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
1921
Name: Brown , Everett. S.
Title: "Jefferson's Plans for a Military Colony in Orleans Territory."
Publication: MVHR
Volume: 8
Date: (1921)
Pages: 373-76
Notes: TJ proposed granting
land in Orleans territory to recipients willing to perform military service if needed.
Reference: 1445
1921
Name: Barnes , Harry Elmer
Title: "Some Reflections on the Possible Service of Analytical Psychology to History."
Publication: Psychoanalytic Review
Volume: 8
Date: 1921
Pages: 22-37
Notes: Contends TJ has "anti-authority" and "inferiority" complexes.
Reference: 88
1921
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Saving Monticello."
Publication: Literary Digest
Volume: 70
Date: 1921
Pages: 24-25
Notes: Proposes that Monticello be acquired for a "country White
House."
Reference: 1062
1921
Name: Bradford , Gamaliel
Title: "Thomas Jefferson" and "Ode to Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Enchanted
Years, ed. John Calvin Metcalf and James Southall Wilson
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1921
Pages: 34-37
Notes: Two poems.
Reference: 2611
1921
Name: Coolidge , Archibald
Cary
Title: "Jefferson and the Problems of Today."; Minutes of the Eighth Meeting of
the Monticello Association
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni
Bulletin.
Volume: 3rd ser., 14
Date: (1921)
Pages: 53-58
Notes: TJ believed in the
brotherhood of man; "... the 'federation of the world' would be for him no mere empty
phrase."
Reference: 304
1921
Name: Fitzpatrick , John C.
Title: "The Manuscript from Which Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 55
Date: (1921)
Pages: 363-67
Notes: Rpt. in his The Spirit of the Revolution.... Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1924. Describes a mss. in TJ's hand, endorsed "Constitution of Virginia first ideas of Th:
J. communicated to a member of the Convention."
Reference: 1598
1921
Name: Gaither , Frances O. J.
Title: The Shadow of the Builder; The Centennial Pageant of the University of Virginia, As
Presented on the Night June First, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-One
Publisher: Surber-Arundale
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1921
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: Pageant in which TJ and the shade of Socrates rub
elbows.
Reference: 2809
1921
Name: Duke , Richard Thomas Walker,
Jr.
Title: "The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson."Minutes of the Eighth Meeting of the
Monticello Association.
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Bulletin.
Volume: 3rd ser. 14
Date: 1921
Pages: 6-10, 47-53
Notes: Rpt. in Univ. of Virginia Alumni
Bulletin. 3rd ser. 14 (July 1921), 47-53.General praise.
Reference: 380
1921
Name: Jennings , Walter
Wilson
Title: The American Embargo, 1807-1809
Publication: Univ. of Iowa
Studies in the Social Sciences
Volume: Vol. 8
Publisher: Univ. of
Iowa Press
City: Iowa City
Date: 1921
Pages: pp. 242
Notes: Detailed study of the effects of the Embargo and responses to it. It "stimulated
manufactures, injured agriculture, and prostrated commerce." TJ gave in reluctantly to opposition
to the Embargo in order to avert civil war.
Reference: 1716
1921
Name: Johnson , Allen
Title: Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty
Publisher: Yale Univ.
Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1921
Pages: pp. ix, 343
Notes: Volume in the Chronicles of America series; an account of the presidential
administrations of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe with emphasis on the Louisiana Purchase,
western expansion, spread of democracy to the Spanish republics.
Reference: 1717
1921
Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "A Playmate of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: North American
Review
Volume: 213
Date: (1921)
Pages: 145-56
Notes: TJ's relationship with
his granddaughter, Ellen Wayles Randolph.
Reference: 648
1921
Name: Morrow , L. C. and J. M.
Davis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Education."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 15
Date: (1921)
Pages: 141-42,
164-67
Notes: Derivative sketch.
Reference: 3111
1921
Name: Ralston , Samuel
Moffett
Title: "The Thomas Jefferson Theory of Education"
Publication: Indiana University, 1820-1920; Centennial Memorial Volume
Publisher: Indiana Univ.
City: Bloomington
Date: 1921
Pages: 179-91
Notes: Survey.
Reference: 3212
1921
Name: Slosson , Edwin E.
Title: "Jefferson and State Education"
Publication: The American Spirit in Education;
A Chronicle of Great Teachers
Publisher: Yale Univ.
Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1921
Pages: 78-93
Notes: Among TJ's innovations should be counted the elective system, vocational specialization,
and the honor system. He also wanted to restrict drastically the university's control over students'
personal lives and to do away with honorary degrees and titles.
Reference: 3289
1921
Name: Stone , Gene
Title: The
Story of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Barse and Hopkins
City: New York
Date: 1921
Pages: pp. 182
Notes: "Famous Americans for Younger Readers."
Reference: 1138
1921
Name: Tyler , Lyon G.
Title: "The Virginia Dynasty."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1921)
Pages: 238-45
Notes: Review of George Morgan's Life of James Monroe, argues that
the political measures of TJ, Madison, and Monroe are the foundation of the present day Union
and they have been misrepresented by northern writers.
Reference: 2047
1921
Name: Tyler , Lyon G.
Title: "More Propaganda."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1921)
Pages: 149-54
Notes: Protests the ignoring of TJ's role as author of the Declaration in
a pamphlet issued by the American Luther League; another example of northern writers
disregarding southerners' roles in American history.
Reference: 2045
1921
Name: Tyler , Lyon Gardiner
Title: "Ideals of America."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 3
Date: (1921)
Pages: 73-84
Notes: The ideals of America today were established by Virginians,
especially TJ, not in the New England colonies.
Reference: 2474
1922
Name: Becker , Carl
Title: The
Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas
Publisher: Harcourt
Brace
City: New York
Date: 1922
Pages: pp. x, 286
Notes: An important analysis of the premises underlaying the Declaration and its evolution from
TJ's first draft. Considers also the literary qualities of the Declaration and its influence in the 18th
century. A significant study which can be supplemented with but not replaced by Garry Wills'
Inventing America. Rpt. with new introduction, New York: Knopf, 1942.
Reference: 2130
1922
Name: Bierstadt , Edward Hale
Title: "Was Jefferson Right?"
Publication: Reviewer
Volume: 2
Date: 1922
Pages: 301-05
Reference: 127
1922
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "La Correspondance de Madame de Stael avec Jefferson."
Publication: Revue de
Littérature Comparée
Volume: 2
Date: 1922
Pages: 621-40
Notes: Prints letters of
Madame de Stael for the first time in the original French; TJ's replies are in English
Reference: 259
1922
Name: Early , Ruth H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Citizen of 'Poplar Forest'."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia
Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 15
Date: (1922)
Pages: 374-80
Reference: 396
1922
Name: Eskew , Garnett
Laidlaw
Title: Jefferson's Virginia
Publication: Travel
Volume: 39
Date: 1922
Pages: 15, 40-42
Reference: 415
1922
Name: Carlton , Mabel Mason
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Lover of Liberty
Publisher: John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co
City: Boston
Date: 1922
Pages: pp. 16
Reference: 238
1922
Name: Fouts , Levi N.
Title: "Jefferson the Inventor and His Relation to the Patent System."
Publication: Journal of the Patent Office Society
Volume: 4
Date: (1922)
Pages: 316-31
Notes: Circumstantial account of TJ's establishment of the Patent Office.
Reference: 1616
1922
Name: Luckwaldt , Friedrich
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Meister der Politik. Eine Weltgeschichtliche
Reihe von Bildnessen, hgb. Erich Marcks und Karl Alexander von Muller
Publisher: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
City: Stuttgart
Date: 1922
Pages: 2:275-324
Reference: 1782
1922
Name: Kean , Jefferson
Randolph
Title: "The Origin of the Monticello Graveyard."
Publication: Minutes of the Ninth Meeting of the Monticello Association
Date: 1922
Pages: 9-20
Notes: First interment was TJ's friend Dabney Carr.
Reference: 631
1922
Name: Sears , Louis Martin
Title: "Jefferson and the Embargo."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of Chicago
City: Chicago
Date: 1922
Pages: none given
Notes: See next item.
Reference: 1956
1922
Name: Muirhead , James F.
Title: "Jefferson's Virginian Home."
Publication: Landmark
Volume: 4
Date: (1922)
Pages: 103-07
Reference: 863
1922
Name: Warren , Charles
Title: "Marshall, Jefferson, and the Judiciary"
Publication: The Supreme Court in
United States History. Vol. 1. 1789-1835
Publisher: Little Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1922
Pages: 169-230
Notes: Focus on Marbury vs. Madison.
Reference: 2070
1923
Name: Butler , Nicholas
Murray
Title: "Spokesman of the Democratic Spirit: Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Building the American Nation, An Essay in Reinterpretation
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1923
Pages: 133-68
Notes: Praises TJ for his principles and
commitment to civil and political liberty, yet is deeply suspicious of those who supported him
and whom he supported: "hack libellers, ... half-rebellious democratic societies made up chiefly
of the mobs of the large cities, ... moonshiners of the mountains." Because of this and similar
contradictions, "Perhaps no great writer on politics ... needs to have his sayings and acts analysed
more carefully than does Jefferson."
Reference: 1459
1923
Name: Alderman , Edwin A.
Title: "A Madison Letter and Some Digressions."
Publication: North American
Review
Volume: 217
Date: 1923
Pages: 785-96
Notes: Mostly digressions, one
of which discusses TJ's trip to the south of France and his admiration of the Maison
Carree
Reference: 52
1923
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: Volney et l'Amerique d'apres des documents ine'dite et sa correspondance avec
Jefferson
Publisher: Johns
Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1923
Pages: pp.
296
Notes: Best account of the Volney-TJ relationship, although the focus is on
Volney here.
Reference: 2178
1923
Name: Garrision , Frank W.
Title: "Jefferson and the Physiocrats."
Publication: Freeman
Volume: 8
Date: (1923)
Pages: 180-82
Notes: Contends TJ derived a number of political ideas, particularly
those relating to limitation of power, from Dupont de Nemours and Turgot. A generally rejected
view.
Reference: 2245
1923
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "Jefferson and Ossian."
