Jefferson Bibliography

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).

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1911

Name: Anonymous
Title: "New Bust of Jefferson."

Publication: Magazine of History
Volume: 14
Date: (1911)
Pages: 364

Notes: Note on decision of Virginia D.A.R. to put a bust of TJ in Memorial Continental Hall.

Reference: 877

1911

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Our Architect President."

Publication: Review of Reviews
Volume: 43
Date: (1911)
Pages: 353-54

Notes: "Architects generally do not appreciate the thoroughness of Jefferson's work."

Reference: 3160

1911

Name: Cox , Isaac Joslin
Title: "The American Intervention in West Florida."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 17
Date: (1911)
Pages: 290-311

Notes: Peripherally about TJ. "Jefferson and his successors, largely influenced by his direct suggestion and advice," used every possible opportunity to gain the Floridas.

Reference: 1509

1911

Name: Daniel , John Warwick
Title: "Jefferson"

Publication: Speeches and Orations. Compiled by His Son, Edward M. Daniel
Publisher: J. P. Bell Co.
City: Lynchburg, Va.
Date: 1911
Pages: 637-48

Notes: "...one distinction is Jefferson's, and Jefferson's alone—he founded a party, not for a day, but for all time."

Reference: 1532

1911

Name: Elliott , Edward
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: Growth Through Acquiescence"

Publication: Biographical Story of the Constitution: A Study of the American Union
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1911
Pages: 77-100

Notes: Agrees with Hamilton's assessment that TJ's "temporizing" preserved Federalist systems even in the face of needed reforms of government. In fact, the Louisiana Purchase delivered an "irremediable hurt" to the doctrine of strict construction.

Reference: 1584

1911

Name: Dodd , William E.
Title: Statesmen of the Old South, or from Radicalism to Conservative Revolt

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1911
Pages: 1-88

Notes: TJ was from the time of his death until after the Civil War a forsaken prophet, except in so far as he was seen as the spokesman for states rights.

Reference: 1559

1911

Name: Littleton , Mrs. Martin W.
Title: One Wish

Date: 1911
Pages: pp. (16).

Notes: Her wish is to make Monticello a national shrine; an opening shot in the campaign to acquire Monticello.

Reference: 706

1911

Name: Hinsdale , Mary L.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: A History of the President's Cabinet
Publisher: George Wahr
City: Ann Arbor
Date: 1911
Pages: 39-47

Notes: Superficial.

Reference: 1685

1911

Name: Kohler , Max J.
Title: "Unpublished Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Some American Jews."

Publication: Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society
Volume: 20
Date: (1911)
Pages: 11-30

Notes: Comments briefly on TJ's correspondence with American Jews, reprints a variety of letters with a few notes.

Reference: 664

1911

Name: Huhner , Leon
Title: "Jefferson's Contemplated Offer of the Post of Attorney General of the United States to Moses (?) Levy, of Philadelphia."

Publication: American Jewish Historical Society Publications
Volume: 20
Date: (1911)
Pages: 161-62

Notes: In a letter to Gallatin, dated Sept. 1, 1804, he mentions the possibility of naming "Levy" as Attorney General; this was probably not Moses Levy nor his brother Sampson.

Reference: 1699

1911

Name: Schurman , Jacob G.
Title: "Jefferson and the Public Policies of Today."

Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 4
Date: (1911)
Pages: 219-36

Reference: 1950

1911

Name: Van der Weyde , William Manley
Title: "Who Wrote the Declaration of Independence?"

Publication: Americana
Volume: 6
Date: 1911
Pages: 8-15

Notes: Rpt. separately; another claim for Thomas Paine as author.

Reference: 2050

1911

Name: Wallace , D. D.
Title: "Jefferson's Part in the Purchase of Louisiana."

Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 19
Date: (1911)
Pages: 328-38

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

Reference: 2060

1911

Name: Wayland , John W.
Title: "The Poetical Tastes of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 18
Date: 1911
Pages: 283-99

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

Reference: 3401

1911

Name: Stapley , M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson the Architect: A Tribute."

Publication: Architectural Record
Volume: 29
Date: (1911)
Pages: 177-85

Notes: Describes Monticello, comments on other architectural projects. Argues that TJ is a significant architect who "grasped as a basic principle the value of sincerity between form and construction."

Reference: 3308

1911

Name: Stapley , Mildred
Title: "Monticello and the Jeffersonian Style."

Publication: Country Life
Volume: 20
Date: 1911
Pages: 43-46

Reference: 3307

1912

Name: Conway , John Joseph
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris
Publisher: John Lane
City: London
Date: 1912
Pages: 15-24.

Notes: Sketch, not particularly informative.

