Notes: Describes how after publishing 20 volumes of the Jefferson Papers in the traditional manner, the editorial project has become computerized. Files are created using Waterloo SCRIPT codes so as to speed up production time and increase accuracy by eliminating the need to retype edited text as part of type setting.

Reference: 83.

Notes: "Adapted" with little change from the author's 1981 essay described above.

Reference: 84.

Notes: Discusses TJ's notes drawn up for Dr. James Blair of Williamsburg and the status of divorce law in the eighteenth century. See the author's related essay published in 1981.

Reference: 85.

Notes: On caveats and petitions over land titles and a "get rich quick" scheme (of somewhat dubious ethics although not technically illegal) devised by some of TJ's clients in Augusta County. This essay and the one listed immediately above are important studies of TJ's law practice; they are included in the author's book-length study of 1986, listed below.

Reference: 86.

Notes: Intended to make available "the best of early American philosophizing to college students" and general readers. The chapter on TJ's religious views is weakened by oversimplification and by a somewhat ahistorical treatment; the chapter on the philosophical background to the Declaration weighs the influence of "the rationalistic school" and "the moral sensists," devoting a bit more space to the latter. Takes up the questions of what Jefferson meant by equality, the notion of inalienable rights (derived from Hutcheson), the pursuit of happiness, and the right to revolution. Does not displace the earlier works by Garry Wills and Morton White on the philosophical context of the Declaration, even for college students and general readers.

Reference: 87.

Notes: Opposes conventional views that the Embargo was an economic failure and demonstrates that the Embargo's effect was to lower the real value of consumption in Britain more than in the U.S. Britain was less able to supply agricultural products previously imported from the U.S. than the U.S. was to make up the loss in manufactured goods coming the other way. The Embargo failed, the author contends, not for economic reasons but political ones. Britain was united in opposition to Napoleon, whereas Federalist opposition to TJ and his Embargo grew. An economic analysis, not on TJ directly, but of interest to anyone seeking to understand, and perhaps to justify, his notions about the use of embargoes.

Reference: 88.

Notes: Sanitized sketch of TJ as "a victim of the slavery system."

Reference: 89.

Notes: Photographic reprint of Mitchill's 1826 eulogy. The introduction gives a brief account of Mitchill, summarizes his discussion of TJ's services to science and notes some aspects he overlooked. Aimed at undergraduates in a course on TJ's Interest in Science and Technology.

Reference: 90.

Notes: Biographical sketch, notes that Edgemont, the house TJ designed for James Powell Cocke, has recently been sold. Minor.

Reference: 91.

Notes: In letter dated January 24, 1784, TJ asked Thomas Hutchins for information on the flooding of Western rivers. His query suggests that Hutchins' reply was less desired for the revision of the Notes than for TJ's interest in the size of the national domain and his commitment to the creation of new states in the West. Thus this bit of correspondence has more to do with his work as a member of Congress and his work on the Ordinance of 1784.

Reference: 92.

Notes: Explains a 1781 bill of exchange countersigned by George Rogers Clark (twice) and by TJ as governor of Virginia. Yes, TJ really was very bright.

Reference: 93.

Notes: Discusses the shaping influence of Iroquoian political and social ideas upon the emerging American culture, particularly through Benjamin Franklin. This chapter considers the impact of Iroquoian ideas upon TJ and the Declaration of Independence. Interesting, but the arguments are stronger for the influence on Franklin than for those regarding TJ. Unless the reader accords Franklin the central position in the revolutionary movement which the author implicitly ascribes to him, the book as a whole may only convince those ready to be convinced

Reference: 94.

Notes: These figures are introduced through the eyes of TJ and John Adams, beginning with Canto XXXI. Peripheral.

Reference: 95.

Notes: Good account of excavations for a popular audience, pointing out that archaeological discoveries show how the kitchen garden and outbuildings were part of an interdependent, overall landscape design. Illustrated.

Reference: 96.

Notes: Asks what conceptions, models, or guidelines were available to the first presidents to define their roles as the leaders in a republic and suggests that TJ, and Washington and Adams by implication, was impressed with the cultural values of the Augustans, with Pope, Swift, and Bolingbroke. He tried to combine these values with Lockean notions of freedom and government by consent. Rather overstates the case for an Augustan TJ (and in the process incidentally tends to deny him any real historical sense), but valuable for suggesting an alternative to the either/or polemic of civic humanist vs. Lockean liberal.

