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
R Authors
Name: Radbill , Samuel X.
Title: "Dr. Robley Dunglison and Jefferson."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 27
Date: 1959
Pages: 40-44
Notes: Sketches TJ's relationship with Dunglison and the latter's career after 1826.
Reference: 3208
Name: Radbill , Samuel X.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Doctors."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 37
Date: 1969
Pages: 106-14
Notes: Sketch of TJ's medical opinions and his doctor acquaintances, e.g. Waterhouse, Rush, Dunglison.
Reference: 3209
Name: Radcliff , Robert R.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Chessplayer."
Publication: Chess Life
Volume: 36
Date: 1981
Pages: 24-28
Notes: Account of TJ's interest in chess.
Reference: 995
Name: Raffensperger , Edwin B.
Title: "Who Killed the Logan Family?"
Publication: Potter's American Monthly
Volume: 11
Date: (1878)
Pages: 187-93
Notes: Claims Michael Cresap did not kill Logan's family and that Logan could not have made the speech ascribed to him in TJ's Notes.
Reference: 3210
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
Name: Raiden , Edward
Title: Mr. Jefferson's Burr: A Play in Three Acts
Publisher: Thunder Publishing
City: Los Angeles
Date: 1960
Pages: pp. 140
Notes: Shakespeare it's not.
Reference: 3211
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
Name: Randall , David
Title: "'Dukedom Large Enough': III. Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
Volume: 56
Date: (1962)
Pages: 472-80
Notes: Rare book dealer and librarian discusses collecting Jeffersoniana; rpt. in Dukedom Large Enough. New York: Random House, 1969. 273-80.
Reference: 3213
Name: Randall , Henry S.
Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Derby and Jackson
City: New York
Date: 1858
Pages: 3 vols. pp. xxiv, 645; xii, 694; xii, 731
Notes: Major biography written in the nineteenth century; Randall had access to sources unavailable to earlier writers and sought information from people who had known TJ.
Reference: 996
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
Name: Randall , J.G.
Title: George Washington and Entangling Alliances
Publication: South Atlantic Quarterly
Volume: 30
Date: 1931
Pages: 221-29
Notes: The phrase is in fact TJ's and fit his conception of foreign policy, even though Washington gets credit.
Reference: 1914
Name: Randall , Samuel Jackson
Title: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Penna., Ninety-eighth Commencement
Publisher: George H. McCully & Co.
City: n.p.
Date: 1882
Pages: pp. 20
Notes: Laudatory biographical survey of TJ.
Reference: 998
Name: Randolph , Frederick J. and Frederick L. Francis
Title: "Thomas Jefferson as Meteorologist."
Publication: Monthly Weather Review
Volume: 23
Date: (1895)
Pages: 456-58
Notes: Notes TJ's meteorological apparatus at Monticello, describes his record-keeping; TJ was the first American to describe the phenomenon of temperature inversion.
Reference: 3214
Name: Randolph , Jane Cary Harrison
Title: Thomas Jefferson. Monticello Music, 1785
Publisher: Cary N. Randolph
City: St. Louis
Date: 1941
Pages: pp. 24
Notes: Music and words for eight songs, no comment.
Reference: 3215
Name: Randolph , Sarah N.
Title: The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson. Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences
Publisher: Harper Bros.
City: New York
Date: 1871
Pages: pp. xiii, 432
Notes: The private Jefferson, by his great-granddaughter. Still useful, often reprinted.
Reference: 999
Name: Randolph , Sarah N.
Title: "Mrs. Thomas Mann Randolph"
Publication: Worthy Women of Our First Century, ed. Mrs. O. d. Wister and Miss Agnes Irwin
Publisher: Lippincott
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1877
Pages: 9-70
Notes: Biographical sketch of Martha Jefferson Randolph.
Reference: 1000
Name: Randolph , Sarah N.
Title: The Kentucky Resolutions in a New Light
Publication: Nation
Volume: 44
Date: 1887
Pages: 382-84
Notes: Role of TJ in promoting the Kentucky Resolutions by way of meetings with Wilson Cary Nicholas and the Breckinridges.
Reference: 1915
Name: Randolph , Thomas Jefferson
Title: The Last Days of Jefferson
Publisher: Jeffersonian Print
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1873
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Comments on James Parton's article in the Atlantic Monthly (#931 above); criticizes numerous inaccuracies in Edmund Bacon's reminiscences and defends Thomas Mann Randolph.
Reference: 1002
Name: Randolph , Thomas Jefferson
Title: Jefferson Papers. Memorial of Thomas Jefferson Randolph, of Virginia, in Regard to the Purchase and Publication by Congress of the Manuscripts of Mr. Jefferson. December 30, 1847. Read and Laid on the Table
Volume: Miscellaneous, No. 7.
Publisher: 30th Congress, 1st Session. House of Representatives Notes: Offers for sale a collection of about forty thousand letters and three boxed volumes of opinions as Secretary of State.