Reference: 298

1912

Name: Henkels , Stan V.
Title: "Introduction" to The Confidential Letters Prom Thomas Jefferson to William Wirt. Being Reminiscences of Patrick Henry, Now, For the first time printed in full from the originals, In the collection belonging to John Gribbel of Philadelphia

Publisher: Privately printed
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1912
Pages: i-lv

Notes: Discusses the correspondence, Patrick Henry; for the letters see PMHB. 34(1910), 358-418, but supposedly here they are "copied verbatim, et literatim, et punctuatim."

Reference: 1680

1912

Name: Jenkins , Starr
Title: "American Statesmen as Men of Letters: Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson considered as Writers."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of New Mexico
Date: 1912
Pages: pp. 293

Notes: TJ in common with the rest of these figures was primarily a writer on politics and government, was centrally concerned with morality, was devoted to restraint of government, and saw America as "a new, special kind of nation." DAI 34/0lA, p. 276.

Reference: 2933

1912

Name: Littleton , Mrs. Martin W.
Title: Monticello

Date: 1912
Pages: unpag.

Notes: Attempt to raise money and congressional support for public acquisition of Monticello.

Reference: 705

1912

Name: Smith , C. Alphonso
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publication: Die Amerikanische Literatur. Bibliothek der amerikanischen Kulturgeschicte. hgb. von N.M. Butler und Wilhelm Paxzkowski. Bank II.
Publisher: Weidman
City: Berlin
Date: 1912
Pages: none given

Notes: Claims TJ influenced the course of American literature by the vigor of his style but more importantly by looking at every problem from the viewpoint of human freedom. "Jeffersonianism is today better exemplified in American literature than in American politics." Trans. by the author and rpt. in Southern Literary Studies; A Collection of Literary, Biographical, and Other Sketcheds. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1927. 94-119.

Reference: 3291

1912

Name: Reid , Whitelaw
Title: One Welshman, A Glance at a Great Career

Publisher: Macmillan
City: London
Date: 1912
Pages: pp. 59

Notes: Career of that great Welsh-American, TJ; the inaugural address of the autumn session of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1912, controversial because of its Hamiltonian-Federalist point of view. See Peterson, The Jefferson Image, p. 339.

Reference: 1009

1912

Name: Whitty , J. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Bull Moose."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 95
Date: (1912)
Pages: 211

Notes: Notes TJ's gift to Buffon.

Reference: 3415

1912

Name: U.S. Senate , Library Committee
Title: Public Ownership of Monticello, Hearing...on S.J. Res. 92, A Joint Resolution Providing for the Purchase of the Home of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, Virginia

Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1912
Pages: 57

Notes: Mrs. Martin W. Littleton appeals to the senate.

Reference: 1231

1912

Name: U.S. House of Representatives Rules Committee
Title: Public Ownership of Monticello; Hearings...on S.Con.Res.24, Wednesday, July 24, 1912

Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1912
Pages: 78

Notes: Mrs. Martin W. Littleton has her say.

Reference: 1226

1913

Name: Bitter , Karl
Title: "Thomas Jefferson from the Statue."

Publication: Century
Volume: 86
Date: 1913
Pages: 27

Notes: Photograph of statue for the St. Louis Jefferson Memorial.

Reference: 2596

1913

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Buying Monticello."

Publication: House Beautiful
Volume: 33
Date: 1913
Pages: 50

Notes: "Mixed sentiments" about Mrs. Littleton's scheme to acquire Monticello.

Reference: 224

1913

Name: Bryce , James
Title: "Third President and Founder of the University of Virginia"

Publication: University and Historical Addresses.
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: 109-24

Notes: Univ. of Virginia founder's Day speech, praising TJ's variety and his interest in education.

Reference: 207

1913

Name: Anonymous
Title: At the City of Jefferson, Missouri, January 6, 1913, Ceremonies Were Had on the Occasion of the Presentation of a Bronze Bust of Thomas Jefferson as a Memorial to Louis Nicholas Krauthoff and Sophia Riseck Krauthoff

Publisher: H.K. Brewer Co
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: pp.23

Reference: 76

1913

Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Some Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 19
Date: (1913)
Pages: 282-98

Notes: Members of Congress in 1790 voting on funding securities to assume state debts "represented the dominant interest of their respective constituencies rather than their personal interests" as TJ later charged in the Anas.

Reference: 1387

1913

Name: Brown , Glenn
Title: "Letters from Thomas Jefferson and William Thornton, Architect, Relating to the University of Virginia."

Publication: Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Volume: l
Date: 1913
Pages: 21-27

Notes: TJ asks Thornton for some sketches and gets a lengthy reply. Minimal supporting comment.

Reference: 2621

1913

Name: Ellis , Edward S.
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publication: Lives of the Presidents of the United States: Designed for Study and Supplementary Reading. Revised by J.O. Hall
Publisher: A. Flanagan
City: Chicago
Date: 1913
Pages: 25-33

Reference: 406

1913

Name: McFee , Inez
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: American Heroes From History
Publisher: A. Flanagan Co.
City: Chicago
Date: 1913
Pages: none given

Reference: 735

1913

Name: Levy , Jefferson M.
Title: "Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Yearbook ... 1912-13
Publisher: Sons of the American Revolution, Empire State Society
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: 68-74

Notes: The owner of Monticello defends his possession.

