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

Reference: 3389

Notes: Federalist attack, not authentic memoirs.

Reference: 241

Notes: Bryan's oration on TJ was delivered on July 17th.

Reference: 203

Notes: Touches comprehensively on the careers and accomplishments of both Adams and TJ and delivers equal praise.

Reference: 175

Notes: Contains nineteen eulogies, the most well known being Webster's and Wirt's. Eulogies are listed separately here.

Reference: 1072

Notes: Isaac Shelby died on July 18th; pays particular attention to the deathbed scenes of TJ and Adams.

Reference: 94

Notes: "Tribute" on pp. 45-60 includes address delivered July 14, 1826, by Philip Courtland Hay.

Reference: 437

Notes: Interesting essay-review of ten eulogies on TJ and Adams.

Reference: 1011

Notes: TJ's death noted on July 8, Adams's on July 15, and the number for July 22 notices various "Testimonies of Respect for the Deceased Patriarchs."

Reference: 349

Notes: Reviews A Selection of Eulogies (1826); concentrates on the rhetorical performance of the speakers and has little to say about TJ and Adams.

Reference: 2777

Notes: Notices the progress of a lottery arranged in TJ's behalf.

Reference: 943

Notes: Announces a scheme to help TJ by purchasing lottery tickets, then destroying them; published in May, just before his death.

Reference: 986

Notes: Concentrates on TJ as the "great apostle of civil liberty."

Reference: 504

Reference: 455

Reference: 411

Notes: "the declining period of their lives presents ... a new spectacle of

Reference: 421

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 'In this splendid coincidence of events, ... what grateful and ingenuous heart hesitates to acknowledge an omniscient and benignant Providence?"

Reference: 379

Reference: 357

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. 18-57. Praises their role as the great men of "the congress of seventy-six," who in a time of revolutionary excitement were the authors of a national literature of liberty.

Reference: 322

Notes: Emphasizes the death of Adams and TJ on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration as God's "manifesting to us his special favor and protection, apparently revealing to all mankind that this is his chosen land."

Reference: 228

Notes: Intended to refute TJ's accusation of Cresap as murderer of Logan's family.

Reference: 2918

Reference: 585

Notes: A particularly dramatic oration in which an aged narrator extolls for a youthful audience the similar excellencies of the two patriarchs.

Reference: 615

Reference: 612

Reference: 569

Notes: Apologetic biography of TJ as one of those who "not only go for men in the vast catalogue of nations; but they are men upon the list of reason, and of Heaven."

Reference: 726

Notes: Pays particular attention to TJ and defends his religious opinions; argues that the simultaneous death is a sign of God's orderly governance of the universe.

Reference: 704

Reference: 554

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies..., Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. Full consideration of TJ's career and a defense of his policies, particularly claiming him to be a friend of commerce as opposed to speculation. Comments on the poverty of his later years.

Reference: 616

Notes: Account of TJ's death; 2 letters from TJ to Lee relative to the Revolutionary War in Virginia in 1780-81.

Reference: 688

Reference: 530

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 173-92. One of the most rhetorically ornate of the eulogies.

Reference: 658

Notes: Praises especially TJ's authorship of the Virginia act of religious toleration.

Reference: 977

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. "Henceforward the names of Jefferson and Adams can never be separated from the Declaration of Independence." TJ and Adams offered as exemplars of the principles of the Declaration.

Reference: 1074

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. li. Robinson, 1826. 155-71.

Reference: 1086

Reference: 1118

Notes: Claims TJ's last words were "I resign my Soul to my God, and My daughter to my country!"

Reference: 1116

Notes: General praise without considering TJ and Adams in any detail.

Reference: 1045

Notes: Concentrates on TJ's public activities. Comments at length on the Notes and notices his connections and communications with the American Philosophical Society. Claims that in his efforts to acquire information about the Louisiana Purchase he "placed himself before the world as one of the most substantial promoters of statistical, natural, and physical science."

