Webster, “Notes”
Webster, Daniel. “Notes of Mr. Jefferson’s Conversation 1824 at Monticello.” The Papers of Daniel Webster, Vol. 1: Ed. Charles M. Wiltse et al. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1974; pp. 370–378.
WMQ
William and Mary Quarterly. Arabic numerals preceding the abbreviation denote the series.
NOTES
Chapter 1: Fire!
1. Virginia Gazette, February 22, 1770; Randall, 1: 59.
2. Memorandum Books, 1: 158.
3. T.J. to James Ogilvie, February 20, 1771, Papers, 1: 63.
4. T.J. to John Page, February 21, 1770, Papers, 1: 34–35.
5. T.J. to John Page, December 25, 1762, Papers, 1: 3.
6. T.J. to John Page, February 21, 1770, Papers, 1: 35.
7. T.J. to George Wythe, January 16, 1796, Papers, 28: 583–584.
8. Thomas Jefferson’s Prayer Book, ed. John Cook Wyllie (Charlottesville, Va.: Meriden Gravure, 1952).
9. T.J. to Thomas Adams, February 20, 1771, Papers, 1: 62.
10. Daybooks, fol. 191.
11. LCB, 182.
12. Laurence Sterne, The Works of Laurence Sterne, 5 vols. (London: n.p., 1769), 5: 294.
13. David Pearson, Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook (London: British Library, 1994), 19.
14. James A. Bear, Jr., Thomas Jefferson’s Book-Marks (Charlottesville, Va.: Alderman Library, 1958), 8.
15. “Life of Thomas Wilson, D.D.,” Christian Journal and Literary Register 3 (1819): 166.
16. Douglas L. Wilson, Jefferson’s Books (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996), 19; Bear, Thomas Jefferson’s Book Marks, 3.
17. “Books in Colonial Virginia,” VMHB 10 (1903): 391; Daybooks, passim; Perkins, Buchanan & Brown to T.J., October 2, 1768, Papers, 1: 34.
18. Kevin J. Hayes, “How Thomas Jefferson Read the Qur’an,” Early American Literature 39 (2004): 247–261.
19. John Dixon Hunt, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 208.
20. Carsten Ruhl, “England,” Architectural Theory from the Renaissance to the Present: 87 Essays on 117 Treatises, ed. Christof Thoenes (Los Angeles: Taschen, 2003), 422–424.
21. Oliver Macdonagh, “The Origins of Porter,” Economic History Review, n.s. 16 (1964): 530–535; T.J. to Vine Utley, March 21, 1819, Randall, 3: 450; T.J. to Martha Jefferson Randolph, October 20, 1806, Family Letters, 289.
22. Susan Kern, “The Material World of the Jeffersons at Shadwell,” 3WMQ 62 (2005): 213–232.
23. T.J. to John Minor, August 30, 1814, Ford, 11: 421.
24. T.J. to Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786, Papers, 10: 447.
25. Martin C. Battestin, The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1989), 46–47.
26. Stephen Switzer, Ichnographia Rustica, 3 vols. (1718; reprint, New York: Garland, 1982), 3: 13–14.
27. François-Jean Chastellux, Travels in North America in the Years 1780– 81–82 (New York: White, Gallaher, & White, 1827), 227, 229.
28. Quoted in Margaret Bayard Smith, The First Forty Years of Washington Society, ed. Gaillard Hunt (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1906), 80–81.
Chapter 2: A Boy and His Books
1. T.J. to Maria Cosway, December 24, 1786, Papers, 10: 627.
2. Kevin J. Hayes, Folklore and Book Culture (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997), 9–10.
3. T.J. to Wilson Miles Cary, August 12, 1787, Papers, 12: 23.
4. T.J. to James Madison, December 28, 1794, Papers, 28: 229.
5. John Page, “Governor Page,” Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book 3 (1850): 144.
6. Memorandum Books, 1: 12; Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue: President Jefferson’s Library (Washington, D.C.: Gale & Seaton, 1829), lots 800–801; T.J. to James Jay, April 7, 1809, Jefferson Papers (DLC).
7. T.J. to Francis Hopkinson, February 18, 1784, Papers, 6: 542.
8. T.J. to William Duane, March 22, 1806, Ford, 10: 242.
9. T.J. to Benjamin Hawkins, August 4, 1787, Papers, 11: 684.
10. T.J. to Cornelia Randolph, April 3, 1808, Family Letters, 339.
11. William Douglas, The Douglas Register, ed. William MacFarlane Jones (1928; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1966), 7.
12. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina (1955; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1976), 15, 20.
13. William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1857), 1: 457–459.
14. T.J. to Thomas Law, June 13, 1814, EG, 355.
15. James Moore and Michael Silverthorne, “Gershom Carmichael and the Natural Jurisprudence Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Scotland,” Wealth and Virtue: The Shaping of Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment, ed. Istavn Hont and Michael Ignatieff (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 73–87.
16. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 5.
17. William Dawson to the Bishop of London, March 1, 1748, “Documents Relating to the Early History of the College of William and Mary and to the History of the Church in Virginia,” 2WMQ 20 (1940): 216.
18. Marie Kimball, Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 1743–1776 (New York: Coward-McCann, 1943), 31.
19. T.J. to Overton Carr, March 16, 1782, Papers, 6: 166.
20. “The Statutes of the College of William and Mary, Codified in 1736,” 1WMQ 22 (1914): 288.
21. LCB, 82–89.
22. Kevin J. Hayes, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996), 62.
23. Douglas L. Wilson, “Thomas Jefferson’s Library and the French Connection,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 674.
24. Weis, The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, 20; G. McLaren Brydon, “The Virginia Clergy: Governor Gooch’s Letters to the Bishop of London, 1727–1749,” VMHB 32 (1924): 212, 333.
25. Daniel Defoe, “A Relation of the Apparition of Mrs. Veal,” The Book of the Short Story, ed. Alexander Jessup and Henry Seidel Canby (New York: D. Appleton, 1926), 203.
26. Hayes, Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf, 56–57.
27. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 4; “Notes from the Record of Albemarle County,” VMHB 26 (1918): 318; “Books in Colonial Virginia,” VMHB 10 (1903): 391; William Peden, “Some Notes Concerning Thomas Jefferson’s Libraries,” 3WMQ 1 (1944): 266.
28. Richard Beale Davis, “Jefferson as Collector of Virginiana,” Studies in Bibliography 14 (1961): 117–144.
29. H. Trevor Colburn, The Lamp of Experience: Whig History and the Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution (1965; reprint, New York: Norton, 1974), 35–36.
30. Gray, Account, 71; T.J. to George Washington Lewis, October 25, 1825, Jefferson Papers (DLC).
31. Hayes, Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf, 116–117.
32. T.J. to the Editor of the Journal de Paris, August 29, 1787, Papers, 12: 61–62.
33. James Gilreath and Douglas L. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1989), 98.
34. T.J. to John Adams, October 12, 1813, AJL, 385.
35. Hayes, Folklore and Book Culture, 89–102.
Chapter 3: A Correct, Classical Scholar
1. T.J. to Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808, Family Letters, 362–363.
2. Marie Kimball, Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 1743–1776 (New York: Coward-McCann, 1943), 24–25.
3. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 5; LCB, 202; Richard Beale Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585–1763, 3 vols. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978), 1: 303.
4. Jonathan Boucher, Reminiscences of an American Loyalist, 1738–1789, ed. Jonathan Bouchier (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925), 60–61. For Maury’s biography, see Homer D. Kemp, “James Maury,” American Colonial
Writers, 1735–1781, ed. Emory Elliot (Detroit: Gale, 1984), 156–158.
5. James Blair to the Bishop of London, February 19, 1742, in Park Rouse, Jr., James Blair of Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971), 253.
6. James Blair to the Bishop of London, February 19, 1742, in Rouse, James Blair, 253.
7. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Clergy of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina (1955; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1976), 36.
8. “Personal Notices from the Virginia Gazette,” 1WMQ (1900): 188.
9. “Letters of the Rev. James Maury,” Memoirs of a Huguenot Family, ed. Ann Maury (New York: G. P. Putnam, 1872), 379.
10. T.J. to Dabney Carr, Jr., January 19, 1816, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 vols. (Charlottesville, Va.: F. Carr, 1829), 4: 281.
11. T.J. to James Maury, April 25, 1812, Washington, 6: 54.
12. “Letters of the Rev. James Maury,” 413.
13. Ibid., 415.
14. T.J. to William Wirt, August 14, 1814, Ford, 11: 402.
15. Kimball, Jefferson: The Road to Glory, 35.
16. “Library of Dabney Carr, 1773, with a Notice of the Carr Family,” VMHB 2 (1894): 221–228.