Publication: Modern Language Notes
Volume: 38
Date: (1923)
Pages: 201-05
Notes: Prints TJ's letter to Charles Macpherson, asking him to obtain if
possible a copy in Gaelic of the Ossian poems, plus MacPherson's reply and the letter of James
MacPherson, the Ossian forger, to Charles. TJ's letter was heavily corrected during its
composition, suggesting he was anxious to make a favorable impression.
Reference: 2678
1923
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "The Genesis of Jefferson's Plan for the University of Virginia."
Publication: Architecture
Volume: 48
Date: (1923)
Pages: 397-400
Notes: Rejects the claim
that TJ's design copied or depended upon Guennepin's Grands Prix of 1805.
Reference: 2958
1923
Name: Jackson , Henry E., ed.
Title: The Thomas Jefferson Bible
Publisher: Boni and Liveright
City: New York
Date: 1923
Pages: pp. viii, 3
Notes: Uses TJ's selections, but in the modern
translation of the Bible by R. P. Weymouth. Long introduction by the editor, who describes
himself as "President, College for Social Engineers, Washington, D.C." A curious, cranky
performance.
Reference: 2292
1923
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "A Church Designed by Jefferson."
Publication: Architectural
Record
Volume: 53
Date: (1923)
Pages: 184-86
Notes: Note on a recently discovered
photographic view of the Episcopal church in Charlottesville, demolished in about 1895.
Reference: 2955
1923
Name: Robins , Sally Nelson
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Love Stories of Famous
Virginians
Publisher: Dietz Printing
City: Richmond
Date: 1923
Pages: none given
Reference: 1032
1923
Name: Penman , John Simpson
Title: The Irresistible Movement of Democracy
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1923
Pages: 55-90
Notes: On "The Origin and Development of the
Jeffersonian Democracy" and "The Political Revolution of 1800" with little sense of TJ's motives
or why his democracy was supposedly irresistible.
Reference: 1882
1923
Name: Winstock , Melvin G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Making a Nation
Publisher: Making a Nation Co.
City: Portland,
Oregon
Date: 1923
Pages: 109-30
Reference: 1317
1924
Name: Alderman , Edwin A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni
Bulletin.
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: 1924
Pages: 270-72
Reference: 53
1924
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Mr. Albee, Meet Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: Nation
Volume: 118
Date: 1924
Pages: 195
Notes: Criticizes the proposal by the chairman of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation to make Monticello "an active agency of relentless war against the
dangerous radicalisms of our time."
Reference: 51
1924
Name: Bok-Van Bork , Jacoba
Johanna
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: "Bijdrage tot de Psychologie
van den Staatsman." Ph.D. dissertation.
Publisher: Univ. of Amsterdam
City: Amsterdam
Date: 1924
Pages: 37-64
Notes: Printed: Haarlem: H.D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1924.
Psychological portrait, but based on Morse's and Parton's lives of TJ.
Reference: 142
1924
Name: Carlton , Mabel Masord
Title: Thomas Jefferson: An Outline of His Life and Service with the Story of Monticello, the
Home He Reared and Loved
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: New York
Date: 1924
Pages: pp.21
Notes: "The Monticello Papers, No. 1."
Reference: 237
1924
Name: Eidlitz , Robert James
Title: "Medals Relating to Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Numismatist
Volume: 37
Date: (1924)
Pages: 525-33
Notes: Describes 48 medallic portraits; 10 illustrated.
Reference: 2773
1924
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: Les amitiés américaines de Madame d'Houdetot, d'apres sa correspondance inédite avec
Benjamin Franklin et Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Champion
City: Paris
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. viii, 62
Notes: TJ's correspondence with the Countess
d'Houdetot from 1785 to 1808, mostly before 1790, illuminated with extensive
commentary
Reference: 258
1924
Name: Cridlin , W. B.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Patriot, Statesman, Scientist
Publisher: W. C. Hill Printing Co.
City: Richmond
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: "Written for use in
Public Schools of Virginia, Week of April 6-13, 1924."
Reference: 315
1924
Name: Cole , Redmond S.
Title: Our Debt to Jefferson: An Address ... Before the City Club of Tulsa, Oklahoma, April 12,
1924.
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. 4
Reference: 280
1924
Name: Gray , Francis Calley
Title: Thomas Jefferson in 1814, Being an Account of a Visit to Monticello Virginia by Francis
Calley Gray. With Notes and Introduction by Henry S. Rowe and T. Jefferson Coolidge,
Jr.
Publisher: Club of Odd
Volumes
City: Boston
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. 84.
Notes: Gray visited Monticello in company with George Ticknor; comments particulary on the
furnishings of Monticello and the library.
Reference: 498
1924
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: An Outline of the Life of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826
Publisher: Univ. of
Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Published as Univ. of Virginia Record. Extension Service. 8(no. 7, 1924).
Reference: 771
1924
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Monticello."
Publication: Journal of the American Institute of
Architects
Volume: 12
Date: (1924)
Pages: 174-81
Notes: Slightly ecstatic note
to accompany photographs.
Reference: 2969
1924
Name: Jackson , Joseph
Title: Where Jefferson Wrote the Declaration of Independence
Publisher: Penn National
Bank
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1924
Pages: pp. 18.
Notes: Corner of Seventh and Market Streets, site of J. Graff's house.
Reference: 584
1924
Name: Heatwole , Cornelius J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Education in Virginia."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 17
Date: (1924)
Pages: 282-84
Notes: Historical
sketch.
Reference: 2868
1924
Name: Latane , John Holladay
Title: "Jefferson's Influence on American Foreign Policy."
Publication: Univ. of
Virginia Alumni Bulletin
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1924)
Pages: 245-69
Notes: Discusses Woodrow Wilson's critical assessment of TJ and notes how similar the two
presidents were. TJ would have hailed any system replacing physical coercion with moral
force.
Reference: 1761
1924
Name: H. W. , ?
Title: "Great
Americans and Why (Thomas Jefferson)."
Publication: American Catholic Quarterly
Review
Volume: 49
Date: (1924)
Pages: 16-22.
Notes: Sketch of TJ as author of the
Declaration.
Reference: 509
1924
Name: Holliday , Carl
Title: "The Man Who Wrote the Declaration."
Publication: Methodist Quarterly
Review
Volume: 73
Date: (1924)
Pages: 453-68
Notes: Biographical sketch; TJ's big flaw was his
occasionally impractical idealism.
Reference: 557
1924
Name: Randall , J. G.
Title: "When Jefferson's Home Was Bequeathed to the United States."
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 23
Date: (1924)
Pages: 35-39. 1
17
Notes: On Uriah P. Levy's will, disposing of Monticello.
Reference: 997
1924
Name: Nicolay , Helen
Title: "Diplomats and a Democrat"
Publication: Our Capital on the
Potomac
Publisher: Century
City: New
York
Date: 1924
Pages: 71-93
Notes: TJ in Washington,
D.C.
Reference: 882
1924
Name: Morgan , James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Our Presidents
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1924
Pages: 20-32
Reference: 852
1924
Name: Spencer , John Bassett
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Climax of the Revolution."
Publication: Daughters of
the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 58
Date: (1924)
Pages: 289-94
Notes: TJ's life before the Declaration.
Reference: 1122
1924
Name: Wilstach , Paul. ed.
Title: "Reconciliation: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 138
Date: (1924)
Pages: 811-19
Notes: Discussion of the correspondence from 1812 on, with extracts.
Reference: 1313
1924
Name: Warren , Charles
Title: "Why Jefferson Abandoned the Presidential Speech to Congress."
Publication: Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society
Volume: 57
Date: (1924)
Pages: 123-72
Notes: "The practice of making reply addresses had become an
unmitigated nuisance, wasting the time of both branches of Congress in purely futile
debate."
Reference: 2072
1925
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Jefferson and Hamilton; The Struggle for Democracy in America
Publisher: Houghton
Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. xvii, 531
Notes: The first installment of this influential biography of TJ, this volume focuses on the years
from 1789 to 1801 and on the political events and life of these years.
Reference: 1412
1925
Name: Barnes , Harry Elmer
Title: The New History and the Social Studies.
Publisher: Century,
City: New York
Date: 1925
Pages: 235-47
Notes: Personalities of Hamilton and TJ
discussed as an illustration "of the application of the newer psychology to historical biography."
TJ, an introvert in the Jungian mode, was terrified of his father, "a gruff giant with a tremendous
temper," and he obtained "considerable of psychic release ... by assaults upon kings." Reworking
of material in 88 infra.
Reference: 87
1925
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Death of Jefferson, July 4, 1826."
Publication: Overland
Volume: n.s. 83
Date: 1925
Pages: 282
Notes: Poem.
Reference: 2745
1925
Name: Brown , B. Bolton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson at Monticello."
Publication: Mentor
Volume: 13
Date: 1925
Pages: 37-44
Notes: Photographic illustrations.
Reference: 196
1925
Name: Butler , Nicholas
Murray
Title: "Un fondateur des Etats Unis; Thomas Jefferson repre'sentant de resprit
democratique."
Publication: Correspondant
Volume: n.s. 263
Date: 1925
Pages: 23-42
Reference: 218
1925
Name: Anonymous
Title: Donation by the State of Louisiana to the Family of Thomas Jefferson
Publication: Louisiana Historical Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: 1925
Pages: 52
Notes: Transcribes act of legislature in 1827 donating $10,000 in bonds to TJ's family
Reference: 366
1925
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson Family."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical
Magazine
Volume: 6
Date: (1925)
Pages: 199-201, 264-70; 7(1925), 49-54.
Notes: Genealogy of
the descendants of Thomas Jefferson (?-1687) of Henrico, TJ's great-grandfather.
Reference: 596
1925
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Charles Bellini, First Professor of Modern Languages in an American College."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 5
Date: (1925)
Pages: 1-29
Notes: Prints with some
annotation letters of Bellini and TJ; Bellini came to Virginia in 1773 with Philip Mazzei and was
appointed in 1779 professor of modern languages at William and Mary.
Reference: 2672
1925
Name: Anonymous
Title: Slides and Photographs Study 56: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Univ. of the State of
New York Press
City: Albany
Date: 1925
Pages: 23
Notes: Slides illustrating TJ's life and prepared text
Reference: 1238
1925
Name: Goodwin , Katherine
Calvert
Title: "Where the Declaration of Independence Was Written."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 59
Date: (1925)
Pages: 405-09
Reference: 491
1925
Name: Chinard , Gilbert, ed.
