Notes: By developing and using his role as party leader, TJ became an effective presidential leader. He effected little change in legal institutions, but he fostered "a pattern of political behavior which actually by-passed, and in effect made obsolete, certain aspects of the formal constitutional system." DAI 25/05, p. 3084.

Reference: 1758

Notes: TJ's greatest contribution as a collector was his acquisition of material dealing with America.

Reference: 3002

Notes: Prints without comment a letter on TJ's death, dated September 17, 1826, and sent to Arnold Scheffer.

Reference: 678

Notes: Fanciful sketch of events in 1776.

Reference: 680

Notes: Thoughtful, detailed examination of TJ's letter to Madison and the later responses to "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living."

Reference: 2323

Notes: A Californian who was hypnotized by his dentist and discovered that he had been TJ in a previous existence. Since the first event he remembered is shaking Aaron Burr's hand at his trial in Richmond, this seems unlikely. Probably only a few copies of this distributed; one at Virginia Historical Society.

Reference: 681

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

Reference: 3003

Notes: On TJ's educational plans as a means for sifting out the best and brightest; condensed version published as "Jefferson and His Aristocracy of Talent Proposal." Education Digest. 35(January 1970), 45-47.

Reference: 3004

Notes: On the historical background and subsequent development of TJ's system of library classification. Best work on this topic.

Reference: 3005

Notes: Morris, through his Rural Architecture (1755), influenced TJ for the first Monticello and to a lesser extent, the west pavilions at the University of Virginia.

Reference: 3006

Notes: Brief discussion of TJ's plan for public schools.

Reference: 3009

Notes: TJ advocated practical subjects, the elective system, use of original authors, and a broad system of public education.

Reference: 3008

Notes: Conventional account of TJ as pioneer of quality education.

Reference: 3007

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

Notes: TJ embodies the thought and experience which demonstrate the historic link between Marxism and democracy.

Reference: 2325

Notes: DAI 40/12A, 6406.

Reference: 2326

Notes: Minor sketch.

Reference: 3010

Notes: Discusses the correspondence of TJ and Humboldt, but offers no new information.

Reference: 3011

Notes: Focus on Coles, TJ's private secretary who moved to Illinois in order to free his slaves after TJ declined to lead a campaign for emancipation.

Reference: 1759

Notes: Music and tales by blacks as remembered by Martha Jefferson Randolph; draws on work by Eugene Vail.

Reference: 3012

Notes: Good article for a popular audience; criticizes Brodie's evidence and reasoning.

Reference: 682

Notes: Monticello, illustrated.

Reference: 683

Notes: TJ and Anthony Merry, the British minister, clash over protocol as observed at a White House dinner.

Reference: 1760

Notes: Argues that in our time "Jeffersonian traditions have survived only as a minor current of opposition among those who retain an old-fashioned commitment to equality, or who believe that the rights of free speech and free inquiry have not been altogether superseded by the exigencies of world power."

Reference: 684

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

Reference: 1763

Notes: Covers all aspects of the subject, TJ as wine appreciator, grower, etc., but often somewhat superficially. Individual essays are listed separately here under the contributors' names.

Reference: 3013

Notes: Monticello for the photographer

Reference: 686

Notes: Argues that in addition to its previously commented upon qualities of democratic pragmatism, the design for the University of Virginia "met en evidence une architecture-langage possedant une dimension metaphorique privilegiee." Suggestive analysis of the conception of the "Academical Village."

Reference: 3017

Notes: TJ as a host

Reference: 687

Notes: Finds TJ's accomplishments in this field impressive.

Reference: 3016

Notes: Sketch of TJ's ideas on medicine, his promotion of vaccination, and the founding of the medical school. The usual.

Reference: 3015

Notes: Largely an anthology of TJ's relevant writings but with an introduction useful to students.

Reference: 3018

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

Reference: 688

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

Reference: 689

Notes: 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

Notes: A suite of six poems on TJ and Monticello.

Reference: 3019

Notes: Poem; also in The Tomb of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Scribner's, 1940. 43-45.

Reference: 3020

Notes: Juvenile

Reference: 690

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

Reference: 1764

Notes: TJ's humanism considered as a function of his response to the classical past. His ethics, aesthetics, ideas about education, sense of history, and political ideas were shaped by his reading of Latin and Greek authors and by knowledge of classical art. Still useful; rpt. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1965.

Reference: 2327

Notes: TJ as a pioneer of modern archaeological technique.

Reference: 3022

Notes: Uses the Garden Book as the main source of information.

Reference: 3023

Notes: Surveys vaccination before 1820; touches on TJ's role.

Reference: 3024

Notes: Claims TJ sent James Lemen as a "confidential agent" into the Illinois section of the Northwest Territory to oppose slavery and later encouraged him to form a Baptist church with an anti-slavery platform. Evidence is extremely thin.

