The Invention of Nature

Jefferson never idle: Edmund Bacon and Jefferson’s Memoir about Jefferson, Bear 1967, pp.12, 18, 72–8.

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‘most dangerous poison’: Jefferson to Martha Jefferson, 21 May 1787, TJ Papers, vol.11, p.370.

16

‘malady of Bibliomanie’: Jefferson to Lucy Paradise, 1 June 1789, ibid., vol.15, p.163.

17

Jefferson touring Europe: Wulf 2011, pp.35–57, 70.

18

Lewis and Clark expedition: Jefferson’s Instructions to Lewis, 1803, Jackson 1978, vol.1, pp.61–6.

19

‘this new world with’: Jefferson to AH, 28 May 1804, Terra 1959, p.788; see also Vincent Gray to James Madison, 8 May 1804, Madison Papers SS, vol.7, pp.191–2.

20

journey to Washington: Charles Willson Peale Diary, 29 May–21 June 1804, entry 29 May 1804, Peale 1983–2000, vol.2, pt.2, p.680ff.

21

US economy: North 1974, p.70ff.

22

nation of farmers

versus

merchants: Wulf 2011, p.83ff.

23

political meaning of design of Washington: Ibid., p.129ff.

24

size of Washington: Friis 1959, p.171.

25

carriages overturned: John Quincy Adams, in Young 1966, p.44.

26

White House: The White House was still called the President’s House. The first recorded use of the name ‘White House’ was only in 1811. Wulf 2011, p.125.

27

Jefferson’s laundry: William Muir Whitehill in 1803, Froncek 1977, p.85.

28

‘state of uncleanly desolation’: Thomas Moore in 1804, Norton 1976, p.211.

29

demystifying office of President: Wulf 2011, p.145ff.

30

coat ‘thread bare’: William Plumer, 10 November 1804 and 29 July 1805, Plumer 1923, pp.193, 333.

31

‘a large-boned farmer’: Sir Augustus John Foster in 1805–7, Foster 1954, p.10.

32

‘No occupation is so’: Jefferson to Charles Willson Peale, 20 August 1811, TJ Papers RS, vol.4, p.93.

33

‘never did a prisoner’: Jefferson to Pierre-Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 2 March 1809, Jefferson 1944, p. 394.

34

‘the lowliest weed’: Margaret Bayard Smith about Jefferson, Hunt 1906, p.393.

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seeds to White House: Wulf 2011, p.149.

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Jefferson and mastodon: Thomson 2012, p.51ff.

37

Jefferson obsessed with many subjects: For details see Jefferson 1997 and Jefferson 1944; Jefferson to Ellen Wayles Randolph, 8 December 1807, Jefferson 1986, p.316; Edmund Bacon about Jefferson, Bear 1967, p.33.

38

president APS: Jefferson to American Philosophical Society, 28 January 1797, TJ Papers, vol. 29, p.279.

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‘the enlightened philosopher’: Alexander Wilson to William Bartram, 4 March 1805, Wilson 1983, p.232.

40

AH met Jefferson: Charles Willson Peale Diary, 29 May–21 June 1804, entry, 2 June 1804, Peale 1983–2000, vol.2, pt.2, p.690.

41

Jefferson’s private study: Margaret Bayard Smith about Jefferson, Hunt 1906, pp.385, 396; for inventions, see Isaac Jefferson about Jefferson, Bear 1967, p.18; Thomson 2012, p.166ff.

42

‘you have found me playing’: Margaret Bayard Smith about Jefferson, Hunt 1906, p.396.

43

‘living with the simplicity’: AH to Jefferson, 27 June 1804, Terra 1959, p.789.

44

AH in Washington: Charles Willson Peale Diary, 29 May–21 June 1804, Peale 1983–2000, vol.2, pt.2, pp.690–700.

45

‘object of universal’: Caspar Wistar jr to James Madison, 29 May 1804, Madison Papers SS, vol.7, p.265.

46

‘exquisite intellectual treat’: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, 6 June 1804, Friis 1959, p.176.

47

‘all the ladies say’: Dolley Madison to Anna Payne Cutts, 5 June 1804, ibid., p.175.

48

AH briefed politicians: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, 6 June 1804, ibid., p.176.

49

AH’s maps: Charles Willson Peale, Diary, 29 May–21 June 1804, entry 30 May 1804, Peale 1983–2000, vol.2, pt.2, p.684; Louis Agassiz later said that AH’s measurements showed that previous maps had been so imperfect that Mexico’s position differed by about 300 miles, Agassiz 1869, pp.14–15.

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knowledge was ‘astonishing’: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, 6 June 1804, Friis 1959, p.176.

51

Jefferson collecting material on Mexico: Ibid., p.177; Jefferson’s table with information ‘Louisiana and Texas Description, 1804’, DLC; see also Terra 1959, p.786.

52

‘twice as fast as’: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, 6 June 1804, Friis 1959, p.176.

53

‘mixing them together’: Charles Willson Peale Diary, 29 May–21 June 1804, entry 29 May 1804, Peale 1983–2000, vol.2, pt.2, p.683.

54

‘fountain of knowledge’: Charles Willson Peale to John DePeyster, 27 June 1804, ibid., p.725.

55

‘very extraordinary man’: Albert Gallatin to Hannah Gallatin, 6 June 1804, Friis 1959, p.176.

56

‘most scientific man’: Jefferson to William Armistead Burwell, 1804, ibid., p.181.

57

disputed border: Jefferson to AH, 9 June 1804, Terra 1959, p.789; see also Rebok 2006, p.131; Rebok 2014, pp.48–50.

58

‘between those lines’: Jefferson to AH, 9 June 1804, Terra 1959, p.789.

59

‘their nations may be’: Jefferson to John Hollins, 19 February 1809, Rebok 2006, p.126.

60

information about disputed territory: AH to Jefferson, undated, AH Letters America 1993, p.307.

61

‘treasures of information’: Jefferson to Caspar Wistar, 7 June 1804, DLC.

62

AH’s notes for Jefferson: Friis 1959, pp.178–9; AH’s report for Jefferson, and AH, Abstract of Humboldt’s and Bonpland’s Expedition, end of June 1804: AH Letters USA 2004, pp.484–94, 497–509.

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