Reference: 1001
Name: Raphael , Henry
Title: Thomas Jefferson, Astronomer
Publication: Leaflet No. 174
Publisher: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
City: San Francisco
Date: 1943
Pages: pp. 8
Notes: Survey.
Reference: 3216
Name: Raumer , Frederick von
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: America and the American People
Publisher: J. and H. G. Langley
City: New York
Date: 1846
Pages: 87-109
Notes: Sketch by a German traveler and historian, sympathetic to the American experiment.
Reference: 1003
Name: Rauschenberg , Bradford L.
Title: "William John Coffee, Sculptor-Painter: His Southern Experience."
Publication: Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts
Volume: 4
Date: 1978
Pages: 26-48
Notes: Includes discussion of the po-~ait busts done of TJ's family.
Reference: 3217
Name: Ravier , Xavier
Title: "Thomas Jefferson et la Langue d'oc."
Publication: Annales du Midi
Volume: 90
Date: (1978)
Pages: 41-52
Notes: Consideration of TJ's remarks on Provencal in his letter of March 29, 1787 to William Short as significant for "I'histoire de la langue occitane en particulier et l'histoire des idees linguistiques en general."
Reference: 3218
Name: Rayner , B. L.
Title: Sketches of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of Thomas Jefferson -- With Selections of the Most Valuable Portions of His Voluminous and Unrivaled Private Correspondence
Publisher: A. Francis and W. Boardman
City: New York
Date: 1832
Pages: pp. 556
Notes: First full length biography of TJ.
Reference: 1004
Name: Raynor , E. C.
Title: "Communication: Jefferson and John Leland."
Publication: Granite Monthly
Volume: 8
Date: (1885)
Pages: 240
Notes: Rejects the accusation that TJ paid Leland for the mammoth cheese.
Reference: 1005
Name: Reckley , Gladys
Title: "The Shadwell Reconstruction."
Publication: Commonwealth, The Magazine of Virginia
Volume: 28
Date: 1961
Pages: 20
Notes: Account of efforts to find site of house TJ was born in and to build an approximate reconstruction.
Reference: 1007
Name: Reed , O. E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson in Agriculture."
Publication: Journal of Dairy Science
Volume: 27
Date: (1944)
Pages: 613-66
Reference: 3219
Name: Reed , Stanley E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
Volume: 99
Date: (1965)
Pages: 584-85
Reference: 1008
Name: Reid , Bill G.
Title: "The Agrarian Tradition and Urban Problems."
Publication: Midwest Quarterly
Volume: 6
Date: (1964)
Pages: 75-86
Notes: TJ's agrarianism is still deeply rooted in American thinking.
Reference: 2419
Name: Reid , Whitelaw
Title: One Welshman, A Glance at a Great Career
Publisher: Macmillan
City: London
Date: 1912
Pages: pp. 59
Notes: Career of that great Welsh-American, TJ; the inaugural address of the autumn session of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1912, controversial because of its Hamiltonian-Federalist point of view. See Peterson, The Jefferson Image, p. 339.
Reference: 1009
Name: Reid , Whitelaw
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: American and English Studies
Publisher: Scribner's
City: New York
Date: 1913
Pages: 2:37-70
Notes: Version of One Welshman of the previous year.
Reference: 1010
Name: Remington , Frank L.
Title: "The Amazing Mr. Jefferson."
Publication: The Link, A Magazine for Armed Forces Personnel
Volume: 31
Date: 1973
Pages: 5-10
Reference: 1013
Name: Remsburg , John E.
Title: Jefferson an Unbeliever
Publisher: Published by the Author
City: Atchison, Kan.
Date: 1882
Pages: pp. 12
Notes: TJ as freethinker, anti-clerical and materialist.
Reference: 2421
Name: Remsburg , John E.
Title: The Fathers of Our Republic: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin. A Lecture Delivered Before the Tenth Annual Congress of the American Secular Union, in Chickering Hall. New York, November 13, 1886
Publisher: J. P. Mendum
City: Boston
Date: 1887
Pages: pp. vi, 45
Notes: TJ as freethinker, the enemy of priestcraft, on pp. 13-22.
Reference: 2420
Name: Remsburg , John Eleazer
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Six Historic Americans: Paine, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, Lincoln, Grant, Fathers and Saviors of Our Republic, Freethinkers
Publisher: Truth Seeker Co.
City: New York
Date: 1906
Pages: 65-96
Notes: Revised and expanded version of item #2420.
Reference: 2422
Name: Renault , Raoul
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada
Publication: North American Notes and Queries
Volume: 1
Date: 1901
Pages: 201-09,233-44
Notes: After TJ lamented the burning of Washington, Rev. John Strachan of Upper cnada replied with an open letter of Canadian grievances; prints Strachan's letter.
Reference: 1916
Name: Renwick , John
Title: "Marmontel on the Government of Virginia (1783)."
