Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (81 page)

I
N
A
LETTER
DATED
T
UESDAY
Ibid.

HE
WO
ULD
BE
BACK
BEFORE
Ibid., 318.

A
T
A
L
ONDON
DINNER
Ibid., 398–99.

“H
E
WAS
SERIOU
S
IN
THIS
”
Ibid., 399.

“I
KNOW
OF
NO
GENTLEMAN
”
Ibid., 555.

“
IMPOS
SIBLE
FOR
ANYTHING
”
Jefferson,
Writings,
57.

“T
HEY
TEEM
WITH
EVE
RY
HORROR
”
PTJ,
VIII, 548.

“I
T
WOULD
HAVE
ILLY
SUITED
ME
”
Ibid.

SURVEYING
E
NGLISH
GARDENS
Ibid., IX, 369–75; McCullough,
John Adams,
356–62.

“M
Y
ANXIET
IES
ON
THIS
SUBJECT
”
PTJ,
VIII, 451. “I must now repeat my wish to have Polly sent to me next summer,” Jefferson wrote Francis Eppes on August 30, 1785. “With respect to the person to whose care she should be trusted, I must leave it to yourself and Mrs. Eppes altogether,” Jefferson said. “Some good lady passing from America to France, or even England, would be most eligible; but a careful gentleman who would be so kind as to superintend her would do.” (Ibid.)

A
SIMPLE
LETTER
ARRIVED
Ibid., 517.

“I
WISH
SO
MUCH
TO
S
EE
YOU
”
Ibid., 532–33.

“I
WILL
VENTUR
E
TO
ASSERT
”
Ibid., IX, 380.

TWENTY
·
HIS HEAD AND HIS HEART

“
W
E
ARE
NOT
IMMORTAL
OUR
SELVES
”
PTJ,
X, 451.

“
A
GOLDEN
-
H
AIRED
,
LANGUISHING
”
Helen Duprey Bullock,
My Head and My Heart: A Little History of Thomas Jefferson and Maria Cosway
(New York, 1945), 14.

B
ORN
NEAR
F
LORENCE
Ibid., 15. My portrait of Cosway relies on ibid.; William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson;
and Stephen Lloyd, “The Accomplished Maria Cosway: Anglo-Italian Artist, Musician, Salon Hostess and Educationalist (1759–1838),”
Journal of Anglo-Italian Studies
2 (1992): 108–39. Adams's book is especially thorough and engaging.

M
ARIA
WAS
BARELY
RES
CUED
Ibid., 14.

TO
THE
GLAMORO
US
ARTISTIC
AND
LITE
RARY
CIRCLES
Ibid., 15–16.

THE
WR
ITER
J
AMES
B
OSWELL
Gordon Trumbull, “Boswell, James (1740–1795),” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, 729–40.

S
IR
J
OSHUA
R
EYNOLDS
Jane Turner, ed.,
The Dictionary of Art,
XXVI (New York, 1996), 270–81.

A
NGELICA
K
AUFFMANN
Wendy Wassyng Roworth, “Kauffman, (Anna Maria) Angelica Catharina (1741–1807),” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
XXX, 914–17.

THE
COLLECTOR
C
HARLES
T
OWN
LEY
B. F. Cook, “Townley, Charles (1737–1805),” in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
LV, 115–17.

“
A
WELL
-
MADE
LITTLE
MAN
”
Kukla,
Mr. Jefferson's Women,
89.

WON
TH
E
PATRONAGE
OF
THE
P
R
INCE
OF
W
ALES
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
101, 225.

SET
UP
HOUSEKEEPING
AT
S
C
HOMBERG
H
OUSE
Ibid., 225.

THE
EI
GHTEENTH
-
CENTURY
SEX
THERAPIST
D
R
. J
AMES
G
RA
HAM
Ibid.

“H
IS
NEW
HOUSE
”
Bullock,
My Head and My Heart,
18.

F
URNITURE
WAS
ORNATELY
CARVED
Ibid. I am indebted to Bullock for the details of the Cosways' interior design. She quoted a long passage from John Thomas Smith, the antiquarian.

W
ILLIA
M
H
AZLITT
WROTE
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
225.

H
O
RACE
W
ALPOLE
,
THE
WRIT
ER
Ibid., 225–26.

M
ADEMOISELLE
LA
C
HEVALI
è
RE
D
'E
ON
,
KNOWN
IN
HER
DAY
Ibid., 226.

