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Laban (Old Testament figure), 6:564

Labaume, Eugène

  • Relation Circonstanciée de la Campagne de Russie, 10:214–10:215, 10:215n

La Bedoyere, Charles Angelique

  • execution of, 9:391–9:392

La Bergerie (J. Armstrong’s Hudson River estate), 5:8n

Labernardière, Mr.

  • French public official, 7:489

Labigarre. See Delabigarre, Peter

Labouchere, John Peter

  • identified, 15:478–15:479n
  • introduced to TJ, 15:478
  • letter from accounted for, 15:459n

Labouchère, Pierre César

  • as banker, 2:9, 2:245, 3:54, 3:105–3:106
  • family of, 15:478

La Brousse, Mr. de

  • Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d’observations & d’expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver, 2:82, 2:83n, 11:165

Lacépède, Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-Sur-Illon, comte de

  • analyzes bones for Institut de France, 1:101n, 1:250n
  • and Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, 7:626
  • Histoire naturelle de l’homme, 1:250n
  • identified, 1:250n
  • letter from accounted for, 9:400n
  • letter from, 1:248–1:250
  • letter to, 8:321–8:323
  • mentioned, 3:221n, 5:601, 14:387, 17:98
  • rumored immigration to U.S. of, 9:359, 9:360n
  • sends greetings to TJ, 1:629
  • and Société Linnéenne de Paris, 19:610
  • TJ forwards letter from, 1:249, 1:417
  • TJ introduces B. S. Barton to, 8:321, 8:325

Lacey, David R.

  • and University of Virginia, 17:636, 19:189

Lachryma Christi (wine), 13:28

Lackington, George

  • bookseller, 17:418, 17:420n, 18:459

Lackington, James

  • bookseller, 17:418, 17:420n

Lackington, Hughes & Company (London firm)

  • book catalogues of, 17:419, 17:419, 17:419
  • and books for TJ, 17:42–17:43, 17:196, 17:196n, 17:417–17:418, 17:419, 17:562, 17:562n, 18:71, 18:251
  • and books for University of Virginia, 17:418
  • identified, 17:197n
  • invoice from, 17:196–17:197, 17:563, 18:71, 18:203, 18:251
  • receipt from, 17:562n

Laclotte, Jean Hyacinthe, 2:445n, 5:86n

Lacon: or Many Things in Few Words; addressed to Those Who Think (C. C. Colton), 18:65, 18:119–18:120

Lacretelle, Jean Charles Dominique

  • Histoire de France, pendant Le Dix-Huitième Siècle, 15:26, 19:506
  • lectures of, 11:634

La Croix, Mr.

  • Abridgment of Universal History, 8:629, 8:632n

Lacroix, Irenée Amelot De, Baron de Vanden Boègard

  • identified, 4:375–4:376n
  • letters from accounted for, 4:376n
  • letters to, 4:375–4:376
  • seeks military appointment, 4:375–4:376, 4:376

Lacroix, Sylvestre François

  • Complément des élémens d’algèbre, 4:79, 4:80n
  • Cours de Mathematiques à l’usage de l’École Centrale des Quatres-Nations, 4:71–4:72, 4:72n, 4:79, 5:14, 5:36, 8:640, 8:670, 8:685, 8:686, 9:60
  • Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique et d’application de l’algèbre à la géométrie, 4:79, 4:80n
  • writings of, 4:370, 14:168

Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (early Christian author), 7:25, 16:189, 16:196, 16:258

Lacy, Benjamin

  • and Limestone Survey lawsuit, 18:373, 19:64

Lacy, Stephen H.

  • and P. Piernet’s estate, 3:466–3:467, 3:467–3:468, 3:472n, 3:652–3:653, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:81–4:82, 4:166n, 5:99, 5:116–5:118, 5:217, 5:333–5:334
  • and P. Piernet’s will, 5:332

Ladd, Thomas

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306–1:307, 1:329–1:330, 1:331, 1:362–1:363, 1:364–1:365, 1:591, 1:608, 2:123, 2:368, 2:396–2:397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:425, 2:447, 2:448, 2:464–2:465, 2:465–2:466, 2:674–2:675, 3:44–3:45, 3:45, 3:84, 3:85–3:86
  • identified, 1:307n
  • letters from, 1:329–1:330, 2:674–2:675
  • letters from accounted for, 3:45n
  • letters to, 1:306–1:307, 2:464–2:465, 3:45

Ladvocat, Jean Baptiste

  • Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif, 1:580, 10:234, 10:237n, 12:582

Lady Monroe (brig), 15:63, 15:119, 15:120, 15:262, 15:300, 15:362, 15:362n

“The Lady of the Wreck; or, Castle Blarneygig: a poem” (G. Colman), 7:60, 7:62n

lady-slipper, 1:436–1:437n

Laertius. See Diogenes Laertius

Laet, Joannes de

  • Nieuwe wereldt, ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, 2:503n, 2:503n, 2:511

“Lætitia Lookabout” (pseudonym)

  • A Sketch of the Rights of Boys and Girls, 18:228, 18:229n

La Fare, Charles Auguste, 7:665

Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de (Lafayette’s wife)

  • dowry of, 2:10, 2:12, 2:13
  • mentioned, 2:16, 12:300n

Lafayette, Françoise Émilie Destutt de Tracy (Lafayette’s daughter-in-law), 2:17, 9:664n, 10:509n, 18:428, 19:230

Lafayette, George Washington (Lafayette’s son)

  • family of, 9:69, 17:254, 17:255
  • inheritance of, 2:14
  • as legislator, 9:68, 9:69n, 18:427, 18:428
  • marriage of, 2:16, 2:17, 9:664n, 10:509n
  • mentioned, 3:447
  • sends greetings to TJ, 3:106, 4:359, 17:255

Lafayette, Gilbert Motier de (1380-1462), 2:12–2:13

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de

  • J. Adams on, 6:287
  • aids L. Pio, 14:259–14:260
  • and American Revolution, 2:10–2:11, 3:314, 3:315n, 4:434, 8:266, 11:283, 12:247, 15:277, 19:101, 19:118, 19:122, 19:130, 19:131n
  • attempts to emancipate African slaves, 2:11
  • and Bureaux de Pusy family, 4:155, 5:71, 5:72n
  • bust of, at Monticello, 15:li, 15:383
  • and chestnuts, 4:322
  • and I. A. Coles, 1:269–1:270, 1:528
  • correspondence with S. Bernard, 18:300
  • correspondence with TJ, 17:278, 19:230
  • description of his finances, 2:10–2:26, 3:213, 3:214n, 3:446, 3:447n, 12:248
  • and Destutt de Tracy, 1:270, 8:266, 9:484, 9:663–9:664, 10:289, 10:291, 10:323–10:324, 10:603, 11:283, 12:248, 13:414, 14:108, 16:137, 16:420, 16:485, 18:428–18:429, 19:101
  • and Destutt de Tracy’s commentary on Montesquieu, 4:54, 4:202, 4:446, 9:377, 10:61–10:62, 10:62n, 10:62, 10:80, 10:81, 10:154, 10:290, 12:248, 14:108
  • and P. S. Du Pont de Nemours, 9:484
  • as electoral candidate, 12:38–12:39, 12:246, 12:248n, 13:568
  • and events in Europe, 16:135–16:136, 16:493, 17:253–17:254, 18:426, 18:426–18:427, 18:427, 19:489
  • and events in France, 7:536–7:541, 9:67–9:68, 9:376–9:377, 10:323, 10:324, 11:281–11:282, 12:245–12:247, 14:108, 16:135–16:137, 16:493, 17:254, 18:426, 18:427
  • and events in United States, 19:101–19:102
  • family of, 1:629, 5:212, 5:215n, 7:349, 7:537, 7:542, 9:69, 9:484, 9:664n, 10:323, 10:392, 10:507, 10:509n, 10:549–10:550, 12:248, 16:137, 17:254, 17:369, 18:428, 19:230
  • as farmer, 9:484, 9:667
  • finances of, 1:376, 1:628, 2:8–2:9, 2:10–2:18, 2:243–2:245, 2:287–2:288, 2:310, 2:418, 3:54–3:55, 3:212, 3:213, 3:445–3:446, 7:15, 7:349
  • on freedom, 10:324
  • and French Revolution, 8:262, 17:363, 17:366, 17:366, 17:370–17:371, 17:371
  • and A. Gallatin, 10:323, 18:429–18:430
  • and Greek independence, 18:427–18:428
  • and R. H. Harrison’s Revolutionary War service, 18:134, 18:135n, 18:160–18:161
  • health of, 10:392, 12:38, 17:254, 19:102
  • identified, 1:270–1:271n
  • and Indian vocabularies, 9:373n, 12:294, 12:295–12:296n
  • introduces R. A. Barba, 17:255, 17:540, 17:541, 17:559, 17:559n
  • introduces S. Bernard, 10:391–10:392, 11:139–11:140, 11:180
  • introduces F. S. Constancio, 19:229, 19:230, 19:230
  • introduces J. Corrêa da Serra, 4:359
  • introduces M. L. Descaves, 11:282
  • introduces E. de Vendel, 16:521, 16:521n
  • introduces G. Flower, 9:679, 10:299, 10:559, 10:560, 10:560, 10:592, 11:124
  • introduces E. Grouchy, 9:13, 12:105–12:106
  • introduces M. A. Jullien, 7:215, 12:229
  • introduces J. Lakanal, 9:300, 10:276, 18:580
  • introduces Montlezun, 10:396
  • introduces E. Vail, 18:299–18:300, 18:302n
  • and M. A. Jullien’s proposed biography of T. Kosciuszko, 14:50, 16:87
  • and T. Kosciuszko monument, 17:415n
  • land of, in La., 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628, 2:8, 2:9, 2:15, 2:16, 2:17–2:18, 2:33–2:34, 2:72–2:73, 2:243, 2:244, 2:245, 2:418, 3:54, 3:105–3:106, 3:212–3:213, 3:248, 3:314, 3:445, 4:29–4:31, 4:359, 4:649–4:650, 5:68–5:69, 5:69n, 5:212–5:214, 5:215n, 7:541, 9:301n, 12:248
  • on Latin American revolutions, 4:359, 7:14–7:15
  • and J. B. Lefevre, 2:74, 2:75n
  • as legislator, 9:68, 9:69n, 9:376–9:377, 14:260, 17:254, 17:255n, 18:428
  • letter from to an Unidentified Correspondent, 7:542–7:544
  • letters from, 1:269–1:271, 1:528–1:530, 1:627–1:629, 2:7–2:9, 2:242–2:246, 2:287–2:288, 2:310, 3:54–3:55, 3:105–3:106, 3:211–3:214, 3:444–3:447, 4:155, 4:358–4:359, 4:649–4:650, 5:68–5:69, 5:212–5:215, 7:215, 7:536–7:542, 9:13–9:14, 9:67–9:69, 9:300–9:301, 9:376–9:377, 9:484, 9:679, 10:323–10:324, 10:391–10:392, 11:281–11:283, 12:245–12:249, 16:135–16:137, 17:253–17:255, 18:425–18:431, 19:230–19:231, 19:609
  • letters from accounted for, 18:302n, 19:609n
  • letters from TJ forwarded to, 14:107, 14:202, 17:65
  • letters from mentioned, 2:512, 9:304, 11:528, 11:581, 13:254
  • letters to, 3:313–3:315, 4:29–4:31, 4:36, 7:13–7:16, 8:261–8:268, 8:478–8:479, 10:62–10:64, 11:353–11:355, 13:413–13:415, 14:108, 16:493–16:494, 17:50, 17:114–17:115, 17:219, 19:101–19:102
  • letters to mentioned, 4:33
  • T. Lyman introduced to, 11:294, 11:294n, 11:355, 11:357, 11:360
  • and J. Madison, 18:429
  • medallion of, 18:162
  • memoir of, 8:478
  • mentioned, 3:114, 3:512, 3:538, 5:189, 9:96, 9:201, 10:253, 12:105, 12:230, 16:27, 17:265, 17:347
  • and merino sheep, 2:39, 7:404
  • on neutral powers, 2:242
  • and D. Parker (of Paris), 10:323
  • plans to visit U.S., 18:300
  • plans to write TJ, 4:325, 7:505
  • and P. Poinsot’s consular ambitions, 16:52
  • and J. L. Poirey’s military service claims, 12:299, 12:300n, 12:355n, 13:140, 13:141n, 13:414, 13:435, 14:108, 14:111, 14:199, 16:494
  • portraits of, 8:239, 10:398, 18:162
  • proposed biography of, 8:478–8:479, 19:427
  • recommends L. P. G. de Lormerie to TJ, 1:342
  • recommends F. De Masson to TJ, 8:250, 8:251n
  • retirement of, 9:69, 9:300, 9:301n, 9:377, 10:323
  • and B. Rivadavia, 12:621
  • sends dogs, 1:376, 1:457, 6:511
  • sends greetings to TJ, 3:198
  • sends merino sheep, 1:529, 1:537–1:538, 1:629
  • sends works to TJ, 16:137, 19:609
  • and W. Short, 5:215n, 19:230
  • and slavery in U.S., 16:493–16:494, 17:254–17:255, 18:425–18:426
  • and South American independence, 9:391, 11:354–11:355, 12:247–12:248, 16:493, 18:425
  • speeches of, 16:137, 17:254, 17:255n
  • Madame de Staël Holstein on, 5:450, 11:117, 11:118n
  • and Madame de Tessé, 1:528, 1:593–1:594, 1:627, 7:35, 7:536
  • G. Ticknor carries letter to, 9:560, 11:281
  • TJ forwards letter of, 8:482
  • TJ introduces T. P. Barton to, 17:98, 17:114–17:115, 17:115
  • TJ introduces L. H. Girardin to, 8:478–8:479
  • TJ introduces W. B. Lawrence to, 17:219, 17:219–17:220
  • TJ introduces Mr. Wilson to, 17:50
  • TJ on, 3:504, 11:174, 14:108, 17:219–17:220, 17:340, 19:101
  • TJ sends greetings to, 3:443, 3:444n
  • and TJ’s health, 14:31, 16:135, 16:493
  • toasts honoring, 17:289
  • travels of, 2:11, 2:13, 2:16
  • and U.S. peace commission, 7:542–7:543
  • works sent to, 13:568n
  • and F. Wright, 18:429, 19:609

Lafayette, Oscar Thomas Gilbert du Motier de (Lafayette’s grandson)

  • birth of, 9:69

Laffitte, Jacques

  • election of, 12:39

Laffitte, Jacques, & Compagnie (Paris firm). See Jacques Laffitte & Compagnie (Paris firm)

Lafitau, Joseph François

  • Mœurs des Sauvages Ameriquains, 5:122–5:123, 5:125n, 5:182, 6:324

Lafite, Château (wine), 9:513

Lafões, João Carlos de Bragança de Sousa Ligne Tavares Mascarenhas da Silva, duque de, 12:153

Lafolie, Charles Jean

  • Mémoires Historiques relatifs a la fonte et a l’élévation de la Statue Équestre de Henri IV sur le terre-plein du Pont-Neuf a Paris, 15:393n

Lafon, Bartholemew

  • “Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans,” 2:525, 3:486, 3:488n

La Fontaine, Jean de

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:665
  • fables of, 14:614, 14:615n, 19:147, 19:149n
  • on Plato, 7:454

La Forest. See Mathurin, Antoine René Charles, comte de La Forest

La Gasca y Segura, Mariano

  • seeks professorship in U.S., 15:156–15:157n

Lagrange. See Bouillon-Lagrange, Edme Jean Baptiste

La Grange (Lafayette’s French estate), 1:270n, 1:529, 2:15, 2:17, 7:540, 7:541, 9:69, 10:323, 18:302n

Lagrange, Joseph Louis

  • praised, 7:661
  • Théorie des Fonctions Analytiques, 13:314n

La Grange, Nicolas de

  • edits and translates Lucrece, [De la Nature des Choses] Traduction Nouvelle, avec des Notes (Lucretius), 14:511
  • translates Oeuvres de Séneque le philosophe (Seneca), 10:233, 10:236–10:237n, 12:534, 14:511

La Grange et de Fourilles, Adélaïde Blaise François Le Lièvre, marquis de, 1:372

La Harpe, Benard de

  • “Journal historique Concernant l’Etablissement des françois à la Louisianne,” 9:445–9:446, 9:447n, 9:516, 9:518, 9:518n, 9:658, 9:658–9:659n, 9:710, 12:156, 12:157n, 12:294–12:295, 12:295, 12:296n, 12:331–12:332, 12:371
  • Journal Historique de l’Établissement des Français a la Louisiane (ed. A. L. Boimare), 9:659n

La Harpe, Frédéric César de

  • as educator, 16:60
  • tutor of Alexander I, 7:506, 8:671n, 9:110–9:111

La Harpe, Jean François de

  • J. Adams reads, 11:268
  • Correspondance Littéraire, 10:589
  • criticism of, 10:13
  • Lycée ou Cours De Littérature Ancienne Et Moderne, 7:26
  • writings of, 6:302, 7:481, 10:306

Lahay (Lahy), Michael

  • and University of Virginia, 16:308, 17:623, 17:629n

Lahontan, Louis Armand de Lom d’Arce, baron de

  • New Voyages to North-America, 10:486

Laibach, Congress of, 17:253, 17:253, 17:255n

Lakanal, Joseph

  • identified, 9:268n
  • introduced by Lafayette, 9:300, 10:276, 18:580
  • introduced by A. Thoüin, 9:267–9:268
  • letter from, 10:107–10:109
  • letter to, 10:276–10:277
  • moves to Ky., 9:267–9:268, 9:300, 10:107, 10:276
  • as president of Orleans College, 18:580
  • proposed book of, 10:107–10:108, 10:276–10:277

Lake Champlain

  • fort on, 11:568, 11:569n
  • natural history of, 7:357
  • proposed canal to, 11:219n, 11:259, 11:280–11:281
  • Vt. militia crosses, 8:112, 8:112n

Lake Erie

  • O. H. Perry’s naval victory on, 6:524, 6:524n, 6:531, 6:546n, 7:11, 7:14, 7:56, 7:57n, 7:88, 7:89n, 8:259, 8:263
  • proposed canal to, 3:459–3:460, 3:597–3:598, 4:160, 4:161n, 11:219n, 11:259, 11:280–11:281, 11:339, 11:357–11:358, 11:358n, 11:360, 11:364–11:365, 11:376–11:377, 11:415, 11:434–11:435, 11:448
  • steamboats on, 12:401, 12:402n
  • survey on, 3:437
  • and War of 1812, 7:531, 18:311

Lake George, N.Y.

  • W. Short on, 8:687

Lake Ontario

  • proposed canal to, 3:459–3:460
  • and War of 1812, 7:10, 7:14, 7:531

Lake Superior

  • copper mines along, 12:411, 12:453–12:454, 12:454n

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de

  • J. Adams on, 9:527, 10:7
  • Astronomie, 4:244, 4:244n, 7:626, 10:235
  • as educator, 16:325
  • Histoire des Mathématiques, 6:381, 7:250, 7:626, 10:235, 12:344
  • and W. Lambert’s calculations, 4:253, 4:260, 5:249
  • mentioned, 7:480, 18:356
  • praised, 7:661
  • Tables de Logarithmes pour les Nombres et Pour les Sinus, 13:342–13:343n, 13:358, 13:394, 13:394, 13:474, 13:474, 13:474, 13:474–13:475n, 13:476, 13:477n, 13:524, 13:561, 13:561, 14:215, 15:133, 15:160
  • TJ on, 15:232

Lallemand, François Antoine, baron, 1:372

La Luzerne, Anne César, chevalier de, 10:115, 10:117n, 17:330, 17:344, 17:376n, 17:377n

La Luzerne, César Henri, comte de

  • as government minister, 17:357, 17:364, 17:364, 17:364, 17:368–17:369, 17:369, 17:377n

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de

  • Encyclopédie Méthodique: Botanique, 17:546, 17:546–17:547n
  • Histoire Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, 12:33, 14:168
  • praised, 7:661
  • works of, 11:192, 12:33

La Marck, Marie Françoise Augustine Ursule Le Danois de Cernay, comtesse de, 2:10

lamb, 14:383, 14:632

Lamb, George

  • translates The Poems of Caius Valerius Catullus (G. V. Catullus), 17:535

Lamb, John Fergusson

  • identified, 18:105n
  • letter from, 18:105
  • and medical education at University of Virginia, 18:105

Lambarde, William

  • Archaionomia, 7:126, 7:127
  • Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the Iustices of peace, 3:546

Lambert, John

  • letters to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n, 11:182

Lambert, William

  • Abstracts of Calculations, to ascertain the Longitude of the Capitol, in the City of Washington, 12:86, 13:314, 13:314n, 18:505
  • and American Philosophical Society, 5:251, 5:311, 7:436, 7:437n, 7:486
  • astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n, 4:634–4:637, 5:311, 18:505, 18:505–18:510, 18:528, 18:539, 19:628
  • calculates latitude and longitude of U.S. Capitol, 4:275, 4:651–4:660, 12:86, 18:287, 18:314, 18:505, 18:508, 18:528, 18:539, 18:539–18:545, 19:628
  • calculates Monticello’s longitude, 4:235–4:236, 4:239, 4:246, 4:247–4:266, 4:276, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–4:406, 4:407, 8:455, 8:456n
  • clerk of the House of Representatives, 1:275, 1:359n, 1:512
  • congratulates TJ, 1:54–1:55, 1:237–1:238
  • and domestic manufactures, 1:560–1:562
  • on House of Representatives, 1:274–1:275, 1:534–1:535
  • identified, 1:54–1:55n
  • and latitude calculations, 3:367n
  • letters from, 1:54–1:55, 1:274–1:276, 1:356–1:359, 1:489–1:498, 1:534–1:535, 1:539–1:540, 1:560–1:562, 2:54–2:55, 2:60–2:68, 2:337–2:338, 2:398–2:399, 2:566, 3:285, 4:235–4:236, 4:275–4:276, 4:402–4:406, 4:407–4:408, 4:634–4:637, 4:651–4:660, 5:245–5:251, 7:436–7:437, 12:86, 14:559, 18:287, 18:505, 18:528–18:529, 18:539, 19:33, 19:208–19:209, 19:210–19:211, 19:628–19:629
  • letters from accounted for, 2:68n
  • letters to, 1:237–1:238, 1:511–1:512, 2:541, 4:368–4:369, 18:314, 18:515, 19:197–19:201
  • letters to accounted for, 2:54–2:55n, 14:559n
  • lunar calculations, 1:539–1:540, 1:540–1:554, 2:54, 2:60–2:68, 5:245–5:251, 18:505, 18:505–18:510, 18:528, 18:539, 18:539–18:545
  • and Message from the President of the United States, transmitting a Report of William Lambert, on the subject of the Longitude of the Capitol of the United States. January 9, 1822, 18:287, 18:314, 18:508, 18:543–18:544, 19:211, 19:211n
  • ode for Fourth of July by, 2:399, 2:400–2:401
  • and prime meridian, 1:275–1:276, 1:356–1:358, 1:359n, 1:489–1:498, 1:511–1:512, 1:534–1:535, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–2:338, 2:398–2:399, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 3:367n, 18:314, 19:211, 19:628–19:629
  • proposes reformation of Gregorian calendar, 7:436–7:437, 7:486
  • as State Department clerk, 14:559
  • Table for Computing the Moon’s Motion, with Explanations, 1:540–1:554, 1:571–1:572, 1:608–1:609, 1:609n
  • Table of Logarithms, 19:33, 19:33–19:36
  • and TJ’s method of calculating longitude and latitude, 19:197–19:201, 19:208–19:209, 19:210–19:211
  • To the Critical Reviewers of Boston, 3:285
  • and University of Virginia, 18:287, 18:505, 18:510, 18:515, 18:528–18:529, 18:539, 19:33
  • and western exploration, 19:211

Lamberti, Thomas

  • letter from, 14:271
  • plans trip to New Orleans, 14:271
  • requests loan from TJ, 14:271

Lambrecht, Mr.

  • and Lafayette, 7:537

Lameth, Alexandre Théodore Victor

  • and French Constitution of 1791, 17:370
  • and French Revolution, 8:504, 8:508n

Lameth, Charles Malo François, 8:504, 8:508n

Lamétherie, Jean Claude de

  • as geologist, 2:551, 2:552n
  • Théorie de La Terre, 8:429, 8:429, 8:429–8:430n
  • writings of, 14:168

Lamoignon, Chrétine François de

  • as keeper of the seals, 17:358, 17:378n

La Motte, François Claude Adam. See Delamotte, François Claude Adam

La Motte, Jeanne de Saint Remy de Valois, comtesse de

  • Vie de Jeanne de St. Remy de Valois, ci-devant Comtesse de La Motte (included in Book of Kings compiled by TJ; see also Book of Kings), 8:33, 8:34n, 8:240
  • works on, 8:309, 8:310n

lampblack, 16:8, 17:7, 18:50, 19:15

Lampredi, Giovanni Maria, 7:688

lamps

  • at Bell Rock lighthouse, 4:362–4:363
  • W. Lewis’s, 12:378, 12:380n, 13:5
  • used in lighthouses, 18:185, 18:216
  • safety, 11:501

lamps, alabaster

  • brass chain for, 1:190, 1:309

Lancaster, Joseph

  • The British System of Education, 9:443n, 9:502, 9:503n, 9:529
  • educational system of, 10:45, 10:336, 10:338, 10:390–10:391, 10:481, 10:482n, 12:39, 12:402n, 16:29n, 16:60, 16:325, 17:388, 18:142
  • Improvements in Education, 1:662, 1:662n, 9:530n

Lancaster Schuylkill Bridge, 16:34, 16:34–16:35n

Lance, William

  • identified, 4:106n
  • letters from, 4:105–4:107
  • letter to, 4:175+
  • letters to accounted for, 4:107n
  • An Oration, delivered on the Fourth of July, 1816, In St. Michael’s Church, S. C. by appointment of the ’76 Association, 11:530n
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 4:105, 4:106n, 4:175+

Lancelot, Claude

  • as grammarian, 19:407, 19:409n
  • Le Jardin des Racines Greques, 10:234
  • A New Method Of learning with Facility the Latin Tongue, 17:536, 17:537n
  • A New Method Of learning with greater Facility the Greek Tongue, 17:536, 17:537n
  • The Primitives of the Greek Tongue, 10:358, 12:313, 12:356, 17:536, 17:537n

land conveyances. See indentures

Landon, Charles Paul

  • Description de Paris et de ses Édifices, 12:107
  • edits Annales du Musée et de l’école moderne des beaux-arts, 12:107

Landriot

  • French publisher, 13:343n

Landrum, Mr.

