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
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Name: Anonymous
Title: The Race Problem. Jefferson's Prophecies
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Racist tract calling for repeal of the 14th and 15th amendments
and appealing to the authority of TJ.
Reference: 1913
n.d.
Name: Anonymous
Title: Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Publisher: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: broadside
Notes: Accordion-fold broadside for visitors to Monticello has been reprinted in several revised
version since mid-1920s.
Reference: 1183
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Name: Butler , Nicholas Murray
Title: Is Thomas Jefferson the Forgotten Man? An Address delivered at the Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, Long Island, September 1, 1935
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
City: New York
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 16
Notes: Less about TJ than
an attack upon governmental regulation and taxation; an anti-New Deal Jefferson.
Reference: 217
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Name: Anonymous
Title: The University of Virginia and Its Founder
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Fund
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: broadside
Notes: Accordion-fold broadside for visitors on the history and architecture of the
University.
Reference: 3369
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Name: Courain , Liz, et. al.
Title: The Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Publisher: Univ. of Virginia Alumni Fund
City: Charlottesville
Date: n.d.
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Informative
accordion-fold broadside for visitors to the Rotunda.
Reference: 2712
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Name: Gunn , John W.
Title: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: Haldeman-Julius
City: Girard, Kan.
Date: n.d.
Pages: none given
Notes: Little Blue Book no. 769.
Reference: 507
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Name: Dabney , Charles W.
Title: Jefferson the Seer: An Address before the Conference for Education in the South in
Session at the University of Virginia on April 25, 1903
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Praises TJ's educational ideals.
Reference: 2729
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Name: Dane , Nathan
Title: Appendix (9th Volume) to Dane's General Abridgment of American Law, etc.
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: 5-16
Notes: Bound with Dane's A
General Abridgment and Di~est of American Law, With Occasional Notes and Comments. vol.
9. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1829. The Appendix examines the relationship of
state and federal governments in light of the debates on Foot's resolution in the U.S. Senate and
the appearance of TJ's writings in the 1829 edition. Blames many of the loose constructions of
the Constitution on TJ's writings since 1775 and criticizes his credulosity and jealousy
concerning supposed monarchists and aristocrats.
Reference: 1531
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Name: Hancock , James Denton
Title: The Louisiana Purchase Treated in Its Relations to the Constitution of the United States
and the Declaration of Independence. Address delivered ... before Sons of the American
Revolution at Pittsburgh, Pa., February 22d, 1899
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: none given
Notes: TJ's reservations about the constitutionality of the Purchase
indicate that settlement of the American West is no model to justify annexation of the
Philippines.
Reference: 1658
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Name: Shaw , Albert
Title: Address at Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society ... Held in Richmond, Virginia, April
13, 1904
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 27
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
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Name: Temple , W. K.
Title: Monticello, The Home of Thomas Jefferson
Publisher: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: Broadside
Notes: Defends Jefferson Levy as a restorer of Monticello and
describes the property, circa 1912.
Reference: 1154
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Name: Wise , Jennings C.
Title: The Legacy of Jefferson: An Appeal to the Alumni of the University
Publication: n.p.
Date: n.d.
Pages: pp. 15
Notes: Claims TJ was an occult
"mystic" of the cabbalistic, Masonic variety, e.g. the ten pavilions at the University symbolize
"the ten Sephirothal emanations of the Great Wisdom." This lore needs to be taught in the law
school in order to combat "the Browders and Tugwells" of the author's day.
Reference: 2502
none
Name: Bell , Landon C.
Title: Thomas Jefferson, An Address Before the Columbus Chapter of the National Society of
the Daughters of the American Revolution, n.p
Pages: pp. 19
Notes: Loosely organized survey.
Reference: 112
none
Name: Budd , Henry
Title: Thomas Jefferson: An Address delivered on the occasion of the birthday of Jefferson,
under the auspices of the Jeffersonian Society of Philadelphia, at the Odd Fellows Temple, April
15th, 1901.
Publisher: n.p.
City: Philadelphia
Pages: pp.
36
Notes: TJ still best example of presidential conduct at a time when "centralization
and imperialism together threaten ... our very life as a republic."
Reference: 209
none
Name: Daveis , Charles Stewart
Title: An Address Delivered at Portland on the Decease of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,
August 9, 1826
Pages: pp. 5.
Notes: TJ's greatest achievement as president was the Louisiana Purchase, Adams's was the
navy, but their real monument is the country itself.
Reference: 341
none
Name: Curtis , George M., III.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: The Virginia Law Reporters Before
1880
Publisher: Univ. Press of Virginia
City: Charlottesville
Pages: 75-84
Notes: Discussion on
TJ's law career and of the Reports of 1769-72.
Reference: 1527
none
Name: Fisher , George P.
Title: "Jefferson and the Social Compact Theory."
Publication: American Historical
Association Annual Report for 1893
Pages: 165-77
Notes: Contends that TJ enunciates Lockean social compact theory in the Declaration but offers
a much more radical, "almost anarchical" version in his later statements about the earth
belonging to the living.
Reference: 2227
none
Name: Dunning , William A.
Title: "An Historic Phrase."
Publication: Annual Report of the American Historical
Association for 1902
Pages: 1:82-85
Notes: Traces the background
of the phrase "are, and of right ought to be" from the Declaration of Independence to Swift's
Drapier's Letters, the Bill of Rights of 1689, and Pope Boniface VIII.
Reference: 2218
none
Name: Smith , Hugh P. Some
Limitations of the Educational Theory of Thomas Jefferson
Title: Ph.D.
dissertation
Volume: Univ. of North
Carolina
City: 1936
Reference: 3297
none
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
none
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
none
Name: Wilson , Woodrow
Title: "What Jefferson Would Do: Part of Address Delivered at Jefferson Day Banquet,
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York: April 13, 1912."
Publication: Congressional Record,
62nd Congress, 2nd Session
Pages: 48:4747-48
Notes: Rpt. in Wilson, College and State, Educational, Literary
and Political Papers (1875-1913). New York: Harper, 1925. 2:424-29. TJ "would have acted
upon the facts as they are" and called for tarrif and currency reforms.
Reference: 2091
none
Name: Wilson , M. L.
Title: "Why Agriculture Honors Jefferson."
Publication: Congressional
Record
Volume: 78 Congress, I Session. 89(Appendix)
Pages: 4544-46
Reference: 3431
none
Name: Voorhees , Daniel W.
Title: "Thomas Jefferson"
Publication: Forty Years of Oratory ... Lectures, Addresses,
and Speeches
Publisher: Bowen-Merrill
City: Indianapolis
Pages: 43-77
Reference: 1259
none
Name: True , Rodney H.
Title: "Early Days of the Albemarle Agricultural Society."
Publication: Annual Report
of the American Historical Association ... 1918
Pages: 1 :24
1-59
Notes: Explains TJ's role in founding the Society.
Reference: 3352
none
Name: U.S. Congress
Title: Letter from the Secretary of state to Hon. D.W. Voorhees, Chairman of the Committee on
the Library, Transmitting Letter of the Attorney-General in Relation to the Obstacles in the way
of erecting a monument over the grave of Thomas Jefferson.
Publication: 46th Congress,
2nd session
Volume: No. 88 Senate Misc. Document
Reference: 1219
none
Name: Sullivan , James
Title: "The Antecedents of the Declaration of Independence."
Publication: Annual
Report of the American Historical Association for 1902
Pages: 1:66-81
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
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