Title: Jefferson et les Ideologues d'apre's sa correspondance inedite avec Destutt de Tracy,
Cabanis, J.-B. Say, et Auguste Comte.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press/Les Presses
Universitaires
City: Baltimore/Paris
Date: 1925
Pages: pp.
295
Notes: TJ's correspondence reprinted, including letters to him, with ample
commentary and explanation. Important on this topic.
Reference: 2176
1925
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: Pensees choisies de Montesquieu tirees du
Commonplace Book de Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Societe de Edition "Les Belles Lettres,"
City: Paris
Date: 1925
Pages: 7-29
Notes: Charts TJ's changing responses from approval
to reservation toward Montesquieu.
Reference: 2174
1925
Name: Colman , Edna M.
Title: "First Administration of Thomas Jefferson," "Second Administration of Thomas
Jefferson"
Publication: Seventy-Five Years of White House Gossip, From Washington
to Lincoln
Publisher: Doubleday; Page
City: Garden City
Date: 1925
Pages: 73-95
Notes: Usual anecdotes
and a fair amount of misinformation.
Reference: 285
1925
Name: Dodd , W. E.
Title: "Napoleon Breaks Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: American
Mercury
Volume: 5
Date: (1925)
Pages: 303-13
Notes: Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz made
inevitable the Embargo, which destroyed TJ's popularity and political effectiveness.
Reference: 1558
1925
Name: Galbreath , C. B.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Views on Slavery."
Publication: Ohio Archaeological and
Historical Publications
Volume: 34
Date: (1925)
Pages: 184-202
Notes: Argues that TJ
opposed the extension of slavery and that there is no evidence for the claim that he favored
Ohio's entry into the Union as a slave state.
Reference: 1626
1925
Name: Hamilton , J. G.
deRoulhac
Title: "Jefferson and Religion."
Publication: Reviewer
Volume: 5
Date: 1925
Pages: 5-15
Notes: Survey; argues attacks on
TJ's religion were in fact attacks on his politics.
Reference: 2266
1925
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Windsor Chairs."
Publication: Pennsylvania Museum
Bulletin
Volume: 21
Date: 1925
Pages: 58-60
Notes: Account of TJ's purchases at various times
of Windsor chairs.
Reference: 2976
1925
Name: Lydenberg , Harry
Miller
Title: "What Did Macaulay Say About America?"
Publication: Bulletin
of the New York Public Library
Volume: 29
Date: (1925)
Pages: 459-81
Notes: Best account of Macaulay's famous letter to Henry S. Randall and its reception in the
popular press; prints all of Macaulay's correspondence with Randall, including a partial
retraction.
Reference: 724
1925
Name: Lewis , Joseph
Title: Jefferson the Freethinker
Publisher: Freethought Publishing Co.
City: New
York
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. (10)
Notes: TJ the materialist opposed by
the forces of bigotry and superstition.
Reference: 2331
1925
Name: Heyer , William C.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Belief in Providence"
Publication: American Trust in
Providence, An Outline of the Topic Along General Lines
Publisher: R. G. Badger
City: Boston
Date: 1925
Pages: none given
Reference: 2279
1925
Name: Lichtenstein , Gaston
Title: Thomas Jefferson as War Governor, Also Three Travel Articles and Some North Carolina
History
Publisher: William
Byrd Press
City: Richmond, Va.
Date: 1925
Pages: 9-42
Notes: Quotes extensively from TJ's correspondence, but offers little critical or analytical
comment and that diffuse and digressive.
Reference: 1774
1925
Name: Murdaugh , James Edmund
Dandridge
Title: "Political Thought in the Early American Essay."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Univ. of
Virginia
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. 221
Notes: Deals briefly with TJ's Summary View and Notes on the State of Virginia and with the
press and pamphlet wars of the 1790's. Not unintelligent, but dated.
Reference: 2378
1925
Name: Saint , Percy
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Government by Party."
Publication: Louisiana Historical
Quarterly
Volume: 8
Date: (1925)
Pages: 41-51
Notes: TJ was unjust and unreasonable in
disliking John Marshall and Patrick Henry, but he helped to establish "a government which
requires organized self-restraint to perpetuate it," so we should ignore his rhapsodies and
unrealities about liberty.
Reference: 1940
1925
Name: Nussbaum , Frederick
L.
Title: "American Tobacco and French Politics, 1783-1789."
Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Volume: 40
Date: (1925)
Pages: 497-516
Notes: Examines TJ's efforts to end the control of the Farmers
General over the American tobacco trade and to oppose the creation of monopolies such as that
envisioned by Robert Morris.
Reference: 1860
1925
Name: Patton , John S. and Sallie J.
Doswell
Title: Monticello and Its Master
Publisher: Michie Press
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. 78
Notes: Monticello then and now; printed under the
auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
Reference: 939
1925
Name: Sadler , Elizabeth
Hatcher
Title: The Bloom of Monticello
Publisher: Whittet and Shepperson
City: Richmond
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: TJ's life at
Monticello with special attention to his plants and gardens; minor.
Reference: 3244
1925
Name: Thomas , Charles S.
Title: "Jefferson and Judiciary."
Publication: Colorado Bar Association
Report
Volume: 28
Date: (1925)
Pages: 172-84
Notes: Rpt. Constitutional Review. 10(April
1926), 67-76.
Reference: 2021
1925
Name: Wilstach , Paul M., ed.
Title: Correspondence of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (1812...1826)
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1925
Pages: pp. 197
Notes: Selected and abridged texts with editorial
commentary.
Reference: 1309
1925
Name: Tyler , Lyon G.
Title: "Jefferson after Camden."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 7
Date: (1925)
Pages: 81-86
Notes: Documentation of TJ's effort to raise fresh troops after the battle
of Camden, August 16, 1780.
Reference: 2041
1925
Name: Wilstach , Paul
Title: Jefferson and Monticello
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1925
Pages: pp.xiii,258
Notes: Biographical account of TJ's life at
Monticello has interesting anecdotes. Comprehensive, although uncritical, social history of
Monticello.
Reference: 1311
1925
Name: Wilstach , Paul
Title: "Jefferson Out of Harness."
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 4
Date: (1925)
Pages: 63-68
Notes: TJ's sense of humor as revealed in his letters.
Reference: 1312
1925
Name: Thorpe , Russell W.
Title: "A Portrait of Thomas Jefferson, A Lost Picture Since 1897—Portrait by Robert Field
(obit. 1819)."
Publication: Antiquarian
Volume: 4
Date: 1925
Pages: 17-18
Reference: 3343
1926
Name: Berenger , Henry
Title: "Jefferson and France"
Publication: Paroles d'Amerique
Publisher: Imprimerie F. Paillart
City: Abbeville
Date: 1926
Pages: 41-66
Notes: Tribute to TJ's
affection for France.
Reference: 120
1926
Name: Beveridge , Albert J.
Title: "Sources of the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: PMHB
Volume: 50
Date: (1926)
Pages: 289-315
Notes: "All the ideas and much of the language" came from the
Virginia Bill of Rights, but TJ gave final expression to "the general American thought and
feeling."
Reference: 1396
1926
Name: Alvord , Clarence
Walwort
Title: 'Thomas Jefferson, Apostle of Democracy."
Publication: The
Contemporary Review
Volume: 130
Date: 1926
Pages: 39-45
Notes: Sketch, claims TJ "was
the father of party government in a democracy.
Reference: 57
1926
Name: Bias , Randolph
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton."
Publication: West Virginia Law
Quarterly
Volume: 33
Date: 1926
Pages: 1-28
Notes: Address to the State Bar
Association; two giants.
Reference: 1397
1926
Name: Alvord , Clarence
Walworth
Title: "Thomas Jefferson versus Alexander Hamilton."
Publication: Landmark
Volume: 8
Date: (1926)
Pages: 194-96
Notes: Review essay on
Bower's Jefferson and Hamilton.
Reference: 1352
1926
Name: Abbott , Lawrence F.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: The Outlook
Volume: 143
Date: 1926
Pages: 131-33
Notes: Biographical sketch.
Reference: 37
1926
Name: Belmont , Perry
Title: Survival of the Democratic Principle Including the Tariff Issue
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. vi, 334
Notes: Rambling,
discursive account of the way in which TJ has been misread and underrated by subsequent
political historians, often for partisan reasons, but also by thoughtlessly accepting the authority of
Henry Adams.
Reference: 1392
1926
Name: Bishop , William
Warner
Title: "Training in the Use of Books"
Publication: The Backs of Books
and Other Essays on Librarianship
Publisher: Williams and Wilkins
City: Baltimore
Date: 1926
Pages: 99-124
Notes: Discusses TJ's library and compares it to the size and
complexity of modern libraries.
Reference: 2595
1926
Name: Battle , George Gordon
Title: New York and Jefferson, An Address
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 11
Notes: Speech at Monticello, cataloguing TJ's links with New
York.
Reference: 98
1926
Name: Barmore , Ida M.
Title: "Facts Worth Knowing About Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Popular
Educator
Volume: 43
Date: (1926)
Pages: 450-51
Reference: 2551
1926
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Jefferson, Master Politician."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 2
Date: (1926)
Pages: 321-33
Notes: TJ was a master politician in the service of democracy because
of his "soul." Impressionistic.
Reference: 1415
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Report of the Committee on Jefferson Furniture."
Publication: Annual Report of
the Monticello Association
Publisher: Monticello
Association
Date: 1926
Pages: 7-12
Notes: Records furnishings once owned by TJ and now in the hands of descendants and
others.
Reference: 3104
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson-Draughtsman of American Ideals
Publication: The
Independent
Volume: 117
Date: 1926
Pages: 13-16
Notes: Mostly
illustrations
Reference: 1172
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Our Eirst Economy President, A Review of the First English Biography of
Jefferson."
Publication: World's Work
Volume: 51
Date: (1926)
Pages: 666-67
Notes: Praises Hirst's biography for its understanding of TJ's economic programs.
Reference: 1865
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Ode sur le Mort de Thomas Jefferson dediee a sa fille Madame Randolph."
Publication: National Gazette
Date: 1926
Notes: Poem in French.
Reference: 3141
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Adams—Jefferson."