Reference: 837

Reference: 1129

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: Text of the sermon is Zechariah 1:5, "Your Fathers, Where are they?" turns this into a jeremiad. One of the more interesting eulogies.

Reference: 1127

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: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 235-71. TJ's "noblest effort, though unsuccessful, has been for the emancipation of slaves." Claims that it rained on July 4, 1826, and the rainbow "gave assurance that the offerings of these patriots had been accepted."

Reference: 1124

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826., 139-53. The Declaration considered "as a great, solemn, political act, ... demands our highest veneration," and its truth has changed the world. TJ and Adams became "the patriarchs of America, and saw their children in the land of promise."

Reference: 1125

Notes: Praises TJ for the omitted anti-slavery passage in the Declaration.

Reference: 1194

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

Reference: 1320

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies... Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. TJ praised as a philosophic democrat who will be remembered for the Declaration; quotes from TJ's letter of June 24 to Roger C. Weightman.

Reference: 1213

Notes: Praises TJ's “extraordinary power of intense reflection.”

Reference: 1189

Reference: 1210

Reference: 1133

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

Reference: 1301

Notes: TJ was a force for reason, science, and enlightened leadership. One of the most interesting of the eulogies.

Reference: 126

Reference: 477

Notes: Doggerel verse eulogy by a precursor of Julia Moore; seems to think TJ wrote the Constitution.

Reference: 399

Notes: "Extrait des Annales Linneennes pour 1826." Praises TJ's interest in science and notes his connections in the international community.

Reference: 691

Notes: Attempt to enlist TJ posthumously as a partisan of the American System .

Reference: 2336

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ's life.

Reference: 1117

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: Facsimile edition, Charlottesville: Alderman Library, 1945. Catalogue of the original Univ. of Virginia library as shaped by TJ's recommendations.

Reference: 2664

Notes: These pages describe a visit to the Univ. of Virginia and Monticello in November 1825, noting especially TJ's art collection.

Reference: 122

Notes: Defends himself against charges of attempting to ridicule TJ and of voting against the Louisiana Purchase for reasons of faction; prints a letter from TJ to William Dunbar, dated July 17, 1803, showing similar constitutional scruples.

Reference: 1345

Notes: From the Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, but pagination different from below. Positive view of TJ, but aware that he is still a figure who can arouse party differences.

Reference: 476

Notes: Letters and papers illuminating the contretemps between Giles and T. J. Randolph over the publication of TJ's letter to Giles dated December 25, 1825, in which it was purported TJ approved of John Adams' politics.

Reference: 1631

Notes: Reprints the Pensacola eulogy of August 1826, 157-82; includes also "Western Antiquities, Communicated in a Letter to Thomas Jefferson," 192-205, arguing for Mexican influence on the moundbuilders.

Reference: 2610

Notes: Controversy raised by the publication of TJ's letter of Dec. 25, 1825 to William Branch Giles, claiming J. Q. Adams had intimated treasonous intentions on the part of the Massachusetts Federalists at the time of the Embargo.

Reference: 1344

Notes: Notes that TJ's executor had recently published some reports from the old General court, collected by or reported by TJ.

Reference: 1713

Notes: Poem, signed "Zenobia."

Reference: 3346

Notes: Account of a visit to Monticello and a conversation with TJ demonstrating his love and knowledge of the classics and his opinions about presenting ghosts on stage in productions of plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, and some Greek tragedies. Interesting but perhaps fabulous.

Reference: 2878

Notes: The final library. Page 2 shows TJ's scheme of classification according to the faculties of the human mind.

Reference: 2663

Reference: 489

Notes: Prints extracts from TJ's letters in support of congressional power to set protective duties.

Reference: 1807

Notes: Describes Lafayette's visit to TJ at Monticello.

Reference: 693

Notes: Review essay which considers TJ's writings as a mirror of American society; "he will be a necessary witness, whenever we survey the successive constitutional questions which have so furiously divided parties in America." rpt. in Selections from the Edinburgh Review. Paris: Baudry, 1835. 2:366-75.

