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: Anonymous
Title: The Race Problem. Jefferson's Prophecies

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Racist tract calling for repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments and appealing to the authority of TJ.
Reference: 1913

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Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: broadside
Notes: Accordion-fold broadside for visitors to Monticello has been reprinted in several revised version since mid-1920s.
Reference: 1183

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Name: Butler , Nicholas Murray
Title: Is Thomas Jefferson the Forgotten Man? An Address delivered at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, Long Island, September 1, 1935

Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
City: New York
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Less about TJ than an attack upon governmental regulation and taxation; an anti-New Deal Jefferson.
Reference: 217

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Name: Anonymous
Title: The University of Virginia and Its Founder

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Fund
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: broadside
Notes: Accordion-fold broadside for visitors on the history and architecture of the University.
Reference: 3369

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Name: Courain , Liz, et. al.
Title: The Rotunda at the University of Virginia

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Fund
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Informative accordion-fold broadside for visitors to the Rotunda.
Reference: 2712

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Name: Gunn , John W.
Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Haldeman-Julius
City: Girard, Kan.
Date: n.d.
Pages: none given
Notes: Little Blue Book no. 769.
Reference: 507

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Name: Dabney , Charles W.
Title: Jefferson the Seer: An Address before the Conference for Education in the South in Session at the University of Virginia on April 25, 1903

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Praises TJ's educational ideals.
Reference: 2729

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Name: Dane , Nathan
Title: Appendix (9th Volume) to Dane's General Abridgment of American Law, etc.

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: 5-16
Notes: Bound with Dane's A General Abridgment and Di~est of American Law, With Occasional Notes and Comments. vol. 9. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. The Appendix examines the relationship of state and federal governments in light of the debates on Foot's resolution in the U.S. Senate and the appearance of TJ's writings in the 1829 edition. Blames many of the loose constructions of the Constitution on TJ's writings since 1775 and criticizes his credulosity and jealousy concerning supposed monarchists and aristocrats.
Reference: 1531

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Name: Hancock , James Denton
Title: The Louisiana Purchase Treated in Its Relations to the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence. Address delivered ... before Sons of the American Revolution at Pittsburgh, Pa., February 22d, 1899

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: none given
Notes: TJ's reservations about the constitutionality of the Purchase indicate that settlement of the American West is no model to justify annexation of the Philippines.
Reference: 1658

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Name: Shaw , Albert
Title: Address at Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society ... Held in Richmond, Virginia, April 13, 1904

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 27
Notes: TJ "still entitled to be looked on as a prophet and guide" for society and government in a time of "undreamt of industrial combinations and prodigious aggregations of productive capital." Rpt. as "Jefferson's Doctrines Under New Tests" in The Outlook for the Average Man. New York: Macmillan, 1907; and in Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. 298-325.
Reference: 2446

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Name: Temple , W. K.
Title: Monticello, The Home of Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Defends Jefferson Levy as a restorer of Monticello and describes the property, circa 1912.
Reference: 1154

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Name: Wise , Jennings C.
Title: The Legacy of Jefferson: An Appeal to the Alumni of the University

Publication: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 15
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

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Name: Bell , Landon C.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, An Address Before the Columbus Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, n.p

Pages: pp. 19
Notes: Loosely organized survey.
Reference: 112

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Name: Budd , Henry
Title: Thomas Jefferson: An Address delivered on the occasion of the birthday of Jefferson, under the auspices of the Jeffersonian Society of Philadelphia, at the Odd Fellows Temple, April 15th, 1901.

Publisher: n.p.
City: Philadelphia
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: TJ still best example of presidential conduct at a time when "centralization and imperialism together threaten ... our very life as a republic."
Reference: 209

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Name: Daveis , Charles Stewart
Title: An Address Delivered at Portland on the Decease of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, August 9, 1826

Pages: pp. 5.
Notes: TJ's greatest achievement as president was the Louisiana Purchase, Adams's was the navy, but their real monument is the country itself.
Reference: 341

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Name: Curtis , George M., III.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The Virginia Law Reporters Before 1880
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Pages: 75-84
Notes: Discussion on TJ's law career and of the Reports of 1769-72.
Reference: 1527

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Name: Fisher , George P.
Title: "Jefferson and the Social Compact Theory."

Publication: American Historical Association Annual Report for 1893
Pages: 165-77
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

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Name: Dunning , William A.
Title: "An Historic Phrase."

Publication: Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902
Pages: 1:82-85
Notes: Traces the background of the phrase "are, and of right ought to be" from the Declaration of Independence to Swift's Drapier's Letters, the Bill of Rights of 1689, and Pope Boniface VIII.
Reference: 2218

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Name: Smith , Hugh P. Some Limitations of the Educational Theory of Thomas Jefferson
Title: Ph.D. dissertation

Volume: Univ. of North Carolina
City: 1936
Reference: 3297

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Name: Riaume , Jean-Marc
Title: "Thomas Jefferson et la frontiere."

Publication: Seminaires 1979 (Talence: Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique Anglophone, Univ. de Bordeaux III)
Pages: 52-60
Reference: 2425

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Name: Randolph , Thomas Jefferson
Title: Jefferson Papers. Memorial of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Virginia, in Regard to the Purchase and Publication by Congress of the Manuscripts of Mr. Jefferson. December 30, 1847. Read and Laid on the Table

Volume: Miscellaneous, No. 7.
Publisher: 30th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives
Notes: Offers for sale a collection of about forty thousand letters and three boxed volumes of opinions as Secretary of State.
Reference: 1001

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Name: Wilson , Woodrow
Title: "What Jefferson Would Do: Part of Address Delivered at Jefferson Day Banquet, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York: April 13, 1912."

Publication: Congressional Record, 62nd Congress, 2nd Session
Pages: 48:4747-48
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

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Name: Wilson , M. L.
Title: "Why Agriculture Honors Jefferson."

Publication: Congressional Record
Volume: 78 Congress, I Session. 89(Appendix)
Pages: 4544-46
Reference: 3431

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Name: Voorhees , Daniel W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Forty Years of Oratory ... Lectures, Addresses, and Speeches
Publisher: Bowen-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Pages: 43-77
Reference: 1259

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Name: True , Rodney H.
Title: "Early Days of the Albemarle Agricultural Society."

Publication: Annual Report of the American Historical Association ... 1918
Pages: 1 :24 1-59
Notes: Explains TJ's role in founding the Society.
Reference: 3352

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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

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Name: Sullivan , James
Title: "The Antecedents of the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902
Pages: 1:66-81
Notes: Philosophical antecedents for the Declaration's ideas are in classic and medieval eras. The doctrines of the Declaration were originally advanced for purely partisan purposes and abandoned after the controversy; the same charge can be directed to the Declaration.
Reference: 2467



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