Notes: Review essay on Witt's Thomas Jefferson, agrees with Witt that TJ was an ambivalent character, by turns "actif et impuissant," who was to a large degree responsible for the descent of the U.S. into "la de'mocratie brutale."

Reference: 2016

Notes: Little on TJ; one essay calls on his authority to denounce loyalty oaths in universities; another is on "Kate Smith and Jeffersonian Democracy."

Reference: 1146

Notes: TJ and Madison through the Monroe-Pinckney mission "made the issue of impressment a central one in Anglo-American relations ... (but) In his excessive caution to avoid a decisive diplomatic confrontation, ... Jefferson lost the initiative on impressment."

Reference: 2017

Notes: Includes Index

Reference: 22

Notes: Superficial account of TJ's romantic interests.

Reference: 1147

Reference: 1148

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 3318

Notes: Overblown rhetoric.

Reference: 1149

Notes: Argues that the ambivalence of dependence "fired his need to destroy the symbols of the maternal womb and to put new ones up simultaneously, even more beautiful in appearance." Discusses the relevance of Ovid and Petrarch, implications seen in A Summary View, the Declaration, and his interest in building. Stimulating but not everyone will accept the author's assumptions about psychohistorical method.

Reference: 1150

Notes: On TJ's work for a decimal coinage and for establishing the Mint.

Reference: 2018

Notes: Miscellaneous notes by a descendant.

Reference: 1151

Notes: Poem.

Reference: 3319

Notes: Diffuse reminiscences of the early 20th century, including lore about TJ.

Reference: 1152

Notes: Genealogy of TJ; in the Reports for 1955-59 the author gives genealogic lists for "The Descendents of Thomas Jefferson."

Reference: 1153

Notes: Considers whether the "Monticello bust" is a copy of the lost Ceracchi, concludes it is probably a copy of the David d'Angers portrait commissioned by U. P. Levy.

Reference: 3320

Notes: Defends Jefferson Levy as a restorer of Monticello and describes the property, circa 1912.

Reference: 1154

Notes: TJ's notes with comment.

Reference: 1155

Notes: Describes the coach TJ had built by John Kemp, discusses English and French coach-making, illustrations of other coaches of the period.

Reference: 1156

Notes: TJ's letter of September, 1817 to Joseph C. Cabell is placed on the desks of modern Virginia legislators.

Reference: 2019

Notes: Report done for the Memorial Foundation, discusses work done in 1953 which included the removal of nearly 100 tons of the mud and brick nogging laid in between the floor joists.

Reference: 3321

Notes: Inaccuracies in vol. 6 of the Writings, ed. P. L. Ford.

Reference: 1158

Notes: A policy of American neutrality cannot be credited to TJ alone, but this study argues that his efforts were indispensable in laying down a policy so truly impartial as that of the U.S. in 1793.

Reference: 2020

Notes: Rpt. Constitutional Review. 10(April 1926), 67-76.

Reference: 2021

Notes: On TJ's message to "a world of free, cooperative men."

Reference: 1159

Notes: Discussion of the universal applicability of TJ's ideas.

Reference: 2469

Notes: The bust was destroyed in the Library of Congress fire of 1851, but daguerrotypes of it may have been made.

Reference: 3322

Notes: Illustrated pamphlet; life of TJ

Reference: 1160

Notes: Account of his visit with TJ in 1822

Reference: 1187

Notes: The Vermont novelist's youthful visit to TJ; discussion mainly turned on the “social revolution” then taking place in Virginia and on education. Met TJ on the campus of the University then under construction.

Reference: 1186

Notes: Prints the letter to Bernard Moore with introductory comments.

Reference: 2025

Reference: 2026

Notes: Also published in E.C.S. miniature score series, pp. 95.

Reference: 3340

Notes: In spring of 1825 he saw TJ shop in Charlottesville; takes a Hamiltonian view of his life.

Reference: 1188

Notes: Prints TJ's 1784 report on establishing the Mint and explains why the Mint was placed under the State Dept.

Reference: 2027

Reference: 3341

Notes: Touches on TJ's role in the post-revolutionary reform of the College and concludes that its reorganization "was not simply a projection of Thomas Jefferson's ideas."

