University of Virginia Library

Symbols Designating Documents

AD: Autograph Document

ADS: Autograph Document Signed

ADfS: Autograph Draft

ADf: Autograph Draft Signed

AL: Autograph Letter

ALS: Autograph Letter Signed

Copy: Manuscript Copy

D: Document

DS: Document Signed

Df: Draft

DfS: Draft Signed

L: Letter

LS: Letter Signed

LB: Letter-Book Copy

(polygraph copy) Polygraph copy: used with other symbols: e.g., ALS (polygraph copy),
AD (polygraph copy)

Printed: Printed copy

[S]: Signature clipped: used with other symbols: e.g., AL[S], L[S]

[ ]: In the source line, a 4-digit number within square brackets corresponds to the number in
The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, edited by Constance E. Thurlow, Francis
L. Berkeley, Jr., John Casteen, and Anne Freudenberg (Charlottesville, 1973).