Publication: The Outlook
Volume: 143
Date: 1926
Pages: 305-06
Notes: Brief note on the correspondence.
Reference: 47
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Paleontologist."
Publication: Review of
Reviews
Volume: 74
Date: (1926)
Pages: 200
Notes: Review of article by Frederick A. Lucas;
minor.
Reference: 3336
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Thomas Jefferson, The Sage of Monticello And
His Beloved Home
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 45
Notes: Issued as Monticello Papers Number Five.
Includes essays by Fiske Kimball, "The Architecture of Monticello"; Mabel Mason Carlton,
"The Life of Thomas Jefferson"; Henry Alan Johnston, "The Story of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation."
Reference: 3324
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: The Story of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, Dedicated to the Preservation of
Monticello, the Home of Thomas Jefferson Situated at Charlottesville, Virginia
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: 12
Reference: 1162
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "The Pedigree of Peter Jefferson."
Publication: The Researcher
Volume: 1
Date: (1926)
Pages: 33-34
Reference: 946
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publication: The Dutch Boy Painter
Volume: 19
Date: 1926
Pages: 109
Reference: 1164
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Constitution."
Publication: Literary
Digest
Volume: 88
Date: 1926
Pages: 36
Notes: TJ as upholder of the Constitution; an article
designed for student orators.
Reference: 2023
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson in High Street, Philadelphia One Hundred and Fift Years Ago
Publisher: Strawbridge and
Clothier
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 12
Notes: Catalogue of furniture as supplied for the 'refurnishing' of the (supposed) house in which
TJ wrote the Declaration. A dubious enterprise all around.
Reference: 3334
1926
Name: Browne , Edythe H.
Title: "The Great Simplicity of Jefferson."
Publication: Commonwealth
Volume: 4
Date: 1926
Pages: 261-62
Notes: TJ as friend of the common man.
Reference: 200
1926
Name: Anonymous
Title: "The Sesqui-Centennial of the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson as the
Central Figure."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 372-73
Notes: Notes ceremonies to honor TJ.
Reference: 1076
1926
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Patriotic Editorials Written ... Expressly for The Sesqui-Centennial of American
Independence and the Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission.
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson
Memorial Foundation,
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: unpag.
Notes: Fund raising effort for Monticello.
Reference: 153
1926
Name: Cochran , Isabel Mason
Chamberlain
Title: Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Surber-Arundale, Co.
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1926
Pages: pp.20
Notes: Sketch, with an
account of Tarleton's raid
Reference: 278
1926
Name: Carlton , Mabel Mason and
Henry Fisk Carlton
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration"
Publication: The Story of the Declaration of Independence
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: 55-65
Notes: Juvenile.
Reference: 236
1926
Name: Goodman , Nathan G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, A Really Wonderful, Allround Man. 1743-1826."
Publication: Historical Outlook
Volume: 17
Date: (1926)
Pages: 365-66
Notes: Myths and platitudes for social science teachers.
Reference: 488
1926
Name: Croly , Herbert
Title: "The Great Jefferson Joke."
Publication: New Republic
Volume: 47
Date: (1926)
Pages: 73-74
Notes: The Democratic Party's "assiduous and indomitable attempts to
revive Jeffersonian principles is the oldest and worst joke in American politics." FDR had
recently appealed to the political thought of TJ as a standard for the Party.
Reference: 1518
1926
Name: Chandler , J. A. C.
Title: "Jefferson and the College of William and Mary."
Publication: Virginia Journal
of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 349-52
Notes: TJ's relationship with
the college from student days to the time of the founding of the Univ. of Virginia.
Reference: 2670
1926
Name: Davis , John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Attorney at Law."
Publication: Proceedings of the Virginia
State Bar Association
Volume: 38
Date: (1926)
Pages: 361-77
Notes: TJ's education and
practice as a lawyer; rpt. in American Bar Association Journal. 13(February 1927),
63-68.
Reference: 1543
1926
Name: Forrest , W. M.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 355-57
Notes: Argues that the
greatest enemy to religious freedom has been the pulpit; TJ in his defense of religious freedom
found his greatest opposition there.
Reference: 2234
1926
Name: Chinard , Gilbert, ed.
Title: The Commonplace Book of Thomas Jefferson, A Repertory of His Ideas on Government,
With an Introduction and Notes ....
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 403
Notes: Useful introduction describes the mss. and
comments in detail on TJ's entries.
Reference: 2173
1926
Name: Crothers , Samuel
McChord
Title: The Religion of Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of
Independence
Publisher: American Unitarian Association
City: Boston
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Rpt. as The Unitarianism of Thomas
Jefferson. On TJ's rational religion.
Reference: 2197
1926
Name: Fitzpatrick , F. B.
Title: "Helps for Grade Teachers: The Higher Grades. Things Worth Knowing about Thomas
Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 365-66
Notes: Questions and answers.
Reference: 438
1926
Name: Crawford , Nelson
Antrim
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Religious Freedom."
Publication: American Collector
Volume: 2
Date: (1926)
Pages: 292-95
Notes: Laudatory sketch on TJ as author of the Bill for Establishing Religious
Freedom.
Reference: 2195
1926
Name: Lancaster , Dabney S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Public Education."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 363-64
Notes: Brief discussion of
TJ's plan for public schools.
Reference: 3009
1926
Name: Lucas , Frederic A.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Paleontologist."
Publication: Natural History
Volume: 26
Date: (1926)
Pages: 328-30
Notes: Brief comments.
Reference: 3045
1926
Name: Lilienthal , Helen and
David
Title: "Thomas Jefferson One Hundred Years After."
Publication: The
Outlook
Volume: 143
Date: (1926)
Pages: 322-24
Notes: Review
essay.
Reference: 696
1926
Name: Krock , Arthur
Title: "Jefferson's Stepchildren."
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 7
Date: (1926)
Pages: 129-35
Notes: In 1926 "the Northern and Eastern Democracy happen to be the
only Jeffersonian elements of the party," and this is accidental.
Reference: 1756
1926
Name: Harvey , Alexander M.
Title: Jefferson and the American Constitution
Publisher: Capper Printing Co.
City: Topeka
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 23
Notes: TJ's great service was to drive the
philosophy of the Declaration into the Constitution and to popularize it by demonstrating the
possible strength of the government within its limitations.
Reference: 1665
1926
Name: Hirst , Francis W
Title: Life and Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. xviii, 588
Notes: English author's admiring biography;
attacks the Hamiltonian charges that TJ did not understand public finance.
Reference: 551
1926
Name: Hamlin , Talbot
Faulkner
Title: "Roman Influences in the South"
Publication: The American
Spirit in Architecture
Publisher: Yale Univ.
Press
City: New Haven
Date: 1926
Pages: 108-23
Notes: TJ's enthusiasm for classic design deeply influenced the architecture of his region and
that of the nation as a whole, particularly the official architecture.
Reference: 2853
1926-28
Name: Harvey , Alexander
Miller
Title: "Hamilton and Jefferson and the American Constitution."
Publication: Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Volume: 17
Date: (1926-28)
Pages: 744-87
Notes: Argues that "these great antagonists
really lived in harmony and labored to the same end, and that their battle of the century was a
fixed fight."
Reference: 1664
1926
Name: Malone , Dumas
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Educational Pioneer."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 352-54
Notes: Discusses TJ's
comprehensive system of education, especially the University.
Reference: 3069
1926
Name: Jones , Edgar DeWitt
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Religion."
Publication: Christian Century
Volume: 43
Date: (1926)
Pages: 774-75
Notes: Brief survey, praises TJ's planning for the interaction of
separate secular and religious educational institutions at the Univ. of Virginia.
Reference: 2303
1926
Name: McAdoo , William
Gibbs
Title: State Rights and the Jeffersonian Idea. Address Delivered ... at the
Convention of the Cooperative Club International, Des Moines, Iowa, May 25, 1926
Publisher: Government Printing
Office
City: Washington
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: 69th Congress, 1st Session. Senate Document No. 121. The essence of TJ's theory of
government is for States to protect individual liberty and local concerns and the federal
government to protect economic liberty.
Reference: 2346
1926
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "Jefferson the Architect."
Publication: Forum
Volume: 75
Date: (1926)
Pages: 926-31
Notes: Account of TJ's "academical village;" if he had a prototype, it
was probably Marly-le-Roi.
Reference: 2967
1926
Name: Malone , Thomas
Title: "The Man Who Wrote the Declaration."
Publication: Independent
Volume: 117
Date: (1926)
Pages: 11-12
Reference: 781
1926
Name: Heatwole , C. J.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as an Architect."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 361-63
Notes: TJ's "influence on
American architecture is evidenced everywhere in this country, particularly in the
South."
Reference: 2869
1926
Name: Humphrey , Henry B.,
Jr.
Title: "Homes of Our Presidents."
Publication: Country Life
Volume: 50
Date: 1926
Pages: 37-39
Notes: Derivative sketch.
Reference: 2907
1926
Name: Kuper , Theodore Fred
Title: Jefferson the Giant
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. (16)
Notes: "Monticello Papers Number Seven."
Brief life for visitors to the shrine.
Reference: 672
1926
Name: Nock , Albert Jay
Title: Jefferson
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 340
Notes: Although somewhat uncritical in its use of the Beard thesis,
this is a shrewd and perceptive assessment of TJ. More a study of character than a formal
biography, but organized along biographical lines.
Reference: 884
1926
Name: Showalter , William
Joseph
Title: "Jefferson as President."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 345-49
Notes: Compares TJ to other
presidents, particularly Wilson.
Reference: 1972
1926
Name: Page , Rosewell
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Virginia
Journal of Education
Volume: 19
Date: (1926)
Pages: 343-45
Notes: Sketch of TJ as he
was in 1776; minor.
Reference: 902
1926
Name: Philips , Edith
Title: Louis Hue Girardin and Nicholas Gouin Dufief and Their Relations with Thomas
Jefferson: An Unknown Episode of the French Emigration in America
Publication: The
Johns Hopkins Studies In Romance Literatures and Languages
Volume: Extra
Volume No. 111
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 8, 75
Notes: Dufief had little
to do with TJ, but Girardin carried on a somewhat interesting correspondence with him and
played an active, if minor, part in the cultural life of his adapted country.
Reference: 968
1926
Name: Muzzey , David Saville
Title: "Thomas Jefferson—Humanitarian."