Reference: 3342

Notes: Praises TJ's “extraordinary power of intense reflection.”

Reference: 1189

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

Reference: 2028

Notes: Biographical sketch of “the great apostle of American Democracy.”

Reference: 1190

Notes: Repeat performance of # 1190

Reference: 1191

Notes: Discusses the differing reputations of TJ, who deserves to have been so well remembered as he has been, and Adams, who deserves better than he received.

Reference: 1192

Reference: 3343

Notes: TJ's caution against excessive physicking reminds of the danger of the "diseases of medical management."

Reference: 3344

Notes: Sketch of TJ and the University of Virginia Medical School.

Reference: 3345

Reference: 25

Notes: Most recent calendar of papers held at the Univ. of Virginia.

Reference: 26

Notes: TJ and land management; general.

Reference: 3347

Notes: Ticknor visited TJ on February 4-7, 1815, and sent a rather full account to his father, printed here.

Reference: 1193

Notes: Praises TJ for the omitted anti-slavery passage in the Declaration.

Reference: 1194

Reference: 1195

Notes: See item #456

Reference: 1196

Notes: The old Hamilton-TJ story rehashed.

Reference: 2029

Reference: 3348

Notes: Popular history covering the diplomatic and constitutional issues involved in the Louisiana Purchase.

Reference: 2030

Reference: 3349

Notes: Henry was one of TJ's slaves.

Reference: 1197

Reference: 27

Notes: TJ's great-granddaughter discusses writing an account of his life and papers in possession of the family.

Reference: 1198

Notes: Facsimile of a mss. now in a private collection. A commentary on wines apparently sent by TJ in 1791-92 to Henry Sheaff, a Philadelphia merchant. The wines TJ judged outstanding are still so, but the prices are long gone. Chateau d'Yquem in 1792 cost about the same as a pound of butter but in 1965 the price was at least 7 times that of butter.

Reference: 3350

Notes: Defends Jefferson Monroe Levy's care of Monticello

Reference: 1200

Notes: “Of the first three Presidents Thomas Jefferson had, perhaps, the most lovable personality.”

Reference: 1201

Notes: Sees "two trends which defy synthesis in" TJ's thought on freedom of conscience: an empirical, modern trend which claims thought is the activity of a material organ and that man has an instinctive moral sense, and a classical trend which shows man governed by a natural law ordered by the Creator. Thus, TJ "did not discuss the difficulties of forming conscience, the possibilities of an erroneous conscience, or the problems of conflict between two persons differing conscientiously." DAI 28/09A, p. 3720.

Reference: 2470

Notes: The development of the University idea and Francis Walker Gilmer's role as TJ's friend and agent. Interesting but outdated.

Reference: 3351

Notes: TJ's personality and character a mystery; claims TJ was a greater man than Hamilton, although the latter may have been a better executive officer. TJ's flaw was suspicion; his were not "the direct, vigorous methods that have usually characterized Southern men," but he was "an eighteenth-century Matthew Arnold ... A Democracy of Sweetness and Light was what Jefferson wished to see established in this country."

Reference: 2031

Notes: Laudatory speech at unveiling of a statue of TJ

Reference: 1202

Notes: The great achievement of diplomacy was to escape entanglement with Europe; pays attention to issues and events without looking at the nature of the participants in any detail.

Reference: 2032

Notes: The founding fathers were men of the Enlightenment, characterized by its "universalism, the affirmation of universal principles in human affairs," and this has affected subsequent national behavior. TJ used as an example on pp. 452-56.

Reference: 2471

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

Reference: 1203

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

Reference: 3355

Notes: Describes TJ's role in encouraging the cultivation of seeds brought home by Lewis and Clark. Samples were sent to Bernard McMahon, a Philadelphia gardener, and to William Hamilton; some were also planted at Monticello. TJ and McMahon held occasional correspondence about these.

Reference: 3354

Notes: Touches on the relationship between TJ and Bradbury, an English botanist who traveled up the Missouri in 1809-11.

Reference: 3353

Notes: Descriptive account of the Garden Book.

Reference: 3356

Notes: Explains TJ's role in founding the Society.