  • and J. Monroe’s Highland estate, 19:397

Landsdown, Lord. See Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3d Marquess of

Lane, John

  • death of, 17:609n
  • visits J. W. Eppes, 12:7

Lane, Ralph, 11:293+, 11:293n+

Lane, Sally (Sarah) Eppes (John Wayles Eppes’s sister; John Lane’s wife)

  • business affairs of, 17:608, 17:609n
  • visits J. W. Eppes, 12:7

Lane, Samuel

  • assaulted by J. Dougherty, 14:544–14:545
  • as commissioner of public buildings, 12:196, 12:278, 12:278, 12:520, 12:641, 14:545, 15:320–15:321n

Lane’s Ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n, 8:290

Langdon, John

  • biography of proposed, 15:546–15:547
  • correspondence with TJ, 15:496, 15:497, 15:510–15:511, 15:546
  • correspondence with S. Ringgold, 19:331, 19:332n
  • death of, 15:235
  • as governor of N.H., 2:348
  • identified, 2:231–2:232n
  • letters from, 2:230–2:232
  • letters to, 2:274–2:277, 7:365
  • as member of Continental Congress, 6:184n
  • and political situation, 2:230–2:231, 2:274–2:277
  • TJ introduces W. C. Rives to, 7:365
  • TJ on, 13:25
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Lange, Abraham

  • Augusta Co. innkeeper, 13:230, 13:231, 13:232, 13:519
  • identified, 13:519–13:520n
  • letter from accounted for, 13:599n
  • letters to, 13:519–13:520, 13:599
  • letter to accounted for, 13:520n
  • and seeds for TJ, 13:519, 13:599

Langhorne, Frances Steptoe, 12:237n

Langhorne, John

  • Letters Supposed to have passed between M. De St. Evremond and Mr. Waller, 19:506, 19:509n
  • translates Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langhorne, William

  • translates Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langland, William

  • The Vision of Pierce Plowman, 1:390, 1:397n, 9:633, 9:633n

Langley, Batty

  • Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated, 2:82, 11:165

Langon (wine), 9:513

language See also Anglo-Saxon (Old English) language; English language; French language; German language; Greek language; Italian language; Latin language; Spanish language

  • Arabic, 8:3, 8:5
  • books on French, 2:27n, 5:557
  • books on Spanish, 2:32n
  • bound pamphlets on, 13:456, 13:457n
  • Catalan, 12:47
  • Chinese, 1:518, 1:518n, 7:480, 13:124, 13:124n, 13:142
  • collegiate education in, 12:3–12:4, 12:76, 12:76, 12:85, 12:120, 12:124, 12:150, 12:201, 12:204, 12:467, 13:301, 14:150, 14:345–14:346, 14:347–14:348, 14:517, 14:519, 14:589–14:590, 16:628, 16:629n, 19:558–19:559, 19:570
  • Coptic, 8:3
  • Danish, 13:237
  • Erse, 16:85n
  • French training of T. J. Randolph, 1:520, 1:557
  • Gaelic, 7:560, 7:561n, 8:3
  • Hebrew, 7:715, 8:5, 9:652, 13:570, 13:570n, 14:269, 17:466
  • Indian (American), 1:205, 1:269, 1:520–1:521, 1:555–1:557, 1:599n, 1:651–1:652, 3:596, 3:596, 3:596–3:597, 3:616, 7:181, 7:182n, 7:243, 7:281, 9:65, 9:65–9:66, 9:372–9:373, 9:373n, 10:377, 10:377, 10:444, 10:445, 11:126–11:127, 11:454, 12:171, 12:172, 12:236, 12:250, 12:250–12:251, 12:294, 12:295n, 12:295–12:296n, 12:331, 12:385–12:386, 12:386n, 12:636n, 12:637, 13:90, 13:90, 13:90, 14:132n, 16:79, 16:79–16:85, 16:107–16:109, 16:109–16:110, 16:118, 16:118–16:120, 16:132–16:133, 16:133, 16:261–16:262, 16:459, 18:198, 18:225, 18:356, 19:348
  • Irish, 16:85n
  • neology, 7:209, 7:514, 9:632–9:633, 13:96, 16:194–16:195, 16:571
  • Persian, 8:6, 11:351, 11:351n, 11:441
  • philosophy of, 15:223–15:224
  • and phonics, 2:306–2:307, 2:308n
  • Portuguese, 13:238
  • Punic, 7:560, 7:561n
  • Russian, 1:556, 7:480
  • Sanskrit, 7:480, 8:3
  • sign, 1:662, 1:662n
  • study of, 5:359+, 7:357, 7:480, 7:481n, 7:658, 7:660–7:661, 7:666, 7:686, 8:3, 10:370–10:372, 10:516, 10:542, 12:15–12:16, 12:249–12:250, 12:259, 12:291–12:292, 16:29n, 16:65, 16:65, 16:77, 16:325, 18:9, 18:225
  • Swedish, 13:237, 16:109, 16:109–16:110
  • TJ on study of, 4:162–4:163, 7:243, 7:447, 7:637, 7:638, 7:640, 7:641, 8:13, 8:341, 9:372–9:373, 9:626
  • TJ on translation, 9:353, 9:354n
  • translations by TJ, 3:11–3:15, 3:21–3:23, 3:652, 10:594
  • translations by D. B. Warden, 1:142
  • Welsh, 16:85n

Lania (TJ’s slave; b. 1805)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303

L. Annæi Flori Epitome Rerum Romanarum (L. A. Florus; ed. J. G. Graevius), 14:511

Lannes, Jean, Duc de Montebello, 1:371, 1:372

Lannes, Louise Antoinette, Duchesse de Montebello

  • and D. B. Warden, 7:490, 7:491n

Lansdowne, George Granville, Baron

  • correspondence of, 17:460n

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3d Marquess of

  • British politician, 7:541, 15:469, 15:470n

Lansdowne, William Petty, 2d Earl of Shelburne and 1st Marquess of

  • family of, 15:469, 15:470n, 15:470n
  • on taxation, 7:299

lanterns, 1:303, 12:378, 12:380n, 13:5, 18:185, 18:216

Lanusse, Paul, 6:436

Lapa, Manoel de Almeida e Vasconcellos, Visconde da

  • Portuguese official, 19:356

La Pérouse, Jean François de Galalup, comte de

  • Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, 1:445–1:449

Lapie, Pierre

  • Carte réduite de la Mer Méditerranée et de la mer Noire, 1:247–1:248, 15:579, 15:579n

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de

  • Americans correspond with, 4:196
  • Analyse du Traite de Mécanique Céleste de P. S. Laplace (J. B. Biot), 13:314n
  • as astronomer, 9:85, 12:442, 12:619, 14:153
  • error of detected, 4:634
  • Exposition du Systême du Monde, 1:348, 1:349n, 1:357, 1:491, 13:342, 13:359, 13:494, 13:525
  • mentioned, 14:323
  • praised, 7:661
  • Traité de Mécanique Céleste, 12:566n, 13:342, 13:359, 13:494, 13:525, 14:45, 17:410
  • J. Wood’s book sent to, 2:171

Laporte, Alexander

  • letter from accounted for, 14:273n

Laporte, Arnaud de

  • as government minister, 17:364

Laporte, E.

  • letter from accounted for, 18:257n

Laporte, Peter (Victoire Laporte’s husband) See also Laporte’s boardinghouse (Charlottesville)

  • family of, 14:210, 14:274, 14:294, 14:425, 14:425, 14:438, 15:239, 15:239n, 15:243, 15:484, 17:119–17:120, 17:231–17:232
  • finances of, 16:77, 16:78n, 16:190n, 18:256
  • health of, 15:484
  • and J. B. Herard, 15:266
  • identified, 14:273n
  • letters from, 14:383, 14:528, 14:571–14:572, 15:270, 15:484
  • letters to, 14:272–14:273, 14:382–14:383, 15:280
  • patents of, 17:119–17:120, 17:149–17:150, 17:232n
  • T. M. Randolph as security for, 17:156
  • requests loan of carriage, 15:484
  • tavern of, 13:230, 13:230, 13:231, 13:232, 14:425, 15:141, 15:142n
  • TJ as security for, 15:270, 15:280, 15:379n, 15:397, 15:397n, 17:156, 17:176
  • TJ’s debt to, 15:425, 15:426, 16:366n, 16:376n
  • travels of, 17:119–17:120
  • and University of Virginia, 16:475, 16:479
  • visits Monticello, 15:141

Laporte, Victoire (Peter Laporte’s wife)

  • identified, 17:120n
  • letters from, 17:119–17:120, 17:231–17:232, 18:256–18:257
  • letters from accounted for, 17:120n, 17:232n, 18:257n
  • letter to, 17:149–17:150
  • requests assistance from TJ, 18:256–18:257
  • seeks information on husband, 17:119–17:120, 17:149–17:150, 17:231–17:232
  • TJ provides credit for, 17:176, 17:212n, 17:232

Laportea canadensis. See nettle, wood

La Porte Du Theil, François Jean Gabriel de

  • translates Théatre d’Æschyle (Aeschylus), 15:26, 15:490, 15:491n

Laporte’s boardinghouse (Charlottesville) See also Laporte, Peter

  • advertisement for, 14:425, 15:109, 15:109n
  • bedding for, 14:383n, 14:425, 14:528, 15:378
  • boarders at, 14:210, 14:268, 14:274, 14:294, 14:383n, 14:472, 14:517, 14:519, 14:525–14:526, 14:640, 15:12, 15:270, 15:280, 16:24
  • charges for boarding at, 14:272, 14:294, 14:383n, 14:425, 14:439, 15:270, 15:280, 15:378, 15:379n, 16:24
  • closing of, 16:77, 16:190n
  • fare served at, 14:382, 14:383n, 14:383, 14:425, 14:425
  • French language spoken at, 14:210, 14:274, 14:294, 14:425, 14:425, 14:438–14:439, 14:512, 14:517, 14:519, 14:525–14:526, 14:571, 15:141, 15:241, 15:243
  • location of, 16:26n
  • misbehavior of boarders, 15:140–15:141, 15:500n
  • opening of, 14:210, 14:261, 14:272–14:273, 14:294, 14:383n, 14:383n, 14:425

Laporte’s Tavern (Augusta Co.), 13:230, 13:230, 13:231, 13:232, 14:425

lard

  • in New Englanders’ diet, 14:420
  • price of, 17:26
  • as scab remedy, 5:182n
  • sent to TJ, 12:324, 13:566, 15:311, 16:470–16:471

La Révellière Lépeaux, Louis Marie de, 10:44

Large, Daniel

  • and hydrostatic engines, 7:232

La Rivière. See Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

La Roche, Martin Lefèbvre de (abbé), 3:9, 3:17, 3:87, 3:89n, 3:330

La Rochefoucauld, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, duchesse de. See Castellane, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, marquise de

La Rochefoucauld, François de

  • J. Adams on, 6:228, 6:287, 6:296
  • criticized, 7:220
  • on marriage, 7:403, 7:405n
  • maxims of, 9:433, 9:434n, 19:505

La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de

  • friendship with J. L. Guillemard, 9:134, 9:135n
  • friendship with J. de Lespinasse, 14:30
  • reports to Louis XVI, 17:366, 17:378n

La Romana, José Caro, marquês, 2:247, 2:248n

La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de, 2:74

La Rue, Charles de

  • edits Opera. Interpretatione et Notis (Virgil; Delphin edition), 8:660, 9:274, 9:464, 9:538, 9:639, 13:33, 13:33, 13:47, 13:47

Lasalle, Philippe de, 2:591

La Salle, René Robert Cavelier de

  • and settlement of La., 9:445, 9:479, 10:627, 11:460n

Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, comte de (A. Le Sage)

  • Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique, 3:552, 3:552n, 3:578
  • Genealogical, chronological, historical, and geographical atlas, 4:325–4:326, 4:326n, 5:7, 5:83, 5:114, 5:211, 5:436, 7:90
  • Memorial de Sainte Helene. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, 19:546, 19:547n, 19:569, 19:584, 19:669
  • Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, ou Journal ou se trouve consigné, jour par jour, ce qu’a dit et fait Napoléon durant dix-huit mois, 19:517, 19:517n, 19:546
  • work of sent to M. J. Randolph, 5:7, 5:436, 7:90

La Serna de Santander, Carlos Antonio

  • Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliotheque de M. C. de la Serna Santander, 8:559, 8:561, 8:562n
  • owns Bollandist manuscript, 8:559, 8:561

Last Day. A Poem In Three Books (Young), 6:297

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Louis, marquis de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

Lasteyrie du Saillant, Virginie, marquise de (Lafayette’s daughter)

  • family of, 17:254, 17:255n, 18:428, 19:230, 19:231n
  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

Lasteyrie-Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De

  • agricultural report of, 2:83
  • Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture, 1:37, 2:83, 11:164
  • Du Pastel, de l’indigotier, 3:461–3:462, 10:471
  • identified, 3:115n
  • introduces G. Flower, 9:667, 10:299, 10:559, 10:560, 10:592, 11:124
  • letters from, 3:114–3:115, 3:461–3:462, 9:667–9:669
  • as lithographer, 9:667
  • sends books on arts and sciences, 3:114, 3:115n, 3:461–3:462
  • sends greetings to TJ, 1:141
  • Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d’Espagne, 2:83, 11:164
  • A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad (trans. H. A. S. Dearborn), 3:462n, 10:471

Lastri, Marco Antonio

  • Corso di agricoltura, 11:164

Latham, William

  • identified, 17:97n
  • letter from, to W. Maury, 17:97
  • and J. Maury’s consulship, 17:96, 17:97, 17:509
  • as J. Maury’s partner, 5:253, 5:253n, 17:96

Latimer, George

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461

Latimer (Latemer), W. G.

  • and University of Virginia, 19:54

Latin America

  • religion in, 16:590
  • revolutions in, 4:359, 7:14–7:15, 7:29, 12:247–12:248, 16:528–16:529
  • TJ on liberation of, 7:14–7:15, 7:29–7:30, 10:373–10:375
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 4:508

Latin and English Dictionary abridged (R. Ainsworth), 1:35, 17:221

Latin language

  • applicants to teach at University of Virginia, 16:426, 16:502, 19:443
  • of G. Buchanan, 2:215
  • collegiate education in, 12:3–12:4, 12:33, 12:120, 12:120, 12:509, 13:195, 13:195–13:196, 13:214, 13:215–13:216, 13:218, 13:233, 13:278, 13:402, 14:132, 14:551, 14:589, 17:376n, 19:42, 19:44n
  • dictionaries, 6:387, 8:660, 9:274, 9:274, 9:276, 9:277n, 10:235, 10:235, 10:237n, 10:358, 12:439, 14:193, 14:221, 14:240, 14:258, 14:265, 14:266, 14:286, 15:450, 15:452n, 17:211, 17:221
  • documents in, by
    • T. de Bry, 7:614–7:615
    • T. J. O’Flaherty, 19:443–19:444
    • S. G. Tucker, 1:617–1:619
  • elementary education in, 13:195–13:196, 13:215, 17:231, 17:541, 19:590
  • and etymology, 16:224, 16:257
  • glossaries, 13:342, 13:358, 13:394, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561
  • letters in, from
    • F. Glass, 18:552–18:554
  • pronunciation of, 14:153
  • and Randolph family, 19:454n
  • study of, 3:327–3:328, 3:372, 3:501, 4:131, 4:372, 4:648, 6:65, 7:447, 7:658, 7:659, 7:660–7:661, 7:662–7:663, 7:666, 7:685–7:686, 8:13, 8:200, 8:446–8:447, 8:449n, 8:482, 8:482, 8:513, 8:514, 9:251, 9:607, 9:626, 10:358, 10:358, 10:664, 11:112, 11:233, 11:261, 11:409, 11:625, 11:626–11:627, 13:237, 13:537, 14:251, 14:257–14:258, 14:276, 14:280, 14:294, 14:323, 14:351, 14:425, 14:438, 14:516, 14:519, 14:566n, 15:242n, 16:29n, 16:280, 16:329, 16:329–16:330, 18:79n, 18:161, 18:399, 18:556, 18:659
  • thesauri, 17:535
  • TJ on, 7:447, 9:607–9:608, 11:252, 12:206, 14:629–14:631, 18:79n
  • TJ quotes proverb in, 19:112n
  • TJ studies, 17:309–17:310
  • verses in requested, 9:264–9:266, 9:374–9:375
  • works in, 16:208–16:209, 16:219, 16:236–16:237, 16:258, 16:290, 16:290n, 16:330, 16:393, 16:530, 18:32, 18:242n, 18:278, 18:552–18:553, 18:554n, 18:583–18:584, 19:478, 19:669, 19:696

latitude

  • and calculation of longitude, 15:288, 18:505, 19:199, 19:208
  • calculations for Monticello, 9:70, 9:415, 11:40, 12:618
  • calculations for Natural Bridge, 9:26n, 9:36, 9:36n
  • calculations for Peaks of Otter, 9:18, 9:36, 9:36, 9:36–9:37n, 9:173, 13:385, 13:385n
  • calculations for Poplar Forest, 3:361–3:367, 3:563+, 9:245–9:246, 10:514–10:515
  • calculations for U.S. Capitol, 18:287, 18:540, 18:543–18:544, 18:545, 19:35–19:36
  • calculations for Willis’s Mountain, 10:xlvii–10:xlviii, 10:571–10:572
  • W. King’s method of calculating, 12:643–12:644, 13:84–13:85, 13:119–13:120
  • logarithms for calculating, 19:35–19:36
  • and maps of Va., 16:99, 16:100
  • of Norwich, Vt., 9:241
  • and political boundary lines, 15:276n, 19:23, 19:66–19:67, 19:67, 19:68n
  • TJ’s method for calculating, 19:200–19:201
  • and western exploration, 19:197, 19:198, 19:211

Latour, Chatêau (wine), 9:513

Latour, Géraud Calixte Jean Baptiste Arsène Lacarrière

  • Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814–15, 9:129n
  • identified, 9:103n
  • letter from, 9:103
  • letter to, 9:128–9:129
  • Proposals, for Publishing by Subscription, The History of the War in Louisiana & West Florida, 9:103, 9:103n, 9:128–9:129
  • witnesses deed, 3:478n

La Tour-du-Pin Gouvernet, Jean Frédéric, comte de

  • as government minister, 17:368

La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie, comtesse de (Lafayette’s daughter)

  • family of, 18:428, 18:428
  • inheritance of, 2:17
  • marriage contract with, 2:16
  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

La Tour-Maubourg, Célestine de (Lafayette’s granddaughter), 17:254, 17:255n

La Tour-Maubourg, Charles, comte de (Lafayette’s son-in-law), 2:17

La Tour-Maubourg, Marie Charles César de Fay, comte de

  • and French Constitution of 1791, 17:370, 17:378n

Latreille, Pierre André, 14:387

La Trémoïlle, Marie Geneviève de Durfort, duchesse de, 2:10, 2:15

Latrobe, Benjamin

  • J. Bruce introduced to, 11:613

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

  • and alterations to U.S. Capitol’s design, 8:595–8:596, 8:596n
  • and Annapolis naval depot, 12:519
  • Anniversary Oration, 3:624, 3:625n
  • and J. Barlow’s letter, 5:576, 5:577n
  • and E. F. Bond’s application, 5:525, 5:526n
  • and builders’ prices, 12:159, 12:196, 12:278, 12:519–12:520, 13:612
  • and capitals (architectural), 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595, 10:xlvii, 10:350, 10:350 (illus.), 10:350, 10:351n, 10:510–10:511, 10:511 (illus.), 11:xlv–11:xlvi, 11:232 (illus.), 11:481, 11:481n, 11:481n, 11:535, 11:572, 12:143
  • and carving for TJ, 4:66, 4:459, 5:206–5:207
  • and Central College craftsmen, 11:535, 11:571, 11:571, 11:602, 11:610–11:611
  • and Central College design, 11:315, 11:431–11:432, 11:453, 11:479–11:480, 11:481n, 11:535, 11:563, 11:564–11:565, 11:586–11:587, 11:610–11:612, 11:649–11:650, 12:72–12:73, 12:94, 12:143, 12:638, 13:57–13:58
  • and Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 16:33
  • and Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11:144n, 11:144n
  • on conflict with TJ, 8:592–8:593
  • death of, 19:90
  • designs houses in Philadelphia, 4:63–4:64
  • designs Richmond penitentiary, 17:326
  • drawings by, 2:39, 2:40n, 2:106, 3:535–3:536, 3:537n, 3:581–3:582, 3:590–3:591, 8:594 (illus.), 8:595 (illus.), 12:72–12:73, 12:94, 12:143
  • edits J. Bruce’s work, 11:612–11:613, 11:614n
  • and expenses at U.S. Capitol, 5:205, 5:207n, 5:238, 5:239n
  • family of, 11:613, 11:614n, 12:72, 12:94, 12:519
  • to find work for J. Dougherty, 1:199
  • furnishes President’s House, 1:43n
  • health of, 10:510, 12:519, 12:639
  • identified, 1:474–1:475n
  • letters from, 1:473–1:475, 3:534–3:538, 3:624–3:625, 4:63–4:67, 5:205–5:207, 8:591–8:596, 10:510–10:511, 11:453, 11:479–11:481, 11:563–11:565, 11:571–11:572, 11:610–11:615, 12:72–12:73, 12:143, 12:196, 12:278, 12:519–12:521, 12:638–12:639
  • letters to, 1:595–1:596, 3:555–3:557, 4:459, 5:238–5:239, 8:479–8:480, 10:350–10:351, 11:431–11:432, 11:534–11:536, 11:586–11:588, 11:602, 11:649–11:650, 12:94, 12:159, 13:57–13:58
  • letter to, from W. Thackara, 12:278–12:279
  • mentioned, 6:216, 12:166
  • and J. Monroe, 12:520, 12:638–12:639, 12:639
  • Opinion on a Project for Removing the Obstructions to a Ship Navigation to Georgetown, Col., 12:521
  • oversees work at Washington Navy Yard, 4:64, 5:206
  • and payment for Italian sculptors, 1:78n, 1:113, 1:114n
  • A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress, 3:537n
  • and proposed marine hospital, 5:178, 5:179n, 5:206
  • proposed visit to Monticello, 1:366, 1:474, 1:595–1:596, 11:535, 11:565
  • as reference, 14:652
  • relocates to Washington, 8:591
  • resigns from work on U.S. Capitol, 12:196, 12:278, 12:638, 12:639, 12:643n, 13:58
  • seeks office, 7:165–7:166
  • and steamboats, 7:56–7:57, 8:591, 11:565, 11:565n
  • students of, 7:165–7:166, 7:166n
  • TJ recommends carpenters to, 8:479–8:480, 8:592
  • and TJ’s sundial, 10:xlvii, 10:350, 10:350 (illus.), 10:350, 10:510, 11:432
  • and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362, 5:298
  • works on Baltimore Merchants’ Exchange, 12:196
  • works on U.S. Capitol, 1:65, 1:92, 1:474n, 3:534–3:537, 3:555–3:556, 4:64–4:66, 4:67n, 5:205–5:206, 5:238, 5:359+, 8:479–8:480, 8:591–8:596, 10:510–10:511, 11:480–11:481, 12:143, 12:520–12:521, 12:638, 12:639–12:643, 19:226

Latrobe, Henry Sellon Boneval

  • as assistant clerk, 1:65n
  • death of, 12:72, 12:94

Latrobe, Mary Elizabeth Hazlehurst (Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s wife)

  • greetings from, 5:207, 8:596

Lattimer, Nancy

  • signs petition, 18:146

Lattimore, Hannah

  • signs petition, 18:146

Latting, Jacob

  • claims of against Spain, 12:142
  • identified, 12:142n
  • letter from, 12:142

Laud, William, archbishop of Canterbury, 5:387, 5:389, 6:145, 6:228

Lauffeld, Battle of (1747)

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Launay, Bernard René Jourdan de

  • execution of, 17:365, 17:366

“Launcelot Light” (pseudonym)

  • A Sketch of the Rights of Boys and Girls, 18:228, 18:229n

Laurence, Mr. (sloop captain), 11:204

Laurens, Henry

  • diplomatic service of, 17:329
  • family of, 7:28
  • relationship with B. Franklin, 13:466

Laurent, Simon, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

Laurentii Vallæ de linguae Latinae Elegantia (L. Valla), 17:535

Laurie, Robert

  • A New Juvenile Atlas, and familiar introduction to the use of maps, 8:76, 8:77n, 8:78n

Laurie & Whittle (London firm)

  • map engravers, 7:70n

Laval, John

  • account with TJ, 14:384, 14:423, 14:467–14:468, 14:472, 15:425, 15:440, 15:463, 15:490, 16:40n, 17:403, 17:443, 17:526, 17:535, 18:358, 18:375, 18:376, 18:447, 18:529, 19:696
  • and books for TJ, 11:283–11:284, 14:221–14:222, 14:240, 14:266, 14:276, 14:351, 14:384, 14:423, 14:467–14:468, 14:505, 14:552, 15:440, 15:490, 15:503–15:504, 15:594, 15:607, 16:25, 16:40, 17:403, 17:443, 17:526, 17:535, 17:535–17:537, 18:73, 18:123, 18:197, 18:202, 18:358, 18:375, 18:376, 18:439, 18:447, 18:487, 19:517, 19:546, 19:569, 19:584, 19:669, 19:696, 19:696n
  • and N. G. Dufief’s business, 11:241, 11:247, 11:283–11:284, 13:513, 14:221–14:222, 14:467–14:468, 14:505, 18:376
  • identified, 11:284n
  • letter from accounted for, 15:504n
  • letters from, 11:283–11:284, 13:513, 14:240–14:241, 14:351, 14:467–14:468, 14:552, 15:440, 15:503–15:504, 15:607–15:608, 16:40, 17:443, 17:535, 18:123–18:124, 18:202, 18:375–18:376, 18:447, 18:529, 19:546–19:547, 19:584, 19:696
  • letters to, 14:221–14:222, 14:266, 14:276, 14:384, 14:423, 14:505, 15:463, 15:481, 15:490–15:491, 15:594, 16:25, 17:403, 17:526, 18:73, 18:197, 18:358, 18:439, 18:440, 18:487, 19:517, 19:569, 19:669
  • letters to accounted for, 14:552n, 19:696n
  • as publisher, 19:546–19:547, 19:569
  • TJ pays, 15:481, 18:487, 18:487, 18:491, 19:696n
  • TJ’s correspondence with, 18:440

Lavalette, Antoine Marie Chamans, comte de

  • escapes from prison, 12:95

La Vallière, Françoise Louise de la Baume Le Blanc de

  • print of, 11:403

La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, duc de

  • as government minister, 17:357, 17:364
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

lavender

  • alternative names for, 10:215, 10:218n
  • grown in France, 10:216
  • qualities of, 10:216, 10:217
  • sent by S. Cathalan, 10:215, 10:216, 11:406, 11:531, 13:565, 13:585