Publication: American Review
Volume: 4
Date: (1926)
Pages: 36-44
Notes: "The master passion of Thomas Jefferson's life was human
freedom."
Reference: 871
1926
Name: Tyler , Lyon G., ed.
Title: "Arnold's Invasion, 1781. Jefferson's Official Conduct."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 6
Date: (1926)
Pages: 131-32
Notes: Prints without
comment 2 affidavits justifying TJ's actions.
Reference: 2039
1926
Name: U.S. Sesquicentennial of American Independence and the
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Title: Official plan for the Nationwide Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary
of the Adoption of the Declaration of American Independence
Publisher: Government Printing
Office
City: Washington
Date: 1926
Pages: 12
Reference: 1236
1926
Name: Wayland , John W.
Title: "Jefferson as a Scientist."
Publication: Virginia Journal of
Education
Volume: 19
Date: 1926
Pages: 358-59
Notes: TJ was a scientist in
both the broadest and the narrow senses of the term; more laudatory than informative.
Reference: 3400
1926
Name: van Vollenhoven , C.
Title: Gijsbert Karel overzee
Publisher: W. L. & J. Brusse
City: Rotterdam
Date: 1926
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: Introduction in Dutch; prints letters of
Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp to TJ, written from 1784-1786.
Reference: 1248
1926
Name: Sullivan , Mark
Title: "Seeing America With Jefferson's Eyes."
Publication: World's
Work
Volume: 52
Date: (1926)
Pages: 328-32
Notes: A greater density of population makes
many of TJ's theories inadequate for modern America.
Reference: 1143
1926
Name: Strachey , John St. Loe
Title: "Representative Americans" and "Jefferson"
Publication: American
Soundings
Publisher: Hodder and
Stoughton
City: London
Date: 1926
Pages: 171-86
Notes: TJ and Lincoln are the men most representative of American life; quotes from Notes to
argue that TJ is "sound in heart and head" on slavery.
Reference: 1139
1926
Name: Tyler , Lyon Gardiner
Title: "What Jefferson Stood For."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly
Volume: 7
Date: (1926)
Pages: 154-63
Reference: 2475
1926
Name: Stewart , Robert
Armistead
Title: "Jefferson and His Landlord."
Publication: The
Researcher
Volume: l
Date: 1926
Pages: 5-8
Notes: Note on TJ's living
arrangements in Richmond while governor; rpt. in Sons of the Revolution in State of Virginia
Semi-Annual Magazine. 9(January 1931), 13-18.
Reference: 1134
1926
Name: Tudury , Moran
Title: Mr. Jefferson
Publication: Bookman
Volume: 64
Date: 1926
Pages: 31-34
Notes: Biographical sketch
Reference: 1208
1926
Name: Thorpe , Francis N.
Title: Adams and Jefferson: 1826-1926
Publication: North American
Review
Volume: 223
Date: 1926
Pages: 234-47
Notes: Discusses the differing
reputations of TJ, who deserves to have been so well remembered as he has been, and Adams,
who deserves better than he received.
Reference: 1192
1926
Name: Trumbull , Archibald
Douglas
Title: Jefferson and the Declaration
Publication: Saint
Nicholas
Volume: 53
Date: 1926
Pages: 843-45
Notes: Romanticized account
of the writing, for young readers.
Reference: 1209
1926?
Name: Anonymous
Title: Jefferson Invites You to Charlottesville
Publisher: Chamber of Commerce
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1926?
Pages: pp. (16)
Reference: 597
1926?
Name: Cochran , Isabel
Mason
Title: The Ride of Captain Jack Jouett, Junior, of Charlottesville, to Save
Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Legislature
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1926?
Pages: pp. 15
Reference: 277
1927
Name: Bemis , Samuel Flagg
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The American Secretaries of State and Their
Diplomacy
Publisher: Knopf
City: New
York
Date: 1927
Pages: 3-93
Notes: TJ was the best man of his time
to guide the diplomacy of his country, even though his handling of affairs was hampered by his
rivalry with Hamilton and by Hamilton's actions.
Reference: 1393
1927
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: The Founders of the Republic
Publisher: American Library Association,
City: Chicago
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: An introduction to a
course of readings which includes Bower's Jefferson and Hamilton.
Reference: 151
1927
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Courts."
Publication: Proceedings of the North
Carolina Bar Association
Volume: 29
Date: (1927)
Pages: 26-45
Reference: 1418
1927
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Washington, Jefferson and the Society of the Cincinnati."
Publication: Researcher
Volume: 1
Date: (1927)
Pages: 100-02
Notes: Documents, without
comment.
Reference: 2074
1927
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Thomas Jefferson; An Address Before the Democratic Women's Luncheon Club of
Philadelphia, February 7th 1927.
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. 21
Reference: 155
1927
Name: Abbott , Lawrence F.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Aristocrat"
Publication: Twelve Great
Modernists
Publisher: Doubleday
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 95-124
Notes: John Marshall is
"The Democrat" !
Reference: 38
1927
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson Number
Publication: The Amateur Reporter
Volume: 1
Date: 1927
Pages: 1-32
Notes: Published by the student body of Jefferson Jr. High School,
Charleston, W. Va.
Reference: 1175
1927
Name: Belmont , Perry
Title: "Jefferson"
Publication: Political Equality: Religious Toleration from Roger
Williams to Jefferson
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 1
33-36
Notes: Mostly quotations showing TJ was in favor of toleration.
Reference: 2133
1927
Name: Clark , Evert Mordecai
Title: "An Unpublished Bit of Jeffersonian Verse."
Publication: South Atlantic
Quarterly
Volume: 26
Date: (1927)
Pages: 76-82
Notes: Explains the
background of a brief bit of verse satirizing TJ as a tyrant written in 1808; unreliable in
particulars.
Reference: 2689
1927
Name: Griggs , Edward
Howard
Title: Jefferson: The Democratic American
Publication: American
Statesmen, An Interpretation of Our History and Heritage
Publisher: Orchard Hill Press
City: Croton-on-Hudson,
N.Y.
Date: 1927
Pages: 118-74
Notes: Biographical sketch; "...
Jefferson stands for just that range of ideas that most need re-emphasis at the present hour ... if
we are to keep the soul of democracy in our great, ever more powerful, more highly organized,
centralized and authoritative Republic."
Reference: 503
1927
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: Trois amities francaises de Jefferson, d'apres sa correspondance inedite avec Madame de
Brehan, Madame de Tesse et Madame de Corny.
Publisher: Societe d'edition "Les Belles Lettres,"
City: Paris
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. vi, 242
Notes: An historical
introduction, "Jefferson en France," and a biographical introduction to each correspondence.
Notes.
Reference: 265
1927
Name: Downes , Randolph
Chandler
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Removal of Governor St. Clair in
1802."
Publication: Ohio Archaeological and Historical Publications
Volume: 32
Date: (1927)
Pages: 62-77
Notes: Ohio Republicans acted to remove St. Clair as a response to the
Territorial Legislature's Division Act of 1801.
Reference: 1567
1927
Name: Krout , John Allen
Title: "Jefferson's Contribution to the Constitution."
Publication: Outlook
Volume: 145
Date: 1927
Pages: 288a (inside rear cover)
Reference: 17
1927
Name: Hollis , Christopher
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The American Heresy
Publisher: Sheed and Ward
City: London
Date: 1927
Pages: 6-81
Notes: America's heresy is the rejection of the
Jeffersonian concept of the state in favor of Hamiltonian principles; TJ is broadly praised, partly
by minimizing almost all of his contemporaries.
Reference: 558
1927
Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "The Furnishing of Monticello."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 12
Date: (1927)
Pages: 380-85; 482-86
Notes: On TJ's furniture originally at Monticello and the
process of bringing it back to the national shrine. Illustrated.
Reference: 2979
1927
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: Jefferson's Grounds and Gardens at Monticello
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: New York
Date: 1927 Notes: Reprints articles
from Landscape Architecture; items #2954, 2956, 2959.
Reference: 2966
1927
Name: Master , R. W.
Title: "Jefferson and the Constitution."
Publication: World Review
Volume: 4
Date: 1927
Pages: 87
Notes: Outline for contestants in the National Oratorical Contest.
Reference: 1824
1927
Name: Kimball , Fiske
Title: "The Gardens and Plantations at Monticello."
Publication: Landscape
Architecture
Volume: 17
Date: 1927
Pages: 173-80
Notes: Discusses the variety of
flowers and trees at Monticello.
Reference: 2956
1927
Name: Hamilton , J. G.
deRoulhac
Title: "Mr. Jefferson Visits the Sesquicentennial."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 3
Date: (1927)
Pages: 38-47
Notes: What would TJ have
thought of the U.S. of 1926? He would have condemned the Volstead Act, the Watch and Ward
Society, anti-evolutionists, and Andrew Mellon.
Reference: 524
1927
Name: Lathrop , Mary F.
Title: "Jefferson's Contribution to the Law of the West"
Publication: Pennsylvania Bar
Association. Report of the Thirty-third Annual Meeting
Publisher: Printed for the Association
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1927
Pages: 297-307
Reference: 1763
1927
Name: Hamilton , J. G.
deRoulhac
Title: "Jefferson and Adams at Ease."
Publication: South Atlantic
Quarterly
Volume: 26
Date: (1927)
Pages: 359-72
Notes: Genial portrayal of TJ
and Adams in retirement.
Reference: 523
1927
Name: Hamilton , J. G.
deRoulhac
Title: "Ripened Years: Thomas Jefferson—Time Treated Him
Kindly."
Publication: Century Magazine
Volume: 114
Date: (1927)
Pages: 476-85.
Notes: TJ as contented senior citizen.
Reference: 525
1927
Name: Pratt , Richard H.
Title: "Jefferson and His Fellow Architects."
Publication: House and
Garden
Volume: 52
Date: 1927
Pages: 74-75, 126, 148
Notes: Contends TJ was the principal
architect and stimulator of classicism in the young republic, a style revealing a kind of national
self-consciousness.
Reference: 3201
1927
Name: Parrington , Vernon
Louis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Agrarian Democrat"
Publication: Main
Currents in American Thought: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800
Publisher: Harcourt
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 342-56
Notes: Claims TJ was strongly influenced by the
Physiocrats and that he was centrally "concerned about responsive government—that it should
faithfully serve the majority will."