Reference: 694

1913

Name: Hall , J. Lesslie
Title: "The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 21
Date: (1913)
Pages: 164-76

Notes: Argues that TJ was not an atheist nor, as claimed by some, an Episcopalian nor a Unitarian in the mold of W. E. Channing, although he was an anti-Trinitarian. "He was a mere amateur, a mere dabbler in religion.... why should young men be influenced by his crass views on religious subjects?"

Reference: 2263

1913

Name: Libby , O. G.
Title: "Political Factions in Washington's Administrations."

Publication: The Quarterly Journal
Volume: 3
Date: 1913
Pages: 293-318

Notes: Contends that political factions in first four congresses did not reflect pre-constitutional divisions of federalists and anti-feds nor was there any real party organization, mostly because of the absence of talented party leaders. Hamilton "lacked ability to lead men," and TJ would find his key issues only during the Adams administration.

Reference: 1773

1913

Name: Hale , Salma
Title: "Salma Hale Papers."

Publication: Massachusetts Historical Society Proceedings
Volume: 46
Date: (1913)
Pages: 402-09

Notes: Hale visited TJ at Monticello in May, 1818, and later sent him several pamphlets on the Unitarian-orthodox debate, for which TJ thanked him and gave his own opinion about Christ.

Reference: 517

1913

Name: Hall , Edward Hagaman
Title: "Notes Concerning the Declaration of Independence, Including the Correction of Some Popular Errors."

Publication: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, Annual Report
Volume: 18
Date: (1913)
Pages: 467-83

Notes: Distinguishes between the adoption on July 2 of Richard Henry Lee's resolution concerning independence and the later approval of TJ's Declaration.

Reference: 1652

1913

Name: Hale , William Bayard
Title: "Presidential Inaugurations at Four Crises."

Publication: World's Work
Volume: 25
Date: (1913)
Pages: 508-14

Notes: pp. 509-12 recount events of TJ's first inauguration.

Reference: 518

1913

Name: Lambeth , William Alexander and Henry Warren Manning
Title: Thomas Jefferson as an Architect and Designer of Landscapes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1913
Pages: pp. ix, 121

Notes: Pioneering work on TJ as an architect; occasionally useful but needs to be used with more recent scholarship.

Reference: 3003

1913

Name: Reid , Whitelaw
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: American and English Studies
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: 2:37-70

Notes: Version of One Welshman of the previous year.

Reference: 1010

1913

Name: Moulton , Robert H.
Title: "In Memory of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Technical World Magazine
Volume: 19
Date: (1913)
Pages: 712-13

Notes: On the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park, St. Louis.

Reference: 862

1913

Name: Mead , Edwin D.
Title: "Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin on War."

Publication: World Peace Foundation Pamphlet
Volume: 3
Date: 1913
Pages: 1-15

Notes: TJ saw war as "The greatest of human evils."

Reference: 1827

1913

Name: Thornton , William M.
Title: "Who Bought Louisiana?"

Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 6
Date: (1913)
Pages: 390-412

Notes: On "the services of Thomas Jefferson in connection with the Louisiana Purchase." Separately printed, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. pp. 19. Address delivered at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, April 30, 1913.

Reference: 2028

1913

Name: Wilson , Woodrow
Title: "Jefferson-Wilson, A Record and a Forecast. Extracts from 'A History of the American People' by Woodrow Wilson."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 197
Date: (1913)
Pages: 289-94

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

Reference: 1307

1913

Name: Williams , John Sharp
Title: Thomas Jefferson, His Permanent Influence on American Institutions

Publisher: Columbia Univ. Press
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: pp. ix, 330

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

1913

Name: Thornton , William Mynn
Title: Who Was Thomas Jefferson?

Publication: Tennessee Bar Association Proceedings
Volume: 32
Date: 1913
Pages: 122-47

Notes: Repeat performance of # 1190

Reference: 1191

1914

Name: Anonymous
Title: The Annual Report of the Monticello Association

Publisher: Monticello Association
City: nond
Date: 1914
Pages: none given

Notes: The Monticello Association is a society of descendants of TJ and proprietors of the graveyard at Monticello. The reports contain information on the upkeep of the graveyard and material of a genealogical or historical nature; items directly pertinent to TJ are listed here separately.

Reference: 841

1914

Name: Anonymous
Title: "National Monument to Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Independent
Volume: 77
Date: 1914
Pages: 60-63

Notes: Photograph of Monticello and account of Mrs. Littleton's efforts to make it a national shrine.