O
NE
C
OSW
AY
FRIEND
Ibid., 224–25.

H
UGUES
AN
D
THE
C
OSWAYS
Ibid., 103.

THE
AR
TIST
J
OHN
T
RUMBULL
Turner,
Dictionary of Art,
XXXI, 391–92.

THE
MEN
WHO
HAD
DESIGNED
THE
D
OME
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
62–63.

ALLOWING
LIGH
T
TO
POUR
THROUGH
Ibid., 62. Adams wrote: “To [Jefferson's] eye, the light-filled room seemed to manifest the idealism of the age. It was a recurring image that he could not shake. The marriage of practical engineering and aesthetic beauty was a relationship that would often inspire his architectural fantasies.” (Ibid., 62–63.)

“
THE
MOST
SUPERB
THIN
G
”
Ibid. Adams added: “The halle's sparkling glass and thin wooden ribs somehow captured for Jefferson the spirit of an ‘enlightened space' that was both symbolic and utilitarian.” (Ibid., 63.)

N
OS
. 6–8
RUE
S
T
.-F
LORENTI
N
Michael Gallet,
Paris Domestic Architecture of the 18th Century
(London, 1972), 21.

VOLUPTUOUS
LIPS
Bullock,
My Head and My Heart,
13–14, offers a vivid description of Mrs. Cosway; the effect of her lips are evident from portraits of her.

DIPLOMATIC
DISPA
TCHES
HAD
ARRIVED
PTJ,
X, 445. See also Bullock,
My Head and My Heart,
21.

“E
VERY
SOUL
OF
YOU
”
Ibid.

HER
E
NGLISH
WAS
NOT
PARTICULAR
LY
FLUENT
See, for instance,
PTJ,
X, 494–96.

HAD
DIN
NER
TOGETHER
Bullock,
My Head and My Heart,
21. The details of the day come from this account of Bullock's, who drew them from Jefferson's “Head and Heart” letter. See also
PTJ,
X, 443–55.

TR
EATED
“
MEN
LIKE
DOGS
”
Ibid., 20.

“
EVERY
MOMENT
WAS
F
ILLED
”
PTJ,
X, 446.

A
FONDNESS
F
OR
GETAWAY
SPOTS
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
244–47, describes the Jefferson-Cosway excursions in detail.

“H
OW
GRAND
THE
IDEA
”
Ibid., 244.

“T
HE
WHEELS
OF
TIM
E
”
Ibid.

J
EFFERSON
DISLOCA
TED
HIS
RIGHT
WRIST
Bullock,
My Head and My Heart,
24. See also
PTJ,
X, 431–33.

“I
T
WAS
BY
ONE
O
F
THOSE
FOLLIES
”
PTJ,
X, 478.

“I
O
NLY
MENTION
MY
WISH
”
Ibid., 394.

“I
HAVE
PASSED
”
Ibid., 431–32.

“I
AM
V
ERY
,
VERY
SORRY
”
Ibid., 433.

“M
R
.
A
ND
M
RS
. C
OSWAY
ARRIVED
”
Ibid., 438.

HIS
“
LAST
SAD
OFFICE
”
Ibid., 443.

“S
EATED
BY
MY
FIRESIDE
”
Ibid., 444.

“Y
OUR
LE
TTER
COULD
EMPLOY
ME
”
Ibid., 494.

TWENTY
-
ONE
·
DO YOU LIKE OUR NEW CONSTITUTION?

“
C
HERISH
THE
REFORE
THE
SPIRIT
”
PTJ,
XI, 49.

D
EBT
-
RIDDEN
, F
RANCE
FA
CED
A
SUPREME
TEST
Sylvia Neely,
A Concise History of the French Revolution
(Lanham, Md., 2008), 1–54, is instructive. See also Bailey Stone,
Reinterpreting the French Revolution: A Global-Historical Perspective
(New York, 2002), 14–61, and William Doyle,
The Oxford History of the French Revolution
(New York, 2002), 66–85.

PARTLY
BECAUSE
O
F
ITS
SPENDING
ON
TH
E
A
MERICAN
R
EVOLUTION
Neely,
Concise History of the French Revolution,
40–42.

J
EFFERSON
WAS
SHOCK
ED
PTJ,
XI, 415.

T
AXES
WERE
UNEQ
UAL
Neely,
Concise History of the French Revolution,
7–12.