Notes: Little on TJ specifically; defends Cresap against the charge in Notes of murdering Logan's family and claims TJ seized upon the speech as an opportunity to refute Buffon.

Reference: 3080

Reference: 463

Notes: Notes dilapidation of the tomb; also see pp. 13-28 on TJ and the University.

Reference: 935

Notes: Overblown rhetoric.

Reference: 1149

Notes: An antislavery novel, the first by an American black writer, it does not make a great deal of TJ's parentage of Clotel, but it does quote him on the evils of slavery and then accuse him of hypocrisy.

Reference: 2625

Notes: Account of a visit to Monticello in the early 1850's and of TJ's life there.

Reference: 716

Notes: Anecdotes of TJ on 47-52 and a poem, "The Tomb of Jefferson."

Reference: 851

Reference: 1271

Notes: Fiction.

Reference: 2710

Notes: "He conquered, as Emerson says in speaking of the force of character over and above mere force of some special faculty, because his arrival anywhere altered the face of affairs."

Reference: 484

Notes: TJ contrasted with Hamilton: "He was more artificial as well as more original than Hamilton.... a thorough-going party man ... the whole tone of his mind was partisan." Baldwin's hero is Clay.

Reference: 1377

Notes: Biographical sketch. Journal continues The Democratic Review.

Reference: 58

Notes: Rpt. Wilmington, Del.: Thomas F. Bayard, 1907. pp. 38. In the Anas TJ claimed Bayard tried to bribe Samuel Smith to vote for Burr for president in 1800, or so Edward Livingston told him.

Reference: 1382

Notes: Laudatory, apologetic sketch on pp. 168-87; also see pp. 20-33 on the Mecklenburg Declaration.

Reference: 1648

Notes: These pages deal with the formation of the Republican party and TJ's administration; avoids controversial issues and takes an objective point of view.

Reference: 2102

Notes: Brief introduction, some annotation, but basic source material.

Reference: 2648

Notes: Argues that TJ's proposed plan of government for the Northwest Territory, made in 1784, was the model for the Ordinance of 1787. Coles was Monroe's private secretary and Governor of Illinois.

Reference: 1494

Notes: Another edition, Washington: n.p., 1856. pp. 28. Quotes TJ extensively on the evils of slavery in order to argue against its extension.

Reference: 1513

Notes: Anecdotes illustrating New England's reaction to TJ's election in 1800. Federalist nostalgia from Peter Parley

Reference: 490

Notes: Van Wyck's address is a biographical sketch of TJ.

Reference: 1249

Notes: Brief, admiring sketch, emphasizing his services in the revolutionary period.

Reference: 1165

Notes: Political progress and the error of secession; a pro-union appeal to the authority of TJ.

Reference: 1687

Notes: When reprinted in 1879, more properly titled A Life of Alexander Hamilton; important statement of the Hamiltonian view of TJ.

Reference: 1655

Notes: Bibliographical note.

Reference: 3139

Notes: Often reprinted biography which finds as TJ's chief fault "a pusillanimous and morbid terror of popular censure, and an insatiable thirsting after popular praise" which kept him from recognizing the depravity of most humans. Title pages of early editions spell author's name as Smucker.

Reference: 1066

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

Reference: 1278

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 great achievement of diplomacy was to escape entanglement with Europe; pays attention to issues and events without looking at the nature of the participants in any detail.

Reference: 2032

Notes: Review essay on the first two volumes of Randall's Life; holds TJ responsible for "the universal democracy, unrestrained ..." and attempts to rescue Burr's reputation. rpt. DeBow's Review. 24(1858), 508-36.

Reference: 592

Notes: Review essay finds Randall's biography of TJ verbose and dull but agrees with his highly favorable assessment of TJ.

Reference: 369

Notes: Long unfriendly sketch; "We regard him as the masterspirit of former mischievous inculcations, and his influence as the main promoting cause of all succeeding political malversations of 'the progressive Democracy'."

Reference: 276

Notes: "The model Democrat and President."

Reference: 581

Notes: Major biography written in the nineteenth century; Randall had access to sources unavailable to earlier writers and sought information from people who had known TJ.

Reference: 996

Notes: Review essay of Randall's Life; the first section on TJ's youth is generally admiring, but the second section is a sharp attack on his "inconsistencies."

Reference: 1257

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

Reference: 2093

Notes: The young Republican Party (GOP) tries to capture TJ as one of its own; prints speeches by Francis P. Blair and Daniel R. Goodloe, emphasizing TJ's belief in the importance of gradual elimination of slavery.

Reference: 1917

Notes: Sympathetic sketch.