Reference: 603

Notes: Prints a letter purportedly written from Monticello, May 25, 1823, praising Henry Clay and the American System. See note on p. 447 charging this to be a forgery.

Reference: 2022

Notes: Rpt. after 1851 as The Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Reference: 391

Reference: 1383

Notes: A nullification fable.

Reference: 1701

Notes: A Calhoun-Jefferson-States Rights package.

Reference: 2053

Notes: Rpt. "With an Introduction and Notes by Charles Carter Lee," Philadelphia: J. Dobson, et. al., 1839. pp. 262. In the 1829 edition of TJ's Writings his letter to George Washington of June 19, 1796, refers to a supposed political scandal monger; an editor's note states, "Here in the margin of the copy, is written, apparently at a later date, 'Gen. H. Lee."' Lee rapidly moves from a defense of his father into a general attack upon TJ.

Reference: 689

Notes: First full length biography of TJ.

Reference: 1004

Notes: Letter from the French Court, 11 September 1790, testifying to the esteem and approbation of TJ as minister.

Reference: 2048

Notes: Proposes to relieve her financial difficulties with a grant of western land; discusses TJ's economic sacrifices for his country.

Reference: 1234

Notes: Young woman wrapped by TJ in his fur cloak later hears how Kosciuszko was given the cloak by the Czar; fictional sketch.

Reference: 2807

Reference: 2665

Notes: First 100 pages attack TJ as secretary of state and as president; classic Federalist view.

Reference: 1576

Notes: Argues that TJ as a model of republicanism applicable to French society; prefaces an abridged translation of T. J. Randolph's Memoirs. ... from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 1497

Reference: 655

Notes: Variously reprinted.

Reference: 698

Notes: Washington in the field and Jefferson in the cabinet accomplished a revolution without parallel in history for its grandeur.

Reference: 1103

Notes: Sketches TJ's career, ends in an anti-"consolidation" states rights argument.

Reference: 1959

Reference: 591

Notes: Review essay of Dwight's History of the Hartford Convention and Sullivan's Familiar Letters. Traces the Democratic party from the anti-federalists and characterizes the party under TJ as party of Liberty, the Federalists led by Hamilton as the party of Law. But since Britain is now on the side of Liberty, "The parties, into which our fathers were divided on the great argument of Liberty and Law, can therefore never be revived ... as it came up before, connected with the policy of Europe and the rival interests of France and England ...." Still worth reading.

Reference: 1590

Notes: Presents a "colossal bronze statue" executed in Paris by "the celebrated David."

Reference: 3030

Notes: Defends the Mecklenburg Declaration; written from secondary sources, mostly Federalist. See Edwin Miles' 1957 article, noted below.

Reference: 621

Notes: "A compilation exclusively." Pro-Jeffersonian.

Reference: 701

Notes: Review of funeral eulogies for TJ and Adams.

Reference: 571

Notes: In praise of popular government, with a nod to TJ.

Reference: 1838

Reference: 1965

Notes: A diehard Federalist attacks TJ in detail; rpt. Boston, 1834; Philadelphia, 1847, as The Public Men of the Revolution.

Reference: 2013

Notes: Federalist reply to Alexander Hill Everett's article, contending TJ was merely the "idol of a party." N.B. some libraries catalogue this under Everett.

Reference: 2014

Notes: Portrays TJ's interest in "literature and the sciences" by reprinting with linking commentary selected letters, including an interesting letter debunking perpetual motion machines.

Reference: 2927

Notes: Presents TJ as the republican hero of simple habits, liberal temper, devoted to democratic principles.

Reference: 478

Notes: Review essay on Rayner's Life of Thomas Jefferson and William Sullivan's Remarks on Article IX in the ...North American Review. Mostly answers Sullivan, who is attacking an article by Everett.

Reference: 419

Notes: Turns into a history of parties in America; sees TJ as standing for Liberty, Hamilton for Law.