Publication: Journal of American Studies
Volume: 1
Date: (1967)
Pages: 181-89
Notes: Transcription of Marmonters mss. "Observations d'un ami des Amereicains sur le Gouvernement de la Virginie." Notes Marmonters views follow TJ's closely but sees coincidence rather than influence.
Reference: 2423
Name: Reps , John W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Checkerboard Towns."
Publication: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Volume: 20
Date: (1961)
Pages: 108-14
Notes: TJ proposed an alternating open square plan for Jeffersonville, Ind. which was later tried in Jackson, Miss.; good account.
Reference: 3220
Name: Reston , James B.
Title: "New Washington Vista."
Publication: New York Times Magazine
Date: 1941
Pages: 23
Notes: The Jefferson Memorial.
Reference: 3221
Name: Revis , Anne
Title: "Mr. Jefferson's Charlottesville."
Publication: National Geographic Magazine
Volume: 97
Date: (1950)
Pages: 553-92
Notes: Charlottesville past and present and TJ's impress upon it.
Reference: 1014
Name: Rhinesmith , W. Donald
Title: "Henry Stephens Randall and His Life of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 10
Date: (1965)
Pages: 5-28
Notes: How Randall wrote his three-volume biography of TJ.
Reference: 1015
Name: Rhinesmith , W. Donald
Title: "Henry Stephens Randall: Nineteenth-Century Democrat and Biographer of Jefferson."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia
Date: 1965
Pages: pp. 169
Notes: Chapter V, "Writing a Biography," discusses Randall's authorship of his life of TJ.
Reference: 1016
Name: Rhinesmith , William Donald
Title: Joseph Dennie, Critic of Jeffersonian Democracy
Publication: Essays in History
Volume: 7
Date: 1962
Pages: 37-52
Notes: Focus on Dennie, High Federalist editor of The Port Folio, 1801-1809.
Reference: 1918
Name: Rhodes , Irwin S.
Title: What Really Happened to the Jefferson Subpoenas
Publication: American Bar Association Journal
Volume: 60
Date: 1974
Pages: 52-54
Notes: Contends TJ's "claim to an exclusive exercise of executive privilege. . . was upheld by Chief Justice Marshall," and courts in the Watergate case seem to be denying Marshall's ruling. See, however, item #1394.
Reference: 1919
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
Name: Riaume , Jean-Marc
Title: "Thomas Jefferson et la frontiere."
Publication: Seminaires 1979 (Talence: Centre de Recherches sur l'Amerique Anglophone, Univ. de Bordeaux III)
Pages: 52-60
Reference: 2425
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: L'Hotel de Langeac, Jefferson's Paris Residence, Residence de Jefferson a Paris, 1785-1789
Publisher: Librarie Henri Lefebfre; Monticello: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Paris
Date: 1947
Pages: pp. 25. 14 illustrations.
Notes: Bi-lingual description with drawings and engravings of TJ's residence for most of his stay in Paris.
Reference: 1019
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "A 'New' Likeness of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 6
Date: (1949)
Pages: 84-89
Notes: Account of the portrait made by Edme Quenedey.
Reference: 3224
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson in Europe a Century and a Half Later: Notes of a Roving Researcher."
Publication: Princeton Univ. Library Chronicle
Volume: 12
Date: 1950
Pages: 19-35
Notes: Describes efforts to find TJ manuscripts and related materials in 1946-48; sheds light on TJ's experiences in Europe.
Reference: 1020
Name: Rice , Howard, C., Jr.
Title: "Jefferson's Gift of Fossils to the Museum of Natural History in Paris."
Publication: Proceedings of the APS
Volume: 95
Date: (1951)
Pages: 597-627
Notes: Account of TJ's gift in 1808 of fossils from Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, to the National Institute of France; these gave Cuvier "essential evidence for his description and 'reconstruction' of two extinct species."
Reference: 3223
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "A French Source of Jefferson's Plan for the Prison at Richmond."
Publication: Journal of the Societ~ of Architectural Historians
Volume: 12
Date: 1953
Pages: 28-30
Notes: TJ had seen in France plans for a prison by Pierre-Gabriel Bugniet.
Reference: 3222
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Les Visites de Jefferson au Mont-Valerien."
Publication: Societe Historique de Suresnes. Bulletin
Volume: 3
Date: 1954
Pages: 46-49
Notes: TJ visited the monastery at Mount Calvary, another name for Mount Valerien in Suresnes, near Paris.
Reference: 1024
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson a Strasbourg (1788)."
Publication: Cahiers Alsaciens d'Archeologie d'Art et d'Histoire
Volume: 1
Date: (1958)
Pages: 137-53
Notes: Fascinating account of what TJ managed to do in 3 days.
Reference: 1021
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Saint-Memin's Portrait of Jefferson."
Publication: Princeton University Library Chronicle
Volume: 20
Date: (1959)
Pages: 182-92
Notes: Account of Saint-Memin's physiognotrace portrait of TJ and description of the two differing copperplate engravings he did from it.
Reference: 3225
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Chastellux at Monticello, 1782."