Reference: 90

Notes: Oration celebrates TJ as politician, statesman, and philanthropist; the pamphlet also details the rest of the ceremony organized by the the National Democrats of Essex County.

Reference: 714

Notes: Praises TJ for everything except his religious views.

Reference: 1051

Notes: Eye-witness account.

Reference: 1096

Notes: "Mr. Jefferson's doctrine is the dream of an enthusiast or visionary," and does not justify abolition.

Reference: 1971

Notes: Review essay of Randall's biography.

Reference: 1142

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: Review of Randall's biography; revelation of TJ's private life justifies high opinion formed by readers of his Writings in 1829 and after.

Reference: 212

Notes: Sketch, little on TJ as governor

Reference: 230

Notes: Biographical sketch.

Reference: 302

Notes: TJ's true character was revealed after his death by publication of his letters and testimony of those who knew him intimately.

Reference: 1107

Reference: 903

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

Reference: 1324

Notes: Review of Randall's Life. Attacks Bulfinch's North American Review article, claiming that TJ "Whatever may be said of his intellectual eminence or distinguished public services, has certainly, never been esteemed for moral purity or practical piety."

Reference: 388

Notes: Doctrines of TJ and Christianity lead "by plain steps of logic, to agrarianism." All men were created equal, but since the creation, circumstances have changed and slavery is legitimate.

Reference: 1645

Reference: 250

Notes: Cited in Johnston, not seen.

Reference: 576

Notes: Taken literally, the Declaration contradicts the Bible, which suggests "man" as exclusively applicable to the white race.

Reference: 1826

Notes: Memoirs of Edmund Bacon, overseer at Monticello from 1806 until 1822, and letters to him from TJ.

Reference: 970

Notes: Review essay occasioned by Witt's book on TJ and Guizot's Etude sur Washington, accepts Witt's analysis of TJ.

Reference: 850

Reference: 390

Notes: Discusses the Genet episode in light of correspondence published in Witt's Thomas Jefferson.

Reference: 1684

Notes: Also in Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 6(1863), 86-248. Touches on TJ and quotes from statements opposing slavery and from those describing the black race's supposed intellectual inferiority.

Reference: 2338

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: 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: Account of his visit with TJ in 1822

Reference: 1187

Notes: Review of Riethmuller's Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries presents TJ as the origin of slave-holding, secessionist, oligarchic principles and Hamilton as transmitter "to the thinkers of the North ... political sobriety, that sober respect for law, that preference for legal freedom to popular license, that belief in a true national life" which characterizes Lincoln.

Reference: 1656

Notes: Noble, high-minded Hamilton opposed by TJ, the crafty, sans-culotte.

Reference: 1923

Notes: "His works are an arsenal where these weapons of sedition are arranged ready for use."

Reference: 2449

Notes: TJ quoted and cited as an anti-slavery advocate.

Reference: 1515

Notes: Review essay on Randall's biography. An Hegelian critique of TJ, claiming that for all of his great services and talents, his flaw was his commitment to individualism. Upon the "doctrine of state rights and local self-government ... will defend his reputation as statesman and philosopher." But "This is the day of great nations.... We are at an immeasurable distance from the times when Jefferson could describe us as 'one nation towards others, separate governments among ourselves."'

Reference: 2236

Notes: Describes Coleridge's notes in vol. IV of the 1829 London edition of the Memoirs .... Coleridge thought he was "onesided."

Reference: 389

Notes: Superficial sketches of early presidents, including TJ.

Reference: 720

Notes: Review essay on Witt's Thomas Jefferson, agrees with Witt that TJ was an ambivalent character, by turns "actif et impuissant," who was to a large degree responsible for the descent of the U.S. into "la de'mocratie brutale."

Reference: 2016

Notes: Anecdotes about TJ stressing his sociability.

Reference: 141

Notes: Two engraved views, brief description of condition of Monticello and TJ's grave in 1866.

Reference: 846

Notes: Prints correspondence of TJ and Genet with extracts from newspapers of the period.

Reference: 1650

Notes: Anecdotal sketch, emphasizing TJ's humane and generous qualities.

Reference: 36

Notes: Prints controversy from the New York World, 2 August, 1867, and 3 August, 1867, over TJ's notes on Patrick Henry prepared for William Wirt, Henry's biographer.

Reference: 936

Notes: Responding to an article in the Richmond Dispatch, defends Henry and calls for publication of all of TJ's correspondence with William Wirt. In one letter TJ had claimed Henry was "avaritious and rotten-hearted."

