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Unknown
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(CLShine) Mrs. Francis Eppes Shine, Los Angeles, Calif., 1946
(CtFaiGaines) Mr. Pierce W. Gaines, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1972
(DCoolidge) privately owned by Mr. Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., Washington, D.C., 14 Feb. 1948; on deposit at ViU?
(FWPBRubinfine) Joseph Rubinfine, West Palm Beach, Fla., 2002
(FWPBRubinfine) Joseph Rubinfine, West Palm Beach, Fla., 2015
(ICStrauss) given PTJRS MARC code was "ICStrauss" but document citation was "Herbert R. Strauss, Chicago, 1953"
(NNebgDesmond) owned by Mr. Thomas O. Desmond, Newburgh, New York, 1 Aug. 1853
(PAbbott, 1954) Miss Elizabeth Sergeant Abbot, Philadelphia, 1954
(PPIngersoll) R. Sturgis Ingersoll, Philadelphia, 1946
(ViCAlbCDB) Albemarle Co. Deed Book
(ViCAlbCOB) Albemarle Co. Order Book, 1826, 348
(ViCAlbCOB) Albemarle Co. Order Book, 247
(ViCharAlbCt) Albemarle County Court House, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1956
A-Ar
Adams, Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States
Albemarle Co. Deed Book
Albemarle Co. Will Book 12:270–71
Albemarle Co. Will Book 6:129–30
Albemarle Co. Will Book, 11:218–23
Albemarle Co. Will Book, 11:224–5
Albemarle Co. Will Book, 7:103-4
Albemarle Co. Will Book, 7:84
Albemarle County Circuit Court Will Book (1798–1904): 2:79.
Albemarle County Circuit Court Will Book (1798–1904): 79.
Albemarle County Court Order Book, 1826, 348 (formerly ViCAlbCOB)
Albemarle County Deed Book 18: 177-8
Albemarle County Deed Book 20:411-12
Albemarle County Deed Book, 24:268–70
Albemarle County Deed Book: 24:418-9
Albemarle County Deed Book: 31:170–1
Albemarle County Minute Book
Albemarle County Minute Book 1832, p. 12
Albemarle County Order Book 1820–21, p. 412–13
Albemarle County Will Book 2:32-4
American ImFamily_PTJRS-Omits, Second Series, no. 18769
American Imprints, Second Series, no. 18769
American Presidency Project, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
American Presidency Project, University of California-Santa Barbara
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Cambridge, Mass., 1945 (MCSchlesinger)
Autobiography of T. Jefferson Coolidge
Bernard, Retrospections of America, 1797–1811 (New York, 1887) 233–43
Boston Daily Advertiser
Central Gazette (Charlottesville)
Charlottesville Central Gazette
Charlottesville, Central Gazette
Chesterfield County Archives?
Chesterfield County Deed Book, 19:538–40
Cleveland Daily Herald, 16 Nov. 1863
CLjC
CLU-C
CSmH
CtFaiGaines
CtY
Cumberland County Order Book, 1792-1797
Daily Progress
De Staël-Du Pont Letters
DeGH
Delaplaine’s Repository, 1815
DFo
Dixon & Holt, Richmond, 1784
DLC
DNA
Donelson M. Lake, Memphis, Tennessee, 1956
DS
Dumas Malone
DWHoes
Edwin Morris Betts and James Adam Bear, Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson
Family_PTJRS-Omited Text
Family_PTJRS-Omited Text, accessed through DLC
First Forty Years, 1906
Francis Hall, Travels in Canada, and the United States, in 1816 and 1817 [London, 1818], 374-86
Frederick Douglass Papers
G-Ar
Gaillard Hunt, ed., The First Forty Years of Washington Society, Portrayed by the Family Letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith [1906]
GAJones
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
Great Birthday of Our Republic, 28
Great Birthday of Our Republic, 40
Great Birthday of Our Republic, 53–4
Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro, NC
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Helen Fahnestock Hubbard, Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, pp. 211-13. Scan pulled from website.
