 2087

Notes: Criticizes Fawn Brodie's inaccuracies.

Reference: 1304

Notes: Argues that the Declaration has been frequently misunderstood because of a failure to place its terms accurately in the context of eighteenth-century thought. An important book which reveals a great deal about TJ's attitudes toward science, ethics, slavery, etc. and illuminates his connections to Francis Hutcheson and the moral sense philosophers as well as to the Scottish common sense school; it is not so trail-breaking, however, as it pretends.

Reference: 2493

Notes: Contends TJ failed to understand the situation in France because he did not recognize the lengths to which the revolution would go.

Reference: 2089

Notes: Argues that modern conservatives must have a proper historic self-image that includes TJ as representative of republicanism, constitutionalism, and federalism (i.e. sharing of power among federated individual states).

Reference: 2090

Notes: Excellent discussion of the classical foundations for TJ's agrarianism, particularly Virgil's Georgics.

Reference: 2495

Notes: Reviews TJ's positions and their continuity. If much of the intellectual tradition TJ admired has crumbled by our own time, his basic ideas are still valid; if we reject Destutt de Tracy, we hold on to the Declaration of Independence.

Reference: 2496

Notes: Examines the day books of the Virginia Gazette in the 1750's and '60's; discusses, among others, TJ's purchases.

Reference: 3422

Notes: Interview with the author of Sally Hemings.

Reference: 3423

Notes: Claims TJ's paper on the moldboard plow has the greatest historical significance among the agricultural publications included in the first six volumes of the APS Transactions.

Reference: 3428

Notes: Detailed and informative account of the plow and TJ's farming practices.

Reference: 3425

Reference: 3427

Notes: Full review of TJ's farming practices and farming technology.

Reference: 3429

Notes: Discursive survey of TJ's contributions to agricultural science and education.

Reference: 3430

Notes: "He truly had extension blood in his veins."

Reference: 3424

Reference: 3431

Notes: Sketch.

Reference: 3426

Notes: Focus on life in Washington during TJ's presidency.

Reference: 1305

Notes: Reprinted in Mere Literature. Boston, 1896. 196-99. "Jefferson was not a thorough American because of the strain of French philosophy that permeated and weakened all his thought."

Reference: 1306

Notes: "It is the spirit, not the tenets of the man, by which he rules us from his urn."

Reference: 1308

Notes: The newly elected Democratic president on the first Democrat.

Reference: 1307

Notes: Rpt. in Wilson, College and State, Educational, Literary and Political Papers (1875-1913). New York: Harper, 1925. 2:424-29. TJ "would have acted upon the facts as they are" and called for tarrif and currency reforms.

Reference: 2091

Notes: Biographical account of TJ's life at Monticello has interesting anecdotes. Comprehensive, although uncritical, social history of Monticello.

Reference: 1311

Notes: TJ's sense of humor as revealed in his letters.

Reference: 1312

Notes: Domestic, familiar TJ, told via anecdotes.

Reference: 1314

Notes: TJ willed Poplar Forest to Francis Eppes.

Reference: 1310

Notes: On Poplar Forest.

Reference: 1315

Notes: Discussion of the correspondence from 1812 on, with extracts.

Reference: 1313

Notes: Describes features of Monticello, its design and how TJ lived there. Illustrated.

Reference: 3432

Notes: Selected and abridged texts with editorial commentary.

Reference: 1309

Notes: TJ at times shows a tendency to move away from older natural law theory in favor of a sociological interpretation of international law. His theory of the social contract assumed the state of nature to be a state of peace, and he made this fundamental pacifism the goal of his dealings in international affairs.

Reference: 2500

Notes: Thorough-going investigation of TJ's political ideas treated as a coherent system. Revised version published as item #2498.

Reference: 2499

Notes: Finds two streams of thought in TJ's political philosophy: a democratic emphasis on individualism and a socialist emphasis on the welfare of the whole. The democratic and socialist positions are closely linked; the first is a rejection of political absolutism, the second of economic absolutism.

Reference: 2497

Notes: Thoughtfully examines how the "political liberalism of accumulated centuries passes through Jefferson into the Democratic tradition" by discussing his views on the state and on the law while emphasizing the flexibility and breadth of his ideas.

Reference: 2498

Notes: Argues for two classical traditions in the South; one associated with the Enlightenment, looking to antiquity for models of freedom, the other looking for sanctions to maintain the status quo. TJ and Calhoun represent these.

Reference: 2501

Notes: Prints an advertisement from the Virginia Gazette of Sept. 21, 1769, without any significant comment.

Reference: 1316

Notes: Note surveying TJ~s interest in livestock breeding and scientific agriculture.

Reference: 3433

Reference: 1317

Notes: Survey, nothing new.

Reference: 1318

Notes: Report on agriculturalists' pilgrimage to Monticello.

Reference: 1319

Notes: Often reprinted; includes a description of Monticello and its resident sage.

Reference: 1320

Notes: Discusses TJ and events of his administration; claims one of his great contributions to science was bringing Ferdinand Hassler, the geodesist, to America.

Reference: 1321

Notes: 54 prominent Americans contribute brief panegyrics.

Reference: 1322

Notes: Claims TJ was an occult "mystic" of the cabbalistic, Masonic variety, e.g. the ten pavilions at the University symbolize "the ten Sephirothal emanations of the Great Wisdom." This lore needs to be taught in the law school in order to combat "the Browders and Tugwells" of the author's day.