Reference: 420

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

Notes: Review essay proclaiming TJ as the greatest American after Washington and Franklin.

Reference: 194

Notes: Biographical sketch translated from North American Review

Reference: 1179

Notes: Sketch with portrait.

Reference: 750

Notes: Printed separately as A Criticism on Tucker's 'Life of Jefferson'. New York, 1837. pp. 58. Review essay on Tucker's biography attacks TJ for supposed irreligion, dissimulation, and for cribbing from documents such as the Mecklenburg Declaration when writing the Declaration of Independence. This article provoked considerable response.

Reference: 538

Notes: Tucker was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia, and was given access to family papers and received information from Martha Jefferson Randolph. The first important biography.

Reference: 1207

Notes: Reply to the strictures of Francis Lister Hawkes; see #538.

Reference: 878

Notes: Review essay on Mathew L. Davis, Memoirs of Aaron Burr, focuses on charges of treachery against TJ and rejects them.

Reference: 1339

Reference: 749

Notes: Reply to Francis Lister Hawkes' critical review of Tucker's biography.

Reference: 1206

Notes: Poem on "the daughter of Jefferson sold for a slave! " Rpt. The Liberator. May 26, 1848. 84.

Reference: 2931

Notes: Early visit when the Levys were at home.

Reference: 842

Notes: The founder of the Disciples of Christ visits TJ's grave and describes the religious situation at the Univ. of Virginia—the University had come to be dominated by the major sects in the short time since TJ's death. Campbell admired TJ for his stand on religious freedom and individual rights.

Reference: 2166

Notes: "... the main purpose of the writer will be to show, that the estimate which the federalists formed of his principles and character, political, moral and religious, was not merely justified but strictly correct."

Reference: 392

Notes: Rpt. in his Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: The Author, 1851. 191-205. Sympathetic sketch defending TJ from charges of infidelity.

Reference: 624

Notes: A federalist view of TJ's presidency, charging that ultimately "his political opinions and conduct served to lessen, in some measure, the stability and permanency of the republic; by emboldening visionary and unprincipled men, many of whom were aliens, and who could vociferate most loudly for liberty, but had not a due respect for law or the Constitution."

Reference: 1428

Notes: Triumph of style over content; only touches on TJ.

Reference: 487

Notes: Essay review of Tucker's LIFE; comments on the difficulty of TJ getting a fair hearing.

Reference: 1239

Notes: Claims TJ insisted upon "a uniformly strict construction of the Constitution."

Reference: 1841

Reference: 907

Notes: Contends TJ was willing to give a liberal construction to the Constitution when it would "best promote the public good."

Reference: 2034

Reference: 195

Notes: Account of a visit to the grave in about 1828.

Reference: 497

Notes: TJ the "Patriarch of our party," whose election was the people's first authentic and empathetic ratification of the entire Democratic creed.

Reference: 331

Notes: 100th anniversary of TJ's birth; his principles fostered progress and the advance of freedom.

Reference: 1055

Notes: Notes the progress of liberty, praises TJ, and dreams of Western expansion and manifest destiny.

Reference: 1503

Notes: Reissue of the Jefferson section of the previous item with a new title page but retaining the old pagination.

Reference: 1104

Notes: Criticism of anti-Catholic rhetoric and riots.

Reference: 1843

Notes: Catholics, not Presbyterians, are the threat to religious freedom; anyway, TJ is no authority on the Presbyterians because he was an infidel. Answer to the pamphlet of Justus Moore; see item #1843.

Reference: 2413

Notes: Section on Albemarle County is largely given over to TJ and his works; derivative.

Reference: 566

Notes: See especially the chapter on "Jeffersonian Policy" (234-58) for a detailed attack on TJ's political ideas and politics. "No matter what evil invades the land, what dreadful ruin breaks up our institutions, what disgrace attacks and leaves its foul spot on our character, all may be traced to the damnable policy of Thomas Jefferson and his party."