Lavergné, Celestino, 5:85n

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

  • theories of, 10:68–10:69, 12:518, 18:625, 18:626n
  • Traité Élémentaire de Chimie, 7:626, 10:234

law See also Virginia: laws of

  • agrarian, 4:168
  • books on, 1:158, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:103, 2:104n, 2:420, 2:521, 2:676, 2:676, 2:677, 3:173–3:176n, 3:236–3:237n, 3:546–3:547, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:245, 6:45, 6:122, 6:372, 6:374, 6:412–6:413, 6:445, 6:477, 6:479, 6:598, 7:125–7:127, 7:146–7:148, 7:228, 7:249, 7:249–7:250, 7:257–7:258, 7:292, 7:292n, 7:627–7:628, 7:683, 8:40, 8:151, 8:152n, 8:175, 8:179, 8:231, 8:235, 8:244, 8:285, 8:301, 8:328, 8:348–8:349, 8:388, 8:399, 8:630, 8:630, 8:630, 8:672, 8:672, 8:673n, 9:107, 9:107n, 9:129, 10:235, 10:390, 10:404, 10:404n, 10:417, 10:417, 10:428–10:429, 10:438, 10:452, 10:457, 10:486, 10:557n, 10:564–10:565, 10:569, 10:572, 10:617, 10:625, 11:352, 12:291, 12:291, 12:291, 12:337, 12:337, 12:364, 12:364, 12:400, 13:33, 13:47, 13:53, 13:53, 13:100, 13:107, 13:368–13:369, 13:369n, 14:78, 14:133, 14:146, 14:147n, 14:165, 14:166, 14:219, 14:222, 14:240, 14:445, 15:340, 15:391, 16:45, 16:162, 16:168–16:169, 16:211–16:212, 16:239, 16:240, 16:240, 16:241, 16:241, 16:260–16:261, 16:286, 16:364, 16:486, 16:499, 16:504n, 16:615, 16:640–16:642, 17:197, 17:210, 17:233, 17:402, 17:402n, 17:419, 17:419, 17:450, 17:450n, 17:538, 17:563, 18:239, 18:329, 18:330n, 18:334, 18:334–18:335, 18:335, 18:362, 18:367, 18:374, 18:381, 18:418n, 18:418n, 18:418n, 18:442–18:443, 18:446, 18:446n, 18:463, 18:467, 18:468n, 18:473, 18:473, 18:475, 18:488, 18:559, 18:580, 19:116, 19:402, 19:436, 19:437, 19:453, 19:459–19:460, 19:460–19:461n, 19:488–19:489, 19:672, 19:684, 19:687
  • bound pamphlets on, 8:630, 13:456
  • British, 5:135–5:136, 7:125–7:127, 7:146–7:148, 7:190–7:191, 7:257, 7:688, 10:101, 10:557n, 10:564–10:565, 10:625, 11:369–11:370, 11:433, 16:640–16:642, 18:531, 19:97–19:98, 19:100n, 19:420
  • British sympathies of attorneys, 7:57–7:58, 7:248–7:249
  • chancery, 16:641
  • civil, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:526, 2:527, 2:678, 2:679, 3:31, 4:477, 7:688, 8:483–8:484, 10:302
  • collegiate education in, 7:480, 7:663, 7:668, 12:4, 12:26, 12:27, 12:76, 12:124, 12:333, 13:195, 13:195, 13:214, 13:214, 13:298–13:299, 13:403, 14:459, 16:628, 16:629n, 17:101, 17:328, 17:328, 19:570, 19:583, 19:633
  • common, 1:381–1:382, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:527, 2:532, 3:117, 3:144, 3:165, 4:293, 4:296–4:297n, 4:297–4:298, 4:300–4:301, 5:58–5:59, 5:135–5:136, 7:125–7:127, 7:146–7:148, 7:190–7:191, 7:217, 10:190–10:191, 11:369–11:370, 11:433, 14:219, 18:467, 18:468n
  • compilations proposed, 7:257–7:258
  • criminal, 1:382, 1:384n, 7:374–7:378
  • of distribution, 10:190–10:191, 10:192n
  • doom book, 7:125
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:330–4:332
  • ecclesiastical, 16:642, 19:165
  • endorsement, property, and replevin, 9:277–9:278, 9:278n, 9:279–9:280, 10:190–10:191, 10:302, 18:364, 18:365–18:366n, 18:550, 18:576n
  • estate, 19:413–19:414, 19:649–19:650
  • feudal, 3:174–3:175n, 7:688
  • French, 2:676, 2:678, 3:47–3:48, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:130–3:132, 3:159–3:160, 3:203, 3:226–3:227, 3:236–3:237n, 4:477, 4:643n, 5:45–5:47, 5:576, 5:576–5:577n, 7:688
  • on gambling, 18:460, 18:580–18:581
  • Gentoo Code, 7:219, 7:221n
  • of Great Britain, 1:382, 1:424, 4:293, 4:294, 4:296–4:297n, 4:297–4:298, 4:299–4:300, 4:302n, 5:137n, 8:525, 8:526, 8:527n, 16:196, 16:603
  • insolvency, 14:237
  • international, 16:296n, 16:642, 19:165, 19:406–19:407
  • Jewish, 3:124–3:125, 3:165
  • and judicial review, 1:380, 8:525–8:526, 16:287, 16:288, 16:288, 16:289n, 16:353–16:354, 16:483, 16:489, 18:364–18:365, 18:365–18:366n, 18:367, 18:367n, 18:378–18:379, 18:550–18:551, 18:576n, 18:576n
  • jurisprudence, 11:368–11:370, 11:432–11:434, 16:603
  • jus gentium principle, 10:627
  • and Latin writings, 14:630
  • Laws of Manu, 7:219, 7:221n
  • legal profession, 7:273, 12:465, 13:50, 16:557, 16:603
  • legal writing, 12:16
  • Magna Carta, 7:67, 7:125, 7:126, 16:619
  • marital, 8:374, 8:376n
  • maritime, 7:688, 7:688n, 16:642, 19:165
  • martial, 1:571, 3:120–3:121, 10:422–10:423, 10:423n, 18:384
  • medical, 17:236
  • natural, 3:138–3:139, 3:142, 3:144, 10:557–10:558, 10:594, 12:441, 14:43, 16:296n
  • and perjury, 10:428–10:430, 10:497–10:499
  • professional education in, 7:639, 7:640, 7:688
  • and punishment of criminals, 12:484, 12:517, 14:78, 16:499
  • T. M. Randolph on careers in, 17:304–17:305
  • Roman, 2:676, 3:47–3:48, 3:130–3:131, 3:133, 3:151n, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:236n, 3:237n, 3:546, 4:502, 4:643n, 16:641, 19:165
  • Salic, 9:317
  • Spanish, 2:471, 2:678, 3:71, 3:160–3:161, 3:175n, 4:477, 4:643n, 18:239
  • study of, 3:276, 7:688, 8:341, 8:341, 8:342, 11:11, 14:550, 16:162, 16:495, 17:275–17:276, 17:493, 18:230n, 18:303, 18:475, 18:488, 18:488–18:489, 18:580, 19:116, 19:164–19:165, 19:166n, 19:436, 19:608n, 19:645n
  • TJ on attorneys, 7:129, 7:248–7:249, 19:650
  • TJ on study of, 4:162, 7:626, 7:627–7:628, 7:628, 16:65, 16:640–16:642, 17:494, 18:334–18:335, 19:488–19:489
  • TJ provides legal advice, 9:27–9:28, 9:42–9:43n, 9:44, 9:72–9:73, 9:93–9:94, 9:120–9:121, 10:190–10:191, 11:146–11:147, 11:478, 11:479, 11:485, 11:486, 11:514–11:520, 11:520n, 11:538, 11:538–11:539, 11:542, 14:246, 14:251, 14:254, 14:255, 14:646, 17:269–17:270, 19:649–19:650
  • TJ provides training in, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:77n, 2:259, 2:420
  • TJ refuses to intervene in case, 10:406–10:407
  • TJ studies, 17:310, 17:311
  • TJ’s legal commonplace book, 7:125, 7:130n, 7:151n, 7:190–7:191
  • and tyranny, 14:201
  • usury, 15:260, 15:261, 15:350–15:351, 15:352n, 16:445, 16:491
  • in utopian societies, 19:378–19:380
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:503
  • and the West, 3:423–3:424

Law, Edmund

  • and Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11:144n
  • health of, 19:431

Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough

  • and alleged remarks on TJ by C. J. Fox, 3:261n, 3:261–3:262, 4:234
  • family of, 3:261n, 3:262n

Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis (Thomas Law’s wife), 3:209n

Law, John (d. 1729)

  • Mississippi scheme of, 6:586, 6:593n, 9:407

Law, John (d. 1822), 19:431, 19:431n

Law, Jonathan

  • identified, 1:95n
  • letters from, 1:95
  • letters to, 1:126–1:127
  • and meeting of Conn. Republicans, 1:95, 1:126–1:127

Law, Thomas

  • Additional Facts, Remarks, and Arguments. Illustrative of the Advantage to the People of the United States, of a National Circulating Medium, 19:202, 19:202n, 19:225
  • amanuensis for, 19:202, 19:225
  • on Anglo-American relations, 4:234
  • on banks and banking, 6:578, 6:592, 6:594, 6:649, 6:649, 7:468, 8:475
  • on British economy, 7:468
  • and Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences, 11:143, 11:148–11:149
  • on education, 7:342
  • on European political economy, 7:467–7:468
  • family of, 19:431, 19:431n
  • and Federalist criticism of TJ, 4:234
  • Homo’s Letters on a National Currency, addressed to the People of the United States, 11:61, 11:62n
  • identified, 3:209n
  • on interest-bearing treasury notes, 6:534, 6:578, 6:592, 6:594, 6:649, 7:468
  • introduces J. J. Chapman to TJ, 19:431
  • introduces C. D. Crommelin and J. van Lennep to TJ, 16:564
  • introduces F. Hall to TJ, 10:594
  • letter from to J. Wagner, 3:261–3:262
  • letters from, 3:209, 3:261, 3:552, 4:234–4:235, 6:534, 6:649, 7:342, 7:467–7:469, 8:231–8:232, 8:475, 10:594, 11:61–11:62, 11:143–11:144, 11:165–11:166, 16:564–16:565, 19:431
  • letters to, 3:298–3:299, 3:578–3:579, 6:594, 7:412–7:416, 11:148–11:149, 19:225
  • and National Institution for the Promotion of Industry, 16:564
  • and New York Unitarians, 16:170
  • and promotion of domestic interests, 19:431
  • Second Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, 7:342, 7:342n, 7:412, 7:468n
  • sends letter to TJ, 8:231
  • sends prospectus to TJ, 3:552, 3:552n, 3:578–3:579
  • sends respects to TJ, 7:308–7:309
  • sends works to TJ, 11:61, 11:165–11:166, 19:202, 19:225
  • taxation policy of, 4:234, 4:235n
  • Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, 3:209, 3:261, 3:298, 3:578, 3:579n, 7:467, 7:468n

Law Academy of Philadelphia, 17:141

Lawfeld. See Lauffeld, Battle of

Lawler, James

  • wheat of, 11:537n

Lawler, Matthew

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461

Law of Nations. See Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (E. von Vattel)

The Law of Nature (Volney), 8:668, 8:669n, 18:75, 18:126, 18:167, 18:176

Law of Orleans. See A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (L. Kerr and L. Moreau Lislet)

Law, or, A Discourse Thereof, In foure Bookes (H. Finch), 7:147–7:148

Lawrance, John

  • and University of Virginia, 16:479

Lawrence, Abraham R.

  • and New York City customhouse, 19:499n

Lawrence, David (sloop captain), 11:216

Lawrence, Esther R. Gracie (William Beach Lawrence’s wife)

  • travels of, 17:202–17:203, 17:203n

Lawrence, James

  • biography of proposed, 19:427
  • quoted, 18:57, 18:60n
  • TJ quotes, 9:330, 9:331n, 18:333, 18:334n

Lawrence, John

  • and University of Virginia, 19:47, 19:52n

Lawrence, Sir William

  • Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, 17:535, 17:537n

Lawrence, William Beach

  • identified, 16:555n
  • introduced to TJ, 16:555
  • letter from, 17:202–17:203
  • letter to, 17:219–17:220
  • seeks letters of introduction from TJ, 17:202–17:203, 17:219–17:220
  • TJ introduces to Lafayette, 17:219
  • visits Monticello, 16:555, 17:202–17:203

The Laws of Las Siete Partidas (trans. L. Moreau Lislet and H. Carleton), 3:53n, 3:160–3:161, 3:168, 18:239

Laws of the College of South-Carolina, 19:450, 19:450–19:451n, 19:539

Laws of the State of New-York, respecting Navigable Communications between The Great Western and Northern Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, 11:281n

The laws of the United States of America (Z. Swift), 2:521

Laws of the United States of America, from the 4th of March, 1789, to the 4th of March, 1815 (J. B. Colvin), 8:151, 8:152n, 8:179, 12:400

Lawson, Alexander

  • engraving by, 9:352n, 10:200 (illus.), 10:201n
  • identified, 10:201n

Lawson, Robert

  • Revolutionary War service of, 15:193, 15:194

Lawson, Sarah

  • boardinghouse of, 3:552

Lawur, Peter

  • letters from accounted for, 1:677

laxatives, 7:387

Lay, Amos

  • Map of the Northern Part of the State of New York, 5:263n, 5:306n, 5:581

Lazaria (Maria) (TJ’s slave; b. 1797)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:388, 12:303

Lazzerini, Bartolommeo

  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

Lea, Isaac See also H. C. Carey & I. Lea (Philadelphia firm)

  • identified, 18:481–18:482n

Leach, William Elford

  • as reference for C. S. Rafinesque, 17:89, 17:89
  • as zoologist, 16:568

lead

  • architectural ornaments of, 18:494, 18:494, 18:630, 19:liii, 19:277, 19:477, 19:488, 19:513, 19:514–19:515, 19:520, 19:520–19:522, 19:523, 19:567
  • bar, 18:43, 19:13
  • as building material, 15:96, 15:100, 19:185, 19:189, 19:191n
  • from Great Britain, 13:381
  • manufacture of, 2:376
  • mines, 12:544n
  • in N.Y., 8:209n
  • sheet, 19:185, 19:189, 19:191n
  • for shot, 8:96, 8:113n+, 8:120, 8:121, 8:121, 12:544
  • for sundials, 11:176
  • white, 1:55n, 1:77, 5:33, 6:111, 15:101, 17:6, 17:7, 18:44, 18:174, 19:15, 19:277, 19:277, 19:277

Leake, Josiah

  • as subscription agent, 15:452–15:453n, 16:363

Leake, Mask, 16:646

Leake, Samuel

  • identified, 16:647n
  • land claim of, 16:646–16:647, 17:30
  • letter from, 16:646–16:647
  • letter to, 17:30

Leake, Walter, 2:211

Leake, William Martin

  • Researches in Greece, 9:197n

Leamy, John

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461

Leander (British warship), 1:228n

Lear, Benjamin Lincoln

  • education of, 6:158–6:159, 6:208
  • identified, 17:500n
  • and T. Kosciuszko’s estate, 12:315n, 17:443, 17:485, 17:497, 17:497n, 17:498–17:500, 17:501n, 17:510, 17:513, 17:533, 17:533n, 17:550
  • letter from, 17:498–17:501
  • letter to, 17:513–17:514

Lear, Frances Dandridge Henley (Tobias Lear’s wife)

  • mentioned, 6:208, 6:208
  • sends greetings to TJ, 6:159
  • TJ sends greetings to, 6:209

Lear, Tobias

  • as consul at Algiers, 6:159–6:160n, 6:164, 11:661, 11:663n
  • death of, 10:496, 10:496n
  • identified, 6:159n
  • letters from, 6:157–6:160
  • letters to, 6:208–6:209
  • and proposed visit to TJ, 6:158, 6:208
  • son’s education, 6:158–6:159, 6:208

A learned commendation of the politique lawes of England (J. Fortescue), 17:419

leather

  • for chairs, 16:573
  • hides, 15:451
  • map drawn on, 8:238, 16:36
  • shaving machines, 11:240
  • for shoes, 6:345, 6:345, 6:346, 6:346, 6:347, 6:348, 8:234, 18:410
  • tanning, 8:411, 9:29, 9:30n, 16:460, 16:589, 18:410
  • TJ buys, 9:254, 9:604, 18:49, 18:318n
  • for University of Virginia, 15:97, 15:100

Leavenworth, Mark, 3:542, 3:543n

Leavitt, Dudley

  • identified, 7:407–7:408n
  • letters from, 7:407–7:408
  • Table for Determining the Moon’s Quarters, 7:407, 7:408–7:409

Le Baron, Francis

  • appointment of, 6:28n

Leblanc, Guillaume

  • translates Dionis Nicæi, rerum Romanarum a pompeio magno, ad Alexandrum Mamææ filium Epitom (Cassius Dio; ed. J. Xiphilinus), 10:233

le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

  • La Fête du Petit Blé; ou, L’Heroisme du Poucha-Houmma, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

LeBourdais, Mr., 1:557

Le Bourgeois, Mr., 2:244

Le Breton, John

  • British army officer, 8:221

Le Breton Deschapelles, Louis Césaire

  • and batture controversy, 10:668–10:669
  • identified, 10:669n
  • letter from, 10:668–10:669

Le Breton D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph. See D’orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton

Le Brun, Charles

  • identified, 18:96–18:97n
  • letter from, 18:95–18:97
  • letter to, 18:156
  • recommended by T. Kosciuszko, 18:95, 18:97n
  • translates B. Barère’s La Libertád de los Mares, ó el Gobiérno Inglés descubiérto, 18:95–18:96, 18:156
  • translates A. Pope’s Essay on Man, 18:96

Lebrun, Ponce Denis Écouchard, 7:665

Lechevalier, Jean Baptiste

  • as librarian, 10:311, 11:632
  • Voyage de La Troade, Fait dans les années 1785 et 1786, 11:632, 12:112

Leclerc, Georges Louis, 5:452n

Leclerc, Jean (Johannes Clericus)

  • edits Æschinis Socratici Dialogi Tres Græce et Latine, ad quos accessit quarti Latinum Fragmentum (Aeschines Socraticus), 10:233
  • edits Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat (Livy), 5:501, 5:594, 5:594–5:595n, 5:625, 6:157, 7:286, 10:233, 11:414, 12:576, 14:510, 17:106
  • and Hesiodi Ascraei Quae Exstant (Hesiod), 9:196

Leçons d’Anatomie Comparée (G. Cuvier), 8:429, 8:429n

Leçons d’Histoire (Volney), 1:580

Le Conte, John Eatton, 10:287, 10:288n

Le Coulteux, Mr., 2:13

A Lecture, introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases (J. Crawford), 4:336, 4:338n, 4:394

Lectures on History, and General Policy (J. Priestley), 19:505

Lectures on Mechanics (Helsham), 1:581

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (G. Adams), 1:581, 14:375, 14:378n, 19:505

Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man (W. Lawrence), 17:535, 17:537n

Lectures on Political Principles (D. Williams), 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:189, 3:334

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (H. Blair), 1:576, 7:629, 7:662, 12:576, 16:5, 16:381, 16:458, 19:505

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (J. Q. Adams), 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483, 12:576

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics (J. Ferguson), 1:581, 6:380, 9:638n, 19:506

Lédenon, France

  • wine from, 10:170, 10:170, 10:338, 11:246, 11:404, 11:404, 11:404, 11:405, 11:407, 11:531, 11:653, 12:374, 12:515, 12:566, 12:580, 13:10, 13:302, 14:327, 14:328, 14:328, 14:328, 14:329, 15:120, 15:262, 16:117, 16:117, 16:117, 16:425, 16:510, 17:139, 17:140, 18:457, 19:641–19:642

Ledlie, Elizabeth

  • signs petition, 18:146

Le Duc, Marie Pierre

  • as notary, 7:366n

Ledyard, Isaac

  • and J. Ledyard (1751–89), 12:281

Ledyard, John (1751–89)

  • biography of, 12:188, 12:280–12:281, 16:272, 16:273n
  • A Journal of Captain Cook’s last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in quest of a North-West Passage, between Asia & America, 12:188, 12:189n, 16:272, 17:341
  • and western exploration, 6:417, 6:420, 9:650, 12:280–12:281, 17:341–17:342, 19:197, 19:201n

Ledyard, John (of Connecticut)

  • letters from, 2:419, 2:423–2:424
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 2:419, 2:423–2:424

Lee, Arthur

  • and cession of Northwest Territory, 4:567
  • as diplomat, 17:329
  • The Farmer’s and Monitor’s Letters, 6:440
  • as member of Confederation Congess, 17:333, 17:333
  • relationship with B. Franklin, 8:23, 13:466
  • as writer, 6:440

Lee, Arthur (1779–1828)

  • as Va. legislator, 19:284

Lee, Charles, 12:427

Lee, Charles (1731–82)

  • accused of desertion, 18:138

Lee, David B.

  • flying machine of, 18:344–18:345, 18:346, 18:347–18:348, 18:349n, 18:359
  • identified, 18:348–18:349n
  • letter from, 18:344–18:349
  • letter to, 18:359–18:360
  • petitions Congress, 18:345, 18:349n
  • rivalry with J. Bennett, 18:345–18:346, 18:349n

Lee, Edmund Jennings, 1:516

Lee, Eliza Collins

  • given portrait of J. Madison, 12:li

Lee, Francis Lightfoot

  • and Va. Committee of Correspondence, 9:367, 17:312
  • as Va. legislator, 17:313, 17:314

Lee, Henry (1756–1818)

  • and American Revolution, 13:115, 19:122, 19:130
  • criticism of, 19:215, 19:216, 19:428
  • as defense witness, 1:277, 1:278–1:279n
  • funeral oration for G. Washington, 19:441n
  • and P. Henry, 4:604
  • introduces I. McPherson to TJ, 6:353, 6:354n
  • medal voted for, 2:104–2:105, 2:106n, 2:125–2:126, 2:224, 2:253
  • Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States, 6:122, 8:178, 8:179n, 19:96–19:97, 19:97, 19:100n
  • and TJ’s remark on G. Washington, 10:423n

Lee, Henry (1787–1837)

  • and father’s medal, 2:104–2:105, 2:106n, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Henry (of Winchester)

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:334, 16:303

Lee, James

  • as trustee for J. Paradise and L. L. Paradise, 9:283, 9:284, 9:284

Lee, James (of England)

  • patents machine, 10:548n

Lee, John

  • and University of Virginia, 16:307, 17:632, 19:47

Lee, Rachel Fanny Antonina

  • An Essay on Government, 1:123–1:124, 3:116, 3:117n

Lee, Richard Bland

  • and assumption of Revolutionary War debts, 12:424
  • and W. Bentley, 2:170n
  • as commissioner of public buildings, 8:596n, 12:641
  • given portrait of J. Madison, 12:li
  • identified, 14:581–14:582n
  • letter from, 14:581–14:582
  • letter to, 14:603–14:604
  • An Oration, delivered July 5, 1819, In the Chamber of the House of Representatives, 14:581–14:582, 14:603

Lee, Richard Evers

  • identified, 6:364n
  • introduced to TJ, 6:364

Lee, Richard Henry

  • and G. R. Clark’s 1779 expedition, 4:378
  • family of, 10:421, 10:423n
  • and P. Henry, 4:378
  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602, 6:440, 6:612, 6:612, 6:613, 8:620, 8:626, 8:626n, 8:643–8:644, 10:421, 11:202, 13:331, 17:316, 17:317
  • oratorial skills of, 2:156
  • and J. Otis, 13:618–13:619
  • recommends W. Kendall, 18:138
  • reputed speech of, 8:626, 8:626n, 8:643–8:644, 14:138, 16:441, 16:472–16:473
  • and Stamp Act Resolutions, 8:642
  • TJ on, 7:411, 7:411, 8:642, 16:472–16:473
  • and J. Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence, 13:329, 13:330n
  • and Va. Committee of Correspondence, 9:367, 9:369n, 17:312
  • as Va. legislator, 17:313, 17:314

Lee, Thomas Ludwell

  • biography of proposed, 8:619
  • and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–1:382, 3:570, 5:136, 7:549, 17:322, 17:322, 17:323
  • and Stamp Act Resolutions, 8:642

Lee, Thomas Sim

  • death of, 15:235

Lee, Tom (Shackelford estate’s slave), 3:36, 3:37n, 3:529

Lee, William (173995)

  • and L. L. Paradise estate, 11:59, 11:59n

Lee, William (17721840)

  • assists J. Ronaldson in Paris, 2:163
  • and J. M. Baker, 12:93, 12:473, 12:473–12:474
  • and bust of G. Washington, 8:161
  • and commercial agent for Le Havre, 9:363n
  • consul at Bordeaux, 1:118, 1:121n, 3:166, 3:178, 3:442, 3:599, 4:189, 4:529–4:530, 4:530n, 7:428n, 7:428n, 7:491n, 8:37, 8:571, 9:388, 9:389–9:390n, 9:421, 9:570, 9:573n, 9:655, 9:656n, 10:215, 10:489, 10:632, 12:567
  • Les États-Unis et L’Angleterre, 8:150–8:151, 8:151n, 10:342, 10:489
  • family of, 8:151
  • forwards letters to TJ, 2:672, 10:39
  • on France, 10:490
  • and F. Gard, 10:39, 10:489
  • identified, 2:672n
  • and immigration, 10:489–10:491
  • introduces J. Achard to TJ, 15:448, 15:484
  • introduces C. Lowell to TJ, 12:102
  • introduces J. A. Pénières-Delors to TJ, 10:491
  • letters from, 2:672, 8:150–8:151, 10:39–10:40, 10:489–10:491, 11:449–11:450, 11:506–11:507, 12:102, 12:260, 12:354, 15:448
  • letters to, 10:342–10:343, 10:670–10:671, 11:413, 11:471–11:472, 11:602, 12:185–12:186, 12:339, 15:484
  • and manufacturing in U.S., 10:489
  • plans visit to Monticello, 10:491, 10:516
  • recommends A. and C. de Montcarel, 13:419, 13:441
  • and Société Agricole et Manufacturière Française, 10:632, 10:635, 10:670–10:671
  • and C. Stewart’s apprenticeship, 12:185, 12:186, 12:257, 12:260, 12:338, 12:339, 12:354, 12:396
  • as War Department accountant, 10:496n
  • weaving enterprise of, 11:413, 11:449–11:450, 11:463–11:464, 11:470, 11:471–11:472, 11:506–11:507, 11:602, 12:338, 12:339, 12:354

Lee, William Raymond

  • forwards items to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220, 6:163
  • identified, 4:220n
  • letters to, 4:220
  • and G. H. Ward, 12:379, 13:5

Leedes, Edward

  • edits De Vero Usu Verborum Mediorum (L. Küster), 10:358

Leeds, Francis Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen, 5th Duke of, 1:516, 10:116, 10:117n, 17:339

Lee family

  • and Port Folio, 7:318
  • TJ on, 7:548

Leesburg, Va

  • Republican mechanics of, address TJ, 1:89–1:90

Leeson, Thomas

  • as builder for University of Virginia, 15:385, 15:386n, 16:310
  • letter from, 15:385–15:386

Lefevre, Jean Baptiste

  • land warrant issued to, 2:74, 2:75n, 2:94

Leforest, A., 2:154

Leftwich, Jabez, 5:339

Leftwich, Joel

  • military service of, 7:227
  • as sheriff, 12:29n, 14:114n
  • and TJ’s land dispute with S. Scott, 5:339

Leftwich’s Mill (Bedford Co.)