Reference: 2400
1927
Name: Sears , Louis M.
Title: Jefferson and the Embargo
Publisher: Duke Univ. Press
City: Durham
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. ix, 340
Notes: "... in urging the embargo Jefferson was
pursuing not a hasty opportunism, but rather the logic of his entire philosophy of life," i.e. his
essentially pacific theories, and "the exigencies of the situation revealed Jefferson as an
administrator of a high order."
Reference: 1957
1927
Name: Nevins , Allan
Title: The American States During and After the Revolution, 1775-1789
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 324-33
Notes: Discusses TJ's
governorship of Virginia which exposed in him "certain real defects of capacity."
Reference: 1856
1927
Name: Robinson , William A.
Title: "A Misused Quotation."
Publication: AHR
Volume: 33
Date: (1927)
Pages: 81-83
Notes: A description by Theodore Dwight of "The great object of
Jacobinism" was cited by several historians, including Henry Adams, as illustrative of Federalist
views of TJ's administration; actually, Dwight was talking about the imaginary state projected in
William Godwin's Political Justice.
Reference: 1033
1927
Name: Sherman , Stuart P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: A Revaluation"
Publication: The Main Stream
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 28-36
Notes: Review essay on Nock's Jefferson; admires
TJ as "a philosopher and man of culture."
Reference: 1095
1927
Name: Sherman , Stuart P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson: An English Interpretation"
Publication: The Main
Stream
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New
York
Date: 1927
Pages: 17-27
Notes: Review essay on the fortunes
of TJ's reputation, now on rise again with the publication of Francis W. Hirst's
biography.
Reference: 1094
1927
Name: Newton , Joseph Fort
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Religion of American Life."
Publication: Forum
Volume: 78
Date: (1927)
Pages: 890-96
Notes: TJ believed in
salvation by education" and in religious democracy.
Reference: 2381
1927
Name: Pendleton , William C.
Title: "Organization of Virginia Government; Thomas Jefferson, Father of Virginia
Government" and "Organization of Government under the Constitution; Political Battles
Between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton"
Publication: Political History of
Appalachian Virginia 1776-1927
Publisher: Shenandoah Press
City: Dayton, Va.
Date: 1927
Pages: 29-35, 45-97
Notes: Claims the people of Appalachian Virginia were "almost
en masse" behind TJ in his fight for popular government, and "their devotion to human freedom
helped to inspire his heart and nerve his mind for the mighty struggle." Doubtful.
Reference: 1881
1927
Name: Prufer , Julius P.
Title: "The Franchise in Virginia from Jefferson Through the Convention of 1829."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 7
Date: (1927)
Pages: 255-70; 8(1928), 17-32
Notes: From
1769 on TJ was "progressively more democratic in his views."
Reference: 1908
1927
Name: Mead , Edwin D.
Title: "Jefferson and the Democratic Party."
Publication: Unity
Volume: 99
Date: 1927
Pages: 293-95
Notes: The Democrats' numerous Jefferson Day dinners of 1927
revealed little of the spirit of TJ despite the genuine need for it.
Reference: 815
1927
Name: Price , William Jennings
Title: "'The Characteristic Bent of a Lawyer' in Jefferson."
Publication: Georgetown
Law Journal
Volume: 16
Date: (1927)
Pages: 41-54
Notes: Discusses the
Commonplace Book as evidence of TJ's assiduous study of law and looks at his diplomatic work
as an application of it.
Reference: 1904
1927
Name: Pease , Theodore Calvin
Title: "The Days of Jeffersonian Simplicity"
Publication: The United
States
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
City: New York
Date: 1927
Pages: 241-60
Notes: TJ's presidency
treated with focus on TJ himself, principally in terms of his diplomatic successes and failures
(the Embargo).
Reference: 1880
1927
Name: Tyler , Lyon G.
Title: "Ceracchi's Bust of Jefferson."
Publication: Tyler's Quarterly Historical and
Genealogical Magazine
Volume: 8
Date: (1927)
Pages: 243-46
Notes: Prints the petition of
"sundry citizens of the County of Albemarle" who wished to keep the bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi
within the state. Long note on Ceracchi.
Reference: 3361
1927
Name: Wilstach , Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Patriots Off Their Pedestals
Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Date: 1927
Pages: 145-82
Notes: Domestic, familiar TJ, told via
anecdotes.
Reference: 1314
1927
Name: Woolery , William Kirk
Title: The Relation of Thomas Jefferson to American Foreign Policy, 1783-1793.
Publication: Johns Hopkins Univ. Studies in Historical and Political Science
Volume: Series 65, no. 2.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. viii, 128
Notes: "As minister
to France and as Secretary of State, (TJ) attacked every problem of American diplomacy, and the
systems and principles he followed were, in practically every case, followed by the United
States. It is the purpose of this study to investigate the chief problems and the reasoning Jefferson
applied to them in the period 1783-
Reference: 2097
1927
Name: Van Loon , Hendrik
Willem
Title: "America: Jefferson and Hamilton Contribute Their Genius to a New
Nation."
Publication: Woman's Home Companion
Volume: 54
Date: 1927
Pages: 14-15, 106
Reference: 2051
1927
Name: Warren , Charles
Title: The Trumpeters of the Constitution
Publisher: Univ. of Rochester
City: Rochester
Date: 1927
Pages: pp. 85
Notes: TJ's services to American life and
constitutional government discussed on pp. 44-52; generalities.
Reference: 2071
1927?
Name: Casey , Robert E.,
comp.
Title: The Declaration of Independence -- Illustrated Story of Its Adoption, With
the Biographies and Portraits of the Signers ... Supplemented with Illustrated Story of the Lives
of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson & Other Patriots of the Revolution
Publisher: Privately
Printed
City: Fredericksburg, Va
Date: 1927?
Pages: pp.
192
Notes: Picture book
Reference: 243
1927?
Name: Wootan , James B.
Title: Monticello, Its Sage and His Home Town
Publisher: Monticello Hotel
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1927?
Pages: pp. 14
Notes: Jeffersonian
folklore, preserved (or invented) by William Page, one of the first guides to Monticello after it
opened to the public.
Reference: 1334
1928
Name: Adams , James Truslow,
ed.
Title: Jeffersonian Principles: Extracts from the Writings of Thomas
Jefferson
Publisher: Little
Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. xxii, 161
Notes: Introduction argues for the centrality of TJ's belief in the ability of the common man,
who would opt for limited government, no public debt, and the least restraint on individual
freedom. Extracts from TJ deliver various opinions on political and ethical questions.
Reference: 2114
1928
Name: Beck , James M.
Title: The Memory of Jefferson, An Address Delivered at a Stated Meeting of the Sons of the
Revolution in the District of Columbia on the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Thomas
Jefferson.
Publisher: Government Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: Laudatory oration.
Reference: 109
1928
Name: Adams , James Truslow
Title: "Jefferson and Hamilton To-Day: The Dichotomy in American Thought."
Publication: Atlantic Monthly
Volume: 141
Date: (1928)
Pages: 443-50
Notes: Both present day parties in somewhat different ways preach Jefferson and practice
Hamilton; if TJ was the more attractive man, the past and the future still belong to
Hamilton.
Reference: 1343
1928
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: "Founder's Day Address."
Publication: Univ. of Virginia Alumni
Newsletter.
Volume: 16
Date: 1928
Pages: 185-93
Notes: TJ is a "living, vital
principle" who opposes the enemies of democracy at home and abroad.
Reference: 150
1928
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson to William Short on Mr. and Mrs. Merry, 1804."
Publication: AHR
Volume: 33
Date: (1928)
Pages: 832-35
Notes: Prints with notes a
letter of January 23, 1804, on the supposed affront offered to the British envoy and his wife at the
White House.
Reference: 1712
1928
Name: Coe , Samuel Gwynn
Title: The Mission of William Carmichael to Spain
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. vii, 116
Notes: Carmichael was charge d'affaires in
Spain while TJ was in Paris, and he continued there until 1794. Study based on correspondence
between TJ and Carmichael but focus is on the latter.
Reference: 1491
1928
Name: Espenshade , A.H.
Title: Jefferson -- One of the Founders
Publication: St. Nicholas
Volume: 55
Date: 1928
Pages: 535,574
Reference: 416
1928
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "Introduction"
Publication: The Literary Bible of Thomas Jefferson: His
Commonplace Book of Philosophers and Poets
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1928
Pages: 1-37
Notes: Analyzes the contents of a literary commonplace book and argues
that it dates from an early period of TJ's life. Finds early evidence for an underlying stoic
attitude, but also suggests several attitudes implied by some of the selections were merely of the
moment.
Reference: 2677
1928
Name: Kimball , Marie G
Title: "Jefferson's Farewell to Romance."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 4
Date: (1928)
Pages: 402-19
Notes: Account of TJ's relationship with Maria Cosway; Head wins
out over Heart.
Reference: 647
1928
Name: Kent , Frank R.
Title: "The Democratic Creed" in The Democratic Party, A History
Publisher: Century
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: 27-45
Notes: Superficial account
of TJ's election to and administration of the presidency.
Reference: 1736
1928
Name: Hench , Atcheson L.
Title: "Jefferson and Ossian."
Publication: Modern Language Notes
Volume: 43
Date: (1928)
Pages: 537
Notes: Points to Chastellux's account of TJ on Ossian; minor.
Reference: 2871
1928
Name: Kozlowski , W. M.
Title: "Niemcewicz en Am~erique et sa correspondance inedite avec Jefferson
(1797-1810)."
Publication: Revue de Litterature Compar'ee
Volume: 8
Date: (1928)
Pages: 29-45.
Notes: Describes the relationship and prints correspondence between
TJ and Julien Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish poet, patriot, and friend of Kosciuszko.
Reference: 667
1928
Name: Lippmann , Walter
Title: American Inquisitors: A Commentary on Dayton and Chicago
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. viii, 120
Notes: TJ a
character in a recurring "Dialogue on Olympus" as the author ponders the irony of the man who
professes to be TJ's most loyal disciple acting as a prosecutor in the Scopes trial. Socrates,
however, has the last word.
Reference: 2334
1928
Name: McIlwaine , H. R., ed.