17. T.J. to Thomas J. Rogers, December 1823, quoted in Sowerby, no. 70.
18. Francis Walker Gilmer, “Sketches of American Statesmen,” in Richard Beale Davis, Francis Walker Gilmer: Life and Learning in Jefferson’s Virginia (Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1939), 350.
19. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, ed. Claude Rawson (New York: Everyman’s Library, 1992), 115.
20. James Maury, “A Dissertation on Education in the Form of the Letter from James Maury to Robert Jackson, July 17, 1762,” ed. Helen Duprey Bullock, Papers of the Albemarle County Historical Society 3 (1942–1943): 36–60.
21. Carl Bridenbaugh, Myths and Realities: Societies of the Colonial South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1952), 37.
22. Maury, “Dissertation on Education,” 40–41.
23. Ibid., 58.
24. Ibid., 47.
25. Ibid., 49, 52.
26. Ibid., 52.
27. Ibid.
28. T.J. to Bernard Moore, ca. 1765, Ford, 11: 421.
29. Maury, “Dissertation on Education,” 42.
30. Norman Fiering, “The First American Enlightenment: Tillotson, Leverett, and Philosophical Anglicanism,” New England Quarterly 54 (1981): 307–344.
31. Maury, “Dissertation on Education,” 51; T.J. to John Adams, July 5, 1814, AJL, 433.
32. T.J. to John Page, July 15, 1763, Papers, 1: 10.
33. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, trans. J. E. King (London: William Heinemann, 1927), 45.
34. Maury, “Dissertation on Education,” 47.
35. T.J. to John Waldo, August 16, 1813, Washington, 6: 188.
36. Boucher, Reminiscences, 60–61; Davis, Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 2: 741–742.
37. T.J. to John Waldo, August 16, 1813, Washington, 6: 185.
38. “Letters of the Rev. James Maury,” 388–389.
39. Ibid., 390.
40. LCB, 93.
41. T.J. to unknown correspondent, October 25, 1825, Washington, 7: 413.
42. T.J. to Joseph Priestley, January 27, 1800, Papers, 31: 340.
Chapter 4: William and Mary
1. T.J. to William Wirt, August 5, 1815, Gribbel, 24.
2. T.J. to John Harvie, January 14, 1760, Papers, 1: 3.
3. Edward Kimber, Itinerant Observation in America, ed. Kevin J. Hayes (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1998), 63.
4. Maria Byrd to an English correspondent, September 6, 1745, quoted in Kevin J. Hayes, The Library of William Byrd of Westover (Madison, Wisc.: Madison House, 1997), 90.
5. “Education in Colonial Virginia,” 1WMQ 6 (1898): 172.
6. John Page, “Governor Page,” Virginia Historical Register, and Literary Note Book 3 (1850): 146.
7. T.J. to Walker Maury, August 19, 1785, Papers, 8: 409.
8. T.J. to John Bannister, Jr., October 15, 1785, Papers, 8: 636.
9. Ibid., 8: 637.
10. “The Statutes of the College of William and Mary in Virginia [1758],” 1WMQ 16 (1908): 247.
11. “Journal of a French Traveller in the Colonies, 1765,” American Historical Review 26 (1921): 741.
12. Andrew Burnaby, Burnaby’s Travels through North America, ed. Rufus Rockwell Wilson (New York: A. Wessels Company, 1904), 32–36.
13. John Gwilym Jones, Goronwy Owen’s Virginia Adventure (Williamsburg, Va.: Botetourt Bibliographical Society, 1969), 32–35; Branwen Jarvis, Goronwy Owen (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1986), 13; Prys Morgan, “From a Death to a View: The Hunt for the Welsh Past in the Romantic Period,” The Invention of Tradition, ed. Eric Hobsbaum and Terence Ranger (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 44–45.
14. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 6.
15. T.J. to Louis Hue Girardin, January 15, 1815, L&B, 14: 231.
16. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 6.
17. “The Statutes of the College of William and Mary in Virginia [1758],” 1WMQ 16 (1908): 248.
18. T.J. to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787, Papers, 12: 15.
19. George Alan Daly, “Argumentation and Unified Structure in Notes on the State of Virginia,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 26 (1993): 587; Wilbur Samuel Howell, “The Declaration of Independence and Eighteenth-Century Logic,” 3WMQ 18 (1961): 472; John Stephen Martin, “Jefferson, Democracy, and Commonsense Rhetoric,” Studies on Voltaire 305 (1992): 1383.