Publication: Antiques
Volume: 98
Date: 1970
Pages: 42-43
Reference: 1018
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Paris
Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press
City: Princeton
Date: 1976
Pages: pp. ix, 156
Notes: Handsomely illustrated, authoritative account of where TJ went and what he saw in Paris.
Reference: 1022
Name: Rice , Howard C., Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Paris."
Publication: University A Princeton Quarterly
Volume: 72
Date: (1977)
Pages: 19-24
Notes: Adapted from the book of the same title.
Reference: 1023
Name: Rice , Philip A., II
Title: Thomas Jefferson and the Balance of Power Principle, 1783-1793
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: California State Univ.
City: Fullerton
Date: 1969
Pages: none given
Reference: 1920
Name: Rich , Bennet Milton
Title: The Embargo Troubles
Publication: The Presidents and Civil Disorder
Publisher: The Brookings Institution
City: Washington
Date: 1941
Pages: 31-37
Notes: TJ's actions at times went beyond the letter of the law, but given the circumstances his response to resistance to the Embargo was creditable.
Reference: 1921
Name: Richards , Norman
Title: The Story of Monticello
Publisher: Childrens Press
City: Chicago
Date: 1970
Pages: pp. 30
Notes: Juvenile.
Reference: 1025
Name: Richardson , E. P.
Title: "A Life Drawing of Jefferson by John Trumbull."
Publication: American Art Journal
Volume: 7
Date: 1975
Pages: 4-9
Notes: Reattribution of a pencil drawing from Latrobe to Trumbull; probably done in 1786 when Trumbull often saw TJ. Also printed in Maryland Historical Magazine. 70(1975), 363-71.
Reference: 3226
Name: Richardson , James D.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: New Age
Volume: 6
Date: (1907)
Pages: 18-24, 114-22, 224-30
Notes: Cited in Writings on American History (1907), # 1454.
Reference: 1026
Name: Richardson , William D.
Title: "The Possibility of Harmony Between the Races: An Inquiry into the Thought of Jefferson, Toqueville, Lincoln and Melville."
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: SUNY at Buffalo
Date: 1979
Pages: pp. 286
Notes: Uses Notes to examine TJ's attitudes to the possibility of racial harmony. DAI 39/12A, p. 1502.
Reference: 2426
Name: Rickey , Homer G.
Title: "Memorandum on the German Edition of Jefferson's Notes on Virginia."
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Library
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1952
Pages: pp. 4
Notes: Mimeographed sheets; bibliographical note and translation of the introduction offered to the German edition (Leipzig, 1788-89), probably written by the publisher, Matthias Christian Sprengel.
Reference: 3227
Name: Ridiman , Bob
Title: "Scientist Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Humpty-Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children
Volume: 24
Date: 1976
Pages: 61-63
Reference: 3228
Name: Ridpath , John Clark
Title: "Three Epochs of Democracy and Three Men."
Publication: Arena
Volume: 19
Date: (1898)
Pages: 543-63
Notes: TJ the "father of American Democracy."
Reference: 1027
Name: Ridpath , John Clark
Title: "Jeffersonian Democracy."
Publication: The Jeffersonian Democrat
Volume: 2
Date: (1899)
Pages: 438-44
Notes: Campaign rhetoric.
Reference: 1922
Name: Riemers , Neal
Title: "Revolutionary America: Jefferson's Empire of Liberty"
Publication: The Democratic Experiment: American Political Theory
Publisher: D. Van Nostrand
City: Princeton
Date: 1967
Pages: 1:91-121
Notes: For undergraduates; on the concept of the continuing revolution and the continuing majority.
Reference: 2427
Name: Riethmiller , Christopher James
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Alexander Hamilton and His Contemporaries; or, The Rise of the American Constitution
Publisher: Bell and Daldy
City: London
Date: 1864
Pages: 269-302
Notes: Noble, high-minded Hamilton opposed by TJ, the crafty, sans-culotte.
Reference: 1923
Name: Riley , I. Woodbridge
Title: "Virginia and Jefferson"
Publication: American Philosophy: The Early Schools
Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1907
Pages: 266-95
Notes: TJ "stood for liberty of thinking for its own sake." In his philosophy he was "more legal than logical," and was most influenced by Locke, Dugald Stewart, Cabanis, Destutt de Tracy. Emphasizes French influence.
Reference: 2428
Name: Riordan , Gertrude Frances
Title: The Little Desk of Independence
Publisher: The Author
City: Phoenix, Ariz.
Date: 1976
Pages: pp. 32
Reference: 1028
Name: Risjord , Norman K.
Title: "A New Meaning for Jefferson's Democracy."
Publication: Reviews in American History
Volume: 1
Date: (1973)
Pages: 88-95
Notes: Review essay on Ellis, The Jeffersonian Crisis.
Reference: 1925
Name: Risjord , Norman K.
