Contents
Introduction
Chronology
[A Conversation Always Varied and Interesting] (1782 ) - François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux
[A Man of Great Sensibility and Parental Affection] (1784–1785) - Abigail Adams Smith
[A Stock of Information Not Inferior to That of Any Man] (1799) - François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
[Fourth of July at the President’s Mansion] (1801 and 1803) - Samuel Harrison Smith
[Visiting the President’s Mansion] (1802–1803) - Samuel L. Mitchill
[Large Stories] (1804–1809) - John Quincy Adams
[The Marks of Intense Thought and Perseverance] (1807) - Joseph Story
[The Habitation of Philosophy and Virtue] (1809 and 1837) - Margaret Bayard Smith
The Sage of Monticello (1809) - John Edwards Caldwell
Interview with Mr. Jefferson (1812) - John Melish
[An Italian Friend Remembers Virginia and France] (1813) - Philip Mazzei
[Man of the Mountain] (1815) - George Ticknor
Monticello (1818) - Francis Hall
[A Philosophical Legislator] (1824) - Adam Hodgson
Memorandum of Mr. Jefferson’s Conversations (1824) - Daniel Webster
[From the University of Virginia to Monticello] (1828) - Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Recollections of President Jefferson (1828) - John Bernard
[A Father’s Grief, A Daughter’s Memories] (1832) - Martha Jefferson Randolph
[Fond Memories from a Granddaughter] (1839) - Virginia J. Randolph Trist
[Of Art and Religion] (1841) - John Trumbull
[A Visionary Who Loved to Dream Eyes Wide Open] (1841) - Augustus J. Foster
[Talking with Jefferson: Two Accounts] (1841 and 1863) - Daniel Pierce Thompson
[A Man of Easy and Ingratiating Manners] (1849) - Francis T. Brooke
[The Last Days of Thomas Jefferson] (1852) - Robley Dunglison
[What Jefferson Was Like as a Grandfather, ca. 1856] - Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge
[The Life and Death of Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1857] - Thomas Jefferson Randolph
[Daily Life at Monticello] (1862) - Edmund Bacon
Thomas Jefferson (1868) - Henry Tutwiler
[Jefferson and the Boy Professor] (1875) - George Long
“Once the Slave of Thomas Jefferson” (1898) - Peter F. Fossett
Permissions
Selected Bibliography
Index