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Short Title List

There are a number of works that are referred to frequently in the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia; for convenience, these titles are referred to using a standard shorthand designation. Following are the full citations for these works. If you are a contributor to the Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia and would like to have a title added to this list, please contact us.

Contents

A - D

ANB = Garraty, John A. and Mark C. Carnes, eds. American National Biography. 24 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Bear, Jefferson at Monticello= Bear, James, A. Jr. Jefferson at Monticello. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1967.

Bedini, Statesman of Science = Bedini, Silvio. Thomas Jefferson: Statesman of Science. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Betts, Farm Book = Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book: With Commentary and Relevant Extracts from Other Writings. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Rep. 1976, 1987, 1999. Manuscript and transcription available online at http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/farm/

Betts, Garden Book = Betts, Edwin M., ed. Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824: With Relevant Extracts from His Other Writings, 1944. Rep. 1999. Manuscript and transcription available online at http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/garden/

Bush, Life Portraits = Bush, Alfred L. The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville, VA: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1987.

Cappon, Adams-Jefferson Letters = Cappon, Lester J. ed. The Adams-Jefferson Letters. Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1959. Rep. 1988

Cunningham, Jefferson and Monroe = Cunningham, Noble, Jr. Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003.

DAB = Johnson, Allen, et al, eds. Dictionary of American Biography. 20 vols. New York: Scribner, 1928-1937.

E - K

EG = Adams, Dickinson W. and Ruth W. Lester, eds. Jefferson's Extracts from the Gospels: "The Philosophy of Jesus" and "The Life and Morals of Jesus". Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

Family Letters = Betts, Edwin M., and James Bear, Jr., eds. Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1966. Reprinted Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1986.

Ford = Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892-99. 10 vols.

Isaac Jefferson, Memoirs = Jefferson, Isaac. Memoirs of a Monticello Slave, as dictated to Charles Campbell, by Isaac. In Jefferson at Monticello, ed. James A. Bear, Jr. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1967.

Jefferson, Autobiography = Ford, Paul Leicester, ed. The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790: Together with a Summary of the Chief Events in Jefferson's Life. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Jeffersonian Cyclopedia = Foley, John P., ed. The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia: A Comprehensive Collection of the Views of Thomas Jefferson... New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1900. Reprinted 1967. Also available Online.

Kimball, Jefferson, Architect = Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson, Architect: Original Designs in the Collection of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. Edited by Fiske Kimball. Cambridge, MA: Riverside Press, 1916. Reprinted, with a new introduction by Frederick Doveton Nichols, Da Capo, 1968.

L - P

Lewis, Louisiana Purchase = Lewis, James E, Jr. Louisiana Purchase: A Noble Bargian. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2003.

L&B = Lipscomb, Andrew A. and Albert E. Bergh, eds. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, 1903-04. 20 vols.

LCB = Wilson, Douglas L., ed. Jefferson's Literary Commonplace Book. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Leavitt, Poplar Forest = Messrs. Leavitt. Catalogue of a Private Library Comprising a Rich Assortment of Rare and Standard Works, Many in Fine Bindings ... and a Number of Engraved Copper Plates: Also, the Remaining Portion of the Library of the Late Thomas Jefferson, Comprising Many Classical Works and Several Autograph Letters, Offered by his Grandson, Francis Eppes, of Poplar Forest, Va.: the Whole to be Sold by Auction at the Clinton Hall Sale Rooms, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, November 5th and 6th. New York: George A. Leavitt & Co., 1873.

MACH = Magazine of Albemarle County History, 1940-

Malone, Jefferson = Malone, Dumas. Jefferson and His Time. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1948-81. 6 vols.

MB = Bear, James A. Jr., and Lucia C. Stanton, eds. Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

Notes, ed. Peden = Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia. Edited by William Peden. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1955.

OED = Simpson, J. A., and E. S. C. Weiner, eds. The Oxford English Dictionary. 2d ed., Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, 20 vols.

Peterson, Jefferson Writings = Peterson, Merrill, ed. Thomas Jefferson Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984.

Peterson, Visitors = Peterson, Merrill, ed. Visitors to Monticello. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989.

Pierson, Jefferson at Monticello = Pierson, Hamilton W. Jefferson at Monticello: The Private Life of Thomas Jefferson, From Entirely New Materials. New York: Scribner, 1862.

Poor, Jefferson's Library = Poor, Nathaniel P. Catalogue. President Jefferson's Library [1829].

PTJ = Boyd, Julian P., Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti, Barbara B. Oberg, et al, eds. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950-. 33 vols.

PTJ:RS = Looney, J. Jefferson, ed. The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004-. 3 vols. Cumulative index available on Monticello website.

PW = Howell, Wilbur S., ed. Jefferson's Parliamentary Writings: Parliamentary Pocket-book and a Manual of Parliamentary Practice . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988.

Q - Z

Randall, Life = Randall, Henry S. The Life of Thomas Jefferson. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858. 3 vols.

Randolph, Domestic Life = Randolph, Sarah N. The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, Compiled from Family Letters and Reminiscences by His Great-Granddaughter. New York: Harper, 1871.

Ronda, Jefferson's West = Ronda, James P. Jefferson's West: Journey with Lewis and Clark. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000.

Shackelford, Descendants = Shackelford, George Green, ed. Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson. Charlottesville: Monticello Association, 1965. 2 vols.

Sheridan, Jefferson and Religion = Sheridan, Eugene R. Jefferson and Religion Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 1998.

Smith, First Forty Years = Hunt, Gaillard S., ed. The First Forty Years of Washington Society: Portrayed by the Family Letters of Mrs. Samuel Harrison Smith (Margaret Bayard) from the Collection of her Grandson, J. Henley Smith. New York: Scribner, 1906.

Sowerby = E. Millicent Sowerby, comp. Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1952-59. 5 vols. Available online at http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/coll/130.html.

Stanton, Free Some Day = Stanton, Lucia. Free Some Day: The African-American Families of Monticello. Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2000. Available for purchase at Monticello Museum Shop

Stein, Worlds = Stein, Susan R. The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. c1993 Thomas Jefferson Foundation. Published by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Available for purchase at Monticello Museum Shop .

VMHB = Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 1893-.

Wagoner, Jefferson and Education = Wagoner, Jennings L. Jr. Jefferson and Education. Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Foundation, 2004.

WMQ = William and Mary Quarterly, 1892-.

Wilson, Jefferson's Books = Wilson, Douglas. Jefferson's Books. Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1996.

Woods, Albemarle = Woods, Edgar. Albemarle County in Virginia. Charlottesville: The Michie Co., 1901.

Wyllie, Prayer Book = Wyllie, John Cook, ed. Thomas Jefferson's Prayer Book. Meriden, Conn.: Meriden Gravure Co., 1952. This is a facsimile containing the essential pages from the prayer book belonging to Peter and then Thomas Jefferson. The original book is at the University of Virginia Special Collections Library.

Adapted from PTJ:RS vol. 1.