  • on route to Natural Bridge, 9:35

Legare, John Berwick

  • identified, 13:158n
  • letter from, 13:157–13:159
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 13:157

Legaux, Pierre

  • and Alexander grape, 4:524, 4:525n

Legendre, Adrien Marie

  • Éléments de Géométrie, 13:394, 13:413, 13:428, 13:474, 13:561, 14:215, 19:617

Le Gendre, Louis, 3:235, 3:237n

Leges Anglo-Saxonicæ Ecclesiasticæ & Civilies (D. Wilkins), 7:126, 7:127, 16:364, 17:197

Leghorn (Livorno), Italy. See Appleton, Thomas

Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (H. de Bracton), 1:383, 3:546, 7:125–7:127, 7:257, 7:627, 16:640, 16:641, 18:335, 18:336n

The Legislatorial Trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England, Consort of George the Fourth, for the alleged Crime of Adultery with Bartolomeo Bergami (E. Barron), 17:536

Lego (TJ’s Albemarle Co. estate)

  • acreage of, 4:387
  • hogs at, 5:545
  • lease of, 1:488n, 3:522, 12:301–12:305, 13:355, 15:545
  • livestock at, 12:303–12:304
  • and W. McClure’s weaving establishment, 4:143
  • overseers at, 1:137–1:138n, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:196, 3:642, 4:101, 9:604n, 10:387, 10:388n, 12:167n, 13:476n
  • sale of proposed, 15:614, 15:614n, 16:110
  • slaves at, 3:37, 3:180–3:181, 3:196, 6:181, 12:303, 14:476, 14:477n, 14:494, 14:555
  • surveys of, 2:107–2:108, 2:109n, 3:570–3:573, 5:362
  • and TJ’s lease dispute with E. Alexander, 2:85–2:86, 2:150–2:151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–2:213, 2:239–2:240, 2:240, 2:277–2:281, 2:282, 2:286, 2:286–2:287, 2:294
  • tobacco grown at, 2:86, 2:200, 2:239, 2:240
  • wheat grown at, 2:239, 2:240, 3:191, 9:152, 16:444

Legrand, Jacques Guillaume

  • Description de Paris et de ses Édifices, 12:107

Le Havre, France

  • consul at, 10:9–10:10, 10:21, 10:22n

Lehré, Thomas

  • appointed loans commissioner, 6:113n, 14:301
  • and appointment as federal marshal, 6:28, 6:29, 6:29n, 6:63–6:64, 6:64, 6:113
  • and celebration of Revolutionary War victory, 6:250
  • desires TJ’s opinion on foreign affairs, 7:459, 13:130
  • on J. W. Eppes’s election, 6:80
  • and P. Freneau, 6:611, 6:636
  • on Great Britain, 6:80
  • identified, 5:244n
  • introduces J. Bellinger to TJ, 6:317
  • letters from, 5:243–5:244, 5:284–5:286, 5:329–5:330, 5:332, 5:355–5:356, 5:393–5:394, 5:680–5:681, 6:28–6:29, 6:80, 6:113, 6:250–6:251, 6:317, 6:611, 6:636, 7:459, 13:129, 13:130, 14:300–14:302
  • letters to, 5:303–5:304, 6:63–6:64, 7:524–7:525, 13:142–13:143
  • on Republicans, 5:244
  • and S.C. politics, 5:243–5:244, 5:284–5:285, 5:285–5:286n, 5:303–5:304, 5:329, 5:329–5:330n, 5:332, 5:393, 5:680–5:681, 5:681n, 6:317, 7:459, 13:129, 13:130, 13:142–13:143
  • seeks federal appointment, 14:300–14:301
  • supports TJ and J. Madison for president, 6:28
  • on War of 1812, 6:250–6:251, 6:636

Leib, Michael

  • appointed postmaster of Philadelphia, 7:196, 7:197n
  • and A. Gallatin, 1:598, 1:599n
  • identified, 4:174n
  • introduces J. Ronaldson, 18:521
  • letters from, 4:173–4:175
  • letters to, 4:164
  • recommends A. Macaulay, 2:304
  • sends respects to TJ, 7:308–7:309
  • supports W. Duane, 4:174, 4:174n
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:173, 6:241

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:480, 7:667
  • philosophy of, 7:557, 9:651, 11:268, 11:270n
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:506
  • works of, 11:383

Leigh, Benjamin Watkins

  • aide to J. Barbour, 7:632, 7:633n
  • as attorney, 19:92–19:93

Leigh, Sir Egerton (1733–1781)

  • family of, 7:28

Leigh, Sir Egerton (1762–1818)

  • health of, 7:68–7:69, 7:143
  • identified, 7:69n
  • introduced by D. Ramsay, 7:28, 7:68, 7:143, 7:143
  • letters from, 7:68–7:69
  • letters to, 7:143
  • proposed visit to Monticello, 7:68–7:69, 7:143

Leiper, Elizabeth Coultas Gray (Thomas Leiper’s wife), 18:360

“Leiper, George G.” (pseudonym)

  • letters from, 18:341, 18:342
  • TJ’s loan to, 18:341, 18:342, 18:343, 18:350, 18:352, 18:352, 18:353, 18:357, 18:360–18:361, 18:363
  • visits Monticello, 18:341, 18:352, 18:360

Leiper, George Gray (Thomas Leiper’s son), 18:352, 18:363, 19:623

Leiper, Samuel McKean, 19:623

Leiper, Thomas

  • and agriculture, 19:591, 19:606–19:607, 19:624, 19:635, 19:636
  • on Alexander I, 7:104, 7:298, 9:217–9:218
  • criticizes Great Britain, 7:36–7:37, 7:298–7:299
  • and J. Delaplaine’s Repository, 11:203
  • and W. Duane, 3:450–3:451, 3:452n, 3:506, 3:507, 3:585
  • and election of 1800, 18:247–18:248
  • family of, 18:363, 19:623, 19:635
  • finances of, 19:622–19:623, 19:635–19:636
  • and “George G. Leiper,” 18:341, 18:343n, 18:350, 18:352, 18:352, 18:353, 18:357, 18:360–18:361, 18:363
  • identified, 7:37n
  • and internal improvements, 19:622, 19:624
  • letters from, 7:36–7:38, 7:104–7:105, 7:297–7:300, 9:216–9:218, 18:352–18:353, 18:363, 19:591–19:592, 19:606–19:607, 19:621–19:625
  • letters to, 7:96–7:99, 8:531–8:534, 12:558–12:559, 17:578–17:579, 18:352, 18:360–18:361, 19:635–19:637
  • on Napoleon, 7:37, 7:298, 7:298, 7:298, 7:299, 9:216–9:217, 9:217
  • and politics, 19:623–19:624, 19:635
  • and portraits of Napoleon, 19:623, 19:625n, 19:636
  • on prophecy, 7:36–7:37
  • purchases TJ’s tobacco, 4:593
  • quarry of, 18:360, 19:623
  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461
  • and religion, 19:623, 19:636
  • and Second Bank of U.S., 12:558
  • sends works to TJ, 19:591, 19:606, 19:635
  • and taxes, 9:217
  • TJ introduces F. Watson to, 17:578–17:579
  • TJ reports on politics and international affairs to, 8:531–8:534
  • and TJ’s letter to G. Logan, 7:36–7:37, 7:96–7:99, 7:104–7:105
  • and F. Watson, 18:352, 18:363

Leiper, William Jones, 19:623

Leipzig, Battle of (Battle of the Nations) (1813), 6:637n, 7:158n, 14:415, 14:416n

Leitch, A.

  • and University of Virginia, 16:310

Leitch, James See also Samuel & James Leitch (Charlottesville firm)

  • accepts draft, 2:234n
  • account with TJ, 1:64, 1:65n, 8:48, 9:565–9:566, 9:597, 9:656, 11:426n, 12:644, 12:644, 13:165, 13:528n, 14:472, 15:450, 16:363, 16:624, 17:8, 17:8, 17:8, 17:9, 17:36, 17:37n, 17:47n, 17:285, 18:44, 18:623n, 19:8, 19:8, 19:8, 19:11, 19:12, 19:13, 19:14, 19:14, 19:15, 19:69
  • agent for TJ, 3:83, 4:77, 5:394, 6:431, 9:267, 9:269, 11:452, 16:270, 16:274, 17:68, 17:83
  • and Albemarle Academy, 7:267, 7:282, 7:293, 7:335, 7:339, 7:427, 7:535, 7:570, 7:571
  • C. L. Bankhead’s debt to, 8:394
  • and Central College, 11:322, 11:329, 11:565, 12:274, 12:292, 12:301, 12:646, 15:91, 15:91, 15:93, 15:93, 15:94, 15:95, 15:100, 15:101
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 13:161, 13:164, 13:164n, 15:97, 16:476, 17:620
  • and Charlottesville Female Academy, 16:26n
  • and currency for TJ, 12:45+
  • extracts from daybook of, 15:449–15:453, 16:5–16:14, 16:191n, 16:289n, 16:363n, 16:470n, 17:4–17:11, 17:234n, 17:291n+, 18:40–18:51, 18:174n, 18:225n, 18:280n, 18:319n, 19:8–19:16
  • and gunpowder sales, 3:583
  • identified, 1:65n
  • introduces Mr. Logan to TJ, 10:673
  • as juror, 5:278, 5:279
  • letter from accounted for, 19:16n
  • letters from, 1:64–1:65, 1:458, 2:40, 2:77, 5:394, 6:431, 8:48, 9:656, 10:673, 11:470–11:471, 12:186, 12:274, 12:502, 12:555, 12:646
  • letters to, 1:302–1:303, 4:182, 4:358, 4:477, 4:496, 4:647, 4:686–4:687, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394, 8:380, 8:570, 12:45+, 12:454, 13:32+, 13:64–13:65, 13:92, 13:166–13:167, 14:379–14:380, 15:71, 15:134, 15:144, 15:315, 15:453, 15:475, 15:479+, 15:485, 16:191, 16:289, 16:363, 16:470, 17:234, 17:291+, 18:174, 18:225, 18:280, 18:319, 18:368
  • letters to accounted for, 5:394n, 12:626n
  • makes payments for TJ, 12:lii, 12:614n, 12:614n, 13:169, 14:295, 14:295n, 14:549n, 15:451, 18:41, 18:368, 18:435n, 18:647–18:648, 18:648n, 19:8, 19:8, 19:11, 19:14
  • and nails from TJ, 2:77
  • and packages for TJ, 13:327, 13:327n, 14:97, 16:126–16:127, 16:131, 16:140, 16:326, 16:366, 16:375, 16:376, 16:389, 17:110–17:111, 17:147, 17:224, 18:118, 18:298
  • petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380
  • provides postal services, 16:382
  • requests payment from TJ, 2:40, 2:52–2:53, 2:77, 2:80
  • returns papers to TJ, 12:502, 12:555
  • sells knives, 14:20
  • store of, 14:8, 14:8–14:9, 14:10n, 16:363, 18:604n, 18:642, 18:647
  • and timothy seed, 4:156, 4:194
  • TJ orders clothes from, 4:496, 8:380, 8:570, 9:566, 9:566, 12:45+, 18:225
  • TJ orders goods from, 1:302–1:303, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:358, 4:477, 4:647, 4:686, 5:119, 5:133, 5:394, 9:565–9:566, 9:597, 9:656, 12:454, 13:32+, 13:64–13:65, 13:92, 14:636, 15:71, 15:134, 15:144, 15:315, 15:449–15:453, 15:475, 15:479+, 15:485, 16:5–16:14, 16:191, 16:289, 16:470, 17:4–17:11, 17:234, 17:291+, 18:40–18:51, 18:174, 18:225n, 18:280, 18:319, 18:643, 19:8–19:16
  • TJ pays, 12:541, 12:541n, 12:613, 12:614, 12:633, 12:656, 13:141, 13:142n, 13:356, 13:393, 13:475, 13:476n, 14:42, 14:220, 14:244, 14:244, 14:296, 14:309, 14:318, 14:318, 14:319, 14:354, 14:380, 14:415, 14:473, 14:473, 14:473, 14:474, 14:474, 14:549, 14:549n, 14:571, 15:450, 15:483, 15:483n, 15:513, 16:363, 16:366, 17:46, 17:47n, 17:531, 17:532n, 18:623, 19:38n
  • TJ’s debt to, 13:142n, 13:166–13:167, 13:415n, 13:595n, 14:295, 14:295n, 14:316, 14:379–14:380, 15:425, 15:453, 16:363, 16:649, 16:649, 19:495, 19:496n
  • trades nails for goods, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458
  • and University of Virginia, 15:96, 15:96, 15:97, 15:101, 15:103, 16:303, 16:303, 16:303, 16:304, 16:310, 16:319, 16:475, 16:476, 16:478, 16:478, 16:480, 16:481, 17:627, 17:631, 17:632, 17:637, 17:642, 17:650, 19:46, 19:185
  • vouches for O. Norris, 3:465
  • and weaver, 11:463–11:464, 11:470, 11:602, 12:185, 12:186, 12:274, 12:338–12:339, 12:339, 12:396
  • witnesses warrant, 5:280
  • works sent to, 14:215

Leitch, Samuel (d. 1841) See also Samuel & James Leitch (Charlottesville firm)

  • and Albemarle Volunteer Company subscription, 5:344
  • and Central College–University of Virginia, 15:95, 16:308, 16:309, 16:314, 16:316
  • and Central College subscription, 13:162
  • identified, 3:242n
  • letter from accounted for, 9:719
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Leitch, Samuel (1790–1870)

  • and University of Virginia, 16:307, 16:307, 16:309, 17:636, 19:51

Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm). See Samuel & James Leitch (Charlottesville firm)

Leitch, William

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:324, 11:329, 13:162, 15:98

Leith, Dr.

  • and cheese-making, 15:418n

Leith threshing machine, 5:444–5:445, 5:445n

Leland, John

  • A View Of the Principal Deistical Writers, 6:302

Leland, Thomas

  • translates All the Orations of Demosthenes (Demosthenes), 19:505

Lemaire, Étienne

  • death of, 12:176, 12:273
  • identified, 1:56n
  • and kitchen inventory of President’s House, 1:43n, 1:155, 1:155, 1:156n
  • letters from, 1:59–1:60, 1:71–1:72, 1:188–1:189, 1:222
  • letters to, 1:55–1:56, 1:161–1:162
  • maître d’hôtel, 1:42
  • offered employment by W. Short, 7:469
  • offers to run errands in Philadelphia, 1:60, 1:71
  • sends oil and syrup to TJ, 1:161, 1:188, 1:188, 1:222, 1:245, 1:257
  • TJ pays, 1:41, 1:293–1:294
  • TJ praises, 1:55–1:56, 1:71

Le Maire, Jacques, 1:450

Lemaire, Santiago, 3:478n, 5:85n

Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Le Mierre, Antoine Marin

  • La Veuve du Malabar, 7:77, 7:78n

lemon acid, 7:594, 7:602, 8:613, 8:627, 8:641

Le Monnier, Pierre Charles

  • translates Institutions Astronomiques, 7:626

Lemosy, Auguste

  • and J. David, 9:199

Le Moyne, Jean Baptiste, sieur de Bienville

  • French colonial governor of La., 9:479, 9:480n

Le Moyne, Pierre, sieur d’Iberville

  • French colonial governor of La., 9:479, 9:480n

Lemprière, John

  • A Classical Dictionary, 14:276, 14:351
  • Universal Biography, 12:534

Leney, William Satchwell

  • engraver, 6:125, 9:405n, 9:459, 9:461, 9:461n, 10:493, 10:493n

L’Enfant, Peter (Pierre) Charles

  • and Society of the Cincinnati, 12:430

Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicolas

  • Tablettes Chronologiques de L’Histoire Universelle, 10:234, 19:510

Lenni Lenape Indians

  • clothing and implements of, 16:155
  • history of, 16:107–16:109, 16:131–16:132, 16:133
  • language of, 16:108–16:109
  • mentioned, 16:154
  • and Moravian missionaries, 9:65
  • works on, 13:89, 14:132n, 16:181

Lenoir, Étienne

  • scientific-instrument maker, 9:223

Lenox, Peter

  • identified, 5:178–5:179n
  • letters from, 5:177–5:179
  • seeks position at Washington, 5:177–5:178, 8:592, 8:592
  • TJ pays, 1:41

Lenthall, John

  • clerk of works at U.S. Capitol, 1:92, 5:205
  • death of, 1:65n

lentils

  • sent to TJ, 13:278

Lentz, John, 6:83n

Leo X, pope, 7:74, 9:432, 14:78

“Leolin.” See Austin, James Trecothick

Leonard, David Augustus

  • identified, 7:94n
  • letters from, 7:93–7:94, 7:105–7:106
  • letters to, 7:141–7:142
  • and westward relocation, 7:93–7:94, 7:105, 7:141–7:142

Leonard, George

  • and University of Virginia, 16:307, 17:625

Leonard, Jonathan

  • letter from accounted for, 10:79n

Leonard, Uriah

  • as blacksmith at University of Virginia, 17:650, 19:48, 19:63, 19:238
  • and University of Virginia, 19:47, 19:48, 19:48, 19:49, 19:54, 19:56, 19:186, 19:187, 19:189, 19:190

Leonardo da Vinci

  • and portrait of A. Vespucci, 7:613

Leoni, Giacomo

  • The Architecture of A. Palladio, 14:480+, 17:133, 17:133–17:134, 19:552

Leonidas, king of Sparta, 12:518

León y Gama, Antonio de

  • Descripción histórica y cronológica de los piedras, 1:521, 1:521n, 1:556

Leopard, HMS

  • and Chesapeake incident, 2:261n, 16:465–16:466, 17:518–17:519

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

  • and Declaration of Pillnitz, 7:299–7:300n
  • permits P. Mazzei’s immigration to U.S., 9:115
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507

Léoville (wine), 9:513

Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon

  • The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, 17:536

Le Peletier de Rosanbo, Antoinette de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, madame de, 14:203–14:204

Lepidium officinale. See water cress

Lepidium sativum. See garden cress

Lepidus, Junia (Marcus Aemilius Lepidus’s wife), 17:73n

Lerasle

  • Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence, 3:130, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

Leray de Chaumont, Jacques Donatien, 2:13

Le Ray de Chaumont, James

  • An Address, delivered at the meeting at the Agricultural Society of Jefferson County, December 29, 1817, 13:71, 13:72n, 13:172n
  • and agricultural societies, 13:71, 13:172
  • carries TJ’s letters, 5:449
  • identified, 13:71–13:72n
  • introduces M. A. Jullien, 12:229, 12:232n
  • letter from, 13:172
  • letter to, 13:71–13:72
  • and Lafayette, 3:446
  • and D. B. Warden, 7:506n, 7:506n
  • wealth of, 17:585, 17:603, 19:468

Leroy, Lewis (d. 1843)

  • family of, 12:478
  • identified, 12:480n
  • letter from, 12:477–12:480
  • recommendations for, 12:478
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 12:477–12:478

Leroy, Lewis, Jr.

  • education of, 12:478

Leroy, Louis

  • Les politiqves d’Aristote, 3:546

LeRoy, Bayard & Company (New York firm)

  • identified, 9:580n
  • letters from, 10:302–10:303, 11:366–11:367, 11:419, 13:88, 14:73, 14:432, 15:481+, 17:117, 18:494–18:495, 18:537
  • letters to, 10:319, 11:293, 11:381, 13:43–13:44, 14:53–14:54, 14:354, 15:471–15:472, 17:21, 18:458, 18:526–18:527
  • and TJ’s debt to P. Mazzei’s estate, 12:74
  • and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst, 10:302–10:303, 10:319, 11:290–11:291, 11:293, 11:304, 11:362, 11:366, 11:379, 11:380n, 11:380, 11:381n, 11:381, 11:395, 11:419, 11:419n, 12:613, 12:613, 13:42–13:43, 13:43–13:44, 13:88, 14:53–14:54, 14:73, 14:316, 14:354, 14:354, 14:415, 14:432, 14:473, 14:474, 14:483–14:484, 15:426, 15:471–15:472, 15:481+, 15:518, 15:538, 15:541, 15:590, 16:640n, 16:648, 16:649, 17:16, 17:21, 17:36, 17:46, 17:47, 17:117, 18:458, 18:458, 18:484, 18:494–18:495, 18:526–18:527, 18:537, 19:494
  • and TJ’s lines of credit in Europe, 13:31, 13:79

LeRoy, Bayard & McEvers (New York firm)

  • identified, 9:580n
  • letters from, 9:579–9:580, 9:662–9:663, 9:679–9:680
  • letter to, 9:644
  • and TJ’s debt to N. & J. & R. van Staphorst, 9:579–9:580, 9:580–9:581, 9:644, 9:662–9:663, 9:679–9:680, 10:303

Le Sage, A. See Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, Comte de (A. Le Sage)

Le Sage, Alain René

  • Le Diable Boiteux, 7:665
  • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4:163n, 7:665, 9:598, 9:600n, 10:573, 12:534, 14:258, 19:508, 19:509n

Lescallier, Daniel

  • and J. Corrêa da Serra, 5:7–5:8
  • The Enchanted Throne, An Indian Story translated from the Persian Language, 11:351, 11:351n, 11:441
  • identified, 1:184n
  • introduces Quinette de Rochemont, 11:351, 11:352n
  • letters from, 1:184, 11:351–11:352
  • letter to, 11:441
  • and A. M. Rochon, 5:301
  • sends publication to TJ, 1:184, 11:351, 11:351n
  • Le Trône Enchanté, Conte Indien traduit du Persan, 11:351n
  • Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine Anglais et Français, 1:36, 1:184n

Leschot, Louis A.

  • Charlottesville house of, 19:634
  • friendship with H. Roi, 19:375
  • identified, 11:365–11:366n
  • letters to, 11:365–11:366, 13:527–13:528
  • payment to, 11:539, 11:539n, 13:528n
  • and stoves for University of Virginia, 14:214, 14:229
  • TJ invites to Monticello, 13:528
  • TJ’s debt to, 12:644, 16:648
  • as watchmaker, 10:578–10:579, 11:198–11:199, 11:199n, 11:365, 11:374, 11:374n, 11:413, 11:413n, 11:507–11:508, 12:137–12:138, 12:396, 13:156, 13:527, 13:537, 15:305, 15:320

Leschot, Sophie Montandon (Louis A. Leschot’s wife)

  • TJ invites to Monticello, 13:528
  • TJ sends greetings to, 11:365

Leslie, Charles

  • A Short and Easie Method with Deists, 3:590, 3:590n

Leslie, Sir John

  • and Central College–University of Virginia, 12:193, 12:201, 12:227, 13:510, 15:303
  • defended in A Short Statement of some important facts, relative to the late election of a Mathematical Professor in the University of Edinburgh (D. Stewart), 15:140
  • inquires about TJ’s family, 8:38, 8:244
  • introduction to sought, 13:485, 13:510
  • as professor at University of Edinburgh, 16:207–16:208, 16:208, 16:208
  • as scientist, 14:313
  • sends greetings to T. M. Randolph, 8:244
  • solicits article from D. B. Warden, 8:420

Le Souef, Jeremiah

  • as vice consul at London, 17:562n, 17:562n, 18:79

Lespinasse, Jeanne Julie Éléonore de

  • J. Adams on, 10:306, 14:30–14:31
  • Lettres de Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, 14:30, 14:31

Lesseps, Mathieu Maximilien Prosper, comte de

  • identified, 15:146n
  • recommended to TJ, 15:145

Lessi, Bernardo

  • and C. Bellini estate, 7:693–7:694, 9:113

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

  • popularity of, 9:84

Lesslie, John

  • and TJ’s flour, 4:12, 4:58, 10:671

Lessons to a Young Prince, by an Old Statesman (D. Williams), 15:337, 15:338n

L’Estrange, Sir Roger

  • translates Seneca’s Morals (Seneca), 19:505

Lesueur, Charles Alexandre

  • French naturalist, 12:516, 12:516n, 14:442–14:443, 14:489, 14:569

Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502

Le Tellier, John

  • identified, 2:316n
  • and Jefferson Cups, 2:xlii, 2:315–2:316, 2:316n, 2:474, 3:83, 3:154, 3:168, 3:177
  • letters from, 2:474, 11:604–11:605
  • letters to, 2:315–2:316, 11:548–11:549
  • and silversmith for Charlottesville, 11:548–11:549, 11:604–11:605

Létombe, Philippe André Joseph de, 1:256+, 5:266

Le Tourneur, Étienne François Louis Honoré, 10:44

Le Trosne, Guillaume François

  • French economist, 9:630

Letter, Addressed to the Most Reverend Leonard Neale, Arch Bishop of Baltimore (J. F. Oliveira Fernandes), 11:28, 11:28n, 11:28n, 11:63, 11:63–11:64n

A Letter concerning Toleration (J. Locke), 19:505

Letter from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams (A. Hamilton), 19:367n

A Letter, from Germany, to the Princess Royal of England; on the English and German languages (H. Croft), 16:193–16:194

Letter from the Secretary of State Accompanied with a List of the Names of Persons who have Invented any New and Useful Art, Machine, Manufacture or Composition of Matter, 6:282, 6:282n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting A List of Persons who Have Made Any New and Useful Invention, and for which Patents Have Been Obtained, from thirty-first December, 1813, to the first January, 1815, 8:408, 8:408n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a List of the Names of Patentees, their Places of Residence, and the Nature of their Inventions or Improvements, 6:362

Letter from the Secretary of State, Transmitting a List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Issued, 6:282, 6:282n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting A List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Issued … from January 1, 1812, to January 1, 1813, 8:195, 8:196n, 8:253

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting A List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Issued … from January 1st, 1813, to January 1st, 1814, 8:195, 8:196n, 8:253

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting A List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Granted, … from the 1st of January, 1815, to the 1st of January, 1816, 9:592, 9:593n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting A List of the Names of Persons to whom Patents have been Issued, … from January 1st, 1816, to January 1st, 1817, 11:135, 11:136n

Letter from the Secretary of State, transmitting a list of the names of Persons to whom Patents have been issued … For one year, prior to the 1st January, 1822, 18:292–18:293, 18:303, 18:304n

A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government (R. Walsh), 3:190n, 3:199, 3:200n

letter press (copying device), 17:45, 17:45n, 18:449, 19:32, 19:32n, 19:91–19:92, 19:256

letter press (furniture), 3:xlvii, 3:358 (illus.)