Reference: 1762

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

Reference: 691

Notes: TJ along with Locke and certain eighteenth-century pamphleteers means by "the people" "nothing other than a majority of the whole community." Hence, "the Declaration's central concern is not the individual rights of man, but the rights of the political community." DAI 34/09A, p. 6071.

Reference: 2328

Notes: Quasi-fictional account of the period leading up to the acceptance of the Declaration and its publication.

Reference: 692

Notes: The first edition was printed by Philippe-Denis Pierres, who finished in May, 1785, although TJ went on reprinting revised versions of some leaves for another year and a half.

Reference: 3025

Notes: Analyzes anti-Jefferson propaganda; the one achievement of the Federalist writers was to damage TJ's reputation "so badly that many of their charges linger today."

Reference: 1765

Notes: Folksy monologue and ballad about TJ and the "plow" (figure of speech, not the mouldboard of least resistance) he invented to plant the Tree of Liberty.

Reference: 3026

Reference: 3027

Notes: Criticizes classicism of the Jefferson Memorial and other official buildings.

Reference: 3028

Reference: 3029

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

Reference: 693

Notes: Without claiming that TJ read Mather, asserts, "New England Puritanism gave to the American Revolution ... the concept, the language, and the historical example of a moderate revolution that would restore ancient liberties without turning loose an ungovernable mob."

Reference: 2329

Notes: Compares TJ's Life and Morals of Jesus with Tolstoy's My Confession and What I Believe. They share a belief in the necessity of discriminating between the teachings of Christ and the teachings of churches, but TJ, unlike Tolstoy, did not tamper with authori~ed text beyond selecting from it, and he eliminated the miraculous events which Tolstoy often retained.

Reference: 2330

Notes: The owner of Monticello defends his possession.

Reference: 694

Notes: The dark side of TJ's record. "A philosopher of freedom without a philosophy of freedom," he was poorly equipped to confront what he saw as challenges to freedom or to recognize how his own actions or those of his supporters threatened it.

Reference: 1768

Notes: Gives TJ least possible amount of credit for evolving libertarian principles and most blame for contradictory practice during his administration.

Reference: 1766

Notes: Argues that, although TJ was a libertarian who was an important worker for American civil liberties, he "never once risked career or reputation to champion free speech, fair trial, or any other libertarian value. On many occasions he was on the wrong side. On others he trimmed his sails and remained silent." Not all readers will agree with this book, but those wishing to deal with the subject must take account of it.

Reference: 1767

Reference: 1769

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

Reference: 3030

Notes: Romanticized, dramatic, and inaccurate version of the Fourth of July, 1776.

Reference: 695

Notes: Analysis of A Summary View shows that TJ "more clearly perhaps than did any of his contemporaries, ... forecast a desirable division of sovereign powers between the local and the imperial sphere." At the same time, it foretells "his constant support of an American confederacy."

Reference: 1772

Reference: 1770

Notes: TJ was interested in encouraging settlers in Kentucky with cheap land, secure tenure, and military defense; he worked to control land speculators and as governor took an active interest in military affairs in the West.

Reference: 1771

Notes: Claims that "In language, content, style, and organization, Notes takes its form from reflexively related processes, and these in turn are reflexes of the activity and processes of nature itself." Content of Notes not so much the empirical State of Virginia as it is "the process of Jefferson's experience of the human and natural condition in Virginia." Suggestive.

Reference: 3031

Notes: TJ the materialist opposed by the forces of bigotry and superstition.

Reference: 2331

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

Notes: Quotes extensively from TJ's correspondence, but offers little critical or analytical comment and that diffuse and digressive.

Reference: 1774

Notes: Letter to the editor protesting the Indianapolis school system's presentation of TJ as favoring religious instruction in the university and tax support for the education of clergy.

Reference: 2332

Notes: Concludes that "Since Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism in education represent a single conception, that of equalitarianism, the terms are inappropriately used (by some twentieth-century educators) to designate contrasting conceptions." DAI 15/03, p. 355.

Reference: 3032

Notes: Review essay.

Reference: 696

Notes: Sketch on sending out Lewis and Clark.

Reference: 3034

Notes: Sketch of TJ's natural history interests and the botanical specimens sent back by Lewis and Clark.

Reference: 3035

Notes: Famous letter replying to an invitation to attend a celebration in Boston of TJ's birthday; "The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of a free society." Given wide circulation at the time in the Republican press; cited here in a readily available and authoritative edition.

Reference: 697

Notes: Variously reprinted.

Reference: 698

Reference: 2333

Notes: Argues that Adams turns his history of TJ's and Madison's administrations into "an ironic demonstration of the futility of human aspirations.

Reference: 699

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

Reference: 3037

Notes: On Canning, who felt U.S. supplies and markets were not essential to the success of England's war against France.

Reference: 1775

Reference: 700

Notes: Discusses TJ's sheep dogs, which were probably Briards.

Reference: 3038

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

Reference: 701

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

Notes: Europeans responded to the Declaration of Independence, the egalitarian claims it made, and the federalist structure of government. Jeffersonian and Hamiltonian versions of the Revolution each had their appeal. Competent overview.