Reference: 97.

Notes: Focuses on John Adams, TJ, Madison, and Paine in order to sketch the intellectual background of the Bill of Rights' guarantee of religious freedom. Claims the American thinkers went beyond Europeans such as Locke and Montesquieu by demanding to separate church and state.

Reference: 98.

Notes: Prompted by Eva T. H. Brann's Paradoxes of an Education in a Republic (1979); defends TJ and his educational theories against Brann's strictures, accusing her of misreading him. Unfocused.

Reference: 99.

Notes: Mather Brown did two portraits of each man, one to keep, one to exchange. TJ received the copy, not the original, of his own portrait. Brown did the original of TJ during his 1786 visit to London but did not send the copy of this original to him until 1788. John Trumbull helped TJ get the picture from Brown and placed an order for a portrait of Thomas Paine in addition to that of John Adams. Trumbull himself did a small portrait of Paine for TJ as well as one of TJ for "Miss Jefferson."

Reference: 100.

Notes: Present efforts to ban certain books from schools and libraries are not new. TJ's political enemies objected to the national acquisition of his collection containing "books of an atheistic, irreligious, and immoral character."

Reference: 101.

Notes: Celebrates the completion of Malone's Jefferson in His Time and claims that in the final volume a balanced portrait of TJ emerges in "the old image of the Apostle of Liberty."

Reference: 102.

Notes: Not seen.

Reference: 103.

Notes: Argues that TJ's morality was ruled by neither science or reason alone but by an "aesthetics of virtue, a fusion of art and morals, whereby reflective beings are capable of discerning the path to virtue through aesthetic experience." Describes a dynamic moral model with two fundamental dialectics, between the Heart (sentiment) and the Head (reason/memory/imagination) and between humanity and nature. Describes the roots of this in Shaftesbury, incidentally offering an important corrective to Garry Wills's claims for the primacy of Hutchesonian moral sense. Reads Notes as "Notes on the State of Virtue," focusing on the sublime passages as aesthetic and moral demonstrations of the interaction of memory, reason, imagination and sentiment; comments also on TJ's understanding of blacks and his notion of happiness. A suggestive and important essay.

Reference: 104.

Notes: Severe critique of Wills for arguing from extremely inadequate evidence, and claims he has not succeeded in turning TJ's Declaration into a product of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Reference: 105.

Notes: On the restoration of the Monticello gardens under Peter Hatch. This is possible both because TJ's memoranda record the plans and development of the garden and the orchard and because of ongoing archaeological research. Good treatment of the topic in terms of restoration procedures.

Reference: 106.

Notes: Review essay on Donald Jackson's TJ & the Stony Mountains , contending that, although TJ was in many ways the quintessential modern man, he nevertheless depended upon information from the past conditioned in turn by his agrarian proclivities. Defends him against charges of credulousness about the West, but points out the way in which his ideas of progress supported an ultimately tragic Indian policy.

Reference: 107.

Notes: A recently discovered, unpublished extract from the South Carolina Privy Council Journals, dated March 27, 1789, reveals the council's authorization of TJ as their agent in Europe to receive old bonds from the Van Staphorsts as part of a scheme to retire the state's Revolutionary War debt. (A second extract is about Indians, no connection to TJ.)

Reference: 108.

Notes: Describes and quotes TJ's correspondence with Lafayette, John Adams, and Francis Adrian van der Kemp on the subject of Pierre Flourens' Recherches experimentales sur les proprietes et les fonctions du systeme nerveux dans les animaux vertebres (1822). TJ was interested in evidence for the material basis of thought.

Reference: 109.

Notes: Account of the controversy with Buffon over the relative size of European and American life forms. For a popular audience.

Reference: 110.

Notes: Responding to Malone's last volume, looks at TJ's late years and sees him as not quiescently settling into old age but "still battling on all sorts of fronts on which the war was to go badly for him." Notes his mounting personal debts, his concern about centralizing political power, threats to popular sovereignty, but also his ability to rise above the storm. Praises Malone's TJ as sage as a portrayal valuable for its sympathies and for its critical stance.