Reference: 873

1914

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Monticello, Virginia; Statements on Both Sides of the Controversy Concerning the Proposed Public Ownership of the Home of President Jefferson."

Publication: American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society Annual Report
Volume: 19
Date: (1914)
Pages: 517-41

Notes: In 1912 the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association petitioned Congress to buy Monticello, but its owner, Jefferson M. Levy, refused to sell. Printed here are statements by the Association, Levy, and a report prepared for Levy by W. K. Semple on "The Care of Monticello by Its Owner," which describes the property as of 1912.

Reference: 847

1914

Name: Beck , James M.
Title: The Scholar in Politics. An Oration Delivered at Celebration of the One Hundred and Seventy-first Anniversary of the Birthday of Thomas Jefferson on Founders Day, April 13, 1914, at the University of Virginia. n.p.,

Date: 1914
Pages: pp. 27

Notes: Rambling praise.

Reference: 110

1914

Name: Beard , Charles A.
Title: "Jefferson and the New Freedom."

Publication: New Republic
Volume: l
Date: 1914
Pages: 18-19

Notes: Argues that TJ's agrarianism is at the core of his political philosophy. If so, then in view of the triumph of capitalism and industrialism, what message has TJ for the Wilson Democrats who claim to derive their "New Freedom" from him?

Reference: 2128

1914

Name: Cox , Isaac Joslin
Title: "The Pan-American Policy of Jefferson and Wilkinson."

Publication: MVHR
Volume: 1
Date: (1914)
Pages: 212-39

Notes: TJ's desire to gain the Floridas influenced his whole attitude toward both Bonaparte and the Spanish colonies.

Reference: 1510

1914

Name: Dix , Dorothy
Title: Monticello -- Shrine or Bachelor's Hall?

Publication: Good Housekeeping
Volume: 58
Date: 1914
Pages: 538-41

Notes: Encourages Mrs. Martin W. Littleton's campaign to acquire Monticello for the nation

Reference: 362

1914

Name: Channing , Edward
Title: "Kentucky Resolutions of 1798."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 20
Date: (1914)
Pages: 333-36

Notes: On the question of authorship; TJ the author and not John Breckinridge.

Reference: 1481

1914

Name: Kimball , Sidney Fiske
Title: "Jefferson as Architect."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 98
Date: (1914)
Pages: 33

Notes: TJ, not Thornton, initiated the classic revival in the U.S. with his plans for the Capitol of Virginia.

Reference: 2962

1914

Name: Isham , Norman Morrison
Title: "Jefferson's Place in Our Architectural History."

Publication: Journal of the American Institute of Architects
Volume: 2
Date: (1914)
Pages: 230-35

Notes: Criticizes Lambeth's book on TJ for exaggerating his accomplishments as an architect.

Reference: 2915

1914

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as Architect: Monticello and Shadwell."

Publication: Harvard University Architectural Ouarterly
Volume: 2
Date: 1914
Pages: 89-137

Reference: 2975

1914

Name: Herzberg , Max J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Man of Letters."

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 13
Date: (1914)
Pages: 310-27

Notes: TJ's writings on the whole are more interesting for historical value than for literary significance, except for the Declaration of Independence. All of his writings reveal the puzzling contradictions of his character.

Reference: 2879

1914-15

Name: Nicolay , Helen
Title: "Our Nation in the Building; The Romance of American Union."

Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 91
Date: (1914-15)
Pages: 189-215, 456-65

Notes: Popular treatment; these installments cover TJ's presidency.

Reference: 1857

1914

Name: Patton , John S.
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 7
Date: 1914
Pages: 633-46

Notes: Description and history of Monticello; rpt. separately, n.p., n.d. pp. 14.

Reference: 938

1914

Name: True , Katherine M.
Title: The Romantic Voyage of Polly Jefferson

Publication: Harper's
Volume: 129
Date: 1914
Pages: 489-97

Notes: Account of Maria Jefferson's trip to join her father in Paris.

Reference: 1203

1914

Name: Trent , William P.
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publication: Columbia University Quarterly
Volume: 16
Date: 1914
Pages: 392-98

Notes: Laudatory speech at unveiling of a statue of TJ

Reference: 1202

1915

Name: Beard , Charles A
Title: Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1915
Pages: pp. ix, 474

Notes: A classic study. Final chapter focuses on "Jefferson's Economics and Politics" (415-67), and claims that TJ recognized the antagonism between capitalistic and agrarian interests and made the latter the peculiar concern of the Republican party. He claimed the Constitution as a Republican document, favored judicial control of legislation (until crossed by John Marshall), and came to espouse a wide suffrage free of property qualifications.

Reference: 1385

1915

Name: Arnold , Malcolm Heartwell
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—American Pioneer in the Study of Old English."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1915
Pages: pp. 242

Notes: Rambling and poorly prepared; judges TJ by the standards of late 19th-century Teutonic philology.