Title: Official Letters of the Governors of Virginia. II. Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Virginia State
Library
City: Richmond
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. ix, 567
Notes: Prints letters of TJ and of those acting for him in his absence; brief notes.
Reference: 1799
1928
Name: McKee , George H.
Title: Th. Jefferson, Ami de la Revolution Francaise
Publisher: Imprimerie Al. Cathrine
City: Lorient
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. x, 325
Notes: Rpt. Paris: Nizet
et Bastard, 1935. "These pour le doctorat d'universite presentee a la l~aculte des Lettres de
Grenoble." Sees TJ too simply as friend of France; defines party orientation in the U.S. as
democrates francophiles and federalistes an~lophiles. Criticizes Genet more for his manners than
for the substance of his actions.
Reference: 1801
1928
Name: Lokke , Carl Ludwig
Title: "Jefferson and the Leclerc Expedition."
Publication: AHR
Volume: 33
Date: (1928)
Pages: 322-28
Notes: TJ's support for French recovery of St. Domingo was
exaggerated in Pichon's reports to Bonaparte.
Reference: 1777
1928
Name: Landin , Harold
William
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Cornell
Univ.
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. 325, xxii
Notes: Concerned with the development of TJ's political ideas; argues for the prime importance
of political experience, particularly in struggles with the "aristocratic tidewater" early in his
career. Locke only secondary in importance as an intellectual influence and the French
Revolution not at all.
Reference: 2324
1928
Name: Newcomb , Rexford
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, the Architect."
Publication: Architect
Volume: 9
Date: (1928)
Pages: 429-32
Notes: Survey.
Reference: 3122
1928
Name: Peck , Mamie Downard
Title: Thomas Jefferson and His Home, Monticello
Publisher: Marr Publishing
City: Corsicana,
Texas
Date: 1928
Pages: none given
Notes: Part of the campaign to
acquire Monticello; a bit late.
Reference: 942
1928
Name: Schaff , David S.
Title: "The Bellarmine-Jefferson Legend and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Papers of the American Society of Church History
Volume: 2nd
ser. 8
Date: (1928)
Pages: 239-76
Notes: Argues convincingly that the theory concerning Bellarmine's
influence on TJ and George Mason is unsupported and there are essential differences between
Bellarmine~s theory of government and that behind the Declaration. Printed separately, New
York: Putnam's, 1927, pp.40.
Reference: 2439
1928
Name: Pryor , John Carlisle
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Golden Age of the Old Dominion."
Publication: Virginia Law Register
Volume: n.s. 13
Date: (1928)
Pages: 513-25
Notes: Laudatory sketch.
Reference: 989
1928
Name: Minnegerode , Meade
Title: Jefferson, Friend of France, 1793; The Career of Edmond Charles Genet, Minister
Plenipotentiary from the French Republic to the United States, as Revealed by His Private
Papers, 1763-1843
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. xiv,
447
Notes: Focus on Genet; uncritically accepts Genet's charge that TJ betrayed him
and presents a Hamiltonian view of TJ.
Reference: 1836
1928
Name: Rhodes , Thomas L.
Title: The Story of Monticello, As Told by Thomas L. Rhodes, For Nearly Forty Years
Superintendent of Monticello, to Frank B. Lord
Publisher: American Publishing Co.
City: Washington
Date: 1928
Pages: pp. 94
Notes: Sketch of TJ's
life, account of Monticello through the years by Jefferson M. Levy's superintendent.
Reference: 1017
1928
Name: Minnegerode , Meade
Title: "The Mammoth of Democracy"
Publication: Presidential Years
1787-1860
Publisher: Putnam's
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: 77-121
Notes: Popular social
history focusing on the events leading up to TJ's election in 1800.
Reference: 1837
1928
Name: Minor , Henry
Title: "Democratic Dominance Under Jefferson" and "Democratic Government Fixed by
Jefferson"
Publication: The Story of the Democratic Party
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1928
Pages: 38-65
Notes: TJ stopped the national government's
tendency to assume power over the people, but he did not reject the idea of a powerful
government ruled by the people.
Reference: 1839
1928
Name: True , Rodney H.
Title: "Some Neglected Botanical Results of the Lewis and Clark Expedition."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 67
Date: (1928)
Pages: 1-19
Notes: Describes TJ's role in encouraging the cultivation of seeds brought home by Lewis and
Clark. Samples were sent to Bernard McMahon, a Philadelphia gardener, and to William
Hamilton; some were also planted at Monticello. TJ and McMahon held occasional
correspondence about these.
Reference: 3354
1928
Name: Wilstach , Paul
Title: "A Great Man's Gift to His Grandson."
Publication: St. Nicholas
Volume: 55
Date: (1928)
Pages: 699-700
Notes: TJ willed Poplar Forest to Francis Eppes.
Reference: 1310
1928
Name: U.S. Sesquicentennial of the American Independence and the
Thomas Jefferson Centennial Commission
Title: Report of the...Commission
Publication: 70th Congress, 1st
Session
Volume: No. 54 Senate document
Publisher: Government
Printing Office
City: Washington
Date: 1928
Pages: 76
Notes: Programs and texts of speeches given under various phases of this patriotic
extravaganza.
Reference: 1235
1928
Name: Washburn , Charles G.
Title: "Who Was the Author of the Declaration of Independence?"
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. n.s.
Volume: 38
Date: (1928)
Pages: 51-62
Notes: Examines pre-1776 declarations of rights and grievances,
particularly the 1773 statement of Mendon, Mass., in order to suggest TJ was not the "author" of
the Declaration so much as he was its draftsman. Poorly reasoned.
Reference: 2073
1928
Name: Willson , Beckles
Title: "Jefferson (1785-89)"
Publication: America's Ambassadors to France
(1777-1927), A Narrative of Franco-American Diplomatic Relations
Publisher: John Murray
City: London
Date: 1928
Pages: 17-39
Notes: Contends TJ failed to understand the
situation in France because he did not recognize the lengths to which the revolution would
go.
Reference: 2089
1928
Name: Wilstach , Paul
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Secret Home."
Publication: Country Life
Volume: 53
Date: 1928
Pages: 41-43
Notes: On Poplar Forest.
Reference: 1315
1928?
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation. Treasure from Monticello. The Charm and
Beauty of Thomas Jefferson's Mansion Are Reproduced for the Modern Home
Publisher: Harrisonburg
Craftsmen
City: Harrisonburg, Va.
Date: 1928?
Pages: pp.
39
Notes: Monticello furniture described and copies are for sale in the Monticello
shop.
Reference: 3325
1929
Name: Birch , John J.
Title: "The Ride of Jack Jouett, the Hero of Virginia."
Publication: Americana
Volume: 23
Date: 1929
Pages: 454-57
Notes: Ride to warn TJ of
Tarleton's approach to Monticello.
Reference: 133
1929
Name: Brown , Barbara
Title: "Jefferson Bible: Compilation of the Words of Jesus."
Publication: Mentor
Volume: 17
Date: 1929
Pages: 57-59
Notes: Account of The Life and
Morals of Jesus.
Reference: 2155
1929
Name: Bruce , Philip
Alexander
Title: "President Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Virginia
Plutarch.
Publisher: Univ. of North Carolina
Press
City: Chapel Hill
Date: 1929
Pages: 2:19-37
Reference: 202
1929
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Sir Valentine."
Publication: Literary Digest
Volume: 100
Date: 1929
Pages: 29
Notes: A poem purportedly by TJ, but in fact not.
Reference: 3286
1929
Name: Brock , Macon A.
Title: "Roman Possesses Historical Clock."
Publication: The Pendulum (Rome
Georgia)
Volume: l
Date: 1929
Pages: 1
Notes: TJ's descendant, H. P. Meikleham, owned a
clock made in Paris for TJ by Paul Moinet; illustrated.
Reference: 2616
1929
Name: Coleman , McAlister
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, First of the Democrats"
Publication: Pioneers of
Freedom
Publisher: Vanguard
City: New York
Date: 1929
Pages: 15-36
Notes: Sketch in a volume
written for the Pioneer Youth of America.
Reference: 282
1929
Name: Chinard , Gilbert, ed.
Title: The Letters of Lafayette and Jefferson With An Introduction and Notes
Publisher: Johns Hopkins
Press/Les Belles Lettres
City: Baltimore/Paris
Date: 1929
Pages: pp. xiv, 443
Notes: Introductory material puts the correspondence in historical
and biographical context; letters in French are also translated.
Reference: 263
1929
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism
Publisher: Little, Brown
City: Boston
Date: 1929
Pages: pp. xviii, 548
Notes: Revised edition published Boston,
1939. Argues that the major influences on TJ's political thinking were classical and English
sources, and that his ideas were essentially formed by the time he encountered most
Reference: 264
1929
Name: Gould , William Drum
Title: "The Religious Opinions of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Ph.D.
dissertation
Publisher: Boston Univ.
City: Boston
Date: 1929
Pages: none given
Reference: 2250
1929
Name: Coolidge , Harold
Jefferson
Title: "An American Wedding Journey in 1825."
Publication: Atlantic
Volume: 143
Date: (1929)
Pages: 354-66.
Notes: Describes the
wedding journey from Monticello to Boston of TJ's granddaughter, Ellen Randolph
Coolidge.
Reference: 305
1929
Name: Lindsay , Vachel
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's One Thousand Years."
Publication: World
Review
Volume: 8
Date: 1929
Pages: 129
Reference: 3037
1929
Name: Lee , Lawrence
Title: "The University of Virginia (I.M. Thomas Jefferson)."
Publication: Scribner's
Volume: 85
Date: (1929)
Pages: 300
Notes: A sonnet on TJ; revised
version in The Tomb of Jefferson. New York: Scribner's, 1940. 17, as "... And Pather of the
University of Virginia ..."
Reference: 3021
1929
Name: Lindsay , Vachel
Title: The Litany of Washington Street
Publisher: Macmillan
City: New York
Date: 1929
Pages: pp. xii, 121
Notes: Basically a prose and verse celebration
of Whitman as a Jeffersonian democrat. TJ treated passim; final chapter extolls his principles
worked out in opposition to Hamilton. "... at the end of a thousand years, Jefferson's ideas will
prevail."
Reference: 3036
1929
Name: Kimball , Marie G.
