Notes: Rambling discussion of TJ in Paris, emphasizing the impact of its cultural life; minor.

Reference: 1057

Notes: TJ's life at Monticello with special attention to his plants and gardens; minor.

Reference: 3244

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

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

Reference: 1058

Notes: Reprints two reviews of Conseil's Melanges ..., originally appearing in 1833 in the National. "En Jefferson, Sainte-Beuve voyait un de 'ces guides de genie' qui devoit aider a l'avenement de 'cette liberte' europeene, dont renfantement s'opare depuis plus de quarante ans dans le sang et dans les larmes de tous."'

Reference: 1059

Notes: TJ's contributions discussed on pp. 93-116; the usual.

Reference: 3245

Notes: Describes L'Enfant's role in planning the city and his quarrels with the commissioners; TJ as Secretary of State was concerned about L'Enfant's progress.

Reference: 3246

Reference: 1941

Notes: Argues that to find a TJ who is the basis of a theory of democratic education we must turn to the author of the Declaration rather than the author of the Virginia proposals.

Reference: 3247

Notes: TJ believed the classics were models of pure style and taste, their study was conducive to happiness and satisfaction, and they were "stores of real science." His sense of utility in educational matters was broad enough to provide a basic place for classics.

Reference: 3248

Notes: The best memorial is not in marble but in the democratic spirit.

Reference: 1060

Notes: Logan did indeed dictate the speech which "was probably as accurately reported as any speech given in similar circumstances could be." TJ's text probably came from the version published in New York in 1775.

Reference: 3249

Notes: Monticello's gadgets.

Reference: 3250

Notes: Claims to demonstrate the relation between TJ's reading notes on Locke, his Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, and Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration.

Reference: 2435

Notes: Studies TJ's reading interests, book acquisition, and library organization and finds evidence for a deep interest in religion and Biblical scholarship as well as confirmation of wide reading in ethical literature. Best book on this subject.

Reference: 3251

Notes: TJ as a culture hero who virtually abandoned the Puritan view of unregenerate man and cleared the way for "the creation of an American Adam by romantic nationalism."

Reference: 2436

Notes: Account of the activities of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Association, begun in 1933-34, to establish a monument to TJ, the Louisiana Purchase, and the opening of the trans-Mississippi West.

Reference: 1061

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 3252

Notes: Comments on 43 books TJ owned on the subject.

Reference: 3254

Notes: Discusses TJ's interest in botany; documents books on botany which he owned. Useful.

Reference: 3253

Notes: Describes the background of the Anas, points out serious problems in editions relying on the H. A. Washington edition of 1854.

Reference: 1942

Notes: Argues that TJ "points us toward the prototypical American solution for democratic citizenship."

Reference: 2437

Notes: TJ composed the bill establishing a government for Louisiana, but John Breckinridge of Kentucky introduced it and the authorship was kept secret. Describes the debate on the bill.

Reference: 1943

Notes: Discusses the changing notions of happiness in America, including TJ's, which turns out to have ironic consequences.

Reference: 2438

Notes: Politicians of every stripe quote him because "Jefferson was the most inconsistent of men."

Reference: 1944

Notes: "Jefferson's place among the progenitors of the democratic way is unassailable."

Reference: 1063

Notes: An intelligent, generally sympathetic biography.

Reference: 1064

Notes: Surveys architectural activities; insignificant.

Reference: 3255

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

Notes: Argues that "A synthesis of ideas took place along with a readiness to compromise which gave birth to a nonideologically oriented political system."

Reference: 1945

Notes: TJ could identify over 100 birds, knew Alexander Wilson's and Mark Catesby's work on ornithology.

Reference: 3257

Reference: 3258

Notes: The ideal imaginative order of "a temperate liberty" is the underlying aesthetic vision of Notes, and TJ applies it variously to landscape, law, and the moral sense. Suggestive.

Reference: 3256

Notes: As early as August 1822 TJ began advocating an American system; influenced by the writings of the Abbe Pradt, he developed the idea in letters with the Abbe Correa and James Monroe. TJ "more than any other individual was responsible for the basic doctrine of Monroe's message of 1823."