Letters addressed to the people of Virginia (S. Kercheval writing as “H. Tompkinson”), 10:162–10:163, 10:323, 10:367, 10:434

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (J. Dickinson), 8:643, 8:645n

Letters From Paris (W. C. Somerville), 19:630

Letters from Paris, Written During the Period of the late Accession and Abdication of Napoleon (T. B. Robertson), 14:583–14:584, 15:184

Letters from Washington, on the Constitution and Laws; with Sketches of some of the prominent public characters of the United States (G. Watterston), 16:168–16:169

Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland (“Salemankis”), 2:263, 2:296

Letters of Paul and Amicus, 19:612–19:613, 19:613n, 19:629

The Letters of the British Spy (W. Wirt), 4:471, 4:472n, 4:560, 8:140, 8:671, 8:672n, 19:505, 19:509n

Letters of the late Lord Lyttelton (G. Lyttelton), 19:505

Letters Of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e: Written, during her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa (M. W. Montagu), 19:506

Letters on England (J. E. White), 15:126

Letters on Political Liberty (D. Williams), 3:189, 3:190n, 3:207

Letters on Several Subjects (“T. Fitzosborne” [W. Melmoth]), 19:506

Letters on the Ministry, Ritual, and Doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church (J. Sparks), 16:272, 16:394, 18:37–18:38, 18:564, 19:75, 19:75n

Letters on the Natural History and Internal Resources of the State of New-York (“Hibernicus” [D. Clinton]), 19:171, 19:171n, 19:224–19:225

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics (S. Smith), 2:161, 2:161n

Letters Supposed to have passed between M. De St. Evremond and Mr. Waller (J. Langhorne), 19:506, 19:509n

Letters to A Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry (J. Aikin), 7:664

Letters to Friends (Cicero), 1:386, 1:386n, 17:490, 17:490–17:491n

Letters to the Directors of the Banks of Philadelphia, on the Pernicious Consequences of the Prevailing System of Reducing the Amount of Bills Discounted (M. Carey), 19:591, 19:592n

Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood (J. Priestley), 1:119, 1:121–1:122n, 7:224, 7:225n

Letters to The Jews; inviting them to an Amicable Discussion of the Evidences of Christianity (J. Priestley), 9:651–9:652, 9:652n

Letters written by the late right honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope, Esq. (Lord Chesterfield), 19:505

Letters Written from the Mountain (J. J. Rousseau), 7:665

A Letter to a member of the General Assembly of North Carolina (G. Tucker), 5:458, 5:458n

A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire (J. Q. Adams), 4:435n

Letter to Henri Gregoire (J. Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

Letter to James Monroe, Esq. President of the United States, on the State of the Country: with a plan for improving the condition of society (J. Melish), 15:359, 15:359n, 15:384

A Letter to the Honorable John Randolph (“Numa”), 2:264, 2:290

A Letter to The Reverend Mr. Cary (G. B. English), 7:435n

Lettre a M. Jean Baptiste Say (P. S. Du Pont de Nemours), 9:231–9:232, 9:234n, 9:304–9:305, 9:306

Lettre Intéressante adressee à S. A. R. le Prince Régent d’Angleterre (Orvault), 15:574, 15:574–15:575n, 15:598–15:599

Lettre Intéressante adressée à son excellence, le comte Bathurst, ministre des colonies Britanniques (Orvault), 15:574, 15:574–15:575n, 15:598–15:599

Lettres a Eugénie (Holbach), 15:26

Lettres de Ciceron a Atticus (Cicero; trans. N. H. Mongault; ed. Goujon), 9:354, 9:420, 12:112, 14:511

Lettres de Cicéron a M. Brutus, et de M. Brutus a Ciceron (Brutus; Cicero; trans. A. F. Prévost; ed. Goujon), 9:354, 9:420, 12:112, 14:511, 15:258

Lettres de Ciceron, Qu’on nomme vulgairement Familières (Cicero; trans. A. F. Prévost; ed. Goujon), 9:354, 9:354, 9:355n, 9:420, 9:420, 12:112, 14:511, 15:258

Lettres de La Marquise du Deffand, 17:536

Lettres de Mademoiselle de Lespinasse (J. de Lespinasse), 14:30, 14:31

Lettres de Pline le Jeune, en Latin et en Français, Suivies du Panégyrique de Trajan (Pliny the Younger; trans. L. de Sacy), 13:342, 13:343n, 13:391, 13:394, 13:413, 13:474, 13:494, 13:561, 14:215

Lettres d’un Bourgeois de New-Heaven (Condorcet), 5:595, 5:595–5:596n

Lettres D’Un Voyageur Anglois Sur La France, La Suisse Et L’Allemagne (J. Moore), 7:389

Lettres Patentes du Roy

  • J. Armstrong sends, 5:8, 5:8n, 5:8–5:9n

Lettres sur la Vieillesse (J. H. Meister), 3:137, 3:137n, 3:393

Lettsom, John Coakley

  • collaboration with B. Waterhouse, 6:39n, 19:362
  • introduces W. Thornton, 16:530, 16:531n
  • memoirs of, 18:655

lettuce

  • cultivation of, 8:305
  • impact of drought on, 4:38
  • mentioned, 6:187
  • seeds, 4:527, 5:31, 5:490, 8:258, 8:272
  • tennis ball, 5:307, 5:307n

Letty (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Leturcq, François Charles Michel

  • family of, 16:325

Leuba, Claude Victoire Herard

  • family of, 15:265–15:266
  • identified, 15:268n
  • letter from, 15:265–15:268
  • letter to, 15:276
  • seeks recommendation from TJ, 15:265–15:266, 15:276

Leunclavius, Johannes

  • Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis, 3:546

Leusden, Johannes

  • works of, 18:242n

Le Vaillant, François

  • Second Voyage Dans L’Intérieur De L’Afrique, Par Le Cap De Bonne-Espérance, Dans Les Années 1783, 84 et 85, 7:389

levers, 14:167, 16:29

Levi, David

  • Dissertations on the Prophecies of the Old Testament, 9:651–9:652, 9:652n

Levi, Nathan

  • as U.S. consul at Saint Thomas, 13:123n, 14:98, 14:99

Leviathan, HMS, 16:15

Levy, J. B. (ship captain), 13:530, 13:557

Lewis (H. Chisholm’s slave), 18:472

Lewis (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231–4:232n

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1760)

  • health of, 18:501
  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:386, 16:648

Lewis (TJ’s slave; b. 1788)

  • given to T. J. Randolph, 6:36
  • mentioned, 16:264n
  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:387

Lewis (African American)

  • and University of Virginia, 17:627

Lewis, Capt.

  • master of schooner Liberty, 1:307, 2:349

Lewis, Mr.

  • seeks position at University of Virginia, 17:496

Lewis, Ann Marks (TJ’s niece)

  • finances of, 3:90–3:91, 6:358
  • identified, 3:91n
  • letters from, 3:90–3:91
  • property dispute with C. Peyton, 11:520n
  • sends greetings to TJ, 6:358

Lewis, Charles (George Washington’s grandnephew)

  • impressed into British navy, 6:145n

Lewis, Charles (Meriwether Lewis’s uncle)

  • and Poplar Forest land, 19:203
  • Revolutionary War service of, 6:418–6:419

Lewis, Charles (TJ’s uncle)

  • family of, 1:168n
  • mentioned, 13:435
  • Revolutionary War regiment of, 7:280, 7:356

Lewis, Charles (d. 1806) (TJ’s nephew)

  • dispute with C. Peyton, 11:478, 11:478n, 11:479n, 11:485, 11:486, 11:514–11:520, 11:520n, 11:520–11:521n, 11:538, 11:538–11:539, 11:542, 13:284

Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ’s brother-in-law)

  • dispute with C. Peyton, 7:535, 11:478, 11:478n, 11:479, 11:479n, 11:485, 11:486, 11:514–11:520, 11:520n, 11:520–11:521n, 11:538, 11:538–11:539, 11:542, 13:284
  • family of, 1:167, 1:168n, 1:415n, 8:647, 11:520n, 11:538, 11:538n
  • finances of, 3:90–3:91, 3:242–3:243, 6:358
  • identified, 3:92–3:93n
  • and Jefferson v. Michie, 6:477, 6:479, 6:480, 6:481–6:482n
  • on Ky. life, 3:92
  • letters from, 3:91–3:93, 6:358
  • requests money from TJ, 6:358

Lewis, David Jackson

  • attests document, 11:243n
  • and Central College cornerstone laying, 12:62, 12:67
  • identified, 5:281n
  • letters to accounted for, 5:281n
  • and J. M. Perry, 16:550, 16:559
  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • and warrant for restitution of land, 5:280–5:281, 6:215, 6:216n, 6:554, 6:555

Lewis, Edwin

  • complaints against H. Toulmin, 16:461, 16:462–16:464, 16:464–16:465n
  • identified, 16:462n
  • letter from, 16:461–16:462
  • letter from, to H. Toulmin, 16:462–16:465

Lewis, Fielding (Meriwether Lewis’s granduncle), 6:418

Lewis, Figures, 16:462

Lewis, Francis

  • signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:331

Lewis, Henry, 1:27

Lewis, Howell

  • and Central College subscription, 11:325, 11:329
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254
  • TJ’s debt to, 15:425

Lewis, Isham (TJ’s nephew)

  • identified, 1:168n
  • letters from, 1:167–1:168
  • letters of introduction for, from TJ, 1:215, 1:216
  • letters to, 1:181–1:182
  • and murder of slave, 1:168n
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:167–1:168
  • TJ offers to teach surveying to, 1:181–1:182

Lewis, James

  • account of, 4:9
  • and deposition in Henderson case, 5:179, 5:180, 5:192–5:198, 6:153, 6:198, 6:199, 6:199, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:200, 6:479
  • and deposition in Jefferson v. Michie, 7:597, 9:3
  • desires appointment as Indian agent, 8:32
  • and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459, 5:139–5:141, 6:197, 6:197, 6:197, 6:478, 6:479, 6:572, 6:574n, 7:673, 7:673, 7:673, 7:674, 7:674, 11:209
  • identified, 5:197n
  • letters from accounted for, 5:198n
  • letters to accounted for, 5:180n
  • tends to ill slave, 3:283, 3:367–3:368, 3:529
  • and TJ’s land dispute with D. Michie, 5:139–5:141, 5:261, 7:597, 7:673, 7:673, 7:673, 7:674, 7:674

Lewis, Jane Woodson (Robert Lewis’s wife), 3:179

Lewis, Jesse

  • petition to General Assembly, 5:378–5:380

Lewis, Jesse Pitman

  • and Central College–University of Virginia, 15:91, 15:95, 15:96, 15:96, 15:97, 15:100, 16:303, 16:312, 16:320, 17:625, 17:628, 17:630, 19:55
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:330, 16:304, 17:620
  • house of, burns, 14:270n
  • and Jefferson v. Rivanna Company, 14:368
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 5:378–5:380

Lewis, John

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349

Lewis, John (of Albemarle Co.)

  • land grant to, 11:560–11:561

Lewis, John (of Charleston)

  • as merchant, 13:530–13:531n

Lewis, John (Col.)

  • land claims of, 11:560–11:561

Lewis, John (George Washington’s grandnephew)

  • impressed into British navy, 6:145n

Lewis, John (Meriwether Lewis’s granduncle), 6:418

Lewis, Joseph Saunders

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461

Lewis, Joshua, 2:443n

Lewis, Lawrence

  • estate of, 11:389, 11:391n

Lewis, Lillburne (TJ’s nephew)

  • family of, 3:90–3:91
  • and murder of slave, 1:168n

Lewis, Lucy B. See Griffin, Lucy B. Lewis (TJ’s niece)

Lewis, Lucy Jefferson (TJ’s sister; Charles Lilburne Lewis’s wife)

  • death of, 3:90
  • family of, 1:168n, 1:415n, 3:90–3:91, 6:611n, 11:520n, 11:538, 11:538n
  • and property conveyances, 11:479n, 11:479n

Lewis, Lucy Meriwether, 2:120, 2:241, 2:340

Lewis, Martha Amanda Carr. See Monroe, Martha Amanda Carr Lewis (TJ’s niece; Daniel Monroe’s wife)

Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis’s wife)

  • and apples for TJ, 7:78
  • gives apples to TJ, 5:357
  • health of, 18:255, 18:654
  • identified, 2:291–2:292n
  • letters from, 2:291–2:292, 5:357
  • letters to, 4:38, 7:78, 18:255
  • letters to accounted for, 2:38n
  • property of, 8:394, 8:423
  • seeks appointment for Wood, 4:186–4:187
  • sells victuals to TJ, 2:37–2:38, 2:291, 2:292n, 4:210
  • TJ gives wine to, 18:255
  • TJ makes payment for, 7:708, 12:614n
  • TJ pays, 6:338n, 7:45, 7:45n
  • TJ sends figs to, 4:38
  • and vegetables for TJ, 18:255

Lewis, Meriwether

  • and artifact collection of W. Clark, 1:510
  • death of, 1:436n, 1:602–1:603, 1:606–1:608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:42, 2:44, 2:120–2:121, 2:121, 2:191–2:192, 2:208, 6:423–6:424, 7:63, 7:64n, 10:444
  • education of, 6:419, 6:421–6:422, 6:424n, 6:426, 6:426
  • executor of, 2:123, 2:336, 2:567, 3:110, 3:166
  • family of, 6:418–6:419
  • health of, 6:423–6:424
  • as hunter, 6:419, 6:426
  • identified, 1:436n
  • and Indian dialects, 1:520, 1:556, 12:171, 12:172, 12:294, 12:331, 12:637
  • land warrant granted to, 2:121, 2:122n, 6:424n
  • letters to, 1:435–1:437
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–1:669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 6:417–6:418, 6:422–6:424, 7:31, 7:34–7:35, 7:244–7:245, 8:449n, 9:605n, 9:680–9:681, 9:704–9:706, 10:256–10:257, 11:43, 11:43–11:44n, 11:220, 12:171–12:172, 12:235–12:236, 13:344, 15:288, 19:197–19:198
  • makes payment for TJ, 6:506, 6:506n
  • military career of, 6:419, 6:426
  • and J. Neelly, 2:30–2:31, 2:34, 2:73n, 2:121, 2:191–2:192, 6:423–6:424
  • papers of, 2:31, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:72, 2:121, 2:122, 2:123–2:124, 2:127, 2:140, 3:181–3:182, 9:704–9:706, 10:40, 10:125, 10:164, 10:256–10:257, 10:377, 10:377, 10:444, 10:445, 10:445, 11:454, 11:486–11:487, 11:574, 12:171–12:172, 12:235–12:236, 12:295, 12:331, 12:463n, 12:636, 12:636n, 12:637, 12:638n
  • J. Pernier’s claim against estate of, 2:34, 2:192, 2:208–2:209, 2:364, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
  • personal belongings of, 2:34, 2:121, 2:123–2:124, 2:191–2:192, 2:192, 2:208, 2:241, 2:340
  • plants discovered by, 2:90–2:91, 2:140, 4:523–4:524
  • prepares for Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:101n, 1:194n, 6:421–6:422
  • and publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:668–1:669, 3:33, 3:150, 3:166–3:167, 3:181–3:182, 4:147, 6:417, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531–6:532, 7:63–7:64, 7:244–7:245, 7:244–7:245, 7:245n, 9:309, 9:310n, 9:467, 9:605, 9:704–9:706, 10:377
  • seeds brought by from the West, 1:192n, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166, 6:152
  • and stone block for TJ, 4:66
  • TJ introduces J. Bradbury to, 1:435–1:436
  • TJ on, 2:336, 2:340, 6:417–6:418
  • TJ’s biography of, 6:357, 6:418–6:424, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:531, 6:532, 7:63, 7:318, 7:319n, 10:257, 10:257n, 10:377, 12:188, 12:281, 16:272, 17:307, 17:342, 17:377n
  • TJ’s claim against estate of, 2:294, 2:294n, 2:294
  • TJ sends greetings to, 1:511
  • TJ’s instructions for Lewis and Clark Expedition to, 6:422, 9:309, 9:310n, 10:377
  • as TJ’s private secretary, 6:421, 6:425, 6:426
  • will of, 2:123–2:124, 2:140

Lewis, Morgan

  • and feud with D. Clinton, 5:635, 5:637n
  • governor of N.Y., 9:236
  • health of, 6:242
  • as quartermaster, 6:527, 7:531

Lewis, N.

  • and University of Virginia, 17:621

Lewis, Nicholas

  • family of, 4:186–4:187
  • land of bought, 3:622
  • as M. Lewis’s guardian, 6:419
  • manages TJ’s affairs, 5:88, 6:535, 6:535n
  • mentioned, 6:397
  • and Poplar Forest land, 19:203

Lewis, Nicholas Hunter

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:323, 11:329, 13:161, 16:304, 17:576
  • crops of, 14:359
  • identified, 10:369n
  • as juror, 5:278, 5:279
  • letters from, 10:369, 10:601, 14:368, 14:368–14:369, 14:372, 14:373, 14:381, 14:476
  • letters to, 10:369, 10:601, 14:355–14:356, 14:372, 14:380, 14:380–14:381, 14:478–14:479, 14:480
  • and proposed Albemarle Co. road, 13:275
  • and Rivanna Company, 10:369, 10:369, 10:601, 10:601, 12:605, 14:355–14:356, 14:356, 14:368, 14:368–14:369, 14:372, 14:372, 14:373, 14:380, 14:380–14:381, 14:381, 14:417, 14:476, 14:478–14:479, 14:480
  • and Shadwell mills, 17:515
  • and University of Virginia, 16:309, 16:312, 16:316, 16:317
  • witnesses warrant, 5:280

Lewis, Nicholas Meriwether

  • and Albemarle Academy, 7:267, 7:282, 7:293, 7:570
  • seeks appointment for Wood, 4:187
  • TJ receives land from, 4:386

Lewis, Randolph (TJ’s nephew)

  • family of, 3:90–3:91
  • moves to Ky., 1:168n

Lewis, Reuben

  • and University of Virginia, 19:53

Lewis, Robert (of Goochland Co.), 3:179, 3:211

Lewis, Robert (Meriwether Lewis’s grandfather), 6:418

Lewis, Robert H.

  • letter from accounted for, 14:654
  • letter to accounted for, 14:654

Lewis, Robert (surveyor)

  • survey of J. Monroe’s land, 8:588, 8:589n, 8:598
  • survey of W. Short’s Indian Camp property, 7:487, 7:511n

Lewis, Samuel

  • draftsman, 9:589, 12:636

Lewis, Thomas C.

  • and Henderson case, 7:186, 7:345, 7:346n

Lewis, Thomas Fielding

  • sells horse to TJ, 16:624, 16:624n, 16:648
  • TJ’s debt to, 17:285

Lewis, William (ca. 17811815)

  • on J. Barron, 17:516, 17:518–17:519, 17:519n
  • identified, 17:519n
  • letter from, to C. W. Goldsborough, 17:517n, 17:517–17:518, 17:518, 17:519n

Lewis, William (Meriwether Lewis’s father), 6:418

Lewis, William (of Philadelphia)

  • and batture controversy, 2:444–2:445n, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:658, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483

Lewis, William D.

  • accuses L. Harris of corruption, 16:31, 16:62
  • family of, 16:31
  • lawsuit against, 16:31–16:32, 16:32n, 16:62, 16:63, 18:9

Lewis, William J.

  • and Central College subscription, 11:636
  • as Va. legislator, 11:8

Lewis, William W. (ship captain)

  • and merino sheep, 2:233, 2:360, 2:361, 2:453–2:454, 2:454n, 2:481, 2:496n
  • and wine for TJ, 12:381n, 12:386n, 12:566, 13:9

Lewis, Winslow

  • patents held by, 12:378, 12:380n, 13:5

Lewis, Zachary, 16:229, 16:230

Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • animals observed during, 9:704–9:705
  • astronomical observations of, 10:377, 10:377, 10:444, 10:444, 10:445, 12:172, 12:463n, 12:636n, 12:637, 15:288, 19:197–19:198
  • J. Banks on, 10:287–10:288n
  • and chronometer, 3:83n
  • curiosities from at Monticello, 8:238, 13:27
  • P. S. Du Pont de Nemours on, 5:612–5:613, 5:614n
  • fossils obtained during, 8:449n
  • funding for, 19:197, 19:201n
  • P. Gass’s account of, 6:122, 12:652
  • history of, 2:332, 3:166–3:167, 3:181–3:182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–3:650, 6:46, 6:357, 6:417–6:426, 7:517–7:518, 10:60, 10:444, 10:445
  • and Indian vocabularies, 9:705, 10:377, 10:377, 10:444, 10:445, 11:398n, 11:454, 12:171, 12:172, 12:294, 12:331, 12:463n, 12:637
  • journals of, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–1:669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 3:181–3:182, 9:704–9:706, 9:706n, 10:164, 10:256–10:257, 10:377, 10:377, 11:43, 11:43–11:44n, 11:486–11:487, 11:574, 12:171–12:172, 12:173, 12:235–12:236, 12:463n, 12:636, 12:636–12:638
  • land warrants awarded in consequence of, 2:121, 2:122n
  • latitude and longitude observations of, 9:680–9:681, 9:705, 10:256–10:257, 12:295, 12:331, 19:197–19:198
  • maps of, 9:705, 10:377, 10:377, 10:400, 10:444, 10:445, 10:445, 10:445, 12:171, 12:172, 12:463n, 12:636, 12:637
  • J. Ordway’s journal, 12:636, 12:637, 12:637–12:638n, 12:638n
  • plants from, 2:90–2:91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166, 7:34–7:35, 7:55, 9:704–9:705, 10:445, 10:445, 11:174–11:175, 11:220
  • publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:630n, 1:668–1:669, 2:30–2:31, 2:72, 2:140, 4:568, 6:427, 6:429, 6:430, 6:430, 6:531–6:532, 7:31, 7:63–7:64, 7:64n, 7:289, 7:289n, 7:290, 7:517–7:518, 7:555, 7:556, 9:309, 9:310n, 9:467, 9:605, 9:704–9:706, 10:377, 10:444–10:445, 12:171, 12:636, 12:637, 12:638n
  • route of, 4:550–4:551, 6:421, 9:650, 13:344, 19:197, 19:198
  • seeds from, 1:192n, 3:150, 3:150n, 3:166, 6:152
  • N. G. M. Senter on, 5:65–5:66
  • G. Shannon as member of, 18:575
  • and stone block for TJ, 1:473, 1:475n, 4:66

Lewis Ludlam & Company (Richmond firm), 19:152

Lewis’s Ferry (Albemarle Co.), 11:119, 11:139, 11:243, 12:58, 13:275

Lewiston, N.Y.

  • burnt by British forces, 8:217

Lexicon Aristophanicum, Græco-Anglicum (J. Sanxay), 14:221–14:222, 14:240, 14:266, 14:351, 14:423, 14:467–14:468, 14:505

Lexicon Græco-Latinum (H. Estienne; J. Scapula), 12:206, 12:206n, 14:193, 14:221, 14:240, 14:265, 14:266, 14:286

Lexicon Græco-Latinum in Novum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Testamentum (G. Pasor), 12:52

Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici (J. Calvin), 3:546

Lexicon Manuale Græco-Latinum et Latino-Græcum (C. Schrevel), 8:660, 10:358

Λεξικὸν περὶ τῶν παρὰ Πλάτωνι Λέξεων … Lexicon Vocum Platonicarum (Timaeus; ed. D. Ruhnken), 9:276, 9:277n, 15:26

Lexington, Battle of (1775), 14:289

Lexington, Ky.

  • Athenaeum, 16:182n
  • medical school in, 18:20
  • Museum of Natural and Antiquarian History, 16:177, 16:180, 16:182n, 18:206

Lexington, Va.

  • academy in, 11:668
  • Ann Smith Academy, 1:367, 1:368n, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201, 11:134n
  • as potential location for state university, 9:399, 9:506, 12:433, 12:458, 12:539, 13:180, 13:180, 13:180–13:181, 13:181, 13:181, 13:182, 13:183, 13:183, 13:187, 13:187–13:188, 13:189–13:190, 13:190, 13:190, 13:201, 13:202n, 13:210, 13:221–13:222, 13:223n, 13:223–13:224n, 13:226, 13:401, 13:401, 13:473, 13:490–13:491, 13:497, 13:498, 13:535–13:536
  • mail service to, 3:56, 3:104
  • Washington Academy, 1:367, 1:367–1:368n, 9:507n, 9:712, 9:714n
  • Washington College, 9:506, 9:507n

Lexington Athenaeum (Lexington, Ky.), 16:182n

Lexington Medical Society (Lexington, Ky.), 17:88, 19:386, 19:387n

Leyburn, Mrs. (John Leyburn’s wife). See Ocheltree, Mrs. (later John Leyburn’s wife)

Leyburn, John

  • identified, 18:103n
  • letter to, 18:102–18:103
  • as sheriff, 11:589, 11:590n, 12:38n
  • and survey of Natural Bridge, 18:102–18:103, 18:181–18:182

L’Hospital, Guillaume François Antoine de

  • Analyse des Infiniment Petits, Pour l’intelligence des lignes courbes, 15:588, 15:589n

libel

  • J. Adams on, 19:366, 19:366–19:367n, 19:410–19:411
  • W. Duane sued for, 4:174, 4:174–4:175n
  • E. Gerry’s message on, 5:6, 5:7n
  • proposed punishment for, 4:122
  • prosecutions during TJ’s presidency, 1:276–1:278, 1:349–1:350, 7:206, 7:207n, 7:236–7:237, 18:467, 18:468n

La Libertád de los Mares, ó el Gobiérno Inglés descubiérto (B. Barère; trans. C. Le Brun), 18:95–18:96, 18:156

Liberty (schooner), 1:307, 2:349

Liberty (ship), 14:325

Liberty, Va.