Title: "The Compromise of 1790: New Evidence on the Dinner Table Bargain."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 33
Date: (1976)
Pages: 309-14
Notes: TJ's dinner invitation to Tench Coxe and James Madison, dated June 6, 1790, indicates negotiations over compromise concerning the assumption of state debts and location of the national capital were more complex than TJ later suggested in the Anas.
Reference: 1924
Name: Ritcheson , Charles R.
Title: "Collision with Secretary Jefferson"
Publication: Aftermath of Revolution: British Policy Toward the United States 1783-1795
Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ. Press
City: Dallas
Date: 1969
Pages: 231-42
Notes: Confrontation of TJ and George Hammond, British minister.
Reference: 1926
Name: Robbins , Caroline
Title: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
Publication: America's Continuing Revolution: An Act of Conservation, ed. Irving Kristol
Publisher: Washington American Enterprise Institute
Date: 1975
Pages: 119-39
Notes: On the 18th-century background of the phrase and what TJ meant by it, arguing that he intended public happiness, not individual, a "satisfaction of the aspirations of the majority."
Reference: 2429
Name: Robbins , Jan C.
Title: "Jefferson and the Press: The Resolution of an Antinomy."
Publication: Journalism Quarterly
Volume: 48
Date: (1971)
Pages: 421-30, 465
Notes: Contends that TJ the libertarian defender of free speech and TJ the defender of prosecution of the press are profiles of the same man; both suppression and freedom arise from his belief that the ultimate law of men and nations is self-preservation.
Reference: 2430
Name: Robbins , Roland Wells.
Title: "Report on 1955 Archaeological Exploration at Shadwell, Birthplace of Thomas Jefferson ... April 5-May 27 ... June 15-July 1, 1955."
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1955
Pages: pp. 35, 6
Notes: Mimeographed report on excavations which located the probable site of TJ's birthplace.
Reference: 1029
Name: Roberson , Samuel Arndt
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the Eighteenth Century Landscape Garden Movement in England"
Publication: Ph.D. dissertation
Publisher: Yale Univ.
Date: 1974
Pages: pp. 163
Notes: Discusses the influence of Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770), and TJ's visits to many of the English gardens described there. His work at Monticello is an important forerunner of the American landscape movement of the nineteenth century. DAI 35/05A, p. 2684.
Reference: 3229
Name: Roberts , John G.
Title: "An Exchange of Letters Between Jefferson and Quesnay de Beaurepaire."
Publication: VMHB
Volume: 50
Date: (1942)
Pages: 134-42
Notes: TJ doubts the possibilities of success for Quesnay's French academy at Richmond.
Reference: 3230
Name: Roberts , Mary Fanton
Title: "Brandon, With Its Memories of Perukes and Farthingales."
Publication: Arts and Decoration
Volume: 43
Date: 1936
Pages: 6-9+
Reference: 3231
Name: Robertson , Walter S.
Title: "Report to the Founder on Foreign Affairs."
Publication: U.S. Department of State Bulletin
Volume: 36
Date: (1957)
Pages: 682-87
Notes: Compares TJ's foreign policy with that of today.
Reference: 1927
Name: Robins , Edward
Title: "A Disappointment in Love: Legends from Virginia"
Publication: Romances of Early America
Publisher: George W. Jacobs
City: Philadelphia
Date: 1902
Pages: 101-18
Notes: Sentimentalized account of TJ's flirtation with Rebecca Burwell.
Reference: 1030
Name: Robins , Elizabeth
Title: "The Old Jefferson House, Philadelphia."
Publication: Harper's Weekly
Volume: 27
Date: (1883)
Pages: 228
Notes: House at S.W. corner of Seventh and Market about to be razed; picture.
Reference: 1031
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
Name: Robinson , Donald L.
Title: Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
City: New York
Date: 1971
Pages: 81-97
Notes: Characterizes TJ as the "only political leader of consequence in Revolutionary America who moved openly against Negro slavery," mostly on the basis of his rejected passage in the Declaration.
Reference: 1928
Name: Robinson , Geroid T.
Title: "Small Farms and Big Machines."
Publication: Agricultural History
Volume: 27
Date: 1953
Pages: 69-71
Notes: Compares TJ's agrarian ideas to those of the Russian Populists (Narodniks) and surmises that TJ would not have been hostile to cooperation among farmers, although he would certainly have opposed Soviet-style collectivization.
Reference: 3232
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
Name: Robinson , William E.
Title: Speech of Hon. William E. Robinson of New York, in the House of Representatives, Friday, March 14, 1884
Publisher: n.p.
Date: 1884?
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Points out that extremely generous pensions have been awarded to the widows of Tyler, Polk, Lincoln, and Garfield in the same year one was refused to TJ's last living grandchild.
Reference: 1034
Name: Robsjohn-Gibbings , T. H.
Title: "If Thomas Jefferson Visited Your Home."
Publication: American Home
Volume: 32
Date: 1944
Pages: 26
Notes: He would judge your furniture for its utility not for its antique charm.