Reference: 1946

Notes: Members of each party in Virginia were aware of the importance of this election for the success of the democratic process; Virginians' pride in national history overcame sectional differences when Adams won out over TJ.

Reference: 1947

Notes: Claims TJ could have met Poe and also influenced "the formulation of the principles of accuracy and brevity in the evolution of his literary technique."

Reference: 3259

Notes: "Pursuit" means practice of happiness.

Reference: 2440

Notes: Sketch of TJ as aristocratic democrat, slaveowner, and deist.

Reference: 1065

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

Reference: 1066

Notes: Argues that the enlightened quality of TJ's religion comes from "the merging of religious liberty and liberal religion." Temperamentally a stoic, he took an increasingly pessimistic view of history but maintained his faith in human nature.

Reference: 2441

Reference: 3260

Notes: Balanced view of TJ and his administration; conceded the usual flaws, no "military instinct," dissimulation, etc., he is still a philosophic statesman who had some great successes as president and at least one failure (the Embargo). Suggests that had he made a tour of New England while president, much of the mutual distrust might have subsided.

Reference: 1948

Notes: Balanced account of TJ's life: "Jeffersonism is modern America."

Reference: 1067

Notes: "Adams and Jefferson as Witnesses of Their Time." TJ more than Adams can be taken as a reliable witness because of his objectivity, not his natural reserve keeps him from giving many facts in his writing.

Reference: 1068

Notes: "The Declaration of Independence: Dream or Guidepost." Discusses Declaration and TJ's role, concluding that it remains a guide for most Americans.

Reference: 1949

Notes: TJ identified with the deists more readily than Adams did, in part because his opponents included conservative New England clergy and not, as in Adams' case, supporters of French radicalism. DAI 34/04A, p. 1839.

Reference: 2442

Reference: 1950

Notes: Inconclusive comments on the letters on proposed Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1951

Notes: Sketch emphasizing his Unitarian sympathies.

Reference: 1069

Notes: TJ discussed passim, but not especially perceptively; conclusion is titled "The Lingering World of Thomas Jefferson."

Reference: 1952

Notes: Account of TJ's ownership of the Natural Bridge and its visitors.

Reference: 1070

Reference: 1071

Notes: Commenting, "Democracy is not a gift" but a "development of personality," quotes from Query XIV in Notes on the differences between black and white races.

Reference: 1953

Notes: Irujo became Spanish ambassador to the U.S. in 1796 and described TJ and others in letters now in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid.

Reference: 1954

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

Reference: 1955

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

Reference: 2444

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

Notes: See next item.

Reference: 1956

Notes: TJ was a political democrat before he was a social democrat, but influenced by French thinkers and by native events like the Order of the Cincinnati, he hoped to transform society as well as the political order.

Reference: 2443

Notes: Peripheral.

Reference: 3263

Notes: Discusses the varying reception of Logan's speech, including TJ's version of it, and examines the evidence for its authenticity and its provenance.

Reference: 3262

Notes: Charges that "its author had no distinct ideas on the subject he was writing about; or if he had, he possessed no faith in the truth of his assertions." Traces the effect of these "sophisms" on the South and on the "national genius."

Reference: 1958

Notes: New acquisitions include three letters written in 1786 by TJ to Stiles discussing political questions and scientific concerns. Also thanks Stiles for the honorary degree bestowed in that year.

Reference: 1073

Notes: Brief account of the creation of the Univ. of Virginia as a democratic institution.

Reference: 3265

Notes: Sketches TJ's career, ends in an anti-"consolidation" states rights argument.

Reference: 1959

Notes: TJ lost out to James Hoban; well-told version of the usual story.

Reference: 3266

Notes: TJ read Milton's Of Reformation in England and The Reason of Church Government Urged whi~he "Resolutions for Disestablishing the Church of England and for Repealing Laws Interfering with Freedom of Worship."