Reference: 2335

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

Reference: 2336

Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha Wayles Jefferson.

Reference: 702

Notes: Biographical sketch playing off general praise against specific criticism.

Reference: 703

Notes: Suggestive criticism of TJ's ethical position for obscuring disparities among religious belief, moral beliefs, and civic responsibility.

Reference: 2337

Notes: Contends that because religious beliefs "were finally irrelevant and unimportant to Jefferson ... he believed they should be set apart and fenced off from the world of action."

Reference: 1776

Notes: Describes TJ's desk and warns against accepting claims that the replicas made in 1876 are the original.

Reference: 3039

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

Reference: 704

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

Reference: 706

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

Reference: 705

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

Reference: 2338

Notes: TJ encouraged Barlow to write a history of the Revolution from a republican point of view. Four essays, printed here for the first time, survive of Barlow's effort.

Reference: 707

Reference: 3041

Notes: Published simultaneously in WMQ. 3rd ser. 8(1951), 561-82. Introduction discusses the history of this mss. from the Univ. of Virginia Library and compares it to an apparently later mss. in the William and Mary Library. Isaac claimed that Sally Hemings and some other of the Hemings "was old Mr. Wayles' children."

Reference: 708

Reference: 3042

Notes: TJ's support for French recovery of St. Domingo was exaggerated in Pichon's reports to Bonaparte.

Reference: 1777

Notes: TJ as handyman.

Reference: 710

Notes: On the grounds at Monticello, including seven trees of his planting.

Reference: 3043

Notes: On the attempt to determine what Shadwell looked like in TJ's time and to reconstruct it.

Reference: 709

Notes: TJ as president took a pragmatic and moderate course in dealing with Congress in order to attract to the Republican party the broad center of political opinion and in order to respect the sensitivities of Congress members. Discusses executive initiative of legislation, use of floor leaders in Congress, the party caucus, and executive oversight of legislation. DAI 27/04A, p. 1017.

Reference: 1778

Notes: Adams Describes TJ's and Adams's last letters; insignificant.

Reference: 711

Notes: Ticknor visited TJ at Monticello, discussed books and education with him. "Through achievements at the University of Virginia, which was the idol of his old age, Jefferson inspired young Ticknor in his efforts for reforms at Harvard, especially in the direction of elective studies."

Reference: 3044

Notes: Popular history with interesting illustrations.

Reference: 1779

Notes: Sketch with underlying Federalist bias.

Reference: 713

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

Reference: 714

Reference: 718

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

Reference: 717

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

Reference: 716

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

Reference: 715

Notes: Competent survey, but nothing new.

Reference: 1780

Notes: The Purchase as TJ's accomplishment.

Reference: 1781

Reference: 719

Notes: Brief comments.

Reference: 3045

Notes: Letters to TJ from various printers, brief introduction.

Reference: 3046

Reference: 1782

Notes: Superficial sketches of early presidents, including TJ.

Reference: 720

Notes: TJ is "the greatest humanitarian 19 centuries have produced since the great human God trod the hills of Nazareth."

Reference: 721

Notes: The snowstorm which began on the day TJ returned to Monticello with Martha Wayles Jefferson was the worst in 150 years.

Reference: 722

Reference: 2339

Notes: Argues that TJ's attitude toward the clergy had its origins in the slanderous attacks of Federalist ministers during the election of 1800.

Reference: 2340

Notes: Not located.

Reference: 723

Notes: Survey of TJ's scientific interests.

Reference: 3047

Notes: Contends that TJ's monetary views are consistent with those of David Hume and, allowing for the general substitution of demand deposits for bank notes, are similar to those of some leading economists today.

Reference: 2341

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

Notes: TJ used members of the Mathurins, or Order of the Holy Trinity, to aid in redemption of American captives from the Barbary pirates in 1787-90.

Reference: 1783

Notes: Explains away TJ's views on race, presenting him as an opponent of slavery.

Reference: 1784

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

Reference: 726

Notes: General sketch of TJ's political life.

Reference: 1785

Notes: Claims TJ was most strongly influenced by the agrarian strain of Whiggism inherited from Bolingbroke rather than the artisan radicalism of Paine; in spite of many agreements, in the long run the two streams diverged. By the mid-19th century in Europe agrarianism was dead, but TJ's agrarianism lived on in an America of available unused land. Beard was a latter-day Jeffersonian who tried to impose the static dichotomy of agrarian whiggism on American history.

Reference: 2342

Notes: Background to TJ's views on private property; contends TJ's theory was radical in principle but his practice was conservative.

Reference: 2343

Notes: TJ's wedding gift to Ellen Randolph Coolidge.

Reference: 725

Notes: Review essay criticizing Wills' Inventing America; "the tendentious report of a highly political writer whose unannounced but nevertheless obvious aim is to supply the history of the Republic with as pink a dawn as possible." Asserts TJ's position was essentially Lockean.

Reference: 2344

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