Reference: 2544

1915

Name: Anderson , Dice R.
Title: "Jefferson and the Virginia Constitution."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 21
Date: (1915)
Pages: 750-54

Notes: TJ's 1776 draft of a constitution was "democratic and farseeing," probably too much so for the convention.

Reference: 1357

1915

Name: Dana , Emma Lilian
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Friend of the People"

Publication: Makers of America: Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln
Publisher: Immigrant Publication Society
City: New York
Date: 1915
Pages: 95-138

Notes: For new Americans; "More than anyone else among our patriot fathers, Jefferson expressed the ideals that we call American."

Reference: 332

1915

Name: MacNaul , Willard C.
Title: The Jefferson-Lemen Compact: The Relations of Thomas Jefferson and James Lemen in the Exclusion of Slavery from Illinois and the Northwest Territory, with Related Documents 1781-1818

Publisher: Univ. of Chicago Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1915
Pages: pp. 59

Notes: Details of the supposed agreement in which TJ encouraged Lemen to go to Illinois to work against the introduction of slavery. Reprints all the "evidence" which exists only in copies made by members of the Lemen family.

Reference: 1806

1915

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Origins of the Classical Revival in America."

Publication: Art and Archeology
Volume: 1
Date: (1915)
Pages: 219-27

Notes: Particular attention to the Virginia and national Capitols; whereas Latrobe proposed Greek forms, TJ remained faithful to Roman models.

Reference: 2973

1915

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the First Monument of the Classical Revival in America."

Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Michigan
Date: 1915

Notes: TJ and not Clerisseau was the real designer of the Virginia Capitol in Richmond; "Directly or indirectly, American classicism traces its ancestry to Jefferson's Capitol in Richmond." Rpt. Journal of the American Institute of Architects. 3(1915), 371-81; 421-33; 473-91.

Reference: 2972

1915

Name: Rogers , James Frederick
Title: "The Athletic Author of the 'Declaration."'

Publication: Saint Nicholas
Volume: 42
Date: (1915)
Pages: 791-93

Notes: TJ as a clean living man.

Reference: 1038

1915

Name: U.S. House of Representatives none
Title: Purchase of Monticello. Report to Accompany H.J. Res. 390.

Publication: 63d Congress, 3rd session
Volume: No. 1441 House of Representatives Report
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1915
Pages: 2

Notes: Proposes a Jefferson Memorial Commission to see after purchasing Monticello for the nation. See also 63d Congress, 2d Session. Senate Report No. 366.

Reference: 1227

1915

Name: White , Horace
Title: "Jefferson-Lemen Compact."

Publication: Nation
Volume: 101
Date: (1915)
Pages: 144

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

1916

Name: Anderson , Dice Robins
Title: "The Teacher of Jefferson and Marshall."

Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 15
Date: 1916
Pages: 327-43

Notes: On George Wythe, discusses relationship with TJ

Reference: 59

1916

Name: Bumstead , Samuel A
Title: "A Description of Jefferson."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 24
Date: 1916
Pages: 309-10

Notes: Amusing account of meeting TJ on a road near Monticello in 1822.

Reference: 216

1916

Name: Greenlaw , Edwin
Title: "Washington Irving's Comedy of Politics."

Publication: Texas Review
Volume: 1
Date: (1916)
Pages: 291-306

Notes: Discusses Irving's satire of the Jeffersonians in the Knickerbocker History and identifies William the Testy as a "philosophic governor ... often suggestive of the Federalist opinion of Jefferson."

Reference: 2838

1916

Name: Eckenrode , Hamilton J.
Title: "The Fall of Jefferson"

Publication: Revolution in Virginia
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1916
Pages: 195-231

Notes: Still useful account of TJ's governorship; claims TJ outlived this political disaster because at his return from France the "Zeitgeist" was ready for him.

Reference: 1579

1916

Name: Ford , Worthington C., ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson Correspondence Printed from the Originals in the Collections of William K. Bixby

Publisher: Privately printed
City: Boston
Date: 1916
Pages: pp. xiv, 322

Reference: 453

1916

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Junior, with an Essay and Notes.

Publisher: Printed for Private Distribution at the Riverside Press
City: Boston
Date: 1916
Pages: pp. vii, 205, xi

Notes: Introduction deals with TJ's development as an architect, his architectural influence and his architectural library. Prints 233 drawings and related mss. A key book. Rpt. with a new introduction by Frederick Doveton Nichols, New York: Da Capo, 1968. Nichols' introduction is also useful for correcting some errors.

Reference: 2974

1916

Name: True , Rodney H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in Relation to Botany."

Publication: Scientific Monthly
Volume: 3
Date: (1916)
Pages: 344-60

Notes: Details TJ's botanical activities; his cultivation of plants, his dissemination of seeds and specimens, his correspondence with other botanists. Still useful.

Reference: 3355

1917

Name: Anonymous
Title: "On the Breeding of Kings."

