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Authors: Jon Meacham

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (62 page)


W
ILD
AND
ROMANTIC

PTJRS,
I, 386.

I
N
O
CTOBER
1765
JHT,
I, 115.


LAUDABLE
AND
USEFUL

IBID.


CLEARI
NG
THE
GREAT
FALLS

PTJ,
I, 88.

HELPED
BRING
A
M
ARYLAND
PUBLISHER
Hayes,
Road to Monticello,
88. Hayes cites Isaiah Thomas,
The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers
(New York, 1970), 556.

“U
NTIL
THE
BEGI
NNING

Jeffrey L. Pasley, ‘
The Tyranny of Printers': Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic
(Charlottesville, Va., 2003), 37.

O
NTASSETE
,
T
HE
C
HEROKEE
CHIEF
Jefferson,
Writings,
1263.

WHO
CROSSED
THE
A
TLAN
TIC
IN
1762
JHT,
I, 60–61.

“T
HE
MOON
WA
S
IN
FULL
SPLENDOR

Jefferson,
Writings,
1263.


ONE
OF
THE
CHOICE
ONES

PTJ,
VIII, 181.

“H
IS
PO
WERS
OF
CONVERSATION
WERE
GREAT

Randall,
Jefferson,
I, 45.

THE
S
TORY
OF
A

MOST
INTEL
LIGENT

Ibid., 45–46.

M
ARTHA
HAD
M
ARRIED
HIS
FRIEND
D
AB
NEY
C
ARR
MB,
I, 21.

HIS
SISTER
J
ANE
DIED
Randall,
Jefferson,
I, 41.

“T
HE
LOS
S
OF
SUCH
A
SISTER

TDLTJ,
38–39.

THE
E
NGLISH
POET
W
ILLIAM
S
HENSTONE
MB,
I, 247.

“A
H
, J
OANNA

Ibid. See also Hayes,
Road to Monticello,
87–88.

BEGAN
HIS
GARDEN
BOOK
GB,
1.

“P
U
RPLE
HYACINTH

IBID.

“P
UCKO
ON
FLOWERS
FALLEN

IBID.

A
N
EXCURSION
NORTH
PTJ,
I, 18–21. See also
JHT,
I, 98–101.

WITH
E
LBRIDGE
G
ERRY
JHT,
I, 100.

BROKE
AWAY
FROM
HIM
PTJ,
I, 19.

TER
RIBLE
RAINS
IBID.

FORDING
A
STREAM
IBID.

S
TOPPING
IN
A
NNAPOLIS
IBID.

“I
WAS
SU
RPRISED

Ibid., 19–20.

“I
WOULD
GIVE
YOU

Ibid., 20.

P
ARLIAMENT
HAD
STOOD
DOWN
Morgan and Morgan,
Stamp Act Crisis,
279–92.


IN
A
LL
CASES
WHATSOEVER

Ibid., 288.

C
ASES
TOOK
HIM
Frank L. Dewey,
Thomas Jefferson, Lawyer
(Charlottesville, Va., 1987), covers this aspect of his lifE WeLL.

HIS
SISTER
M
AR
THA
WROTE
HIM
GB,
6.

HIS
CARNATIONS
WERE
IN
B
LOOM
IBID.

CALCULATED
HOW
MUCH
HAY
IbId., 7.

A
BRIGHT
,
ENTHUSIASTIC
“He pursued the law with an eager industry,” said Edmund Randolph. “Reserved toward the world at large, to his intimate friends he showed a peculiar sweetness of temper and by them was admired and beloved.… He panted after the fine arts and discovered a taste in them not easily satisfied with such scanty means as existed in a colony.… It constituted a part of Mr. Jefferson's pride to run before the times in which he lived.” (Willard Sterne Randall,
Thomas Jefferson,
100.)

A
BOTTLE
OF
WHISK
EY
AND
A
SHIRT
JHT,
I, 123.


HE
SAW
[F
RAME
]”
IBid.

FOUR
·
TEMPTATIONS AND TRIALS


Y
OU
W
ILL
PERCEIVE
THAT

JHT,
I, 448.