Reference: 3352

Notes: A picture book.

Reference: 1205

Notes: Delivered at Monticello, July 4, 1947; world peace depends on recognizing what TJ knew: the necessity of providing in law for democratic freedoms, of respect for other's rights, of the free exchange of knowledge.

Reference: 2472

Notes: Speech at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner, Washington, D.C., February 19, 1948; sees TJ as a "progressive liberal" whose party is still the party of progressive liberalism.

Reference: 2033

Notes: Romanticized account of the writing, for young readers.

Reference: 1209

Notes: TJ's preference for a weak government led to anarchism, but an interfering government is the problem today. TJ thought Americans were mentally and morally qualified for self-government; maybe then, not now.

Reference: 2473

Notes: Review of the exhibit and its meaning for Poles.

Reference: 3357

Notes: Tucker was Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Virginia, and was given access to family papers and received information from Martha Jefferson Randolph. The first important biography.

Reference: 1207

Notes: Reply to Francis Lister Hawkes' critical review of Tucker's biography.

Reference: 1206

Notes: Contends TJ was willing to give a liberal construction to the Constitution when it would "best promote the public good."

Reference: 2034

Notes: Biographical sketch

Reference: 1208

Notes: Claims the election of 1800 shows on the Republican side a nearly perfect model of a campaign; it protected its presidential candidate, exposed only subordinates, and provoked the enemy to a self-defeating extremism.

Reference: 2035

Reference: 1210

Notes: TJ at first was sympathetic to Genet perhaps because he was not aware of "the ulterior designs of France to hold Louisiana and detach the West."

Reference: 2036

Notes: Changing attitudes of Senator William Plumer toward TJ.

Reference: 2037

Notes: TJ planned for the bell and clock

Reference: 1211

Reference: 3358

Notes: An appeal not to change TJ's administrative structure of the Univ. and an argument for its wisdom.

Reference: 3359

Notes: Reviews educational theories of TJ, Benjamin Rush, and Noah Webster.

Reference: 3360

Notes: Also in A Selection of Eulogies... Hartford: D.F. Robinson, 1826. TJ praised as a philosophic democrat who will be remembered for the Declaration; quotes from TJ's letter of June 24 to Roger C. Weightman.

Reference: 1213

Notes: Reprints certificate of Tyler from the Richmond Enquirer of Sept. 10, 1805, defending TJ's conduct as governor.

Reference: 2038

Notes: Touches upon TJ's relationship with William and Mary.

Reference: 3362

Notes: Protests the ignoring of TJ's role as author of the Declaration in a pamphlet issued by the American Luther League; another example of northern writers disregarding southerners' roles in American history.

Reference: 2045

Notes: Review of George Morgan's Life of James Monroe, argues that the political measures of TJ, Madison, and Monroe are the foundation of the present day Union and they have been misrepresented by northern writers.

Reference: 2047

Notes: Documentation of TJ's effort to raise fresh troops after the battle of Camden, August 16, 1780.

Reference: 2041

Notes: Prints the petition of "sundry citizens of the County of Albemarle" who wished to keep the bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi within the state. Long note on Ceracchi.

Reference: 3361

Notes: Actually on TJ's dealings with John Hammond in 1791-92.

Reference: 2044

Reference: 2042

Reference: 2046

Reference: 2043

Notes: Reprints, without notes, from the Virginia Gazette announcement of TJ's election and his reply to the Assembly.

Reference: 2040

Notes: Excerpts a paragraph from Francis T. Brooke's A Narrative of My Life For My Family” on TJ.

Reference: 1214

Notes: Prints with notes letters, one dated Jan. 3, 1796, to Justin Pierre de Rieux on farming and business matters.

Reference: 3363

Notes: Prints without comment 2 affidavits justifying TJ's actions.

Reference: 2039

Notes: The ideals of America today were established by Virginians, especially TJ, not in the New England colonies.

Reference: 2474

Reference: 2475

Notes: Discusses the conditions of TJ's composition of the Declaration, the response it evoked then and later, especially critical response, and its literary quality. Finds the accusations of lack of originality and of historical falsification beside the point and claims the document is original because of TJ's own peculiar genius.

Reference: 3364

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