Publication: International Socialist Review
Volume: 17
Date: (1917)
Pages: 597

Notes: Letter from TJ, March 5, 1810, describing the degenerate state of European royalty. No notes or comment.

Reference: 2387

1917

Name: Foster , Franklin P.
Title: The World War, Jefferson and Democracy

Publisher: The History Club
City: Anderson, Ind.
Date: 1917
Pages: pp. 58

Notes: World War I "reveals the march of Jefferson's ideals." Exposition of TJ's democracy for which the world is to be made safe.

Reference: 2235

1917

Name: Daviess , Joseph H.
Title: "A View of the President's Conduct Concerning the Conspiracy of 1806."

Publication: Quarterly Publications of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio
Volume: 12
Date: (1917)
Pages: 53-154

Notes: A Kentucky Federalist's pamphlet on the Burr episode; brief notes by Isaac Joslin Cox and Helen Swineford.

Reference: 1539

1917

Name: Faris , John T.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Statesman"

Publication: Makers of Our History
Publisher: Ginn
City: Boston
Date: 1917
Pages: 68-79.

Notes: School text; only one paragraph on his presidency.

Reference: 423

1917

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "The Beginnings of Landscape Architecture in America."

Publication: Landscape Architecture
Volume: 7
Date: 1917
Pages: 181-87

Notes: The progress of knowledge of landscape gardening in the last third of the eighteenth century is illustrated by TJ's growing sophistication.

Reference: 2954

1917

Name: Hazelton , John H.
Title: "The Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Case and Comment
Volume: 24
Date: 1917
Pages: 87-91

Notes: Account of the negotiations in Congress.

Reference: 1674

1917

Name: Harnit , Fanny
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 50
Date: (1917)
Pages: 158-62

Reference: 529

1917

Name: Hunt , Gaillard
Title: "The Virginia Declaration of Rights and Cardinal Bellarmine."

Publication: Catholic Historical Review
Volume: 3
Date: (1917)
Pages: 276-89

Notes: Argues that TJ and George Mason derived the concept of the natural equality of man and the people's right of governing from Robert Bellarmine by way of Filmer's Patriarcha, Sidney, and Locke.

Reference: 2290

1917

Name: Leffmann , Henry
Title: "The True Story of the Declaration of Independence."

Publication: Philadelphia History
Volume: 2
Date: (1917)
Pages: 21-35

Notes: Background to TJ's writing of the Declaration; minor.

Reference: 1764

1917

Name: Johnston , John T. M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Father of Democracy"

Publication: World Patriots
Publisher: World Patriots Co.
City: New York
Date: 1917
Pages: 259-84.

Reference: 617

1917

Name: Irland , Fred
Title: "The Culture of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Classical Weekly
Volume: 10
Date: (1917)
Pages: 60-61

Notes: Discusses in some detail the classical works in TJ's library sold to the nation.

Reference: 2913

1917

Name: Page , Ralph W.
Title: "The British-American Adventures Toward Liberty."

Publication: World's Work
Volume: 35
Date: (1917)
Pages: 48-65

Notes: TJ by purchasing Louisiana helped checkmate Napoleon, thus taking part in a long history of Anglo-American cooperation to preserve liberty. A novel view.

Reference: 1869

1917

Name: U.S. Senate , Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds.
Title: Purchase of Monticello; Hearing...on S.J. Res. 153, A Bill Directing the Secretary of the Treasury to Acquire by Purchase the Estate Known as Monticello

Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1917
Pages: 26

Notes: The DAR interests itself in TJ and Monticello

Reference: 1232

1918

Name: Daniels , Josephus
Title: "Jefferson's Philosophy and the Present Crisis."

Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 11
Date: (1918)
Pages: none given

Reference: 1535

1918

Name: Maddox , William Arthur
Title: The Free School Idea in Virginia Before the Civil War

Publisher: Teachers College, Columbia Univ.
City: New York
Date: 1918
Pages: 12-89

Notes: Discusses TJ's theories and work as part of the educational history of Virginia.

Reference: 3066

1918

Name: Luca , A. Toussaint
Title: "Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826"

Publication: Ceux qui ont fait l'Amerique
Publisher: G. Roustan
City: Paris
Date: 1918
Pages: 145-84.

Reference: 719

1918

Name: Kimball , Marie Goebel
Title: "Unpublished Correspondence of Madame de Stael with Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 208
Date: (1918)
Pages: 63-71

Notes: Brief introduction to 3 letters by Mme. de Stael and 4 by TJ.

Reference: 650

1918

Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "The Grounds at Monticello in 1809."

Publication: Landscape Architecture
Volume: 8
Date: 1918
Pages: 141-43

Notes: Quotes Margaret Bayard Smith's description of landscaping as of summer, 1809.

Reference: 2959

1918

Name: Henderson , Alfred
Title: "Jefferson and the Submarine."