Reference: 1960

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. "Henceforward the names of Jefferson and Adams can never be separated from the Declaration of Independence." TJ and Adams offered as exemplars of the principles of the Declaration.

Reference: 1074

Reference: 1075

Notes: Sketch on TJ as minister to France, emphasizing his work as the equivalent of a modern public affairs officer.

Reference: 1961

Notes: Studying Anglo-Saxon in relation to its forms in modern English was a great success the author claims.

Reference: 3269

Notes: "The present text is an attempt—a belated attempt, it is true—to write the type of Anglo-Saxon grammar which Jefferson said should be prepared.

Reference: 3268

Notes: Letters to Francis Adrian van der Kemp transcribed with extensive comment and annotation. Correspondence centers on TJ's "Syllabus of the Doctrines of Jesus."

Reference: 1077

Notes: In Russian.

Reference: 1078

Notes: The only full-length biography of Short.

Reference: 1082

Notes: Letters discuss Randall's Life of Jefferson; introduction and notes.

Reference: 1081

Notes: Similar to the previous item; contends TJ's interest in painting has been underestimated but is able to offer only speculations about much of what TJ saw and how it could have influenced him.

Reference: 3271

Notes: Sketches of the children of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Maria Jefferson Eppes.

Reference: 1080

Notes: Discusses TJ's trip to Italy in 1787 and the architectural and artistic works he saw there.

Reference: 3270

Notes: Account of Arnold's raid and TJ's response.

Reference: 1962

Notes: Individual essays by various hands on the history of the graveyard, the Association, TJ's ancestry, each of his children and grandchildren.

Reference: 1079

Notes: Jonathan Williams, president of the APS, regrets TJ did not donate his library to the Society.

Reference: 1083

Notes: Examines TJ's thought in the last two decades of his life and claims his adherence to a pastoral republican ideology clarifies his paradoxical acceptance of slavery and commitment to a republican society. "To understand how Jefferson perceived antebellum American society is, perhaps, to recognize how an ever-increasing number of southerners came to view their circumstances."

Reference: 2445

Notes: TJ used to attack the "follies of the millionaires."

Reference: 1964

Reference: 1963

Notes: Laudatory biographical address.

Reference: 1084

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 3272

Notes: "In general the natural philosophy of Jefferson was of the practical sort."

Reference: 3273

Notes: Sketch emphasizing TJ's contributions to agriculture.

Reference: 3274

Reference: 1965

Notes: Louisiana Purchase and TJ's part in it.

Reference: 1966

Notes: Brief account of the rise of the party system behind TJ and Hamilton; criticizes Claude Bowers for partisanship.

Reference: 1967

Notes: TJ "still entitled to be looked on as a prophet and guide" for society and government in a time of "undreamt of industrial combinations and prodigious aggregations of productive capital." Rpt. as "Jefferson's Doctrines Under New Tests" in The Outlook for the Average Man. New York: Macmillan, 1907; and in Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. 298-325.

Reference: 2446

Reference: 1085

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies .... Hartford: D. li. Robinson, 1826. 155-71.

Reference: 1086

Notes: "Henry Adams' portrait of Jefferson in the History may be read as one of a series of Adams fathers by Adams sons."

Reference: 1087

Notes: Juvenile biography.

Reference: 1088

Notes: Discusses TJ's place among his contemporaries such as Benjamin Smith Barton and Peter S. Duponceau; they shared a belief in the utility of comparative linguistics and a desire to investigate without the encumbrance of an elaborate, or exotic, hypothesis.

Reference: 3275

Notes: Focus on "Jeffersonian generation" rather than on TJ; utopian belief in America as an untouched paradise "cast a progressivist spell over even the most mundane activities.... Paradise was a mythic analogy for Western man's admitted desire to change himself and his surroundings." This program failed when the Indian was also conceived as a noble savage, for "noble savagism was (already) a simplistic statement of perfection."

Reference: 2448

Notes: TJ wished to assimilate Indians into white society, but since he and those who shared his ideas tended to conceptualize the Indians abstractly, they failed to realize the profoundly destructive effects this would have for the Indians. Best book on TJ's Indian policy.