Reference: 548

Notes: A history of the Democratic Party; indicated pages cover election of 1800 through the Embargo, including a sketch of TJ's life and a section on his political principles.

Reference: 1632

Notes: Compares TJ and Adams as representative men of the American Revolution whose characters and careers bear closely on the origin of political parties in the U.S.

Reference: 1599

Notes: Bibliographic description.

Reference: 3140

Reference: 933

Notes: Describes a few leaves from one of TJ's account books, claiming they illustrate his "particularity in manners of business" and his considerate attention to his slaves.

Reference: 77

Reference: 552

Notes: Comments on TJ's ladies and fashion in Washington, 1801-08.

Reference: 403

Notes: Identifies a namesake of TJ, Thomas Jefferson Grotjan, to whom he wrote a letter later commented upon and approved of by Andrew Jackson.

Reference: 393

Notes: A lecture on TJ, never delivered. TJ "exhibited no spark of genius, nor any remarkable degree of original talent," but "His strength lay in his understanding the practical power." He was notable as a consistent opponent of slavery and as a believer in the common man.

Reference: 909

Notes: Touches on TJ as architect.

Reference: 3382

Notes: Review essay occasioned by Sarah Randolph's Domestic Life.

Reference: 506

Notes: The private Jefferson, by his great-granddaughter. Still useful, often reprinted.

Reference: 999

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: Review essay using the occasion to praise TJ for his efforts to resist the Federal usurpation of state's powers which had produced the recent difficulties.

Reference: 80

Notes: On TJ and the founding of the University.

Reference: 2748

Notes: On a caricature of TJ putting the Constitution upon an "Altar to Gallic Despotism" after the disclosure of the Mazzei letter.

Reference: 715

Reference: 918

Reference: 917

Reference: 911

Reference: 919

Reference: 915

Reference: 914

Reference: 920

Reference: 913

Reference: 921

Reference: 912

Notes: First of twenty-two installments later published in 1874 as The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Listed here in order of publication rather than alphabetically.

Reference: 910

Reference: 916

Notes: Letter to the editor of the North American Review in 1830, taking exception to an article; despite his errors, "Mr. Jefferson had a mind. I did hope to see in the North American Review at least traces of a mind grappling with it."

Reference: 2115

Notes: pp. 36-41 describe items once belonging to TJ and now offered by his grandson Francis Eppes; also for sale are ten letters.

Reference: 2662

Reference: 1646

Notes: Rpt. in Brodie, Thomas Jefferson (1974), 471-76, as "Reminiscences of Madison Hemings." Supposedly the autobiography of one of Sally Heming's children. Handle with care.

Reference: 542

Reference: 923

Reference: 926

Reference: 922

Reference: 927

Reference: 925

Reference: 930

Reference: 924

Reference: 931

Reference: 928

Notes: TJ's opinion of the evils of slavery quoted on pp. 25-41; Buchanan's oration was dedicated to TJ.

Reference: 2412

Reference: 929

Notes: Comments on James Parton's article in the Atlantic Monthly (#931 above); criticizes numerous inaccuracies in Edmund Bacon's reminiscences and defends Thomas Mann Randolph.

Reference: 1002

Reference: 2026

Notes: Romanticized account of TJ in the Williamsburg days.

Reference: 300

Notes: Gives words of both songs; Paine's song composed for the celebration at Wallingford, Conn. of TJ's first inaugural. Note describes the ceremony, claims the anniversary of the inauguration was celebrated in several towns in Connecticut for some years thereafter. Other song is anti-republican; Moll Carey was a notorious New York madam.

Reference: 2992

Notes: Review essay originally appearing February 4, 1833, on L. P. Conseil's Melanges ....

Reference: 1058

Notes: Review essay criticizing Parton for errors in taste and "painting his angel all white and his devil all black." Instead, TJ was a clever party manager who was an impractical visionary too often motivated by vanity and rhetoric.

Reference: 1089

Notes: An apologetic biography, the most important to appear between Randall's and Morse's.

Reference: 932

Notes: Gives interesting account of Uriah P. Levy's gift of 1834 and its subsequent history.

Reference: 1233

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: Laudatory sketch.

Reference: 140

Notes: Editor's note commenting on disputed locations; replied to by Agnes Y. McAllister, pp. 223-25, who argues for the house on the southwest corner of Seventh and Market Streets.

Reference: 1288

Notes: Traces a remote family connection.

Reference: 324

Notes: Systematically minimizes TJ's character and achievements; holds him responsible for the Civil War because the Declaration planted the seed of liberty.

Reference: 652

Notes: Prints a letter from each to the other, with minimal comment.

Reference: 947

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