Reference: 3233
Name: Roby , Norman S.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, A Bicentennial Celebration of America's First Wine Expert."
Publication: Vintage Magazine
Volume: 6
Date: 1976
Pages: 23-28
Notes: TJ's interest in wine.
Reference: 1035
Name: Rocca , J. C.
Title: "Jefferson's Notes on Virginia and the Census of 1940."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 2nd ser. 23
Date: (1943)
Pages: 153-59
Notes: Compares TJ's comments on population and economic situation of Virginia to data revealed in 1940 census. Not clear why.
Reference: 3234
Name: Roche , George Charles, III.
Title: "The Real American Revolution."
Publication: Freeman
Volume: 23
Date: (1973)
Pages: 395-98
Notes: The founders had two ideas: "the Tom Jefferson-limited government idea and the Adam Smith-free enterprise idea."
Reference: 1929
Name: Rocker , Rudolf
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America.... Translated from the German by Arthur E. Briggs
Publisher: Rocker Publications Committee
City: Los Angeles
Date: 1949
Pages: 12-19
Notes: Slight sketch of TJ as liberal thinker.
Reference: 2431
Name: Rodgers , William
Title: "Autographs: The Man of Monticello."
Publication: Hobbies
Volume: 85
Date: 1980
Pages: 100-01
Notes: TJ's was a "poor man's autograph" for years, now one of the most valuable of the founding fathers.
Reference: 1036
Name: Rogers , Fred B.
Title: "A Guide to Health—'An Epistle to a Friend' (Thomas Jefferson) by Charles Willson Peale."
Publication: Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Volume: 4th ser. 28
Date: (1960)
Pages: 94-99
Notes: Focus on Peale and his pamphlet on preserving health; asserts TJ was "ailing" in 1802, mostly because he seems to misread Peale's preface.
Reference: 1037
Name: Rogers , James Frederick
Title: "The Athletic Author of the 'Declaration."'
Publication: Saint Nicholas
Volume: 42
Date: (1915)
Pages: 791-93
Notes: TJ as a clean living man.
Reference: 1038
Name: Rogers , Robert, Jr.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson's Leadership of the Republican Party, January, 1797 to June, 1798."
Publication: M.A. thesis
Publisher: Univ. of California
City: Berkeley
Date: 1953
Pages: none given
Reference: 1930
Name: Rooney , William E.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and the New Orleans Marine Hospital."
Publication: Journal of Southern History
Volume: 22
Date: (1956)
Pages: 167-82
Notes: Describes first years of Marine Hospital Service in New Orleans; TJ's "efforts to provide medical care for seamen in an unhealthy port ... were typical of his humanitarianism."
Reference: 1931
Name: Roosevelt , Franklin D.
Title: "Is There a Jefferson on the Horizon?"
Publication: American Mercury
Volume: 61
Date: (1945)
Pages: 277-81
Notes: A review of Bowers' Jefferson and Hamilton originally appearing in the New York Evenin~ World, December 3, 1925. "...for some years I have been, frankly, fed up with the romantic cult which has since the publication of an historical novel, surrounded the name of Alexander Hamilton."
Reference: 1040
Name: Roosevelt , Franklin D.
Title: "We Seek Peace—Enduring Peace."
Publication: Vital Speeches
Volume: 9
Date: (1945)
Pages: 423-24
Notes: Speech FDR wrote the night before he died, to be delivered over radio on TJ's birthday.
Reference: 1932
Name: Roosevelt , Franklin D.
Title: "Address at the Dedication of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. April 13, 1943."
Publication: The Public Papers of and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, ed. Samuel I. Rosenman.
Volume: 1943 volume.
Publisher: Harper's
City: New York
Date: 1950
Pages: 162-64
Notes: TJ as the "Apostle of Freedom."
Reference: 1039
Name: Rose , U. M.
Title: "The Case Between Jefferson and Marshall."
Publication: Colorado Bar Association Reports
Volume: 4
Date: (1902)
Pages: 123-56
Notes: Surveys the whole TJ-Marshall relationship, sympathetically to each; claims TJ was in the wrong with Marshall, but a great man for all that.
Reference: 1933
Name: Rosen , George
Title: "Political Order and Human Health in Jeffersonian Thought."
Publication: Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Volume: 26
Date: (1952)
Pages: 32-44
Notes: Argues that TJ and Benjamin Rush saw an analogy between the health of the individual and the health of his society, and they viewed (optimistically) the natural world in which man saw himself contained.
Reference: 3235
Name: Rosenbach , A. S. W.
Title: "The Libraries of the Presidents of the United States."
Publication: Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Volume: 44
Date: (1934)
Pages: 337-64
Notes: TJ's library described, 346-51.
Reference: 3236
Name: Rosenberg , Arthur
Title: "Robespierre and Jefferson"
Publication: Democracy and Socialism, A Contribution to the Political History of the Past 150 Years
Publisher: Knopf
City: New York
Date: 1939
Pages: 10-21
Notes: Both Robespierre's and TJ's revolutions failed because of the "bourgeois-capitalistic spirit of the age" and because of the leaders' failure to understand "the actual social processes of their time."