  • painting of, by E. Beyer, 9:xliii, 9:344 (illus.)
  • on route to Natural Bridge, 9:35
  • taverns in, 9:21, 9:27

Liberty Hall Academy. See Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University)

Liblong, Col. See le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

libraries See also Library of Congress; Virginia, University of: Books and Library

  • Albemarle Library Society, 19:453, 19:453–19:454, 19:505–19:508, 19:509n, 19:551–19:552, 19:554, 19:634
  • at Alexandria, Egypt, 6:278, 6:542, 6:542
  • in Baltimore, 15:578
  • Bibliothèque du Panthéon (Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève), Paris, 10:311
  • Bibliothèque Nationale (Bibliothèque Royale), Paris, 10:311
  • Dickinson Library Company, 19:327–19:328, 19:328n, 19:371–19:372
  • in Europe, 19:677
  • formed by S. R. Demaree in Ky., 1:455–1:457
  • free, 9:641, 9:642n, 18:74, 18:167–18:168, 18:176
  • at Fryeburg Academy (Me.), 9:264
  • German, 16:226
  • Italian, 16:226, 16:226
  • Juvenile Library Company of Richmond, 19:322–19:323, 19:323n, 19:343, 19:560–19:561, 19:561n
  • in New York, 13:521
  • in Philadelphia, 18:189, 18:224
  • public, 14:194
  • in Richmond, 11:395–11:396, 11:396n
  • for sailors, 17:300–17:301, 17:301n, 17:301, 17:302n
  • TJ on, 1:205–1:206, 19:560
  • TJ’s personal, 1:35–1:38, 1:390, 1:400
  • at University of Göttingen, 9:195, 9:403
  • Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–1:67, 1:205–1:206, 1:508

Library, University of Virginia. See Virginia, University of: Books and Library; Virginia, University of: Construction and Grounds: Rotunda (library)

Library of Congress See also Jefferson, Thomas: Books & Library

  • acquisition of works by, 16:239
  • appropriations for, 13:520, 13:521n
  • auditor’s report on purchase of TJ’s library, 9:494–9:495
  • book list prepared to guide purchases for, 2:81–2:83
  • Catalogue of the Library of the United States. To Which is Annexed, A Copious Index, Alphabetically Arranged (G. Watterston), 8:475n, 8:629, 9:xliv–9:xlv, 9:70, 9:80, 9:80n, 9:237, 9:238n, 9:318, 9:344 (illus.), 9:396n, 9:409, 9:409–9:410n, 9:435, 9:438n, 9:469, 9:531–9:532, 12:96, 16:239, 16:241
  • classification of, 8:473–8:475, 9:xliv–9:xlv
  • collection of state laws in, 14:144
  • congressional opposition to purchase of, 7:680
  • destroyed by British troops, 7:xlv–7:xlvi, 7:692–7:693, 7:698, 7:699–7:700, 8:214, 8:216, 8:292, 8:300, 8:301, 8:523, 9:150, 12:147n, 12:398, 12:640
  • documents owned by, 13:24
  • librarian of, 7:698, 8:444–8:445, 9:409, 9:409–9:410n, 9:544, 16:143–16:144
  • and library committees of Congress, 7:679, 7:680, 7:681, 7:683, 8:14, 8:14, 8:16, 8:22, 8:26, 8:36, 8:39–8:40, 8:54, 8:54, 8:55–8:56, 8:56–8:57, 8:106, 8:213, 8:214, 8:268, 8:268, 8:270, 8:287, 8:288–8:289, 8:309, 9:409, 9:409–9:410n, 10:390, 16:239
  • location of, 8:444–8:445, 8:445n, 8:629, 13:520, 13:521n
  • manuscripts of Va. laws acquired by, 8:440n, 8:440n, 9:318, 16:211–16:212, 16:239, 16:241, 16:260, 16:286n
  • payment for TJ’s library, 8:xlv, 8:55, 8:270, 8:279–8:280, 8:288, 8:288, 8:289, 8:302, 8:302n, 8:331–8:332, 8:382, 8:426, 8:426–8:427, 8:428, 8:437–8:438, 8:440–8:441, 8:451, 8:471, 8:483, 8:501, 9:108–9:109
  • portrait of TJ displayed in, 11:135
  • proposed donation to, 14:63–14:64
  • and publication of congressional proceedings, 12:399, 12:400
  • resolution authorizing contracting for TJ’s library, 8:14, 8:36, 8:39
  • satirical letter lampooning TJ’s sale of library to, 8:3–8:7
  • significance of, 7:680–7:681, 8:476, 8:524
  • TJ on, 1:592
  • TJ prepares books for transportation, 7:680, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:56–8:57, 8:142, 8:287, 8:287–8:288, 8:288–8:289, 8:289–8:290, 8:309, 8:359, 8:366, 8:369, 8:373–8:374, 8:376, 8:376–8:377, 8:385, 8:386n, 8:386–8:388, 8:431, 8:439
  • TJ replaces books sold to, 7:680, 8:523, 8:538, 8:539, 8:549, 8:550, 8:578–8:580, 8:580–8:581, 8:583–8:584, 8:586–8:587, 8:589, 8:590n, 9:xlv, 9:195–9:196, 9:353, 9:454–9:456, 9:500, 9:559–9:560, 9:561–9:562n, 9:697, 10:236n, 14:452
  • TJ’s catalogue of books sold to, 7:682–7:683, 7:684n, 7:698, 8:xlv, 8:14, 8:22, 8:26, 8:33, 8:54, 8:54, 8:55–8:56, 8:56, 8:59–8:60, 8:83, 8:83, 8:106, 8:213, 8:270, 8:284, 8:287, 8:288, 8:288, 8:289, 8:290, 8:302, 8:309, 8:330, 8:333, 8:359, 8:373, 8:376, 8:385, 8:386–8:387, 8:418, 8:426–8:427, 8:428, 8:444, 8:473–8:475, 8:566, 8:629, 10:182, 10:390, 12:157n
  • TJ sells personal library to, 7:xlv–7:xlvi, 7:434 (illus.), 7:681–7:683, 7:698, 8:xlv, 8:xlv, 8:xlvi, 8:xlvi–8:xlvii, 8:3, 8:7n, 8:14, 8:16, 8:18, 8:22, 8:26, 8:33, 8:36, 8:39–8:40, 8:40–8:41, 8:41n, 8:49, 8:54, 8:55–8:57, 8:57, 8:83, 8:83, 8:85, 8:94, 8:106, 8:136, 8:160–8:161, 8:213, 8:214, 8:214, 8:224–8:225, 8:270, 8:279–8:280, 8:284, 8:285, 8:287, 8:292, 8:301, 8:320, 8:329–8:330, 8:331–8:332, 8:349, 8:350, 8:379, 8:418, 8:434, 8:444–8:445, 8:538, 8:538–8:539, 9:149, 9:299, 9:302, 9:322n, 10:390, 10:394, 10:443, 10:457, 11:5, 11:201, 11:279n, 12:91, 12:92n, 12:96, 12:146, 12:147n, 12:156, 12:193, 12:294, 12:576, 14:285, 15:183, 15:376, 16:143, 16:508, 17:307, 17:561, 18:295, 18:312, 18:468, 19:410, 19:412n, 19:509n, 19:510
  • TJ’s notes retrieved from, 9:69–9:70, 9:79, 9:107
  • TJ sends catalogue to Congress for consideration, 7:681, 7:681–7:683, 7:692–7:693, 7:699–7:700
  • TJ’s inventory of, 8:426–8:427, 8:428
  • transportation of TJ’s books to Washington, 8:xlv–8:xlvi, 8:xlvi, 8:49, 8:55, 8:142, 8:268, 8:268–8:269n, 8:270, 8:270n, 8:287, 8:287–8:288, 8:289, 8:289–8:290, 8:290n, 8:309, 8:333, 8:339, 8:373–8:374, 8:379, 8:416–8:417, 8:427, 8:453, 8:471, 8:476, 8:566, 8:629, 8:629n
  • works given to, 9:149, 9:149n, 9:150, 9:510, 11:70
  • works owned by, 9:689, 9:690, 9:690–9:691, 16:272, 16:427

Les Licteurs Rapportent à Brutus les Corps de Ses Fils (J. L. David), 17:73, 17:74n, 17:105

Liebault, Jean

  • Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme, 2:82, 4:139, 4:142n

Lieper, Thomas. See Leiper, Thomas

Life and Opinions of Julius Melbourn; with sketches of the lives and characters of Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, John Randolph, and several other eminent American statesmen (J. D. Hammond), 8:243n

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (L. Sterne), 6:616, 10:13, 10:15n, 14:60

Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth (W. Roscoe), 1:163, 1:164n, 1:164n, 1:435, 7:664, 14:78, 19:508

The Life and Power of True Godliness; described in a Series of Discourses (A. McLeod), 11:159, 11:159n

The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth (E. Herbert), 7:629, 7:631n

The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General in the service of the United States (J. Reid and J. H. Eaton), 12:9, 12:10n

The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (L. F. Philostratus; trans. E. Berwick), 17:535

The Life of Catharine II, Empress of all the Russias (W. Tooke), 1:580

The Life of Doctor Benjamin Franklin (M. L. Weems), 8:633–8:634, 8:638, 8:639n

The Life of Gen. Francis Marion (P. Horry and M. L. Weems), 8:633, 8:634n, 8:638, 14:524

Life of Geoffrey Chaucer (W. Godwin), 7:664

Life of George Washington (J. Marshall)

  • accuracy of, 7:494–7:495, 7:546–7:547, 7:549–7:550, 7:550–7:551n, 8:619, 8:620n, 9:219, 9:549, 19:298, 19:299n
  • cited for historical precedents, 9:550–9:551n
  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:664
  • and committees of correspondence, 14:373, 14:377n
  • and T. Kosciuszko, 16:27
  • mentioned, 6:258, 6:258, 6:258, 7:216–7:217, 9:368, 12:416, 12:419, 18:180
  • recommended to Albemarle Library Society, 19:507
  • and Storia della Guerra dell’ Independenza degli Stati Uniti d’America (C. G. G. Botta), 13:523, 13:523n
  • TJ on, 1:589, 1:590n, 3:564, 3:565n, 6:440, 8:657, 8:659n, 10:276, 12:417–12:419, 12:427, 12:429–12:431, 12:431, 13:28, 17:307, 17:312, 17:375n, 19:97, 19:100n, 19:217, 19:428, 19:529
  • TJ purchases, 8:472, 8:672

The Life of George Washington (D. Ramsay), 1:35

The Life of James Otis, of Massachusetts (W. Tudor), 13:575, 13:576n, 13:618–13:619, 19:318, 19:318n, 19:373, 19:374n

The Life of John Knox (T. McCrie), 19:506

Life of Lorenzo de’ Medici, called the Magnificent (W. Roscoe), 1:164n, 1:435, 7:664, 19:508

The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots (G. Chalmers), 19:508

The Life of M. Turgot (Condorcet), 11:527, 11:527n

The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte: containing historical sketches, and anecdotes illustrative of his public and private character (“An American”), 15:402–15:403, 15:403n

The Life of Nelson (R. Southey), 8:22, 8:23n, 8:671

The Life of Petrarch (S. Dobson), 7:664

The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. (J. Boswell), 11:495n, 19:506

The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins (W. Wynne), 7:366, 7:366n, 8:387, 8:387n

The Life of Thomas Jefferson (H. S. Randall), 15:407–15:408, 15:408n

The Life of Thuanus, with Some Account of his Writings, and a Translation of the Preface to his History (J. Collinson), 17:535

The Life of Wesley (R. Southey), 16:589–16:590, 16:591n

Liggan (Liggon; Ligon), Willis

  • identified, 19:95n
  • mentioned, 18:621
  • receipt from, 19:95
  • TJ loans money to, 19:95

light

  • G. Crane’s essay on, 13:549–13:554

Lightfoot, John

  • English theologian, 6:618

Lightfoot, Philip, 12:553

lighthouses

  • as internal improvements, 19:84
  • proposed improvements to, 18:184–18:186, 18:216

lightning rods, 11:341–11:342, 11:342n, 11:469–11:470

Light of Nature Pursued (A. Tucker), 6:302, 10:382, 10:573

Ligon, James

  • as clerk for P. Gibson, 8:182, 8:441n, 8:492, 8:608–8:609, 9:569n, 9:708, 10:37–10:38, 10:480, 10:669–10:670, 10:671, 11:605, 12:260
  • as clerk for Gibson & Jefferson, 4:13n, 4:58n, 4:234n, 4:467, 4:530, 5:161, 5:316, 5:587
  • letters from, 8:182, 8:608–8:609, 9:708, 10:480, 10:671–10:672, 11:605, 12:260
  • letter to, 10:669–10:670
  • witnesses document, 4:277–4:278n

lilac, 1:61, 3:354, 9:533, 11:39, 12:618

Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b. 1809). See Hern, Lilburn (TJ’s slave; b. 1809)

Lilium canadense. See Canada lily

Lilium superbum. See Allegheny lily

Lille Belt, HMS

  • encounter with USS President, 3:638, 3:639n

Lilly (E. Bacon’s slave), 16:152

Lilly (TJ’s slave; b. 1791). See Hern, Lilly (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

Lilly, Gabriel

  • Monticello overseer, 2:279, 2:281n, 4:543, 5:425, 14:396
  • superintendent of TJ’s nailery, 2:281n

lily

  • Allegheny, 1:660, 2:36, 4:523
  • Atamasco, 4:523
  • belladonna, 3:633, 4:523, 5:412
  • blackberry, 10:517
  • bugle, 5:412
  • Canada, 2:103, 2:104n
  • crown imperial, 2:140, 3:545, 4:497, 4:498n, 4:498n, 5:346, 5:412, 10:537
  • flag, 5:358, 10:517
  • TJ requests from M. J. Randolph, 10:517
  • TJ requests of B. McMahon, 3:545

Lily, William

  • admonition by, 11:525, 11:526n

lima beans, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502, 5:658, 9:608–9:609

lime (mineral)

  • and Mr. Brand, 8:528, 8:528n
  • and J. Brand, 5:427, 8:528n
  • as building material, 8:253n, 8:402, 9:466, 9:468n, 9:468n, 9:468n, 11:113, 11:349, 12:239, 12:262, 12:266, 14:87, 14:161n, 14:163, 14:462, 14:595, 18:287, 18:288, 18:310–18:311, 19:185, 19:239, 19:404, 19:404, 19:432, 19:433, 19:435n
  • in N.Y., 8:209n
  • at Poplar Forest, 2:150, 5:381–5:382, 5:403, 5:663
  • requested from TJ, 2:201
  • and salt manufacture, 12:378
  • toll on, 5:379
  • used as fertilizer, 10:533, 10:533, 10:534, 19:607n

lime (tree), 1:631–1:632

limestone

  • in Va., 11:535, 14:428–14:429, 15:586, 15:586, 16:645, 16:645n

Limestone Survey (Albemarle Co.)

  • lawsuit over ownership of, 10:302, 12:81, 14:428–14:430, 15:156, 18:373, 19:63–19:64
  • taxes on, 8:392, 8:393n, 8:485, 14:429, 15:156
  • TJ sells, 16:644–16:645, 17:23
  • TJ’s shares in, 3:432–3:433, 3:433n, 3:458, 10:302n, 14:314, 14:428–14:430

Limozin, André

  • commercial agent in Le Havre, 9:362–9:363, 9:363n

Lincoln, Benjamin

  • and American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 11:273n
  • family of, 12:497

Lincoln, Daniel Waldo

  • An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the “Bunker-Hill Association,”, 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

Lincoln, Enoch

  • and Missouri question, 15:530, 15:535n

Lincoln, Levi

  • as deacon, 19:361
  • family of, 2:666, 2:666n, 17:275, 18:73
  • identified, 1:49–1:50n
  • letters to, 1:49–1:50, 4:100
  • and J. Madison, 3:245, 3:246n
  • and publication of TJ’s letter, 15:137
  • as potential Supreme Court justice, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126, 3:151, 3:165, 3:178, 3:182, 4:100
  • TJ on, 17:298
  • TJ pays, 1:41, 1:49
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
  • and Yazoo land scheme, 3:127, 3:129n

Lind, James

  • An Essay on diseases incidental to Europeans in hot Climates, 3:38, 3:40n, 10:136, 10:147n

linden, American. See basswood (American linden)

Lindsay, Col., 11:429

Lindsay, Mr. (canal-lock builder), 14:360

Lindsay, Mr. (letter bearer), 2:40

Lindsay (TJ’s slave; b. 1813)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 12:303
  • on smallpox vaccination list, 9:717

Lindsay (TJ’s slave; b. 1816)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 12:303

Lindsay, Eliza

  • signs petition, 18:146

Lindsay, Elizabeth

  • signs petition, 18:146

Lindsay, George G.

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Lindsay, James

  • and J. Brand’s estate, 19:673, 19:673n
  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:324, 11:330, 13:161, 15:96, 16:303, 17:630
  • identified, 19:673n
  • letter from accounted for, 19:673n
  • letter to, 19:673

Lindsay, Mary

  • signs petition, 18:146

Lindsay, Reuben

  • and Central College–University of Virginia subscription, 11:330, 15:398–15:399, 16:476
  • and corn-shelling machines, 14:96, 14:118
  • and fight between C. L. Bankhead and T. J. Randolph, 14:20
  • friend of TJ, 4:671
  • hair described as white, 5:253
  • home of on route to Montpellier (Madison family estate), 1:562–1:563
  • identified, 8:397n
  • on W. McGehee, 3:35–3:36
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254, 4:346–4:349
  • and W. Short’s land, 4:60
  • TJ visits, 8:664
  • as trustee of Bankheads, 8:394–8:397, 8:397–8:399
  • and University of Virginia, 15:13n, 17:607

Lindsay, Robert

  • and University of Virginia, 16:305, 16:308, 16:475, 19:189

Lindsey, Theophilus

  • correspondence with J. Priestley, 6:146, 6:233, 6:278, 6:300, 6:317–6:318, 6:367–6:368, 8:553, 8:553–8:554n, 8:658
  • Memoirs of the Late Reverend Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. (T. Belsham), 6:145, 6:146, 6:146, 6:180, 6:192, 6:193, 6:204, 6:219, 6:226, 6:227, 6:228, 6:277, 6:278, 6:280, 6:367, 9:175, 9:176n, 9:595, 9:596n, 10:381, 11:230
  • mentioned, 6:145–6:146, 6:146, 6:227, 6:227, 6:227, 6:237, 6:300, 6:302, 8:551

Lindsey’s Hotel (Washington), 1:359n

linen, 3:202, 3:280n, 3:309, 3:309n, 4:27, 4:102, 4:138, 4:231–4:232n, 5:187, 5:439, 5:470, 6:344, 6:347, 8:460, 8:554, 9:597, 11:11, 16:7, 16:12, 17:9, 18:43, 18:225, 19:11, 19:14, 19:14, 19:486, 19:615

Lingan, James McCubbin, 1:75

Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus (A. Littleton), 6:387

Linguarum Totius Orbis Vocabularia comparativa (ed. P. S. Pallas), 9:373n, 12:249–12:250, 12:294, 12:296n

linguistics. See philology

Lining, John

  • “A Description of the American Yellow Fever, in a Letter from Dr. John Lining,” 10:131, 10:146n

Link, Daniel

  • and University of Virginia, 19:190

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné)

  • and botany, 13:248, 16:160, 19:668n
  • Caroli a Linné … System Vegetabilium (ed. J. A. Murray), 8:429, 8:430n
  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:667
  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals (trans. Turton), 1:581, 7:626
  • and Indian hemp, 4:667
  • mentioned, 5:601
  • and mineralogy, 2:489, 2:490n
  • and nosology, 11:367
  • and scientific classification, 7:152, 7:208, 7:208–7:209, 7:210–7:211, 11:367, 19:668n
  • and Société Linnéenne de Paris, 18:62, 19:566, 19:592, 19:668n, 19:694
  • Systema Naturæ, 4:536, 6:408, 6:409, 7:210, 11:367, 13:248, 13:249n

Linnean Society of London, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n, 9:522

Linnean Society of Philadelphia, 1:663, 2:70

linseed oil, 1:55n, 1:77, 1:97, 5:33, 5:379, 15:473, 16:376, 16:389, 16:416, 18:174

Linville, Sarah

  • signs petition, 18:146

lion’s foot

  • as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

Lipop, Joseph

  • identified, 6:43n
  • seeks advice from TJ, 6:43

Lips, Joest

  • works of, 11:452, 17:73n

Lipscomb, Abner Smith, 16:462–16:463

Liriodendron. See tulip poplar

Lisbon See also Jefferson, George (TJ’s cousin): and consulship at Lisbon

  • earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n, 7:557, 7:560n
  • and P. Gibson, 3:435–3:436, 3:441–3:442, 3:443
  • sheep shipped from, 2:431, 2:481
  • U.S. consulship at, 1:114, 3:441–3:442, 3:523–3:524, 3:542, 4:185, 4:212, 4:218–4:219, 5:313, 5:313n, 5:313–5:314, 5:314n, 5:319, 5:456, 5:504, 6:164

Lislet, Louis Moreau. See Moreau Lislet, Louis

Lister, Martin

  • edits Apicii Coelii de Opsoniis et Condimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria, 15:26

List of Post Offices in the United States, 1:514, 1:514n

Liston, Robert, 1:256+, 5:266, 6:33, 6:34n, 17:347

literacy

  • as qualification for voting, 7:327, 7:328n, 19:587
  • of working class, 13:521

Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (England), 16:97

Literary and Philosophical Society of New-York

  • and D. Clinton, 8:347, 8:348n, 8:409
  • members of, 8:603
  • and tariffs on books, 17:656
  • TJ elected a member of, 8:409, 8:409n, 8:456–8:457, 8:603, 8:675

Literary and Philosophical Society of South Carolina

  • and J. Madison, 6:377
  • Shecut’s critique of, 6:377
  • TJ elected honorary member of, 6:377, 6:377, 6:483, 6:561

Literary Fund

  • and aid for Va. academies and colleges, 19:274n, 19:292, 19:315, 19:324, 19:340–19:341n
  • and annuity for University of Virginia, 15:83, 15:89, 15:91, 15:91, 15:101, 15:101, 15:295, 15:430, 15:431n, 15:461, 15:462, 15:482, 15:486, 15:509, 15:509, 15:509, 15:520, 15:520, 15:523–15:524, 15:602, 16:64, 16:76–16:77, 16:220, 16:220, 16:295, 16:298–16:299, 16:299, 16:301, 16:320, 16:321n, 16:337–16:338, 16:374, 16:397, 16:431, 16:431, 16:475, 16:475, 16:544, 16:550, 16:560, 17:33, 17:75, 17:75, 17:76, 17:184, 17:246, 17:293, 17:294, 17:294, 17:294, 17:436, 17:494, 17:514–17:515, 17:525, 17:525, 17:528, 17:528, 17:571, 17:613, 17:616, 17:617, 17:617, 17:642, 17:646–17:647, 18:29, 18:29, 18:86, 18:101, 18:101, 18:110, 18:113, 18:113–18:114, 18:127–18:128, 18:199, 18:208, 18:475, 19:41, 19:41, 19:42, 19:60, 19:257, 19:310, 19:324, 19:404, 19:417, 19:478, 19:512–19:513, 19:538, 19:539, 19:553, 19:653
  • and education of the poor, 16:629n, 18:119n, 18:160n, 18:248, 18:262, 18:263–18:264
  • and estate of T. Reed, 9:277, 9:279
  • funds of, 15:80–15:81, 15:82n, 15:295, 15:336, 16:302n, 16:429, 16:431, 16:544, 16:551, 16:565, 16:593, 16:612, 17:32, 17:33–17:34n, 17:34n, 17:157–17:158, 18:110, 18:119, 18:129, 18:158, 18:159, 18:178, 18:207–18:208, 18:220, 18:222n, 18:263–18:264, 18:265n
  • and General Assembly, 15:358, 15:399–15:400, 15:400n, 15:401n, 15:416n, 16:458, 16:468, 16:469n, 17:32, 17:33–17:34n, 17:34n, 18:29, 18:119, 18:119n, 18:222n, 19:274n
  • and governor of Va., 19:167
  • and loans for University of Virginia, 15:415, 15:430–15:431, 15:431n, 15:432, 15:461–15:462, 15:482, 15:486–15:487, 15:508–15:509, 15:516, 15:520, 15:520, 15:521, 15:523–15:524, 15:536–15:537, 15:537n, 15:560, 15:560n, 15:561, 15:602, 16:64–16:65, 16:65, 16:76–16:77, 16:185, 16:189, 16:220, 16:271, 16:295, 16:298–16:299, 16:299, 16:300, 16:301, 16:320, 16:321n, 16:338, 16:347, 16:354, 16:360, 16:374, 16:396–16:398, 16:431, 16:431, 16:442, 16:545, 16:565, 16:593, 16:612, 16:624, 16:625n, 17:21n, 17:75, 17:75, 17:75, 17:76, 17:76, 17:84, 17:85n, 17:100, 17:103–17:104, 17:104, 17:106–17:107, 17:141–17:142, 17:184, 17:185, 17:240–17:241, 17:246, 17:247, 17:292, 17:292n, 17:293, 17:293, 17:293, 17:293, 17:294, 17:294, 17:294, 17:294n, 17:294n, 17:304, 17:383, 17:384–17:385, 17:389–17:390, 17:391–17:392, 17:397, 17:397–17:398n, 17:398n, 17:416, 17:422, 17:425, 17:428, 17:432, 17:436, 17:440, 17:440, 17:494, 17:514–17:515, 17:525, 17:550–17:551, 17:613, 17:614–17:615, 17:616, 17:616, 17:617, 17:617, 17:643, 17:644–17:645, 17:647, 17:647, 18:10, 18:29, 18:86, 18:108, 18:111n, 18:113–18:114, 18:118–18:119, 18:119, 18:119n, 18:127–18:128, 18:128–18:129, 18:178, 18:188, 18:192, 18:199, 18:199n, 18:200, 18:207–18:208, 18:208–18:209, 18:215, 18:220, 18:248, 18:249n, 18:261, 18:262, 18:265n, 18:265n, 19:40–19:44, 19:46, 19:53, 19:179, 19:181, 19:183, 19:187n, 19:188, 19:191n, 19:253–19:255, 19:274, 19:315, 19:324, 19:326, 19:328, 19:339–19:340, 19:340–19:341n, 19:350, 19:351n, 19:353–19:354, 19:368, 19:368–19:369, 19:370, 19:371, 19:383, 19:392, 19:393, 19:395, 19:395n, 19:398, 19:402, 19:409, 19:415, 19:415, 19:417, 19:503, 19:503n, 19:517–19:518, 19:519, 19:519n, 19:550, 19:553, 19:561, 19:570, 19:573, 19:578, 19:584–19:585, 19:593, 19:594–19:595, 19:604–19:605, 19:653, 19:670
  • and loan to T. J. Randolph, 18:349, 18:350n, 18:389, 18:402, 18:434
  • and primary education, 15:446, 15:447, 16:232, 16:431, 18:74–18:75, 19:254, 19:292, 19:293, 19:293–19:294n, 19:314–19:315, 19:324, 19:325–19:326, 19:339, 19:339, 19:340–19:341n, 19:353–19:355
  • reports of, 15:366, 15:366–15:367n, 15:399, 15:400n, 16:337–16:338, 16:544, 16:551, 16:565, 18:158, 18:160n, 19:40–19:45, 19:241, 19:242n, 19:243, 19:244n
  • resolutions of the president and directors, 15:432–15:433, 15:482, 15:486–15:487, 15:536–15:537, 15:560, 16:185, 17:397–17:398, 18:119, 18:119n, 18:199, 18:199n
  • support for, 18:108, 18:109
  • University of Virginia Board of Visitors reports to, 15:57, 15:81–15:82, 15:82–15:85, 15:85–15:87, 15:88–15:92, 15:93–15:95, 15:96–15:99, 15:99–15:101, 15:102–15:104, 15:251–15:252, 15:252n, 16:268, 16:269, 16:271, 16:295, 16:297, 16:298, 16:298–16:302, 16:303–16:318, 16:405, 16:417, 16:417n, 16:428, 16:432, 16:474, 16:475–16:482, 17:614, 17:614–17:619, 17:619n, 17:620–17:629, 17:630–17:641, 17:642–17:643, 17:643–17:644, 17:644–17:645, 17:646–17:647, 17:648–17:649, 17:649–17:651, 17:651–17:655, 18:10–18:11, 18:113–18:114, 18:190, 19:39, 19:44n, 19:46–19:52, 19:53–19:59, 19:60, 19:61, 19:62–19:63, 19:164, 19:174, 19:255, 19:256–19:258, 19:258n, 19:269, 19:273–19:274, 19:274n, 19:284, 19:292, 19:314, 19:316n, 19:416n
  • and U.S. debt to Va., 17:103–17:104, 17:106–17:107, 17:123, 17:123–17:124, 17:124, 17:141–17:142, 17:160, 17:384, 17:385n, 17:398n, 18:158, 18:178, 18:178, 18:178n, 18:192, 18:199, 18:221

The Literary Magazine, and American Register

  • bound for TJ, 13:368, 14:165, 15:340

Literary miscellanies; including a dissertation on anecdotes (I. D’Israeli), 7:389

Literary Subaltern (Providence, R.I., newspaper)

  • prints spurious TJ letter, 19:615

Lithgow, Alexander

  • as federal deputy clerk, 5:240n
  • tried for embezzlement, 18:328, 18:329n, 18:332

Littell, Eliakim See also Littell & Henry (Philadelphia firm)

  • identified, 15:373–15:374n

Littell & Henry (Philadelphia firm)

  • identified, 15:373–15:374n
  • letters from, 15:373–15:374, 17:508–17:509
  • letter to, 17:530–17:531
  • Proposals, by Littell & Henry, 74 South Second Street, Philadelphia, for Publishing by Subscription, a new edition of Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, 17:508, 17:508–17:509n, 17:530–17:531
  • as publishers, 15:373, 15:374n, 15:375n

Little, Peter

  • and J. D. Vaughan, 10:566

Little, William (16921734)

  • as boundary commissioner, 9:178, 11:22, 11:22, 11:23n, 11:125

Little, William (of Boston)

  • on Republican committee, 11:569–11:570n

Little Bear (Chippewa chief), 2:58n

Little Belt. See Lille Belt, HMS

Littlebury, Isaac

  • translates Herodotus, 1:580, 17:536

Little Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781). See Dick (TJ’s slave; b. 1781)

Littlejohn, John

  • chairs committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the … New Testament (J. Brunt), 1:403, 1:403n

Littlepage, Mr., 2:397, 2:433

Littlepage, James

  • and contested election, 7:494, 7:546, 10:365–10:366, 10:366n

Littleton, Mr. See Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton

Littleton, Adam

  • Linguæ Latinæ Liber Dictionarius Quadripartitus, 6:387

Littleton, Edward, 13:77

Littleton, Thomas

  • Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–3:131, 3:175n, 3:546

Littleton, Sir Thomas. See The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England: or a Commentary upon Littleton (E. Coke); A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke’s First Institute of the Laws of England (J. H. Thomas)

Little Turtle (Miami Indian), 16:615

Little William (schooner), 11:302

Livandais, Mr. See Livaudais, Jacques M.