Publication: Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia
Volume: 3rd ser. 11
Date: (1918)
Pages: 82-85

Notes: Only a paragraph on TJ's correspondence with Pulton; rest is random jottings.

Reference: 2872

1918

Name: Harrison , Mary Louise
Title: "The Sage of Monticello."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1918)
Pages: 32-36

Notes: Brief description of the house.

Reference: 534

1918

Name: Muzzey , David Saville
Title: Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1918
Pages: pp. vii, 319

Notes: Focus is on TJ's political career; tone is laudatory.

Reference: 870

1918

Name: Rulliere , H.
Title: "Le Jeffersonisme and les Jeffersoniens."

Publication: La Revue
Volume: 129
Date: (1918)
Pages: 213-24, 478-90

Notes: Biographical sketch. "Je suis convaincu que ce sera surtout apras cette guerre—'La guerre des guerres'—que les idees pre'conisees par le grand revolutionnaire et homme d'Etat americaine, seront re'ellement comprises."

Reference: 1047

1918

Name: Phillips , P. Lee
Title: "The Jeffersonian States."

Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 52
Date: (1918)
Pages: 343-44

Notes: Describes a map of the Northwest Territory in 1785 showing names of possible states as given by TJ.

Reference: 1891

1918

Name: Woodson , Carter G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Thoughts on the Negro."

Publication: Journal of Negro History
Volume: 3
Date: (1918)
Pages: 55-89

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

Reference: 2504

1918

Name: Stanard , William G.
Title: "Lilburne-Randolph-Jefferson."

Publication: VMHB
Volume: 26
Date: (1918)
Pages: 321-24

Notes: Genealogy of TJ's mother.

Reference: 1126

1918

Name: Wyman , William I.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Patent System."

Publication: Journal of the Patent Office Society
Volume: l
Date: 1918
Pages: 5-8

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

Reference: 2100

1918?

Name: Page , Thomas Nelson
Title: Tommaso Jefferson, Apostolo Della Liberta (1743-1826)

Publication: Con Prefazione del Sen. Maggiorino Ferraris
Publisher: R. Bemporad & Figlio
City: Firenze
Date: 1918?
Pages: pp. 111

Notes: Brief biography, intended as part of a series to explain to Italian readers their new WWI ally, the US.

Reference: 904

1919

Name: Anonymous
Title: Jefferson's Birthday in Paris, April 12-13, 1919. The Centennial Celebration of the Overseas Alumni

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia European Bureau
City: Paris
Date: 1919
Pages: pp. 48

Reference: 602

1919

Name: Anonymous
Title: Select List of References on Thomas Jefferson

Publisher: Library of Congress
City: Washington
Date: 1919
Pages: 8

Notes: 71 citations; see also list of additional references, 1931, pp.2

Reference: 21

1919

Name: Charpentier , John
Title: "Thomas Jefferson à Paris."

Publication: Revue Politique et Littéraire
Volume: 58
Date: 1919
Pages: 311-14

Notes: Notes the range of TJ's attitudes toward French culture and his sympathy for the French people

Reference: 253

1919

Name: Fitzhugh , Thomas, ed.
Title: Letters of Thomas Jefferson Concerning Philology and the Classics

Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1919
Pages: pp. 75

Notes: About TJ's opinions on study of the classics and his educational plans for Virginia. "Reprinted from the Alumni Bulletin for April, 1918, October, 1918, and January and April, 1919."

Reference: 2792

1919

Name: Corwin , Edward S.
Title: "Jefferson's War on the Judiciary"

Publication: John Marshall and the Constitution
Publisher: Yale Univ. Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1919
Pages: 53-85

Notes: A volume in the popular Chronicles of America series.

Reference: 1508

1919

Name: Corbin , John
Title: "From Jefferson to Wilson."

Publication: North American Review
Volume: 210
Date: (1919)
Pages: 172-85

Notes: Claims that the "muddle-headed" president satirized by Washington Irving in The Knickerbocker History, who believed in hands-off government but tried forcibly to impose his intellectual fancies, is an earlier version of Wilson's espousal of the League of Nations.

Reference: 1506

1919

Name: Christian , John T.
Title: "The Religion of Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Review and Expositor
Volume: 16
Date: (1919)
Pages: 295-307

Notes: Rambling survey, concluding that if TJ were alive today, he would not be far removed from orthodox Christianity.

Reference: 2179

1919

Name: Hastings , George E.
Title: "Notes on the Beginnings of Aeronautics in America."

Publication: AHR
Volume: 25
Date: (1919)
Pages: 68-72

Notes: Describes the interest taken by TJ, Franklin, and Francis Hopkinson in hot air balloons.

Reference: 2861

1919

Name: Sears , Louis M.
Title: "British Industry and the Embargo."