Reference: 1934
Name: Rosenberg , Pierre
Title: "Salons: 1785, 1787, 1789"
Publication: The Eye of Thomas Jefferson, ed. William Howard Adams
Publisher: National Gallery of Art
City: Washington
Date: 1976
Pages: 152-66
Notes: Account of the three salons TJ could have seen in Paris and some of the paintings exhibited in them.
Reference: 3237
Name: Rosenberger , Francis Coleman
Title: XII Poems
Publisher: Gotham Book Mart
City: New York
Date: 1946
Pages: unpag.
Notes: Has four poems on TJ.
Reference: 3238
Name: Rosenberger , Francis Coleman, ed.
Title: Jefferson Reader: A Treasury of Writings about Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Dutton
City: New York
Date: 1953
Pages: pp. 349
Notes: Interesting collection of pieces from various points of view and dealing with the many sides of TJ.
Reference: 1041
Name: Ross , Michael
Title: "Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Jefferson and Madison."
Publication: International Review of History and Political Science
Volume: 13
Date: 1976
Pages: 47-50
Notes: Note contrasting TJ's desire for a population uniform in occupation and political belief with Madison's belief that a great variety of interests will protect individuals from a tyrannical majority
Reference: 2432
Name: Rossiter , Clinton
Title: "Which Jefferson Do You Quote?"
Publication: Reporter
Volume: 13
Date: 1955
Pages: 33-36
Notes: Describes "seven Jeffersons," anti-statist, civil libertarian, etc. The real TJ, he claims, was a progressive, not a limitationist.
Reference: 1042
Name: Rossman , Wendell E.
Title: "Die Hoelzerne Saeulenarchitektur am Campus von Jeffersons Universitaet von Virginia, Charlottesville, Va."
City: Phoenix, Ariz.
Date: 1965
Pages: pp. 164
Notes: Detailed, illustrated study of the architectural facades of the pavilions on the lawn at the University.
Reference: 3239
Name: Rosten , Leo
Title: "They Made Our World ... 2 ... Jefferson."
Publication: Look
Volume: 27
Date: 1963
Pages: 52-53
Notes: Sketch.
Reference: 1043
Name: Rostow , Eugene Victor
Title: The Consent of the Governed
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1968
Pages: pp. 27
Notes: TJ's case for revolution does not depend on his 18th-century natural law doctrine but on a more general theory about the nature of a free political community. Laws are tested by individuals, e.g. Thoreau, but when unable to persuade his fellow citizens of his rightness, a dissenter must follow the will of society. Vietnam War-era statement.
Reference: 1935
Name: Roth , George L.
Title: "Verse Satire on 'Faction,' 1790-1815."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 3rd ser. 17
Date: (1960)
Pages: 473-85
Notes: Includes account of Federalist satire aimed at TJ by Thomas Fessenden and others.
Reference: 1936
Name: Rothert , Otto A., ed.
Title: "A Report of the Dedication of the Inscriptions on the Thomas Jefferson Statue, Louisville, July 4, 1943; Included are: A News Story by Miss Marion Porter, A Letter by Mr. Isaac W. Bernheim, An Address by Mr. Hambleton Tapp."
Publication: Filson Club History Quarterly
Volume: 17
Date: (1943)
Pages: 189-201
Notes: Dedication of Jeffersonian quotations on the base of the statue Bernheim had donated in 1901.
Reference: 1044
Name: Rothman , Irving N.
Title: "Structure and Theme in Samuel Ewing's Satire, The 'American Miracle."'
Publication: American Literature
Volume: 40
Date: (1968)
Pages: 294-308
Notes: Ewing's poem is a "Federalist attack upon the Republicans and, particularly, Jefferson." Deals with the mammoth cheese and mammoth bones.
Reference: 3240
Name: Rothschild , Richard
Title: Three Gods Give an Evening to Politics
Publisher: Random House
City: New York
Date: 1936
Pages: pp. viii, 216
Notes: Jefferson, Lenin and Socrates in after dinner conversation.
Reference: 2433
Name: Rowan , Stephen N.
Title: An Address, Delivered July 12, 1826, in the Middle Dutch Church, at the Request of the Common Council, on Occasion of the Funeral Obsequies of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: William Davis, Jr.
City: New York
Date: 1826
Pages: pp. 36
Notes: General praise without considering TJ and Adams in any detail.
Reference: 1045
Name: Rowland , Kate Mason
Title: "A Lost Paper of Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: WMQ
Volume: 1
Date: (1892)
Pages: 34-45
Notes: Prints a draft of TJ's proposed constitution of 1776 for Virginia; this document does not, however, invalidate the role of George Mason.
Reference: 1937
Name: Royster , Charles
Title: "A Battle of Memoirs; Light-Horse Harry Lee and Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Virginia Cavalcade
Volume: 31
Date: 1981
Pages: 112-27
Notes: Excerpted from the authors's Light-Horse Harry Lee, New York: Knopf, 1981. Covers conflicting memories of the British invasion of Virginia.
