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kkk Contents Introduction ix Chronology xxxv François Jean, Marquis de Chastellux, [A Conversation Always Varied and Interesting] (1782) 1 Abigail Adams Smith, [A Man of Great Sensibility and Parental Affection] (1784–1785) 9 François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, [A Stock of Information Not Inferior to That of Any Man] (1799) 16 Samuel Harrison Smith, [Fourth of July at the President’s Mansion] (1801 and 1803) 28 Samuel L. Mitchill, [Visiting the President’s Mansion] (1802–1803) 31 John Quincy Adams, [Large Stories] (1804–1809) 36 Joseph Story, [The Marks of Intense Thought and Perseverance] (1807) 42 Margaret Bayard Smith, [The Habitation of Philosophy and Virtue] (1809 and 1837) 44 John Edwards Caldwell, The Sage of Monticello (1809) 62 John Melish, Interview with Mr. Jefferson (1812) 67 Philip Mazzei, [An Italian Friend Remembers Virginia and France] (1813) 72 George Ticknor, [Man of the Mountain] (1815) 77 Francis Hall, Monticello (1818) 83 Adam Hodgson, [A Philosophical Legislator] (1824) 88 [viii] Daniel Webster, Memorandum of Mr. Jefferson’s Conversations (1824) 92 Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, [From the University of Virginia to Monticello] (1828) 102 John Bernard, Recollections of President Jefferson (1828) 107 Martha Jefferson Randolph, [A Father’s Grief, A Daughter’s Memories] (1832) 116 Virginia J. Randolph Trist, [Fond Memories from a Granddaughter] (1839) 120 John Trumbull, [Of Art and Religion] (1841) 123 Augustus J. Foster, [A Visionary Who Loved to Dream Eyes Wide Open] (1841) 128 Daniel Pierce Thompson, [Talking with Jefferson: Two Accounts] (1841 and 1863) 133 Francis T. Brooke, [A Man of Easy and Ingratiating Manners] (1849) 141 Robley Dunglison, [The Last Days of Thomas Jefferson] (1852) 144 Ellen W. Randolph Coolidge, [What Jefferson Was Like as a Grandfather, ca. 1856] 151 Thomas Jefferson Randolph, [The Life and Death of Thomas Jefferson, ca. 1857] 158 Edmund Bacon, [Daily Life at Monticello] (1862) 169 Henry Tutwiler, Thomas Jefferson (1868) 180 George Long, [Jefferson and the Boy Professor] (1875) 184 Peter F. Fossett, “Once the Slave of Thomas Jefferson” (1898) 187 Permissions 195 Selected Bibliography 197 Index 201 ...

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