A
LL
MEN
ARE
BORN
FREE

Gordon-Reed,
Hemingses of Monticello,
100.

P
ETER
J
EFFERSON
HAD
MA
DE
W
ALKER
'
S
FATHER
JHT,
I, 449. Malone devotes an appendix to this volume to what he called “The Walker Affair, 1768–1809.” (Ibid., 447–51.) See also Jon Kukla,
Mr. Jefferson's Women
(New York, 2007), 41–63, for an extended discussion of the Walker-Jefferson sToRY.

“W
E
HAD
PREVIOUSLY

IBID.

DAUGHTER
OF
B
ERNARD
M
OORE
Robert A. Lancaster, Jr.,
Historic Virginia Homes and Churches
(Philadelphia, 1915), 266–67.

“J
ACK
W
ALKER
I
S
ENGAGED

PTJ,
I, 15.

THE
ABSE
NCE
OF
HIS
HORSES
IBId.

D
ATED
FROM
“D
EVILSBURG

Ibid., 14.

“B
UT
I
HEAR

IbiD., 15.

THE
FIRST
WEEK
OF
J
UNE
JHT,
I, 449.


THE
FRIEND
OF
MY
HEA
RT

Ibid.

B
Y
1768
THE
W
ALKERS
WE
RE
LIVING
Ibid., 154.

BOUND
FOR
F
ORT
S
TANWIX
Ibid., 449.

APPOINT
ED
“M
R
. J
EFFERSON
 … 
MY
NEIGHBOR

IBID.

DEPARTED
FOR
N
EW
Y
ORK
Kukla,
Mr. Jefferson's WomEN,
51.

ABOUT
TWO
YE
ARS
YOUNGER
IbiD., 44.

SEEMS
T
O
HAVE
FALLEN
IN
LOV
E
JHT,
I, 449–50, details the Walkers' version of events. As noted below, Jefferson conceded his culpability though he is not known to have commented on the particulars of the Walkers' acCOUnt.

J
OHN
W
ALKER
RECAL
LED
Ibid., 449.


RENEWED
HIS
CA
RESSES

IBid.

J
OHN
C
OLES
,
A
GREAT
HUNTER
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
7 (1900): 101.

“H
E
PR
ETENDED
TO
BE
SICK

JHT,
I, 449.

CONFIRMED
THE
W
ALKER
STORY
Ibid., 448.

AFTER
A
POLIT
ICAL
BREAK
Ibid., 447–48.

AN
INCOR
RECT
THING
TO
DO
Ibid., 448.

A
GLORIOUS
AUTUMN
MB,
I, 73.

D
A
VIES
,
A
P
RESBYTERIAN
C
LERGYMAN
Lynn Gardiner Tyler,
Williamsburg: The Old Colonial Capital
(Richmond, Va., 1907), 230.

O
FFERING
S
IN
THE
CAPITAL
MB,
I, 73.

B
RINGING
THE
I
TALIAN
M
USICIAN
F
RANCIS
A
LBERT
I
Ibid., 70.

F
AUQUIER
DIED
AT
THE
G
OVERNOR
'
S
P
ALACE
IbiD., 97.

REGRET
THAT
HIS
SLAVES
WOULD
HAVE
TO
BE
SOLD
IbID.

HE

MAY
BECO
ME
MORE
USEFUL

William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine,
VII, ed. Lyon G. Tyler (Richmond, Va., 1900), 174.

F
AU
QUIER
'
S
BURIAL
FIVE
DAYS
LATER
The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, I (Charlottesville, Va., 1980), xxXVIiI.


THE
ABL
EST
MAN

Jefferson,
WritinGS,
33.

DETERMINE
D
TO
MAKE
HIMSELF
PL
EASANT
JHT,
I, 139.

“C
HARMING
,
CH
ARMING
!”
IBID.

HAPPILY
JOIN
ED
THEM
IBID.

A
HEAVILY
B
LACK
-
BORDERED
BOX
The Virginia Gazette,
March 10, 1768.

THE
EIGHTH
INSTALLMENT
IBiD.

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