Reference: 1968

Notes: Argues that during the Jeffersonian period most informed opinion expected the Indians to be incorporated eventually into white civilization, but toward the end of the period a submerged doubt about the possibilities of such incorporation appeared and lent intellectual support to the removal program. Revised and published as item #1968. DAI 26/10, p. 6009.

Reference: 2447

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

Reference: 1089

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

Reference: 2449

Reference: 1090

Notes: TJ was a meticulous record keeper and his personal record keeping seems to have influenced his desire for reliable and understandable public financial data.

Reference: 1091

Notes: TJ as friend to neology.

Reference: 3276

Notes: Good account of TJ's diplomatic visit in 1786; detailed information on his political and cultural adventures.

Reference: 1092

Notes: TJ as an innovative farmer in terms of stock, crops, and practices.

Reference: 3277

Notes: Notes TJ's impressive activity in retirement, after 1809.

Reference: 1093

Notes: Review essay on Nock's Jefferson; admires TJ as "a philosopher and man of culture."

Reference: 1095

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

Notes: On the forthcoming exhibit.

Reference: 3278

Notes: The Declaration "represents the essentials of modern democracy" but Marxism, which subsumes its most important features is "the most comprehensive theory of freedom."

Reference: 2450

Notes: Eye-witness account.

Reference: 1096

Notes: In Japanese; abstract in English.

Reference: 1969

Notes: Description of events.

Reference: 1097

Notes: TJ recognized some of the reasons for antidemocratic tendencies in the constitutional convention and, while seeing some good points in the Constitution, insisted on a Bill of Rights.

Reference: 1970

Notes: On Bingham's 1857 copy of Stuart's portrait.

Reference: 3279

Notes: TJ is a transitional figure between the neoclassic and the romantic. His emphasis on the essential worth of the individual, his appreciation of nature in all its variety, and his concern for freedom of expression are romantic elements. Although consciously neoclassic in his architecture, romantic elements mark his literary works and the development of his architecture. DAI 38/12A, p. 6998.

Reference: 3280

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

Reference: 1971

Notes: TJ betrayed because the president of the University sought donations from Andrew Carnegie and Thomas Fortune Ryan.

Reference: 1098

Notes: Compares TJ to other presidents, particularly Wilson.

Reference: 1972

Notes: TJ's opinions of Napoleon varied with circumstances, but he ultimately saw him as "the author of more misery and suffering to the world than any being who has ever lived before him."

Reference: 1973

Notes: Competent account from printed sources; claims the French Revolution was partly of TJ's making.

Reference: 1974

Notes: Virtues of TJ as opposed to those of 1976 presidential candidates.

Reference: 1099

Notes: Interview with Dumas Malone on what TJ would think of the present.

Reference: 1100

Notes: Informative article on the vicissitudes of TJ's papers.

Reference: 1101

Notes: Aaron Burr innocent of intriguing to become President in 1800, but TJ thought he did and this explains his "relentless animus" toward Burr.

Reference: 1975

Notes: On TJ's "persecution" of Burr at his trial in 1807.

Reference: 1976

Notes: General discussion.

Reference: 3281

Notes: Discusses TJ's contributions to paleontology and argues that he was important as a publicist and encouraging force but that "he was not a vertebrate paleontologist in any reasonable sense."

Reference: 3282

Notes: The usual Hamiltonian's case against TJ.

Reference: 1977

Notes: Claims TJ's identification of the American landscape with Arcadia, as in Query xix of Notes, was instrumental in turning the Enlightenment ideal of a world of letters into a nationalistic, even parochial, ideal. Suggestive.

Reference: 2451

Notes: Argues that in Monticello and Notes TJ participated in the inherently alienating paradox of a pastoral ideal based on chattel slavery. This argument is recapitulated more briefly in "The Southern Literary Vocation" in Toward a New American Literary History: Essays in Honor of Arlin Turner, ed. Louis J. Budd, et. al. Durham: Duke Univ. Press, 1979. 25-28.