Reference: 1831

Reference: 1740

Notes: Sketch by a German traveler and historian, sympathetic to the American experiment.

Reference: 1003

Notes: Charges that "its author had no distinct ideas on the subject he was writing about; or if he had, he possessed no faith in the truth of his assertions." Traces the effect of these "sophisms" on the South and on the "national genius."

Reference: 1958

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

Reference: 2095

Notes: Full account of the controversy over Logan's speech; concludes that Logan gave a speech, but not that passing under his name, and TJ acted in good faith when writing the Notes.

Reference: 2718

Notes: pp. 63-78 describe a purported visit to Monticello in 1815, including a dinner party at which TJ entertained Melbourn, a freed slave John Marshall, Elder John Leland, and Samuel Latham Mitchill, all at the same table. Antislavery fiction which has been uncritically accepted as true.

Reference: 526

Reference: 718

Notes: "Criticizes Wm. Rives' address to the alumni of the Univ. of Virginia for his "unlimited laudation" of TJ, who "in this country at least has done more to injure religion than any person who ever lived."

Reference: 582

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

1848

---

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Scraps from a Note Book. The Capitol."

Publication: Virginia Historical Register and Literary Advertiser
Volume: l
Date: 1848
Pages: 169

Notes: Short note on TJ's use of the Maison Carree of Nimes as a model for the Richmond Capitol.

Reference: 3261

1848

---

Name: Lossing , Benson J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence: The Declaration Historically Considered
Publisher: George F. Coolidge &Brother
City: New York
Date: 1848
Pages: 174-83.

Notes: Often reprinted and similar material in other Lossing collections; also note pp. 244-309 which sketch the historical background of the Declaration, examine the charges against George III, and find them valid.

Reference: 717

1848

---

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

1848

---

Name: Thompson , John R.
Title: "The Study of the Law. Ms. Letter of The Jefferson."

Publication: Southern Literary Messenger
Volume: 14
Date: (1848)
Pages: 187-90

Notes: Prints the letter to Bernard Moore with introductory comments.

Reference: 2025

1849-1851

---

Name: Anonymous none
Publication: The Jefferson Monument Magazine
Volume: l
Date: 1849-1851

Notes: Literary magazine conducted by students of the Univ. of Virginia with the object of erecting a monument to TJ. Little material pertaining to him contained here, however.

Reference: 605

1849

---

Name: Williams , Edwin
Title: "Biographical Sketch" and "Administration of Jefferson"

Publication: The Presidents of the United States, Their Memoirs and Administrations
Publisher: E. Walker
City: New York
Date: 1849
Pages: 107-64

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

Reference: 1302

1850

---

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson and Pox."

Publication: United States Magazine and Democratic Review
Volume: 27
Date: (1850)
Pages: 193-202

Notes: Compares TJ and Charles James Pox as party leaders who "embodied in their principles and reflected in their measures, more fully and perfectly than any of their contemporaries, the progressive tendencies of their times."

Reference: 1708

1850

---

Name: Garland , Hugh A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Life of John Randolph
Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1850
Pages: 1:45-52

Notes: TJ as a profound influence upon the young Randolph, but later replaced in his esteem by Edmund Burke. TJ also treated passim.

Reference: 1627

1850

---

Name: Clark , J. Peyton
Title: A View of the Services Rendered by Thomas Jefferson in the Cause of Civil Liberty; An Oration Delivered before the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia

Publisher: J. Alexander
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1850
Pages: pp. 20

Reference: 1490

1850

---

Name: J. B. C , ?
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: American Whig Review
Volume: 12
Date: (1850)
Pages: 33-46, 182-88, 290-99, 367-76, 471-89.

Notes: Review essay occasioned by the edition of TJ's Memoirs, Correspondence, Miscellanies (1849). Praises TJ but criticizes the editor for including the "Anas," of which we should have been spared.

Reference: 580

---

Return to the Bibliography homepage