20. Page, “Governor Page,” 150–151.
21. T.J. to the Reverend James Madison, December 29, 1811, L&B, 19: 183.
22. T.J. to Robert Patterson, March 30, 1798, Papers, 30: 234.
23. I. Bernard Cohen, Science and the Founding Fathers: Science in the Political Thought of Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, and Madison (New York: Norton, 1997), 294.
24. Ted Ruddock, “Emerson, William,” A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 1: 1500–1830, ed. A. W. Skempton et al. (London: Thomas Telford, 2002), 215–216.
25. Memorandum Books, 1: 282–283.
26. Erasmus Darwin to William Withering, February 25, 1775, The Letters of Erasmus Darwin, ed. Desmond King-Hele (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 68; Keir and Edgeworth are both quoted from Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 35–36.
27. Autobiography, Ford, 1: 6.
28. Erasmus Darwin to the Royal Society, March 10, 1777, Letters, 79; T.J. to Louis Hue Girardin, January 15, 1815, L&B, 14: 231.
29. John M. Jennings, The Library of the College of William and Mary in Virginia, 1693–1793 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1968).
30. T.J. to John Adams, June 11, 1812, AJL, 307.
31. T.J. to John Page, December 25, 1762, and T.J. to John Page, July 15, 1763, Papers, 1: 6, 11.
32. Page, “Governor Page,” 151.
Chapter 5: The Williamsburg Circle
1. Garrett Ward Sheldon, The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991), 123.
2. On February 29, 1764, T.J. purchased a copy of Thomas Sheridan’s Course of Lectures on Elocution; see Daybooks, fol. 17.
3. Andrew Burnaby, Burnaby’s Travels through North America, ed. Rufus Rockwell Wilson (New York: A. Wessels, 1904), 53.
4. “Notes, for the Biography of George Wythe,” Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, ed. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, 4 vols. (Charlottesville, Va.: F. Carr, 1829), 1: 99.
5. T.J. to Thomas Cooper, January 16, 1814, Washington, 6: 292.
6. Albert C. Baugh, “Thomas Jefferson, Linguistic Liberal,” Studies for William A. Read: A Miscellany Presented by Some of His Colleagues and Friends, ed. Nathaniel M. Caffee and Thomas A. Kirby (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Un
iversity Press, 1940), 92.
7. John Fortescue, The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Monarchy (London: W. Bowyer for E. Parker and T. Ward, 1714), 4.
8. Richard Terry, Poetry and the Making of the English Literary Past, 1660–1781 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 172–173.
9. Quoted in Sowerby, no. 4836.
10. NSV, 153.
11. Quoted in The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1758–1768, ed. George Reese, 3 vols. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1980), 1: xxxvi.
12. George H. Reese, “Books in the Palace: The Libraries of Three Virginia Governors,” Virginia Cavalcade 18, no. 1 (1968): 20–31.
13. William Fauquier, “An Account of an Extraordinary Storm of Hail in Virginia,” Philosophical Transactions 50 (1757–1758): 796.
14. T.J. to L. H. Giradin, January 15, 1815, L&B, 14: 231–232.
15. Robert E. Schofield, The Lunar Society of Birmingham: A Social History of Provincial Science and Industry in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963), 36–39; Peter Rowland, The Life and Times of Thomas Day, 1748–1789, English Philanthropist and Author (Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996), 15, 62.
16. Quoted in Schofield, Lunar Society, 36.
17. LCB, 115.
18. Burnaby, Travels, 53.
19. T.J. to John Page, December 25, 1762, Papers, 1: 4.
20. Ibid., 1: 6.
21. Ibid., 1: 5; T.J. to Thomas Cooper, January 16, 1814, Washington, 6: 292; T.J. to Judge Tyler, June 17, 1812, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, 4: 183; “Revisal of the Laws,” Papers, 2: 495.
22. T.J. to Anne Randolph Bankhead, December 29, 1809, Family Letters, 394.
23. T.J. to John Page, December 25, 1762, Papers, 1: 5.
24. Ibid.
25. Dr. Alexander Hamilton, The History of the Ancient and Honorable Tuesday Club, ed. Robert Micklus, 3 vols. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 3: 215.
26. Quoted in Schofield, Lunar Society, 114; NSV, 64.
27. T.J. to John Page, October 7, 1763, Papers, 1: 12.
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