Reference: 1938
Name: Rozwenc , Edwin Charles
Title: "Henry Adams and the Federalists"
Publication: Teachers of History: Essays in Honor of Laurence Bradford Packard, ed. H. Stuart Hughes
Publisher: Cornell Univ. Press
City: Ithaca
Date: 1954
Pages: 123-45
Notes: Examines Adams' History and rejects the view that he was a crypto-Jeffersonian.
Reference: 1046
Name: Ruck , William Sener
Title: "Jefferson the Architect."
Publication: VQR
Volume: 8
Date: (1932)
Pages: 139-43
Notes: Review essay of book by I. T. Frary criticizes the underemphasis on TJ's European models.
Reference: 3241
Name: Rulliere , H.
Title: "Le Jeffersonisme and les Jeffersoniens."
Publication: La Revue
Volume: 129
Date: (1918)
Pages: 213-24, 478-90
Notes: Biographical sketch. "Je suis convaincu que ce sera surtout apras cette guerre—'La guerre des guerres'—que les idees pre'conisees par le grand revolutionnaire et homme d'Etat americaine, seront re'ellement comprises."
Reference: 1047
Name: Rulliere , H.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Wetenschappelijke Bladen
Volume: 1
Date: (1919)
Pages: 129-58
Reference: 1048
Name: Rusinowa , Izabella
Title: "Wstep"
Publication: Tadeusz Kosciuszko Thomas Jefferson Korespondencia (1798-1817), prz. Agnieszka Glinczanka, Jozef Paszkowski
Publisher: Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
City: Warsaw
Date: 1976
Pages: 5-19
Reference: 1049
Name: Rusk , Dean
Title: Mason and Jefferson Revisited. An Address by the Honorable Dean Rusk ... On the Occasion of the Prelude to Independence at the Eighteenth-Century Capitol, Williamsburg, Virginia
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
City: Williamsburg
Date: 1966
Pages: pp.23
Notes: The ideas of TJ and George Mason are still powerful.
Reference: 1050
Name: Ruskin , Mary
Title: "Thomas Jefferson and Education."
Publication: Social Studies
Volume: 41
Date: (1950)
Pages: 349-50
Notes: Conventional sketch.
Reference: 3242
Name: Rusling , James P.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson."
Publication: Methodist Quarterly
Volume: 41
Date: (1859)
Pages: 59-73
Notes: Praises TJ for everything except his religious views.
Reference: 1051
Name: Russell , Phillips
Title: "Thomas Jefferson, Social Architect"
Publication: Harvesters
Publisher: Brentano's
City: New York
Date: 1932
Pages: 215-58
Notes: Biographical sketch.
Reference: 1053
Name: Russell , Phillips
Title: Jefferson, Champion of the Free Mind
Publisher: Dodd Mead
City: New York
Date: 1956
Pages: pp. viii, 374
Notes: Well-written, popular biography, but derivative.
Reference: 1052
Name: Russell , William E.
Title: "Jefferson and His Party Today."
Publication: The Forum
Volume: 21
Date: (1896)
Pages: 513-24
Notes: The Democratic Party needs to reassert TJ's principles, especially when it opposes as now a party of class, sectional and private interests.
Reference: 1054
Name: Rutherfoord , John Coles
Title: An Oration Delivered Before the Jefferson Society of the University of Virginia, on the 13th of April, 1843
Publisher: James Alexander
City: Charlottesville
Date: 1843
Pages: pp.13
Notes: 100th anniversary of TJ's birth; his principles fostered progress and the advance of freedom.
Reference: 1055
Name: Rutland , Robert A.
Title: "The Jeffersonian Genesis"
Publication: The Democrats from Jefferson to Carter
Publisher: Louisiana State Univ. Press
City: Baton Rouge
Date: 1979
Pages: 1-28
Notes: Brief account of the building of the Democratic party during TJ's presidency.
Reference: 1939
Name: Rutledge , Anna Wells
Title: "William John Coffee as a Portrait Sculptor."
Publication: Gazette des Beaux Arts
Volume: ser. 6 28
Date: 1945
Pages: 297-312
Notes: Coffee did terra cotta busts of TJ, Martha Jefferson Randolph, and four of her children. Account of his career with extensive quotations from correspondence with TJ.
Reference: 3243
Name: Ryan , G. J.
Title: "Monticello, A Patriotic Shrine Preserved for the Children of America."
Publication: Journal of American History
Volume: 26
Date: (1932)
Pages: 65-66
Reference: 1056
Name: Ryavec , Ernest A.
Title: "Slovenians, Thomas Jefferson, and the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Officer Review
Volume: 16
Date: 1978
Pages: 12-14
Notes: TJ could have learned of the Slovenian ritual for installing Dukes of Carinthia in Bodin's Republic.
Reference: 2434