Reference: 2502

Reference: 33

Notes: Reviews the Lockean background of the Declaration and TJ's understanding of individual rights in view of Wilmoore Kendall's conservative interpretation of Locke; evidence does not support reading "radically individualistic political theory" into the Declaration.

Reference: 2503

Notes: Discusses TJ's life through his mission to France and his arrival at the opinion that the decisions of one generation should not bind the next.

Reference: 1323

Notes: The struggles with Hamilton and the problems with foreign relations in the 1790's.

Reference: 2093

Notes: Covers TJ's presidency, concluding that the executive power of the presidency has never recovered from his weakening of it snd that the difficulties the country faces today are an almost inevitable consequence of his politics. Printed separately, Paris: J. Claye, 1859. pp. 39.

Reference: 2094

Notes: TJ's retirement of all his actions does him the most honor.

Reference: 1324

Notes: Strongly critical of TJ; he put the American republic on its downward slide to mobbishness and rebellion. Translated by R. S. H. Church as Jefferson and the American Democracy: An Historical Study. London: Longman, 1862. pp. xxviii, 448. Originally published in part in four numbers of Revue des Deux Mondes.

Reference: 2092

Notes: Survey of TJ's character and achievements, calling on Americans "to expand his conception of individual rights."

Reference: 1325

Reference: 1326

Reference: 1327

Notes: Examines TJ's letters written during his tour of southern France and compares him favorably as a traveller to Arthur Young.

Reference: 1328

Notes: Similar to the previous item.

Reference: 1329

Notes: Pierre Samuel DuPont de Nemours worked for the Polish Commission in 1774, drew upon his experience when he sent TJ his proposal for American Education in 1800. DAI 39/12A, pp. 7195-96.

Reference: 3434

Notes: Discusses present day plantings.

Reference: 3435

Notes: A republican account of the period of the Alien and Sedition Laws, reprinted to connect the Federalists with the Whigs.

Reference: 2095

Reference: 1330

Reference: 1331

Notes: Focuses particularly on response to TJ's "Bill for the More General Diffusion of Knowledge" (1779) and his "Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education" (1817). DAI 35/llA, p. 7096.

Reference: 3436

Notes: How TJ identified the author of the "History of the Dividing Line" and obtained the manuscript of the "Secret History" for the American Philosophical Society.

Reference: 3437

Notes: TJ rarely mingled in popular gatherings, but his reputation steadily increased in Virginia, with the exception of the setbacks caused by his governorship and the Mazzei letter. As he revealed himself as a republican reformer, he gained popular support but was also more sharply attacked by some members of his own class. He never attained the general respect tended to Washington.

Reference: 1332

Notes: TJ in retirement has many opinions but is reluctant to push any of them in public, except for the University.

Reference: 2096

Notes: Documents interspersed with comment, illustrating TJ's views on blacks, slavery, and abolition.

Reference: 2504

Notes: Testimonial.

Reference: 1333

Notes: Circular offering for sale copies of the separate printing of Ford's edition of TJ's Notes.

Reference: 3438

Reference: 34

Notes: "As minister to France and as Secretary of State, (TJ) attacked every problem of American diplomacy, and the systems and principles he followed were, in practically every case, followed by the United States. It is the purpose of this study to investigate the chief problems and the reasoning Jefferson applied to them in the period 1783-

Reference: 2097

Notes: Jeffersonian folklore, preserved (or invented) by William Page, one of the first guides to Monticello after it opened to the public.

Reference: 1334

Notes: Sketch of TJ's University; peripheral.

Reference: 3441

Notes: Sketch of the owner of Monticello.

Reference: 1336

Notes: Description.

Reference: 3440

Reference: 3442

Notes: TJ wished to appoint Thomas Cooper as professor of chemistry at the University; prints a recently discovered letter from him to Cooper, dated September 1, 1817.

Reference: 3439

Notes: Stresses TJ's role as a defender of religious freedom and as a figure of national unity, as in "We are all Republicans, We are all Federalists."

Reference: 1337

Notes: His origins are English, not French, and his ideas were expressed in terms of American situations.

Reference: 2505

Notes: TJ as "rationalist, naturalist, and empiricist." If his ideas about the function of government are outmoded, his values are of continuing importance.

Reference: 2506

Notes: Two wide-ranging essays which touch at several points on TJ's accomplishments as a geographer in Notes. Suggestive and useful for background.

Reference: 3443

Notes: Washington's and TJ's desire to keep out of European wars was prompted by realistic assessment of national strength and weakness, but "Jefferson's vision of collaboration between English-speaking peoples to maintain peace and justice in the Western Hemisphere" justifies eventual interventionism.

Reference: 2098

Notes: "Although Jefferson read widely and knew the French and English philosophers and historians of his own age, his thinking was chiefly influenced by the writers of antiquity."

Reference: 3444

Notes: TJ as an intellectual was able to adapt his idealism ~to the necessity of being practically intelligent." Both TJ and Adams disliked foggy philosophers such as Plato or Rousseau; youthful academics of today devoted to Marcuse or Marx should take notice. A veiled hit at opponents of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam.

Reference: 2507

Notes: Opinion dated August 16, 1782, on the estate of Adam Wayland.

Reference: 2099

Notes: Describes presentation copies of John Francis Dumoulin's An Essay on Naturalization sent to TJ and prints Dumoulin's letters to him.

Reference: 3445

Notes: Facsimile of pages containing genealogical and other information from the Book of Common Prayer belonging to Peter, then Thomas Jefferson; commentary and bibliographical note.

Reference: 2508

Notes: Note on TJ's work as first patent commissioner and his changing attitude toward the value of the patent system.

Reference: 2100

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