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Notes
Daily entry book now in the Alderman Library, University of Virginia. There is a photostat copy at Colonial Williamsburg.
To the editor of the Journal de Paris, August 29, 1787, in Lipscomb and Bergh, editors, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 20 vols., Washington, D.C., 1903, XVII, 148 (edition referred to hereafter as L&B) and in Julian P. Boyd, et al, editors, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton, 1950- , XII, 62 (edition hereafter referred to as Papers).
E. g., see the Virginia Gazette entry book's list of his purchases in Williamsburg in 1764-1765, UVa Library, or more conveniently, William H. Peden, "Thomas Jefferson: Book Collector," unpublished UVa Dissertation, 1942, Appendix.
She also identifies editions and imprints whenever possible. Until her work appeared such a survey as the present one would have been impossible.
Miss Sowerby gives individual item numbers to pamphlets gathered by Jefferson into bound groups. This makes much of the difference between her 4,931 items and George Watterston's (the Librarian of Congress) 3,200.
William H. Peden, "Some Notes Concerning Thomas Jefferson's Libraries," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., I (1944), 265-272, and Sowerby, passim.
Peden, "Some Notes," p. 268, and A Catalogue of the Extensive and Valuable Library of the Late President Jefferson (Washington, D.C., 1829).
William H. Peden, ed., 1828 Catalogue of the Library of the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, 1945), and R. B. Davis, Francis Walker Gilmer: Life and Learning in Jefferson's Virginia, (Richmond, 1939).
Sowerby, V, Index, and Edwin Wolf, II, "The Disposal of the Library of William Byrd of Westover," Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, LXVIII (1958), 19-106.
Sowerby, I, xiii; V, Index. Miss Sowerby estimates that less than one-third of the items sold by Jefferson to Congress survive. Two-thirds were probably destroyed in the fire of December 24, 1851.
See outline of Jefferson's classification system as printed in Watterston's Catalogue of 1815 and in Sowerby, I, and reproduced now on p. 124.
E.g., Letters to J. D. Burk, February 21, 1803, Sowerby, I, 212; to John Carey, November 10, 1796, Sowerby, I, 239; to S. H. Smith, September 21, 1814, L&B, XIV, 191.
This is one of the two books in Jefferson's library called objectionable in the debate in Congress as to whether to buy his collection. The book has a Richmond imprint and may be called Virginiana whether Callender's brief "residence" within the state entitles him to be called Virginian or not.
One should keep in mind that all of these once in Jefferson's library do not survive today, though many of them do. In the instances when Miss Sowerby had only the title as printed in the Catalogue, she exercised considerable effort and ingenuity in determining other bibliographical data.
This is following Miss Sowerby's listing, which is necessarily indecisive, since no known volume of Jefferson's newspapers survives and the detailed listing, as pointed out below, has to be guessed at from a later Library of Congress listing. One may add that the designation of eighteen out of sixty-eight items as Virginiana seems reasonably accurate by this later (1831) catalogue.
Publishers of most of these papers are named in the discussion of imprints just above. For others, see Sowerby, I, 267-285.
See C. S. Brigham, Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820 (2 vols., Worcester, Mass., 1947); William Clayton-Torrance, Trial Bibliography of Colonial Virginia (2 vols., Richmond, 1908-1910); Henry S. Parsons, Eighteenth Century Newspapers in the Library of Congress, (Washington, D.C., 1936).
See Jefferson's letter to P. S. Duponceau, January 22, 1816, L&B, XIX, 232-233, and Maude H. Woodfin, "Thomas Jefferson and William Byrd's Manuscript Histories of the Dividing Line," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., I, no. 4 (October 1944), 363-373.
For an assemblage made by Mrs. Vincent Eaton from recently discovered manuscripts in the Library of Congress with the same dates, 1616-1634, see Sowerby, II, 238-239. Miss Sowerby entitles these "Commissions and Proclamations." Unless the rediscovered Sowerby item and no. 2 of Miss Kingsbury are the same, the two authorities' descriptions of the manuscripts do not agree.
Kingsbury, Records, I, 43, 44, and L&B, XV, 471-474 (the latter gives the year as 1823, the former as 1825).
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