Publication: Quarterly Journal of Economics
Volume: 34
Date: (1919)
Pages: 88-113

Notes: Contends that the Embargo worked real hardships on British industry but that America lacked resolution to pursue the experiment.

Reference: 1955

1919

Name: Merriam , Harold G.
Title: "Some Founders of the American Republic."

Publication: Landmark
Volume: 1
Date: (1919)
Pages: 440-44

Notes: Sketch of TJ.

Reference: 821

1919

Name: Sears , Louis M.
Title: "Jefferson and the Law of Nations."

Publication: American Political Science Review
Volume: 13
Date: (1919)
Pages: 379-99

Notes: TJ was versed in the classic sources of international law, e.g. Grotius, Vattel, Puffendorf, but in face of the collapse of this "classical" school, he became a significant figure in the attempt to "reconstitute a new law of nations," even while appealing to the old authorities. The Embargo was a "grand experiment" whose failure was a "tragedy." Published in Spanish as "Jefferson y el derecho de las naciones." Inter-America. 4(1920), 181-93.

Reference: 2444

1919

Name: Rulliere , H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."

Publication: Wetenschappelijke Bladen
Volume: 1
Date: (1919)
Pages: 129-58

Reference: 1048

1919

Name: Patton , John S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Contributions to Natural History."

Publication: Natural History
Volume: 19
Date: (1919)
Pages: 405-10

Notes: TJ's main contribution was sending out the Lewis and Clark expedition Rpt. Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin. 3rd ser. 12(1919), 409-15.

Reference: 3169

192?

Name: Powell , Edward Alexander
Title: A Virginia Pilgrimage

Publisher: Stone Printing
City: Roanoke, Va.
Date: 192?
Pages: pp.68

Notes: pp. 34-41 on TJ, Univ. of Virginia, and Monticello; he was "never so happy as when living the life of a landed gentleman."

Reference: 979

1920

Name: Anonymous
Title: "Arnold's Invasion, 1781. Jefferson's Official Conduct."

Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 6
Date: (1920)
Pages: 131-32

Notes: Prints without comment affidavits by Daniel Hylton and James Currie testifying to TJ's diligence in safeguarding the military stores in Richmond.

Reference: 1368

1920

Name: Brown , Everett Somerville
Title: The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase 1803-1812

Publisher: Univ. of California Press
City: Berkeley
Date: 1920
Pages: pp. xi,248

Notes: Detailed account of the constitutional issues raised by the Louisiana Purchase and the deliberations by TJ and Congress over them.

Reference: 1442

1920

Name: Bannon , Henry
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Naturalist."

Publication: Forest and Stream
Volume: 90
Date: (1920)
Pages: 548-49

Notes: General note.

Reference: 2550

1920

Name: Bruce , Philip Alexander
Title: History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919; The Lengthened Shadow of One Man

Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1920
Pages: 1: pp. XIV, 376

Notes: The first volume in this five volume work covers TJ's involvement with the University as planner, architect, and rector. Best history of the University as a whole.

Reference: 2630

1920

Name: Arnold , Winifred
Title: "The Jefferson Sisters."

Publication: Woman's Home Companion
Volume: 47
Date: 1920
Pages: 54-55

Notes: Note on TJ's daughters and his relationships with them.

Reference: 75

1920

Name: Goebel , Julius
Title: "Jus Connatum and the Declaration of the Rights of Man."

Publication: J.E.G.P./Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Volume: 19
Date: (1920)
Pages: 1-18

Notes: Claims Christian Wolff influenced TJ's thinking about the law of nature as referred to in the Declaration. Original version in German in Jahrbuch der deutschamerikanischen Gesellschaft von Illinois. 1918. 18-19, 80-83.

Reference: 2247

1920

Name: Campbell , Mrs. A. A.
Title: "Monticello."

Publication: Confederate Veteran
Volume: 28
Date: 1920
Pages: 129-30

Reference: 229

1920

Name: Hayden , Ralston
Title: "The Senate and the Treaties of Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: The Senate and Treaties, 1789-1817; The Development of the Treaty-making Functions of the United States During Their Formative Period
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1920
Pages: 130-68

Notes: Focuses on the role of the Senate in treaty-making and thus deals with the president as head of the executive branch and not with the Secretary of State; discusses the 1802 convention with Spain, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the King-Hawkesbury convention, and the 1805 treaty with Tripoli.

Reference: 1670

1920

Name: Mackall , Leonard L.
Title: "A Letter from the Virginia Loyalist John Randolph to Thomas Jefferson Written in London in 1779."

Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 30
Date: (1920)
Pages: 17-31

Notes: Discusses Randolph's background and friendship with TJ; prints the letter with notes.

Reference: 738

1920

Name: Murphy , Mabel Ansley
Title: "The Friend of the People: Thomas Jefferson"

Publication: American Leaders
Publisher: The Union Press
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1920
Pages: 53-62

Notes: Juvenile

Reference: 867

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