Reference: 3283

Notes: Contends that TJ's "reversal of mind and society as paradigms for order" has resulted in a "radical displacement of the traditional community" and a "subjectification of American society."

Reference: 3284

Notes: Analyzes TJ's character in order to prove that he more than anyone else has fostered "the restlessness, the self-assertion, the restiveness under parental control, the diminished reverence for all that is sacred and venerable," etc. which now exists among us.

Reference: 1102

Notes: Washington in the field and Jefferson in the cabinet accomplished a revolution without parallel in history for its grandeur.

Reference: 1103

Notes: Reissue of the Jefferson section of the previous item with a new title page but retaining the old pagination.

Reference: 1104

Notes: On TJ's proposed floating drydock.

Reference: 3285

Notes: Examination of the circumstances and significance of TJ's coming to power in 1800. Argues that he conceived a "strategy that will enable the people to negate the present or existing system. By a conversion of military to peaceful means, Jefferson produced a strategy and an organization whose means could be identified in spirit and principle with the purposes of the revolution. It enabled the people to identify with the emerging democratic sentiment that was a 'second city' within the body politic.... the capacity of the Jeffersonians to combine a revolutionary ideology and a dynamic political organization culminated in the first modern theory of a politics of revolution." Suggestive study.

Reference: 1978

Notes: How TJ's copy of Jose de Mendoza y Rios' A Complete Collection of Tables for Navigation and Nautical Astronomy ended up in the Naval Academy library instead of the Library of Congress.

Reference: 3287

Notes: Originally an M.A. thesis at Ohio State Univ.; discusses TJ's policies on Western expansion while president, with emphasis on the old Northwest. Concludes that "The West, in a sense, began with Jefferson."

Reference: 1979

Notes: Collection of primary material for undergraduates; introduction and notes.

Reference: 1980

Notes: TJ's democracy was "based in the essential dignity of human nature" and went hand in hand with a kind of religious liberty (later espoused by Channing) which saw as the only "great facts of religion" God and the soul.

Reference: 2452

Notes: TJ forced into the Purchase because of, among other reasons, a dangerous political situation at home with the West and South possibly ready to go over to the Federalists. Both the Federalists and the Republicans in the subsequent squabble over constitutionality tacitly abandoned the strict constructionist view of powers delegated to Congress.

Reference: 1981

Notes: Short note on TJ's decision to buy a pianoforte instead of a clavichord.

Reference: 3288

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

Notes: Organized thematically; compares opinions of Washington, TJ, Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, and Wilson.

Reference: 1982

Notes: A sketch of TJ as he appeared in 1801, leading up to the inaugural speech which is presented as a keynote to the era. Considers the speech in terms of its reception by some of TJ's contemporaries.

Reference: 1105

Reference: 1983

Notes: Describes design and furnishings of Monticello.

Reference: 3290

Notes: TJ courts Rebecca Burwell and Martha Wayles Skelton.

Reference: 1106

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

Reference: 3291

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

Reference: 1107

Reference: 1984

Notes: Story of the Jefferson Papers project at Princeton Univ. Press.

Reference: 1108

Notes: Describes TJ's interest in mathematics; he was more interested in application than in theory. Also printed separately and in Smith's The Poetry of Mathematics and Other Essays. New York: Scripta Mathematica, 1934. 49-70.

Reference: 3292

Reference: 3293

Notes: On the projected edition of the Papers.

Reference: 1109

Notes: Grudgingly admits TJ had a hand in it.

Reference: 2453

Notes: TJ's efforts to put down the Barbary pirates are not an adequate model for dealing with present-day terrorist highjackers.

Reference: 1985

Reference: 3294

Notes: TJ advocated a free press but deplored the malignity and vulgarity of the press in his time.

Reference: 1110

Notes: Uncritical description and brief account of the historical context.

Reference: 1986

Notes: On conservation of farm lands at Poplar Forest; peripheral.

