Description
Book SynopsisThe first book to include Thomas Jefferson’s writings and writings about him—from his era and ours.
Table of ContentsPreface A Note on the Texts
Abbreviations
The Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson
A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)
From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (1829):
The Declaration of Independence
Notes of the State of Virginia (1787)
An Appendix to the Notes on Virginia Relative to the Murder of Logan's Family (1800)
Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803
SELECTED LETTERS
To John Harvie, January 14, 1760
To John Page, December 25, 1762
To Robert Skipwith, August 3, 1771
To Charles McPherson, February 25, 1773
To John Adams, May 16, 1777
To Giovanni Fabbroni, June 8, 1778
To the Chevalier d'Anmours, November 30, 1780
To J. P. G. Muhlenberg, January 31, 1781
To François Barbé-Marbois, March 4, 1781
To François Barbé-Marbois, December 20, 1781
To Charles Thomson, December 20, 1781
To François Barbé-Marbois, March 24, 1782
To François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, November 26, 1782
To George Rogers Clark, November 26, 1782
To Thomas Walker, September 25, 1783
To George Rogers Clark, December 4, 1783
To François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, January 16, 1784
To Charles Thomson, May 21, 1784
To James Madison, May 11, 1785
To François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, June 7, 1785
To the Reverend Richard Price, August 7, 1785
To Peter Carr, August 19, 1785
To John Banister Jr., October 15, 1785
To James Madison, October 28, 1785
To James Madison, February 8, 1786
To Maria Cosway, October 12, 1786
To J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, January 15, 1787
To John Stockdale, February 27, 1787
To Madame la Comtesse de Tessè, March 20, 1787
To Martha Jefferson, March 28, 1787
To The Marquis de Lafayette, April 11, 1787
To Maria Cosway, April 24, 1788
To J. Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur, August 9, 1788
To The Reverend Richard Price, January 8, 1789
To John Trumbull, February 15, 1789
To Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789
To John Jay, July 19, 1789
To James Madison, September 6, 1789
To Mary Jefferson, April 11, 1790
To Mary Jefferson, June 13, 1790
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, December 23, 1790
To The Reverend William Smith, February 19, 1791
To Benjamin Banneker, August 30, 1791
To Martha Jefferson Randolph, January 15, 1792
To Thomas Paine, June 19, 1792
To André Michaux, c. April 30, 1793
To James Madison, June 9, 1793
To Angelica Schuyler Church, November 27, 1793
To John Adams, December 28, 1796
To James Madison, January 1, 1797
To Mary Jefferson Eppes, January 8, 1798
To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 18, 1800
To Dr. Joseph Priestley, January 27, 1800
To Dr. Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801
To Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801
To James Monroe, November 24, 1801
To Brother Handsome Lake, November 3, 1802
To Benjamin Hawkins, February 18, 1803
To William H. Harrison, February 27, 1803
To Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803
To General Horatio Gates, July 11, 1803
To John Tyler, June 28, 1804
To the Osages, July 12, 1804
To the Osages, July 16, 1804
To Constantin-François de Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney, February 18, 1805
To the Osage and Other Indians, January 4, 1806
To Constantin-François de Chassebœuf, Comte de Volney, February 11, 1806
To Joel Barlow, February 24, 1806
To John Norvell, June 14, 1807
To Thomas Jefferson Randolph, November 24, 1808
To John Hollins, February 19, 1809
To Henri Grégoire, February 25, 1809
To Horatio G. Spafford, May 14, 1809
To John Wyche, May 19, 1809
To John W. Campbell, September 3, 1809
To Benjamin Smith Barton, September 21, 1809
To C. and A. Conrad and Company, November 23, 1809
To James Madison, November 26, 1809
To General Tadeusz Ko?ciuszko, February 26, 1810
To Dr. Benjamin Rush, January 16, 1811
To Charles Willson Peale, August 20, 1811
To John Adams, January 21, 1812
To John Adams, June 11, 1812
To Anne Louise Germaine Necker, Madame de Staël-Holstein, May 24, 1813
To Paul Allen, August 5, 1813
To Paul Allen, August 18, 1813
To Nicholas Biddle, August 20, 1813
To John Adams, October 28, 1813
To Alexander von Humboldt, December 6, 1813
To Edward Coles, August 25, 1814
To Samuel H. Smith, September 21, 1814
To William Short, Esq., November 28, 1814
To John Adams, April 8, 1816
To José Corrêa da Serra, April 26, 1816
To Peter S. Du Ponceau, November 7, 1817
To John Adams, November 13, 1818
To John Holmes, April 22, 1820
To John Adams, October 12, 1823
To James Monroe, October 24, 1823
To Ellen W. Coolidge, August 27, 1825
To Dr. James Mease, September 26, 1825
To Roger C. Weightman, June 24, 1826
Contexts
From Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America Now Met in General Congress at Philadelphia, Setting Forth the Cause and Necessity of Their Taking Up Arms
Thomas Paine • From Common Sense
Manuscript Notes on Resolutions of Congress
François Barbé-Marbois • Queries Concerning American States
John Sullivan • To Jefferson, March 12, 1784, with John McDuffee's Answers to Queries Concerning the Moose
William Whipple • To Jefferson, March 15, 1784, with Answers to Queries Concerning the Moose
John Sullivan • To Jefferson, with Memoranda on the Moose, June 22, 1784
François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux • From Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781, and 1782
Luther Martin • To the Honorable Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Vice-President of the United States, June 24, 1797
Criticism
EARLY RESPONSES TO JEFFERSON AND HIS WRITINGS, 1802-1896
Thomas Kennedy • Ode to the Mammoth Cheese (1802)
James T. Callender • From The President Again (1802)
Abraham Bishop • Oration, in Honor of the Election of President Jefferson, and the Peaceable Acquisition of Louisiana (1804)
John Quincy Adams • On the Discoveries of Captain Lewis (1807)
William Cullen Bryant • From The Embargo; or, Sketches of the Times (1808)
Washington Irving • From A History of New York (1809)
James Fenimore Cooper • From The Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper (1823, 1830)
George Henry Evans • The Working Men's Declaration of Independence (1829)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton • Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
Madison Hemings • Memoirs (1873)
Moses Coit Tyler • The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticism (1896)
H. Trevor Colburn • From Thomas Jefferson and the Rights of the Expatriated Man
Merrill D. Peterson • From The Notes on Virginia
Fawn Brodie • From Sally Hemings
John C. Miller • From Slavery and the Declaration of Independence
Robert Lawson-Peebles • From Landscape and Written Expression in Revolutionary America
Jay Fliegelman • From Jefferson's Pauses
Andrew Burstein • From Jefferson and the Familiar Letter
Annette Gordon-Reed • From Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Andrew Burstein • From The Seductions of Thomas Jefferson
MODERN ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM
Robert M. S. McDonald • From Thomas Jefferson's Changing Reputation
as Author of the Declaration of Independence
Peter Onuf • From "We Shall All Be Americans"
Douglas L. Wilson • From The Evolution of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
Index