Livaudais, Jacques M., 3:484, 5:85n

Lively, Charles

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–4:349
  • rents part of Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n, 4:198

Livermore, Arthur

  • friendship with S. Hale, 13:24–13:25
  • identified, 13:26n
  • letter to, from S. Hale, 13:24–13:26

Liverpool

  • banks in, 10:512, 10:513n
  • porcelain from, 16:60, 16:289n
  • promotion of literature and science in, 14:78, 16:499
  • tobacco market in, 15:260–15:261
  • U.S. consulship at, 17:96, 17:97, 17:288, 17:509

Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2d Earl of

  • as British foreign secretary, 4:587, 4:671
  • as British prime minister, 5:156n, 11:303n, 14:467n
  • correspondence published, 8:450n
  • and J. Henry’s mission, 4:541, 4:627, 8:543, 8:545n
  • parliamentary comments of, 4:539

Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146

Liverpool Royal Institution, 14:78, 16:499

Lives (Plutarch), 7:662, 9:235n, 12:157n, 12:534, 16:330, 16:621n, 17:105, 17:105–17:106n

Lives (Plutarch; trans. W. & J. Langhorne), 1:580

Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Diogenes Laertius; trans. R. D. Hicks), 7:24, 7:221n

The Lives of the First Twelve Cæsars (Suetonius; trans. A. Thomson), 1:580, 12:534, 19:505

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (S. Johnson), 6:183, 7:664, 15:121, 19:234, 19:505

livestock See also cattle; horses; mules; pigs; sheep

  • draft animals, 3:170–3:171, 3:348, 3:349, 3:371n, 8:132, 12:563, 18:632
  • feed for, 7:263, 7:282, 11:207, 11:271–11:272, 14:181, 15:360, 16:395, 17:487, 18:69, 18:69
  • goats, 6:103
  • and manure, 19:606–19:607
  • for Monticello, 1:81n, 8:392, 11:240
  • of W. C. Nicholas, 14:587n
  • oxen, 4:373, 4:526, 6:306n, 8:10, 8:70, 8:72, 8:307, 12:304, 12:304, 12:563, 14:179, 14:238, 16:470, 18:610
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526, 8:10, 8:174, 8:185, 8:520, 10:597
  • taxes on, 8:256, 8:392

Livingston, Henry Brockholst

  • and American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, 16:531
  • letter from accounted for, 8:653n
  • witnesses stucco demonstration, 1:195n

Livingston, Edward See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over; Livingston v. D’orgenoy; Livingston v. Jefferson; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson)

  • J. Adams on, 5:3
  • Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:133, 3:173n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:271, 3:483, 5:45, 5:47n, 5:143–5:144
  • An Answer to Mr. Jefferson’s Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture, 4:292, 5:163, 6:627–6:628, 7:96, 7:96n, 7:175
  • bankruptcy of, 2:402
  • bill of complaint against TJ, 2:545, 2:546–2:550, 2:659, 3:117, 3:226, 3:227n, 11:70, 13:lii
  • canal of, 2:444n, 2:445–2:446n, 2:547, 2:548, 6:435–6:436
  • and case of J. Robbins, 6:255, 6:255
  • W. C. C. Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–2:472, 2:682, 2:682, 3:25, 3:157–3:158, 8:64
  • and G. Du Jareau, 2:484
  • Examination of the title of the United States, 3:476, 3:483
  • A. Gallatin on, 2:528, 3:68, 3:70, 3:71–3:72
  • identified, 2:549–2:550n
  • L. Moreau Lislet on, 3:174n, 3:175–3:176n
  • offers to aid Trist family, 4:572–4:573
  • opens canal on batture, 3:175n, 3:404, 3:406, 3:494–3:495, 3:496–3:497
  • portrait of, 4:xliv, 4:370 (illus.)
  • proclaims right to batture, 1:287n, 3:233, 3:234–3:235n, 3:248n, 3:484
  • and riots at Batture Sainte Marie, 2:440–2:442n, 3:26n, 3:495
  • and J. Robbins case, 5:3, 5:4n
  • speeches of, 6:297
  • L. W. Tazewell on, 5:44–5:45, 5:45
  • TJ on, 3:203–3:204, 4:292, 5:134–5:135
  • and TJ’s Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, 4:110
  • E. Trist on, 4:572–4:573, 5:111–5:113, 8:295
  • validity of land claim, 3:27n

Livingston, Eliza McEvers (John R. Livingston’s wife), 19:393n

Livingston, John Henry

  • A Dissertation on the Marriage of a Man with his Sister in Law, 12:334

Livingston, Louise (Edward Livingston’s wife)

  • offers to aid Trist family, 4:573

Livingston, Mary Stevens (Robert R. Livingston’s wife)

  • illustrates Essay on Sheep, 3:63, 3:64n

Livingston, Peter Robert, 19:556

Livingston, Robert R.

  • and appointments, 9:389n
  • death of, 6:55, 6:57n
  • and Declaration of Independence, 14:290–14:291, 18:274
  • Essay on Sheep, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 2:83, 3:63, 3:64n, 4:637, 5:181, 5:182n, 11:165
  • family of, 1:20n
  • identified, 4:638n
  • and inland navigation, 6:268–6:269n, 17:126
  • letters to, 4:637–4:638
  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:475, 4:476n, 6:440, 10:421, 14:374
  • and merino sheep, 1:529, 2:39, 4:637, 6:504
  • and partisan politics, 10:111–10:112, 10:185, 11:490
  • recommends F. A. Van der Kemp to TJ, 4:500, 4:501n
  • and steamboats, 7:112, 7:113n
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:637
  • and F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:507, 4:614

Livingston, William

  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:600–4:601, 4:601–4:602, 6:612, 17:316, 17:316

Livingston, William, Jr., 1:195n

Livingston family

  • as aristocrats, 7:67

Livingston v. D’orgenoy, 3:233, 3:234n, 3:246–3:248, 3:265, 3:484, 5:134–5:135, 5:137n, 5:144–5:145, 5:315, 5:315n, 6:388, 6:390, 6:392, 6:392, 6:394, 6:395, 10:669n

Livingston v. Jefferson See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

  • background of, 4:291–4:292
  • dismissal reported to TJ, 4:303–4:304
  • J. Marshall’s opinion in, 4:297–4:303, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
  • opinions published, 5:59n, 5:176, 5:176n, 5:219
  • TJ congratulated on dismissal of, 4:572
  • J. Tyler’s opinion in, 4:293–4:297, 5:58, 5:59n, 5:176n
  • U.S. Circuit Court dismisses, 4:304, 4:311, 4:367–4:368, 4:477, 4:520, 4:631, 4:639, 5:240, 5:240–5:241n, 9:449, 9:449, 9:449–9:450n, 11:70

Livius, George Peter

  • papers of, 11:613

Livy (Titus Livius)

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661, 14:551
  • P. Henry as reader of, 10:365, 10:384, 10:384n
  • Histoire Romaine de Tite-Live (ed. J. Freinsheim; trans. J. B. Dureau de la Malle), 11:632, 12:112, 12:203, 12:576, 14:510
  • lost works of, 6:278, 16:541
  • mentioned, 6:402, 8:234
  • The Roman History by Titus Livius; with the Entire Supplement of John Freinsheim (J. Freinsheim), 19:505
  • Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat (ed. J. F. Gronovius), 5:523, 5:524n, 5:549
  • Titi Livii Historiarum quod exstat (eds. J. Leclerc and J. Freinsheim), 5:501, 5:594, 5:594–5:595n, 5:625, 6:157, 7:286, 10:233, 11:414, 12:576, 14:510, 17:106
  • Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum Libri qui extant (eds. J. Doujat and J. Freinsheim), 1:580, 5:549, 5:549n, 12:576
  • T. Livii Patavini Historiarum libri qui supersunt (ed. G. A. Ruperti), 11:414
  • TJ on, 2:153, 6:53, 7:373, 12:576, 16:164
  • TJ quotes, 6:402, 6:407n, 8:355, 8:356n, 8:385n, 13:338–13:339, 13:339n
  • TJ recommends works of, 12:534, 18:251
  • works of, 14:258, 14:258, 16:330, 16:441, 16:473, 16:516, 18:399

Liza (slave), 4:15

Llorente, Juan Antonio

  • Histoire Critique de l’Inquisition d’Espagne, 13:562

Lloyd, James, 1:473, 2:70

Lloyd, Thomas, 1:214n

Lloyd’s Evening Post (London newspaper), 15:418n

Lobinhes, Dr., 2:11, 2:12

Lobstein, Johann Friedrich Daniel

  • identified, 18:628–18:629n
  • letter from, 18:628–18:629
  • letter to, 19:68
  • proposed book by, 15:290, 15:290n, 18:628, 18:629n, 19:68

Loccenius, Johannes

  • Scriptorum de Jure Nautico et Maritimo Fasciculus, 8:387, 8:387–8:388n

Locke, Jesse (of Campbell Co.), 5:49

Locke, John

  • J. Adams on, 7:74, 7:480, 9:434, 15:410
  • anecdote about, 11:490
  • defines mental illness, 14:302–14:303
  • An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1:576, 7:627, 10:658, 17:246, 19:505
  • and faculty of thought, 12:446
  • in D. Fraser’s proposed book, 5:545
  • intellect of commended, 7:101
  • as legal authority, 11:368
  • A Letter concerning Toleration, 19:505
  • and materialism, 16:188, 16:196
  • mentioned, 6:238, 6:296, 6:296, 7:667, 9:396, 10:548, 10:671, 13:441, 14:631, 15:122n
  • and philosophy of language, 15:223
  • portraits of, 3:305, 10:398
  • religious beliefs of, 16:601
  • TJ on, 15:469–15:470
  • Two Treatises of Government, 19:505
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:503, 4:506
  • and A. B. Woodward’s work, 1:254n
  • writings of, 16:188

Locke, Samuel, 6:501

Lockhart, John Gibson

  • Peter’s Letters to His Kinsfolk, 19:608, 19:608n, 19:625

locks

  • chains for, 12:304
  • door, 11:548, 11:588, 11:589, 15:172, 15:174, 19:690n
  • padlocks, 1:302–1:303, 6:344, 6:344, 6:348, 15:451, 16:10, 17:4, 17:7, 17:8, 17:8, 18:42, 18:45, 18:48, 18:48, 18:49, 19:9
  • for presses, 18:164n
  • purchased by TJ, 9:105, 12:552, 12:633, 16:6
  • stock-lock, 6:346, 18:46

locks (canal), 3:286–3:288, 3:303, 3:421–3:422, 9:287, 9:287n, 9:328–9:329, 11:69, 11:70, 11:72–11:98, 11:100, 11:102, 11:104, 11:108, 11:108, 11:552, 11:552, 11:552, 11:563, 12:593, 12:594, 12:595, 12:596, 12:598, 12:599, 12:600, 12:601, 12:604, 12:645, 13:53, 14:355–14:356, 14:356, 14:357, 14:357, 14:359–14:366, 14:381, 14:392, 14:392–14:395, 14:397–14:399, 14:400, 14:402, 14:403, 14:405, 14:406, 14:407–14:408, 14:409, 14:410–14:411, 14:412–14:413, 14:417, 14:418–14:419, 14:485, 14:501, 14:541, 15:216–15:221, 15:227, 15:227, 15:268–15:269, 15:289, 15:289, 19:659

Lockyer, George (ship captain), 13:241, 13:241n, 13:443

locus in quo, pleading on. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over: pleadings in

locust (tree)

  • bristly, 3:354, 11:174, 11:219–11:220
  • common, 3:353, 11:39, 12:618
  • Kentucky (honey locust), 3:353, 3:354, 9:533, 10:238
  • yellow, 19:17, 19:65

Loesner, Christoph Friedrich

  • edits Hesiodi Ascraei Quae Exstant (Hesiod), 9:196, 9:455, 9:697, 10:212

Logan (schooner), 14:286, 15:286

Logan, Mr. (of Staunton)

  • introduced to TJ, 10:673
  • letter to, 11:130
  • as watchmaker, 10:596, 10:596n, 10:607, 10:673n, 11:130

Logan, Andrew

  • and Bank of U.S., 4:371–4:372, 4:373n
  • identified, 4:372–4:373n
  • letters from, 4:371–4:373
  • seeks TJ’s advice, 4:372

Logan, Deborah Norris (George Logan’s wife)

  • mentioned, 6:539, 7:44, 18:12
  • sends greetings to TJ, 8:671, 9:111, 9:709, 10:126, 10:501
  • TJ sends greetings to, 9:91, 10:70, 10:176, 10:265, 10:522, 10:548

Logan, George

  • and Alexander I’s education and character, 8:671, 9:110–9:111
  • on Christianity, 9:708–9:709, 10:467–10:468, 10:522
  • and Christian statesmen, 10:467–10:468, 10:522
  • and drill, 9:280, 10:32
  • emissary for TJ, 8:451n
  • family of, 9:709, 9:709n
  • and flax specimen, 10:501, 10:547
  • and foreign relations, 9:109–9:111
  • friendship with TJ, 10:125–10:126, 10:176–10:177, 10:486
  • identified, 6:513–6:514n
  • letters from, 6:512–6:514, 7:38–7:44, 8:380–8:381, 8:671, 9:109–9:111, 9:708–9:710, 10:125–10:126, 10:467–10:468, 10:501–10:502
  • letters to, 6:538–6:540, 9:90–9:91, 10:69–10:70, 10:176–10:177, 10:265–10:266, 10:521–10:522, 10:547–10:548
  • opposes War of 1812, 6:512, 6:513, 7:38, 7:43–7:44
  • and peace with Great Britain, 6:512–6:513, 6:538–6:539, 7:38–7:44, 8:380–8:381, 10:501
  • and J. Priestley’s correspondence, 8:671, 8:671n
  • proposed visit to Monticello of, 9:111
  • on religion, 10:467–10:468
  • sells plows, 2:312–2:313, 2:313n, 2:334
  • sends book to J. Madison, 6:513
  • sends works to TJ, 10:501, 10:501–10:502n, 10:547
  • sheep of, 1:16
  • TJ on, 7:96, 7:99n
  • TJ’s correspondence with published, 7:36, 7:37n, 7:96–7:97, 7:99n, 7:104–7:105, 7:105n, 7:299n, 7:312, 7:312n, 9:91n, 9:111n, 10:69–10:70, 10:125–10:126, 10:176–10:177, 10:645
  • and TJ’s religious beliefs, 9:708–9:709, 10:467, 10:521–10:522, 10:542n
  • unofficial peace missions of, 6:512, 6:513n, 6:538, 7:38

Logan, James (16741751)

  • on religion, 9:709n
  • translates Cato Major, or Discourse on Old Age (Cicero), 3:137, 3:137n, 19:505

Logan, James (ca. 172580) (Mingo Indian)

  • anecdotes of, 9:64–9:65, 9:121
  • mentioned, 16:615
  • places named for, 9:64
  • speech of, 2:204, 2:205n, 2:340, 7:373, 7:484, 7:484n, 7:521, 13:40, 19:341–19:342, 19:343n

Logan, William (1718–76)

  • library of, 18:659, 18:662n

Logan, William (1776–1854)

  • identified, 14:572n
  • letter from, 14:572
  • letter to, 15:53
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 14:572, 15:53

Logan County, Ky., 3:647

Loge, James

  • and University of Virginia, 17:636

logic

  • collegiate education in, 17:237
  • study of, 7:480, 7:480, 7:659, 7:662–7:663, 7:667, 7:667, 7:686, 12:345, 12:403, 15:239, 16:537, 16:631

Logic (I. Kant), 17:536

Logick (I. Watts), 7:662, 7:667, 16:381, 16:458

Logique (Destutt de Tracy), 4:203–4:204, 4:209n, 9:441–9:442, 9:485, 10:658, 16:630

La logique, ou, Les premiers developpemens de l’art de penser (Condillac), 5:276, 5:277n

Logwood, Burwell

  • identified, 2:119n
  • letter from to A. L. Duncan, 2:119
  • and J. Peyton’s estate, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:648

Logwood, Pruey Peyton, 2:117, 2:254, 3:648

Lohar (Lohor), John

  • and University of Virginia, 17:634

Loimologia: or, an Historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665 (N. Hodges), 10:131, 10:146n

Les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (J. Domat; trans. W. Strahan), 3:160, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:546

Loise, Paul (Osage interpreter)

  • letter from accounted for, 16:651

Loix de Platon (Plato; trans. J. N. Grou), 12:112

Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l’Amerique sous le vent (Moreau de Saint Méry), 3:160, 3:175n

Lolme, Jean Louis de

  • Constitution de L’Angleterre, 7:628

Lomax, Ann Corbin Tayloe (Thomas Lomax’s wife)

  • TJ sends greetings to, 9:647

Lomax, Charlotte Belson Thornton (John Tayloe Lomax’s wife)

  • TJ sends greetings to, 9:647

Lomax, Elizabeth, 1:305n

Lomax, John Tayloe

  • and estate of T. Lomax, 9:545–9:546, 9:647
  • identified, 9:546n
  • letters from, 9:545–9:546
  • letters to, 9:647
  • professor of law, 9:546n

Lomax, Judith

  • and J. Adams, 6:440, 6:441n
  • identified, 6:464n
  • letters from, 7:16
  • “Monticello,” 6:463–6:464
  • The Notes of an American Lyre, 6:464n, 7:260, 7:270
  • poetry of, 6:463, 6:464n
  • sends seeds to TJ, 7:16
  • visits Monticello, 6:440

Lomax, Lunsford

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 2:84, 2:256
  • and lottery for W. Byrd (172877), 9:545–9:546

Lomax, Thomas

  • estate of, 9:545–9:546, 9:647
  • exchanges seeds with TJ, 1:631, 1:657
  • and P. Henry, 4:603
  • identified, 1:631n
  • letters from, 1:631–1:632
  • letters to, 1:657
  • as P. Mazzei’s friend, 4:35, 7:89

Lombardy

  • and Congress of Vienna, 9:90
  • government of, 9:346

Lombardy poplars, 1:192n

Loménie de Brienne, Athanase Louis Marie de

  • as minister of war, 17:344

Loménie de Brienne, Étienne Charles

  • as government minister, 17:344, 17:348, 17:355, 17:378n

London See also Russell, Jonathan

  • as book market, 14:82, 14:452, 16:361, 16:363–16:364, 17:42–17:43
  • compared to Washington, 7:682
  • Courier, 3:577, 3:578n, 18:401
  • Episcopal societies of, 16:15
  • exchange rate at, 3:524, 3:558, 8:430, 8:438, 8:497, 8:499n, 8:500, 9:181–9:182, 18:583
  • firms, 3:426
  • Geological Society of, 5:514, 5:514, 5:514–5:515n
  • Horticultural Society of, 5:514, 5:514–5:515n
  • Linnean Society of, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n
  • Lloyd’s Evening Post, 15:418n
  • London Vaccine Institution, 6:342, 6:343n
  • Monument to the Great Fire, 16:34
  • newspapers in, 5:370n, 5:384, 15:572n
  • Royal Society of, 4:227, 4:228, 4:353, 5:513, 5:514–5:515n, 16:538
  • Royal Veterinary College of, 5:414, 5:416n
  • and second Anglo-Dutch war, 7:682, 7:684n
  • Society of Antiquaries of, 5:513, 5:514–5:515n
  • Times, 9:218, 9:218n, 19:335n
  • TJ contemplates destruction of, 8:312
  • TJ suggests burning of, 5:186, 5:293, 7:11
  • tunnels near, 6:574
  • U.S. agent at, 3:37–3:38
  • U.S. mission at, 14:41
  • yellow fever in, 10:131

London, John, 12:379

The London and Country Brewer (Ellis), 6:507

London: A Poem, In Imitation of the Third Satire of Juvenal (S. Johnson), 9:434, 9:434n

The London Catalogue of Books, with their Sizes and Prices, 12:52

Londonderry, Marquess of. See Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount

Long, Mr.

  • militia service of, 7:161

Long, Catherine

  • signs petition, 18:146

Long, Gabriel, 1:415, 1:416n

Long, George (ca. 1782–1843)

  • identified, 16:509n
  • and P. Johnson’s Rosalie, a Tale, 16:509, 16:509–16:510n
  • letter from accounted for, 16:509n
  • letter to, 16:509–16:510
  • and misaddressed letter to, 16:575–16:576, 16:606

Long, James

  • letters from, 1:464–1:465
  • seeks TJ’s assistance, 1:464–1:465

Long, Stephen Harriman

  • Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and ’20 (E. James), 19:247, 19:248n
  • and hydrostatic engine, 7:232–7:233, 7:233n
  • identified, 19:223–19:224n
  • recommended by R. Walsh, 19:223, 19:247, 19:248n, 19:248
  • and Va. Board of Public Works, 19:223, 19:247, 19:248, 19:317

Long, William B., 5:18n

Longcake, Mary

  • and estate of T. Reed, 9:258, 9:259, 9:261n

“Longinus” (Greek critic)

  • Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime (trans. W. Smith), 14:200, 16:224, 16:257
  • On the Sublime, 14:258, 14:551

Long Island of the Holston, Treaty of (1777), 19:576, 19:576n

longitude

  • calculations for U.S. Capitol, 12:86, 13:314, 13:314n, 18:287, 18:314, 18:314n, 18:505, 18:508, 18:528, 18:539, 18:539–18:545
  • B. Fuller’s method for calculation of, 15:271, 15:287–15:289, 15:293
  • W. King’s method of calculating, 12:643–12:644, 13:84–13:85, 13:119–13:120
  • W. Lambert on calculating, 19:36, 19:628
  • and maps of Va., 16:99, 16:100
  • TJ on calculating, 19:197–19:201, 19:208–19:209, 19:210–19:211
  • and western exploration, 19:197–19:198, 19:211

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown (London firm)

  • A General Catalogue of Valuable and Rare Old Books, in the Ancient and Modern Languages, and Various Classes of Literature, 8:580, 8:581n, 9:108, 9:108–9:109, 9:109n

Long’s Hotel (Washington)

  • R. Fulton lectures at, 2:250, 2:251n
  • inaugural ball at, 1:10n

Long’s Ordinary (Spotsylvania Co.), 1:416n

A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence (J. Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–4:396

Long Talk, spoken at Seekhonk, on the Fourth of July, 1812 (H. Humphrey), 9:307, 9:307–9:308n, 10:164

looking glasses. See mirrors

looming, phenomenon of, 8:298, 10:xlvii, 10:644, 16:37, 18:611n, 18:625, 18:625, 18:626n, 19:207, 19:207n

looms, 3:202, 4:143, 4:428, 5:560, 5:562–5:563, 5:563, 6:107, 6:140, 6:556, 7:402, 7:405–7:406, 7:406–7:407n, 7:438, 7:486, 7:492, 7:506–7:507, 7:507, 7:508, 7:523–7:524, 7:524n, 7:552–7:553, 7:553n, 7:568, 7:570, 7:572, 8:15, 8:135–8:136, 8:160, 8:161n, 8:195, 8:201, 8:202n, 8:249, 8:252–8:253, 8:402, 9:564–9:565, 9:601–9:602, 11:449–11:450, 11:507, 12:354, 12:365, 12:396, 12:396, 12:396–12:397, 16:13, 18:47, 18:51, 18:147n

Loony (Looney), Joseph

  • militia service of, 7:161

Loony (Looney), Peter

  • militia service of, 7:161

López, Gregorio

  • Las siete partidas del sabio rey Don Alonso el Nono, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:176n

López de Sedano y Pérez del Tero, Juan José

  • edits Parnaso Español. Coleccion de Poesías Escogidas de los mas Célebres Poetas Castellanos, 17:138, 17:445

Lorenzana y Butrón, Francisco Antonio

  • edits Historia de Nueva-España (H. Cortés), 8:236, 8:237n

Loring, Nathaniel Hall

  • An Address, delivered at the request of the Republican Committee of Arrangements, on the Anniversary of Independence, Fourth July, A.D. 1822. Charlestown, Mass., 18:547, 18:548n, 18:584
  • identified, 18:548n
  • letter from, 18:547–18:548
  • letter to, 18:584
  • An Oration, Pronounced at Charlestown, on the 4th July, 1821, at the request of the Republican citizens of that town, 17:275–17:276, 17:276n, 17:298
  • and U.S. Military Academy, 15:468n

Lormerie, Louis Philippe Gallot de

  • on Florida, 3:33
  • identified, 1:131n
  • and Ky. land, 1:256+, 1:342, 5:431–5:433
  • letter from mentioned, 9:96
  • letters from, 1:128–1:131, 1:256+, 1:342–1:343, 3:32–3:35, 5:265–5:267, 5:375–5:377, 5:431–5:435, 5:550–5:552, 5:665–5:667, 6:33–6:34, 6:102–6:105, 6:190–6:191, 8:680–8:682, 9:656–9:657
  • letters from accounted for, 1:343n
  • letters to, 1:354, 5:304, 5:417, 6:49
  • medical knowledge of, 6:103, 6:103–6:104
  • Memoir on American Forest Management, 1:131–1:134, 1:256+, 1:342, 1:354, 3:33–3:34
  • on preservation of water and milk at sea, 6:103
  • Proposal for the Military Use of Sugar, 5:552
  • requests seeds from TJ, 8:680
  • returns to France, 1:256+, 6:102–6:103, 6:103, 6:190, 8:680, 8:681, 9:656–9:657
  • seeks permission to ship goods to France, 1:128–1:129, 1:256+, 1:342, 1:354, 5:265–5:266, 5:304, 5:375–5:376, 5:417, 5:431–5:433, 5:441, 5:550, 5:665–5:666, 6:33, 6:49

Lorraine, Charles de, Cardinal, 16:441

Lorton, Richard

  • identified, 10:85n
  • partnership with J. Warrell, 10:83–10:85
  • proposal for Virginia Museum, 10:83–10:85

Lot (Old Testament figure)

  • wife of, 8:407

Lothair (ship), 10:118, 10:170, 10:343, 10:358, 11:531

lotteries

  • for Albemarle Academy, 7:265, 7:337–7:338, 7:339, 7:426–7:427, 8:92, 8:183, 9:93n, 9:361, 9:361, 9:496–9:497, 9:498n, 11:316–11:317, 11:317, 11:318n
  • for W. Byrd (1728–77), 9:545–9:546, 9:546n, 9:647, 10:61, 10:61n, 10:110, 12:452, 12:487
  • for Central College, 11:316–11:317, 11:317, 11:321, 12:42, 12:457–12:458
  • East Tennessee College, 2:266–2:267, 2:268n, 2:365
  • for Philadelphia Museum, 8:545
  • Potomac & Shenandoah navigation, 4:288
  • for proposed school for the poor, 16:277, 16:278
  • regulation of, 13:87n
  • Susquehanna Canal, 4:391
  • tickets for, 13:296–13:297, 18:460
  • for Washington, D.C., 16:484n, 16:609, 18:461n, 19:17, 19:663

Loudoun, John Campbell, 4th Earl of, 1:291n

Loudoun County Superior Court, 1:417

Loudoun County, Va.