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, TX
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, TX, 2011
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, TX; Lot 34051
Heritage Auctions, auction 6054, New York City, 8 Apr. 2011, lot 34038
Heritage Auctions, auction 6054, New York City, 8 Apr. 2011, lot 34051
Heritage Auctions, New York, NY, 2015
History Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke
Hodgson, Letters from North America (London, 1824)
Hodgson, Remarks during a Journey through North America in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821 (New York, 1823)
IEN
ItF
Jefferson at Monticello
Jefferson’s West
John A. Sutro, San Francisco, 1952
John Herron, Dobbs Ferry, NY, on deposit MWA.
Jonathan Kasso, Melville, NY, 2002
Lafayette College, PA
Letters of George Long
Life of Thomas Jefferson
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review 1 (Oct. 1820): 529-30
LNHiC
LNT
Lomax, Notes of an American Lyre (Richmond, 1813) 50-1.
Louisa Co. Will Book
Margaret Bayard Smith, A Winter in Washington: or, Memoirs of the Seymour Family, 3 vols. (New York, 1824)
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
MBCo
MBPLi
MCR-S
MdBNCS
MdHi
MeHi
Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803–07
MH
MHi
Milwaukee Daily Sentinel
Miss Sarah Mortimer, Philadelphia, 1957
MiU-C
MnWayzataCook
Montpelier Foundation
MoSHi
Mrs. Livingston T. Dickason, Short Hills, N.J. (NjShortHillsDickason) , 1944
MWA
N
N-Ar
Narrative of My Life, 1849
National Intelligencer
NcD
NcU
New Hampshire Journal, 25 Aug. 1828
New York Times
New York Times, 21 Feb. 1990
New York World, 14 Apr. 1912
New York, National Advocate, and Portland, ME, Eastern Argus
Newspaper
NhCSp
NhD
NhHi: Papers of Daniel Webster
NHi
NhPoS
NIC
NjMoHP
NjP
NN
NNC-T
NNChristie
NNGL
NNPM
O. O. Fisher, M.D., Detroit, Michigan, 1950 (MiDFisher)
PBS Online
PEL
Peter B. Olney, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, 1950
Peterson, Jefferson Image in the American Mind
Peterson; Howard C. Rice, Jr. ed Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782
PHC
PHi
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pierson, Jefferson at Monticello
Pike County Republican, 13 Mch. 1873.
PlKMN
Poplar Forest
PPAmP
PPCP
PPRF
Printed in Herbert B. Adams, The Life and Writings of Jared Sparks, 2 vols. (1893), 1:173
Printed Text
Printed Text, accessed through DLC
Private Collection, 2012
Privately owned
privately owned by John Ross Delafield, New York, NY, 1 June 1945 (NNDelafield)
privately owned by Roger W. Barrett, Chicago, Illinois, 15 April 1947 (ICBarrett)
Privately owned, 2015
Privately owned, Lamb Shendel Collection
PWacD
Randall, Life of Thomas Jefferson
Richmond , VA, Richmond Enquirer
Richmond Enquirer
Richmond Enquirer, 18 Jan. 1823
Sawanee Review, Jan. 1930
ScCoAH (South Carolina, Department of Archives and History)
ScHi
South-Carolina State Gazette and Columbia Advertiser
The Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D., ed. by Samuel Radbill, (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1963)
The Cantos of Ezra Pound
The Daily Dispatch, Richmond, Virginia
THi
Thomas F. Madigan, Word Shadows of the Great: The Lure of Autograph Collecting (New York, 1930), between pp. 6 and 7
Ticknor, Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor
Ticknor, Life, Letters, and Journals of George Ticknor (Boston, 1876) 1:34-8
Travels through the United States of North America, the Country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada
TxDaHCL
TxDaHCL Privately owned by Harlan Crow, Dallas, TX, 2012
TxU
UkLi
Valentine Museum, Richmond
Vi
ViCMRL
ViCMRL, on deposit, ViU: Randolph-Meikleham Family Papers, Mss 4726-a
ViHi
ViRVal
ViU
ViU-VMTJ
ViW
ViWC
Washington Post, 1 Aug. 1991
Washington Post, 5 Apr. 1989
Washington, D.C., Daily National Intelligencer
Weekly Chronicle
WHi
William Henry Bogart, Who Goes There? or, Men and Events (New York, 1866), 39–40
Wisconsin Patriot
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