Reference: 3295

Reference: 1111

Notes: Brief chapter lauds TJ as "the intellectual father of the American advance to the Pacific."

Reference: 3296

Reference: 3297

Notes: The definitive book on the subject, focusing particularly on the struggles in the press. TJ mentioned throughout, more as an object of political attention than as an active participant in this phase of the resistance to the Alien and Sedition Laws.

Reference: 1987

Notes: Argues for closer examination of events in Kentucky prior to the Resolutions as a balance to historians' concentration on TJ's involvement as theoretician and author.

Reference: 1988

Notes: TJ dealt with throughout; Margaret Bayard of the Federalist Delaware Bayards married Samuel Harrison Smith, editor of The National Intelligencer, and came to admire TJ, described in the preface as "her life's hero."

Reference: 1112

Notes: Adapted from the previous item.

Reference: 1113

Notes: Numerous illustrations; a popular biography attempting to do some of the same things Fawn Brodie did, get at TJ's emotional life, etc., but with less success and no documentation.

Reference: 1114

Notes: Discusses the time of day when the debate on the Declaration concluded and the weather on the 4th.

Reference: 1115

Notes: Discusses Gallatin's role in trying to achieve the three main financial goals of TJ's administration, prompt retirement of the federal debt, reduction of taxation, and economy in government. Although TJ and Madison had opposed the First Bank of the United States, under Gallatin's influence the Bank was strengthened and expanded. DAI 14/09, p. 1325.

Reference: 1989

Notes: Report on a concert at Monticello of music from TJ's collection.

Reference: 3298

Notes: Claims TJ's last words were "I resign my Soul to my God, and My daughter to my country!"

Reference: 1116

Notes: Extensive survey of TJ's life.

Reference: 1117

Reference: 1118

Notes: On TJ, John Adams, and America's "first campaign" in 1796.

Reference: 1990

Notes: TJ's deepest credo was "It is not only permissible for liberal men to have diverse ends; it is inevitable and, indeed, desirable."

Reference: 2454

Notes: Rhetorical analysis of TJ's first inaugural speech.

Reference: 1991

Notes: Brief and somewhat superficial discussion of TJ's deism and his concept of the moral sense.

Reference: 2455

Notes: In the Builders of America Series; sentimental and uncritical.

Reference: 1119

Reference: 1120

Reference: 2456

Notes: Argues that the Declaration is even more important for us now because of TJ's recognition of the priority of civil rights and of the people's right of revolution.

Reference: 2457

Notes: Argues for Paine's authorship.

Reference: 1992

Notes: Jefferson's notation of author's names in some books is the only surviving record of their ownership.

Reference: 3302

Notes: An essential piece of scholarship. Based on TJ's catalogue of the library he sold in 1815, this adds bibliographic description of the editions or probable editions he owned and annotates the entries, usually with comments from TJ's own writings. Volume I has a preface describing the compiler's method and covers entries on civil and natural history. Volume 2 covers moral philosophy, 3 includes politics, 4 concludes entries on philosophy with citations in mathematics, astronomy, and geography and begins the entries on the fine arts. 5 concludes the fine arts entries and adds a section on sources, etc. plus an index for the whole catalogue.

Reference: 3301

Notes: TJ was a bibliomaniac but not a bibliophile. Discusses the work involved in preparing the monumental Catalogue; anecdotal but suggestive. Translated into Spanish as "La Biblioteca de Thomas Jefferson." Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia. 8(no. 2, 1958), 115-24.

Reference: 3303

Notes: Account of TJ's presidency, portraying him as a disappointed theorist.

Reference: 1121

Notes: TJ's role in the excitement about Genet's threat to appeal over Washington's head to the people. His letter demanding Genet's recall was in fact a demand for a reevaluation of French policy toward the United States and an attempt to protect American neutrality.

Reference: 1993

Notes: TJ's life before the Declaration.

Reference: 1122

Notes: "Despite obvious differences, Jefferson, Emerson, and Dewey had much in common." DAI 24/10, p. 4099.