Title: "Jefferson's Furniture Comes Home to Monticello."
Publication: House
Beautiful
Volume: 66
Date: 1929
Pages: 164-65, 186-90
Notes: General
description of restoration efforts.
Reference: 2981
1929
Name: Kimball , Marie
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's French Furniture."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 15
Date: (1929)
Pages: 123-28
Notes: Illustrated article on Furniture TJ acquired in France.
Reference: 2988
1929
Name: Kimball , Marie G.
Title: "The Original Furnishings of the White House."
Publication: Antiaues
Volume: 15
Date: (1929)
Pages: 481-86
Notes: Well-researched piece
on TJ's furnishing of the White House, with his inventory of 1809. Although he admired French
styles, he tended to patronize American craftsmen. Illustrated. Brief version of this rpt. in
Antiques. 65(1952), 33-36.
Reference: 2985
1929
Name: Kite , Elizabeth S., ed.
Title: L'Enfant and Washington, 1791-1792
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1929
Pages: pp. xi, 182
Notes: Introduction by J. J. Jusserand,
foreward by Charles Moore. Contains documents by L'Enfant, Washington, Jefferson, and others
concerning L'Enfant's plan and the laying out of the city of Washington. Focus on L'Enfant, but
sheds light on TJ's difficult relationship with him.
Reference: 2993
1929
Name: Hickey , Agnes
McCarthy
Title: "Monticello, The Home of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Literary Digest
Volume: 101
Date: 1929
Pages: 34
Notes: A sonnet.
Reference: 2882
1929
Name: Mazzei , Philip
Title: "Memoirs of the Life and Voyages of Doctor Philip Mazzei."
Publication: WMQ.
Volume: 2nd ser. 9
Date: (1929)
Pages: 161-74, 247-64;
10(1930), 1-18
Notes: Translated excerpts from Mazzei's Memoirs relating to his life
in Virginia and friendship with TJ.
Reference: 811
1929
Name: Pierce , E. H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and His Violin."
Publication: Etude
Volume: 47
Date: (1929)
Pages: 684-85
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 3193
1929
Name: Peterson , Martin Severin and
Marvin Paul Grim
Title: "The Farmer Who Founded Democracy; Thomas Jefferson
Rotated Crops and Went Through Farm Depressions at Monticello."
Publication: Wallace's Farmer
Volume: 54
Date: 1929
Pages: 6, 17
Reference: 3187
1929
Name: Osborn , Henry Fairfield
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, The Pioneer in American Paleontology."
Publication: Science
Volume: n.s. 69
Date: (1929)
Pages: 410-13
Notes: A speech
recapitulating the history of American paleontology; only two paragraphs on TJ.
Reference: 3157
1929
Name: Vossler , Otto
Title: Die Americkanischen Revolutionsideale in ihren Verhaltnis zu den Europaischen;
Untersucht an Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: R. Oldenbourg
City: Munchen
Date: 1929
Pages: pp. 197
Notes: See R. R. Palmer, "A Neglected Work."
WMQ. 3rd ser. 12(1955), 462-71, for an account of this. Also translated by Catherine Philippon
and Bernard Wishy as Jefferson and the American Revolutionary Ideal. Washington: Univ. Press
of America, 1980. pp. xxxvi, 235.
Reference: 2055
1929
Name: Wilstach , Paul M.
Title: "Jefferson's Little Mountain."
Publication: National Geographic
Magazine
Volume: 55
Date: 1929
Pages: 481-503
Notes: Describes features of
Monticello, its design and how TJ lived there. Illustrated.
Reference: 3432
1929
Name: Sterling , Peter Roman
Title: "Society in Jefferson's Day."
Publication: National Republic
Volume: 17
Date: 1929
Pages: 28, 40
Notes: TJ upsets Anthony Merry.
Reference: 1132
1929
Name: True , Rodney H.
Title: "A Sketch of the Life of John Bradbury, Including His Unpublished Correspondence with
Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 68
Date: (1929)
Pages: 133-50
Notes: Touches on the relationship between TJ and Bradbury, an
English botanist who traveled up the Missouri in 1809-11.
Reference: 3353
193?
Name: Anonymous
Title: Bremo, Designed by Thomas Jefferson for General John Hartwell Cocke
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 193?
Pages: pp. 4
Notes: Broadside accompanying
a collection of postcards; it has been more recently decided that TJ did not have a hand in
Bremo.
Reference: 2614
1930
Name: Arrowood , Charles Flinn,
ed.
Title: Thomas Jefferson and Education in a Republic
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
City: New York
Date: 1930
Pages: pp.
xii, 184
Notes: TJ's contributions to the progress of education presented "in his own
words so far as is practicable."
Reference: 2545
1930
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Jefferson and Radicalism."
Publication: National Republic
Volume: 18
Date: 1930
Pages: 12
Notes: Conservative editorial, rescuing TJ from modern radicals.
Reference: 594
1930
Name: Barr , Stringfellow
Title: "L'lnfluence Francaise sur Jefferson."
Publication: Le Moniteur
Franco-Americain
Volume: 14
Date: 1930
Pages: 13, 17
Reference: 89
1930
Name: Anonymous
Title: "Lafayette et Jefferson."
Publication: Revue des Sciences
Politiaues
Volume: 53
Date: (1930)
Pages: 607-12
Notes: Review essay
occasioned by Chinard's Letters of Lafayette and Jefferson.
Reference: 679
1930
Name: Bowers , Claude G.
Title: Civil and Religious Liberty, Jefferson: O'Connell: Two Orations
Publisher: Holy Cross
College
City: Worcester, Mass.
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. viii,
88
Notes: TJ as an advocate of religious freedom, particularly as it has touched Roman
Catholics.
Reference: 2145
1930
Name: Bennett , H. Omer
Title: "The Religion of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Social Science
Volume: 5
Date: (1930)
Pages: 460-65
Notes: General survey.
Reference: 2134
1930
Name: Comstock , Helen
Title: "A Portrait of Jefferson in His Old Age."
Publication: International
Studio
Volume: 96
Date: 1930
Pages: 17-18
Notes: Reproduces and gives the history of the
full-length portrait done by Thomas Sully in 1821.
Reference: 2705
1930
Name: Chinard , Gilbert, ed.
Title: Houdon in America; A Collection of Documents in the Jefferson Papers in the Library o
Congress. With an Introduction by Francis Henry Taylor
Publisher: Johns Hopkins
Press
City: Baltimore
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. xxvi, 51
Notes: TJ promotes Houdon. Taylor's introduction first appeared in The Pennsylvania Museum
Bulletin. 24(1928).
Reference: 2676
1930
Name: Chinard , Gilbert
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as a Classical Scholar."
Publication: Johns Hopkins Alumni
Magazine
Volume: 18
Date: (1930)
Pages: 291-303
Notes: Rather slight
discussion of TJ's interests; rpt. in American Scholar. 1(1932), 133-43.
Reference: 2681
1930
Name: Claudel , Paul
Title: "Jefferson et Lafayette."
Publication: Le Moniteur
Franco-Americaine
Volume: 14
Date: 1930
Pages: 11
Reference: 273
1930
Name: Malone , Dumas, ed.
Title: Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Pierre Samuel duPont de Nemours,
1798-1817
Publisher: Houghton & Mifflin
City: Boston
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. ix, 210
Notes: Translations by Linwood Lehman. Annotated, but slightly
less complete than Chinard's edition of the correspondence.
Reference: 752
1930
Name: Holliday , Carl
Title: "The Amazing Versatility of Jefferson."
Publication: Overland
Monthly
Volume: 88
Date: (1930)
Pages: 359-60
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 556
1930
Name: Nock , Albert Jay
Title: "Mr. Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Saturday Review of
Literature
Volume: 6
Date: (1930)
Pages: 631
Notes: Review of Chinard's Thomas Jefferson;
cautions against confusing Jeffersonism with Americanism.
Reference: 885
1930
Name: Rager , John C.
Title: "Catholic Sources and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Catholic
Mind
Volume: 28
Date: 1930
Pages: 253-68
Notes: Supports the Bellarmine/Declaration thesis,
claiming the Declaration is an expression of both the American mind and "the Catholic mind,
medieval and modern."
Reference: 2418
1930
Name: Morris , Edwin Bateman
Title: "Architectural Pilgrimage to Charlottesville."
Publication: Architect
Volume: 13
Date: 1930
Pages: 385-89
Notes: Chatty and trivial
account of visit to Monticello to discover the Jeffersonian spirit.
Reference: 3109
1930
Name: Setzler , E. B.
Title: "Jefferson's Theory as to the Study of Anglo-Saxon: An Experiment conducted at the
University of South Carolina."
Publication: The Anglo-Saxon Bulletin, Newberry
College
Volume: 2
Date: 1930
Pages: 4-9
Notes: Studying Anglo-Saxon in relation to its forms
in modern English was a great success the author claims.
Reference: 3269
1930
Name: Shannon , Joseph B.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, The Advocate of Truth, Freedom and Equality. Public Speeches of
Joseph B. Shannon Touching upon Unfamiliar Phases of the Life and Teachings of The Great
American Statesman
Publisher: Regular Democratic Club
City: Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. 32
Notes: TJ used to attack the "follies of the
millionaires."
Reference: 1964
1930
Name: Wade , Mary Hazelton
Title: The Boy Who Loved Freedom: The Story of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Appleton
City: New York
Date: 1930
Pages: pp. vii, 235
Notes: Juvenile
biography
Reference: 1260
1930
Name: Tate , Allen
Title: "On
the Eather of Liberty."
Publication: Sewanee Review
Volume: 38
Date: (1930)
Pages: 20
Notes: Poem.
Reference: 3318
1930
Name: Storey , Helen Anderson
Title: "Jefferson's Furniture at Monticello."
Publication: Antiquarian
Volume: 15
Date: 1930
Pages: 38-40, 60-70
Reference: 3313
1930
Name: Stephenson , Nathaniel
Wright
Title: "Jefferson and the Real Purpose of Democracy"
Publication: Lectures on Typical Americans and Their Problems. Scripps College Papers
Ill.
Publisher: Scripps College
City: Claremont
Date: 1930
Pages: 1-19
Notes: Americans have
been untrue to TJ's example because democracy has run wild and taken over the evils of
aristocracy without its virtues.
Reference: 1131
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