  • yellow fever in, 17:603

Louis, king of Etruria

  • and Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), 9:478, 9:480n

Louis IX (Saint Louis), king of France, 19:439

Louis XI, king of France

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:506, 5:459

Louis XII, king of France

  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:501, 5:459

Louis XIV, king of France

  • declaration of 1683, 3:160, 3:236n
  • and edict of 1693, 2:524, 3:130, 3:131, 3:132, 3:160, 3:174n, 3:226
  • and edict of 1710, 2:524, 3:174n, 3:235, 3:236–3:237n, 3:484
  • and La. territorial charter, 2:676, 3:48n, 3:489–3:490, 10:626, 10:627
  • and ordinance of 1669, 2:657
  • print of, 11:403
  • reign of, 8:551, 11:633–11:634, 17:250n, 17:357
  • W. Short on, 3:197
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:504
  • works on, 17:138, 17:139n, 17:447

Louis XIV, Sa Cour, et le Régent (L. P. Anquetil), 7:664

Louis XV, king of France

  • charters Company of the West, 2:657
  • and École Militaire, 17:388, 17:551
  • mentioned, 14:378n, 19:587
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:502, 4:507
  • works on, 12:583, 13:295, 17:138, 17:139n, 17:447

Louis XVI, king of France

  • and American independence, 15:297
  • America’s affection for, 8:151n, 9:575
  • execution of, 3:66n, 3:221n, 4:483, 4:484, 8:230, 10:531n
  • family of, 9:317, 9:318n, 15:583n
  • reign of, 8:294, 9:576, 17:343–17:344, 17:356–17:358, 17:358–17:359, 17:360–17:371, 17:378n, 18:425, 19:466, 19:467–19:468
  • and relations with the Netherlands, 17:345–17:347, 17:347
  • and Society of the Cincinnati, 12:430
  • TJ on, 2:276, 10:645, 15:407
  • in F. A. Van der Kemp’s proposed book, 4:504

Louis XVIII, king of France

  • American perceptions of, 8:518
  • as brother of Louis XVI, 17:360–17:361, 17:378n
  • constitutional charter of, 8:263, 8:263, 8:267n, 8:293, 9:346, 11:282, 11:283n, 12:451, 14:108
  • and Council of State, 9:616n
  • as counterrevolutionary, 16:136
  • disparaged, 10:484n
  • flees France, 8:452, 8:523n, 8:580, 8:581n, 10:655
  • and French invasion of Spain (1823), 19:467, 19:468n, 19:489, 19:542, 19:543n, 19:587
  • and J. G. Hyde de Neuville, 7:404, 7:404
  • investiture of, 14:242
  • W. Lee on, 8:151n
  • ministers of, 8:137, 8:138, 8:138, 8:139n, 9:393n, 10:494, 10:496n
  • restoration of, 7:423, 7:424, 7:425, 7:450, 7:451n, 7:537–7:538, 7:540, 7:542n, 8:476, 8:477, 8:533, 8:557, 9:68, 9:210, 9:211, 9:353, 9:471, 10:494, 11:282, 12:9–12:10, 12:46, 12:57n, 16:528
  • speeches of, 19:335n, 19:542, 19:543n
  • TJ on, 8:263, 9:108, 9:663, 10:655, 17:177, 17:177n, 19:540–19:541, 19:657
  • unpopularity of, 8:137–8:138, 9:390
  • and U.S. consulships, 12:568, 14:150, 14:239

Louis, Antoine

  • sets TJ’s wrist, 19:233, 19:233n

Louisa (TJ’s slave; b. 1816). See Hughes, Louisa (TJ’s slave; b. 1816)

Louisa County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–3:254

Louisa County Superior Court of Law, Va., 15:135

Louisa Court House, Va., 3:254n

Louisiade Archipelago (Solomon Sea), 5:202–5:203

Louisiana (revenue cutter), 2:445n

Louisiana (Spanish and French colony) See also Louisiana Territory; Orleans Territory

  • boundaries of, 10:626–10:627, 12:156, 12:295
  • Chronology of Territorial Claims in Louisiana (Thomas Jefferson), 3:281, 3:282–3:283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n, 9:487, 9:488n, 9:518, 9:518n, 12:295, 12:295n, 12:331
  • Examination of the Boundaries of Louisiana (Thomas Jefferson), 3:256, 3:281, 3:282–3:283, 9:487, 9:488n, 9:518, 12:295, 12:295n, 12:331, 12:385
  • “Journal historique Concernant l’Etablissement des françois à la Louisianne” (B. de La Harpe), 9:445–9:446, 9:447n, 9:516, 9:518, 9:518n, 9:658, 9:658–9:659n, 9:710, 12:156, 12:157n, 12:294–12:295, 12:295, 12:371
  • laws governing, 2:462, 2:471, 2:676, 3:52–3:53, 3:168, 6:395
  • maps of, 1:247, 1:248n
  • pamphlets on, 1:36, 1:37, 1:38n
  • Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (A. Stoddard), 3:291, 3:291–3:292n
  • Spanish government of, 2:520, 2:523–2:524, 2:525, 12:249
  • and Treaty of Paris (1763), 9:479
  • and Treaty of Utrecht (1713), 10:626

Louisiana (state)

  • attorney general of, 14:583, 18:581
  • conditions for statehood, 6:389, 6:390n, 6:395
  • congressional delegation from, 18:37
  • constitution of, 4:648, 4:649n, 5:9, 5:9n, 16:146, 18:581
  • economy of, 7:384
  • education in, 16:146–16:147, 16:220
  • elections in, 16:146, 16:220, 16:221, 19:535
  • executive branch in, 16:146
  • French interference in, 19:706
  • and French-language Bibles, 7:183
  • laws of, 18:239
  • legislature of, 8:295–8:296, 8:296n, 16:146, 16:220, 18:580–18:581
  • maps of, 10:542–10:543, 10:626–10:627, 11:429, 11:430n, 11:615–11:616, 11:616–11:617n, 12:652
  • and presidential election of 1824, 18:307, 19:220–19:221
  • religion in, 9:255
  • resistance to draft in, 7:226, 7:227
  • rice grown in, 12:554
  • as slave state, 15:531, 15:535n, 19:263n
  • state papers of, 18:325
  • N. P. Trist on, 18:580–18:581
  • U.S. district court in, 6:390, 6:394, 6:395, 10:669, 10:669n
  • and War of 1812, 7:227, 7:384, 8:38–8:39, 8:64, 8:295, 8:357, 9:103, 9:103n, 9:128–9:129, 14:583
  • works on, 7:242, 7:383–7:384, 10:626, 11:459–11:460, 11:460n, 12:627, 12:628n, 12:652, 15:40, 15:41

Louisiana (steamboat), 13:255

Louisiana Advertiser (New Orleans newspaper), 17:166n

Louisiana Gazette (Saint Louis newspaper), 4:7–4:8

Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–3:235n, 3:418, 3:616

Louisiana Territory See also Lewis, Meriwether; Louisiana (Spanish and French colony); Orleans Territory

  • act to establish (1804), 3:409, 3:410n
  • books on, 19:393, 19:393–19:394n, 19:417
  • botanical expeditions in, 1:164n, 2:533, 4:535–4:536
  • boundaries of, 3:256–3:257, 3:282–3:283, 9:445–9:446, 9:478–9:480, 9:487, 9:487–9:488n, 9:516, 9:518, 9:658, 9:658–9:659n, 11:460, 11:460n, 12:295, 13:227, 13:609, 13:610–13:611, 13:612n
  • claims related to U.S. purchase of, 9:388, 9:389n, 12:295, 17:172–17:173, 17:173n, 17:187
  • exploration of navigable waters proposed, 1:448–1:449
  • Federalists on, 3:256
  • R. Kennon appointed commandant of, 10:439, 10:440n
  • land exchange with Great Britain, 1:672–1:673
  • J. Monroe offered governorship of, 2:35, 2:42–2:43, 2:44, 2:46n
  • sugar-cane industry in, 2:556
  • title to, 14:279
  • TJ on, 2:360, 9:487, 9:488n, 10:610
  • TJ’s role in purchasing, 7:706–7:707, 7:711, 9:185, 9:551–9:552n, 10:542–10:543, 12:295, 13:255, 13:610, 14:581n, 17:401–17:402, 19:22n
  • and Treaty of Paris (1803), 3:256, 9:478, 9:480n, 15:531, 15:532, 15:535n, 15:563, 15:565n, 19:646, 19:710, 19:711n
  • and Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800), 9:478–9:480, 9:480n, 9:488n

Λουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (Lucian; eds. T. Hemsterhuis and F. W. Reiz), 15:26, 17:106

Λουκιανοῦ Σαμοσατέως Ἅπαντα. Luciani Samosatensis Opera (Lucian; eds. J. M. Gesner and T. Hemsterhuis), 14:510

The Lounger, 7:665

The Lounger’s Common-Place Book (J. W. Newman), 6:220, 6:280

Loury, Thomas T.

  • letters from, 3:647–3:648
  • sends silver ore sample to TJ, 3:647–3:648

Loury (Lowry) & Black (firm)

  • and University of Virginia, 16:311

Louvet de Couvray, Jean Baptiste

  • as novelist, 7:665

Louvois. See Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

Louvre

  • Pallas of Velletri (sculpture) at, 14:444
  • preservation of objects from, 9:392
  • prints of, 15:454

Love, John

  • identified, 11:537n
  • letter from, 11:536–11:537
  • letter to, 11:588
  • and wheat, 11:536–11:537, 11:588

Love & Madness, A Story too True (H. Croft), 2:204, 2:204n, 2:339–2:340

Loveday, Septimus

  • and E. Aram’s murder trial, 7:378

Lovell, James

  • death of, 8:135, 8:135n, 8:148

Lovell, Joseph

  • as Va. legislator, 15:296n

Lovely Mathilda (ship), 2:353

“A Lover of the Truth” [C. Prentiss?]

  • The Trial: Calvin and Hopkins versus the Bible and Common Sense, 14:223, 14:612–14:613

Lovett, John

  • and books for TJ, 10:565, 10:625
  • and O. Evans’s petition to Congress, 7:113n

Lovett, N. S. I., 10:610

Lovett, Robert

  • as engraver, 14:445, 14:529, 14:568, 14:606, 15:144, 15:518–15:519
  • identified, 14:606n
  • letter from, 14:606
  • letter to, 15:144

Lovick, John

  • as boundary commissioner, 9:178, 11:22, 11:22, 11:23n

Lovilo (TJ’s slave; b. 1801). See Hern, Lovilo (TJ’s slave; b. 1801)

Loving, Samuel

  • and Central College—University of Virginia subscription, 11:333

Low, Esther Prentiss (wife of John Low [1763–1809])

  • and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (1763–1809)

  • and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (ca. 1790–1829)

  • identified, 4:281–4:282n
  • letters from, 4:281–4:282, 4:336, 4:408, 4:530–4:531
  • letters to, 4:365–4:366, 4:558–4:559
  • TJ subscribes to The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–4:531, 4:557, 4:558–4:559

Lowber, Edward

  • and University of Virginia, 16:308, 16:319, 17:626, 17:627, 17:650, 17:654, 18:211, 19:62, 19:186, 19:190, 19:190, 19:191, 19:238

Lowell, Charles

  • Congregational clergyman, 19:360
  • identified, 12:102n
  • introduced to TJ, 12:102

Lowell, John

  • family of, 19:360
  • B. Waterhouse on, 18:655, 19:360
  • writings of, 6:297, 18:356

Lowndes, William

  • allegedly endorsed for president by TJ, 18:xlix, 18:xlix, 18:132–18:133n, 18:133n, 18:307
  • and American Academy of Language and Belles Lettres, 16:531
  • as candidate for Speaker of U.S. House of Representatives, 16:159n
  • congressional Joint Library Committee member, 8:14
  • death of, 18:461n
  • health of, 18:460
  • and J. Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention, 16:251
  • as member of U.S. House of Representatives, 18:37
  • and Missouri question, 15:532
  • and J. L. Poirey’s military service claims, 12:355
  • presidential prospects of, 18:132–18:133n, 18:369, 18:460
  • recommends A. Hodgson, 16:35
  • visits Monticello, 13:315n

Lowry, Mrs., 5:121

Lowry, Andrew, 1:335, 1:335n

Lowry, Morrow, 1:335, 1:335n

Lowth, Robert

  • A Short Introduction to English Grammar, 12:534, 19:507

Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada, 8:225, 8:225

Loyall, George

  • identified, 19:370n
  • invited to visit Monticello, 19:451
  • letter from, 19:370
  • letter to, 19:451
  • as member of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 19:lv, 19:39, 19:40n, 19:269, 19:274, 19:292, 19:324, 19:350, 19:370, 19:383, 19:395, 19:398, 19:451, 19:517, 19:565–19:566, 19:604
  • portrait of, 19:lv, 19:424 (illus.)
  • as Va. legislator, 16:635, 17:33, 19:lv, 19:254, 19:368, 19:368, 19:369, 19:370
  • visits Monticello, 19:603n

Loyd, Mr., 6:255

Lozano, Joaquin, 3:478n

Lüber, Thomas. See Erastus, Thomas (Thomas Lüber)

Luberta (C. L. Bankhead’s slave), 8:395

Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661
  • Lucan’s Pharsalia (trans. N. Rowe), 19:507
  • Pharsalia, 4:503, 4:506n, 17:36

Lucan’s Pharsalia (Lucan; trans. N. Rowe), 19:507

Lucas, Fielding

  • as bookseller, 12:393, 12:512

Lucas, James

  • priest in Norfolk, 15:315–15:316, 15:317n

Lucceius, Lucius

  • and Cicero, 17:490, 17:490–17:491n

Lucchesini, Cesare

  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

Lucchesini, Giacomo

  • and P. Mazzei’s will, 9:675

lucerne. See alfalfa

Luchini, Giuseppe

  • family of, 9:291n

Lucian

  • dialogues of, 7:661
  • dialogues of, E. Murphy edition of, 14:257, 14:551
  • Λουκιανός Luciani Samosatensis Opera (eds. T. Hemsterhuis and F. W. Reiz), 15:26, 17:106
  • Λουκιανοῦ Σαμοσατέως Ἅπαντα. Luciani Samosatensis Opera (eds. J. M. Gesner and T. Hemsterhuis), 14:510
  • Selecti ex Luciano Dialogi Quidam (ed. J. Stock), 14:551
  • works of, 11:415, 13:17
  • works of bound for TJ, 8:630

Luciani, Sebastiano

  • portrait of Columbus, 7:xliii–7:xliv

Lucinda (TJ’s slave; b. 1791)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385, 5:461, 6:308, 6:308, 8:61, 8:62, 8:62, 8:255, 8:255, 8:255, 13:387
  • pot for, 8:70–8:71

Lucke & Sizer (Richmond firm)

  • buys TJ’s flour, 16:527, 17:286, 17:553
  • buys TJ’s tobacco, 18:602, 18:602, 18:602
  • and University of Virginia, 17:621

Lucket, Mr. (captain of Diana ), 5:289–5:290

Lucrece, [De la Nature des Choses] Traduction Nouvelle, avec des Notes (Lucretius; ed. and trans. N. de La Grange), 14:511

Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

  • in collegiate curriculum, 7:661, 7:661–7:662
  • and cosmology, 13:257, 13:267n
  • Lucrece, [De la Nature des Choses] Traduction Nouvelle, avec des Notes (ed. and trans. N. de La Grange), 14:511
  • quoted, 16:127, 19:81, 19:81n

Lucy (C. L. Bankhead’s slave, one of two with this name), 8:395

Lucy (C. L. Bankhead’s slave, second of two with this name), 8:395

Lucy (C. Bellini’s slave)

  • and C. Bellini estate, 9:491
  • family of, 9:491, 9:491

Lucy (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231–4:232n

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. 1783)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 4:387, 12:303
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:382, 4:383
  • proposed sale of, 13:437, 13:437n

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. ca. 1800)

  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:384, 4:385, 5:462, 6:308, 8:61, 8:255
  • sale of, 18:70, 18:106
  • spinner, 4:380

Lucy (TJ’s slave; b. 1811)

  • on Monticello slave lists, 8:62n, 12:303
  • on smallpox vaccination list, 9:718

Ludlam, Lewis See also Lewis Ludlam & Company (Richmond firm)

  • buys TJ’s flour, 16:526–16:527, 17:130

Ludlow, Charles, 3:524

Ludlow, Daniel & Co.

  • agent for N. & J. van Staphorst, 9:581, 9:581n

Ludlow, Edmund

  • as historian, 13:412
  • Memoirs, 1:37, 1:580, 7:629, 19:506

Ludlow, Maxfield

  • identified, 11:617n
  • letter from, 11:615–11:617
  • map by, 11:615–11:616
  • Prospectus for Publishing by Subscription, A Map of the State of Louisiana, with a part of the State of Mississippi and Alabama Territory, 11:615, 11:616–11:617n

Ludlow, Peter

  • identified, 14:29n
  • and A. Jackson’s W. Fla. campaign, 14:28, 14:29n
  • letter from, 14:28–14:29

Ludlow, Robert Crommelin See also Binney & Ludlow (Boston firm)

  • identified, 15:349n

Ludwell, Frances

  • and P. Ludwell estate, 7:371, 9:284

Ludwell, Philip

  • estate of, 7:329, 7:371–7:372, 9:283–9:284, 10:628, 10:629
  • family of, 18:215

Luke (New Testament evangelist), 6:278

Lukens, Isaiah

  • and mechanical bell ringer, 10:344–10:345, 10:345 (illus.), 10:345, 10:345, 10:352
  • and perpetual-motion machine, 5:xlix–5:l, 5:358 (illus.), 5:558, 5:559n
  • and windmill pump, 8:80

Lukens, Samuel

  • letters from, 4:571
  • letters to, 4:619
  • and I. Shoemaker, 4:571, 4:619

Lullin de Châteauvieux, Jacob Frédéric

  • Manuscrit venu de St. Hélène, d’une manière inconnue, 11:383, 11:384n, 12:90, 12:92n

lumber

  • cutting of, 13:387, 13:524, 14:477, 14:494, 15:391, 15:392, 16:253, 16:459
  • export of, 10:571
  • kiln for drying, 17:652, 18:116
  • for Monticello, 18:574–18:575, 18:606
  • price of, 14:129
  • used at Poplar Forest, 8:612, 8:613, 8:695–8:696, 10:219n, 10:356, 11:207, 14:541
  • used at University of Virginia, 14:446, 14:480, 14:492, 16:318, 16:319, 16:319, 16:319, 16:319, 16:319, 16:319, 17:576, 17:649, 17:649, 17:651–17:652, 17:652, 17:652, 17:652–17:653, 17:653, 17:653, 17:653, 17:654, 17:654, 18:55, 18:116, 18:122, 18:211, 19:62, 19:62, 19:62, 19:62, 19:62, 19:63, 19:63, 19:185, 19:189, 19:446, 19:447
  • in Va., 9:429–9:430

lumber trade, 3:345–3:346

lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

  • as medicine, 4:416

Lundy’s Lane, Battle of (1814), 7:525n, 8:267n

Lunel, France

  • wine from, 14:327, 14:329, 14:329, 14:338

lunettes, 5:507

lupinella. See sainfoin

Lusignem, Louis Hugues Thibault Henri Jacques, marquis de, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14

Luther, Martin

  • J. Adams on, 7:23, 7:74, 7:480, 9:432
  • Lutheri Catechismus Öfwersatt på American-Virginiske Språket, 16:109
  • mentioned, 6:409, 11:424, 13:481
  • TJ on, 13:160
  • writings on, 17:593

Lutheri Catechismus Öfwersatt på American-Virginiske Språket (M. Luther), 16:109

Luzac, Jean

  • and F. A. Van der Kemp, 4:614, 10:305

Luzerne Federalist (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

  • prints poems on TJ, 1:429–1:431, 1:431–1:433

Lycée ou Cours De Littérature Ancienne Et Moderne (J. F. La Harpe), 7:26

Lyceum of Natural History of New-York, 17:88, 17:89, 17:89

Lycurgus (Athenian statesman)

  • Discours de Lycurgue, d’Andocide, d’Isée, de Dinarque, avec un Fragment sous le Nom de Démade (trans. A. Auger), 7:259, 17:138, 17:447

Lycurgus (Spartan lawgiver), 10:671, 12:154, 12:157n, 16:619, 16:621n, 17:393, 17:505, 18:238

Lydia (E. Randolph’s slave), 4:231–4:232n

Lydia (brig), 1:629, 3:434n

Lydia (ship), 9:259

Lydia Davis (schooner), 18:350, 18:375, 18:447

lye

  • as scab remedy, 5:182n

Lye, Edward

  • Dictionarium Saxonico et Gothico-Latinum, 6:406, 6:407n

Lyle, James (1726–1812)

  • agent for Henderson, McCaul & Company, 2:180, 2:216–2:217, 2:433, 2:513, 3:280, 3:341, 3:488, 3:538, 3:627–3:628, 4:11, 4:75, 16:415, 16:512–16:513, 16:649, 17:102, 17:103, 17:111, 17:145, 17:146, 17:226, 17:492, 17:493n
  • identified, 2:180n
  • letters from, 2:180, 3:280–3:281, 3:488–3:489, 3:627–3:628, 4:75–4:76
  • letters to, 2:216–2:217, 3:341–3:342, 3:538, 4:11
  • supposed land purchase from W. Byrd, 6:304
  • TJ pays, 4:10, 4:24
  • TJ’s account with, 4:76
  • vision loss of, 3:280–3:281, 3:341–3:342, 3:488, 4:75

Lyle, James (1798–1850)

  • as administrator of estate of J. Lyle (1726–1812), 16:415–16:416, 16:514n, 17:102, 17:103, 17:111, 17:145, 17:146, 17:226–17:227n, 17:492, 17:493n
  • identified, 16:415–16:416n
  • letter from, 16:415–16:416, 17:102
  • Schedule of Installments to be Paid to James Lyle, 17:146
  • Statement of Bonds Payable to James Lyle, 17:102, 17:103
  • TJ’s bond with, 17:226–17:227, 19:495

Lyle, John

  • and TJ’s bond with James Lyle (17981850), 17:226n, 17:226n

Lyman, Jerushia

  • B. Rush on, 4:673–4:674

Lyman, Theodore (17551839)

  • family of, 11:46, 11:294, 11:294n

Lyman, Theodore (17921849)

  • carries letter to Europe, 12:621, 14:114
  • identified, 11:47n
  • letters of introduction requested for, 11:46, 11:294, 11:311, 11:357, 11:362–11:363
  • TJ introduces, 11:355, 11:356, 11:360, 12:245, 12:622

Lyman, William

  • and anonymous letter, 3:578
  • consul at London, 1:182n, 4:673, 4:674n
  • identified, 1:182n
  • letters from, 1:182
  • sends publication to TJ, 1:182

Lyman, William, Jr.

  • arrives at Philadelphia, 4:673, 4:674n

Lynch, Mr.

  • carries letter, 12:50, 12:77

Lynch, Dominick

  • and American Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Manufactures, 11:441–11:442, 11:478
  • identified, 11:442n
  • letter from, 11:441–11:442
  • letter to, 11:478

Lynch, John

  • antislavery activities of, 3:267–3:269, 3:318–3:320
  • identified, 3:269n
  • letters from, 3:267–3:270
  • letters to, 3:318–3:320

Lynch, Thomas

  • signer of Declaration of Independence, 13:332

Lynch, William

  • recommends J. L. Cathcart, 17:461

Lynchburg, Va.

  • bank in proposed, 12:50–12:51, 12:77, 12:78, 12:139, 12:178, 12:179, 12:280, 12:280, 12:395
  • banks in, 12:383, 14:596–14:597, 17:181, 17:197
  • boats traveling to and from, 13:109, 14:447, 14:476, 14:542, 14:573, 15:498, 15:552, 17:207
  • brickwork in, 12:239, 12:240, 12:269
  • builders’ prices in, 12:262, 12:266, 12:266, 12:269, 12:298, 12:307, 13:531–13:532, 13:604–13:605
  • chancery court at, 10:450
  • citizens of, address TJ, 1:671, 9:145–9:147
  • craftsmen of, 11:534–11:535
  • currency exchange at, 8:509, 8:511, 8:511–8:512
  • economy of, 3:102–3:104, 10:32, 12:50–12:51, 12:78, 12:383, 12:395, 15:48, 15:48n
  • fish shipped to, 2:423, 2:503, 7:448, 10:157–10:158, 11:337
  • flour market at, 3:103, 3:341, 9:562, 12:50–12:51, 12:78, 12:538
  • founding of, 3:269n
  • Franklin Hotel, 12:269
  • A. Jackson honored in, 9:145, 9:147n, 9:148, 9:148, 9:185
  • mail service to, 3:56, 3:102–3:104, 3:147–3:148, 3:164, 10:470, 14:489–14:490, 14:564, 14:575, 14:575–14:576, 14:602, 16:434, 19:482
  • mills in, 10:466
  • plaster at, 5:457–5:458
  • post office in, 8:63, 9:62, 12:239
  • road to, 12:203, 12:212
  • schools in, 6:64, 6:130–6:131, 6:451, 6:451, 8:585, 10:672, 11:18–11:19, 11:49, 11:59, 11:112–11:113, 11:175, 11:233–11:234, 11:261, 11:292
  • specie sent from, 7:670
  • stagecoach to, 12:612
  • stores in, 8:79
  • taverns in, 9:20–9:21
  • timber sold at, 10:189
  • TJ on, 5:104–5:105, 7:482–7:483, 8:204, 10:32, 12:77, 12:78
  • TJ visits, 11:471
  • tobacco prices at, 4:95, 4:105, 4:461, 7:124, 9:562, 12:50–12:51, 12:78, 14:326, 14:473, 15:498, 15:537, 15:552, 15:609–15:610, 17:181
  • tobacco shipped to, 9:505, 9:541, 12:349, 12:476, 17:207, 17:218
  • toll bridge at, 11:475n
  • wheat prices at, 10:355, 17:567

Lynchburg Press (newspaper)

  • advertisements in, 11:238n
  • prints TJ’s Summary Comments on the Peaks of Otter, 9:173, 9:174n

Lyon, Mr.

  • as British consul at Pernambuco, 17:517n, 17:517n, 17:517n, 17:518

Lyon, James

  • and Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127, 4:128n, 4:130–4:131
  • identified, 4:131n
  • letters to, 4:130–4:131
  • whereabouts of, 4:112, 4:128

Lyon, Matthew

  • family of, 4:112
  • persecutes W. Duane, 3:449

Lyon, Oliver, 1:33n

Lyons, Mr., 1:338

Lyons, James

  • identified, 7:175n
  • letters from accounted for, 7:175n
  • letters to, 7:174–7:175
  • and J. Wayles’s estate, 7:174, 7:175

Lyons, Peter

  • as administrator of J. Robinson’s estate, 15:556, 15:557n, 18:482, 18:482–18:483
  • and J. Wayles’s estate, 2:369, 2:370, 2:540, 7:174, 7:175n, 7:175

Lysias

  • A. Auger’s translation of, 7:259, 7:285, 8:630, 9:456
  • Θουκυδίδου Πλάτωνος καὶ Λυσίου λόγοι ἐπιτάφιοι, 10:358

Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton

  • Dialogues of the Dead, 19:508
  • The History of the Life of Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived, 2:51
  • Letters of the late Lord Lyttelton, 19:505
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