Reference: 3304

Notes: TJ's economic views owed little to the Physiocrats but much to Adam Smith, Hume, and Postlethwayte's dictionary.

Reference: 2458

Reference: 1994

Reference: 1995

Notes: See the next item. DAI 35/08A, p. 5321.

Reference: 1996

Notes: Examines TJ's foreign policy toward England and his concern for the growth in the United States of English political forms, social ideas, and commercial development. Contends that "the commercial goals of Jefferson's English diplomacy encouraged the very kind of national economic development that he found so incompatible with his republican dreams."

Reference: 1997

Notes: Bryant in an 1859 letter calls TJ "one of the wisest political philosophers of his time."

Reference: 1123

Notes: The foundation of the Jeffersonian doctrine is distrust; its ruling sentiment antagonism; its inevitable tendency, disintegration." Links TJ to Hobbes; Mayflower Compact was written after the body politic existed.

Reference: 2459

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826. 235-71. TJ's "noblest effort, though unsuccessful, has been for the emancipation of slaves." Claims that it rained on July 4, 1826, and the rainbow "gave assurance that the offerings of these patriots had been accepted."

Reference: 1124

Notes: Discovery and eventual acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. A popular account which turns TJ into a Westerner of the spirit and imagination.

Reference: 1999

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies ... . Hartford: D. F. Robinson, 1826., 139-53. The Declaration considered "as a great, solemn, political act, ... demands our highest veneration," and its truth has changed the world. TJ and Adams became "the patriarchs of America, and saw their children in the land of promise."

Reference: 1125

Notes: "Rather than relaxing in 1802-1803, President Jefferson made strenuous efforts to keep Kentucky from exploding" into rash military action as a response to the French takeover of New Orleans.

Reference: 2000

Notes: Probably the best article on this subject; surveys previous scholarship, TJ's medical interests, and his influence real and potential on American medicine.

Reference: 3305

Notes: 44th Congress, 2nd Session. House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 13. Materials relating to counting the electoral votes in the elections of 1800 and 1804.

Reference: 2001

Notes: Survey of the importance of the concept of sympathy for TJ and contemporaries.

Reference: 2460

Notes: Poem; rpt. in Someday, Maybe. New York: Harper and Row, 1973. 7-8.

Reference: 3306

Notes: Genealogy of TJ's mother.

Reference: 1126

Notes: Text of the sermon is Zechariah 1:5, "Your Fathers, Where are they?" turns this into a jeremiad. One of the more interesting eulogies.

Reference: 1127

Reference: 1128

Notes: "This History ... professes to be little more than a record of the circumstances of such elections." A somewhat expanded account appears in his A History of the Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,

Reference: 2003

Notes: First enunciated in a letter from TJ to James Bowdoin, dated April 27, 1805.

Reference: 2002

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

Reference: 3308

Reference: 3307

Reference: 1129

Notes: "A comparative analysis of the political thought of two great national leaders.... both agree with ancient Chinese thought that participation and moral advancement are best guaranteed by a political system concerned with the people's relative material security." DAI 38/OlA, p. 461.

Reference: 2461

Notes: Biography of Clark, claiming to stress "his role in the implementation of Jeffersonian programs," treats TJ and Clark as two men of the Enlightenment.

Reference: 2004

Notes: TJ an idealist who was required by events to depart in practice from his philosophy. At the end of his second term the Embargo cost him his political control of Congress and led to his discouragement about his presidency.

Reference: 2005

Notes: Tendentious and uncritical sourcebook.

Reference: 2462

Notes: Does not discuss use of TJ by either the Jacksonians or Calhounians.

Reference: 1130

Notes: Six page sketch.

Reference: 2006

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

Notes: TJ upsets Anthony Merry.

Reference: 1132

Notes: Contends that the "authors of the Declaration of Independence ... resorted intuitively to conjuring up repressed childhood wishes" but focuses on supposed modern consequences.

Reference: 2463

Reference: 1133

Notes: Discusses TJ as a model for American statesmen of the present day.

Reference: 2007

Notes: Extensive survey of the "Sarcasm, invective, logic, emotion, ridicule" employed by writers for the republican press. DAI 11/01, p. 164.

Reference: 2008

Notes: Looking at the "doctrine of man" in American literature, calls TJ "naive."

Reference: 2464

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

Notes: TJ did; brief account.

Reference: 3309

Notes: The fate of Monticello after TJ's death and its condition in 1887.

Reference: 1135

Notes: TJ on pp. 175-358; focuses on years before TJ's presidency and takes his side.

Reference: 1136

Notes: TJ is "the symbol of all that librarianship stands for."

Reference: 3310

Notes: Ceremonies at presentation of a copy of the Sully portrait to the Albemarle County Court House.

Reference: 1137

Notes: Sketch of TJ's interest in music, noting his correspondence on musical matters with Francis Hopkinson. Shorter version in American Music Teacher. 25(April 1976), 6-8.

Reference: 3311

Notes: "Famous Americans for Younger Readers."

Reference: 1138

Notes: Book by Stone, music and lyrics by Edwards. The Declaration and its composition as musical comedy.

Reference: 3312

Reference: 3313

Notes: Minor note arguing that TJ was naive for believing Christian ethics could survive loss of belief in the divinity of Christ.

Reference: 2465

Reference: 2466

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

Reference: 1141

Notes: Juvenile.

Reference: 1140

Notes: Review essay of Randall's biography.

Reference: 1142

Notes: l TJ saw war in political terms as "an instrument of last resort" with pragmatic limitations. He did not believe that "war was an aberration, and he did not ignore the interest of the state in security."

Reference: 2011

Notes: TJ became more pessimistic about the inevitability of war and came to feel that war stemmed from economic and political conditions but from human nature as well.

Reference: 2012

Notes: A suggestive monograph which argues that although TJ had a "defensive mentality," he "actively used violence either directly or indirectly in his policies against the Barbary pirates, Spain, England, and France to maintain his country's independence and security. ... He was more a pragmatist than a pacifist and continually weighed possibilities, risks and gains.... If Jefferson seems a protoClausewitzian, it is because he emerged from the same age, with many of the same assumptions about the use of war, and he consistently operated on the basis of these assumptions while in and out of public office."

Reference: 2010

Notes: See the next item; DAI 35/08A, p. 5323.

Reference: 2009

Notes: Philosophical antecedents for the Declaration's ideas are in classic and medieval eras. The doctrines of the Declaration were originally advanced for purely partisan purposes and abandoned after the controversy; the same charge can be directed to the Declaration.

Reference: 2467

Notes: A greater density of population makes many of TJ's theories inadequate for modern America.

Reference: 1143

Notes: A diehard Federalist attacks TJ in detail; rpt. Boston, 1834; Philadelphia, 1847, as The Public Men of the Revolution.

Reference: 2013

Notes: Federalist reply to Alexander Hill Everett's article, contending TJ was merely the "idol of a party." N.B. some libraries catalogue this under Everett.

Reference: 2014

Notes: Discusses TJ's accomplishments as a geographer and contends for the innovative nature of his work.

Reference: 3315

Notes: TJ was "an observer in the field of geography before Morse had reached the age of ten years," and he was in the advance of any contemporary in the economic interpretation of geography.

Reference: 3314

Notes: TJ as Palladianist.

Reference: 3316

Notes: Poorly organized study of TJ's work for religious freedom, plus an overview of religious toleration and intolerance before his time.

Reference: 2468

Notes: TJ and Rice had much in common, but Rice could not accept TJ's "deistic or Socinian" ideas about education. Informative about the struggles to establish the Univ. of Virginia and about Rice.

Reference: 3317

Notes: Conventional sketch.

Reference: 1144

Notes: TJ was a good master who favored emancipation.

Reference: 1145

Notes: Sketchy account of the Burr trial, e.g. does not discuss the subpoena issue, as the climax of TJ vs. Marshall; earlier chapter on Marbury vs. Madison also touches on TJ.

Reference: 2015

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