Note: 1 "Thomas Jefferson's Grand Paradox," New York Times , March 9, 1975. [back]
Note: 3 Shields-Wilson Collection, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 4 Jefferson to James Dinsmore, April 13, 1817, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 6 Kimball, pp. 90-101. [back]
Note: 7 Fiske Kimball, Mr. Samuel McIntire, Carver, Architect of Salem (Portland, Me., 1940), p. 23. [back]
Note: 8 Charles A. Place, Charles Bulfinch, Architect and Citizen (Boston, 1925), pp. 285-86. [back]
Note: 9 Advertisement in Virginia Gazette , Dec. 19, 1777, reprinted in The Writings of Colonel William Byrd , ed. John Spencer Bassett (New York, 1901), and Kimball, p. 20. [back]
Note: 11 1828 Catalogue , pp. 105, 108. [back]
Note: 12 Oldham to Jefferson, June 21, 1819. See also Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, April 16, 1821, in which Jefferson specified certain orders by the numbers of specific Plates in the Leoni, 1721 edition of Palladio. Both letters are in U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 13 13 Va. Library. [back]
Note: 14 Practically the same rule is in Jefferson's letter to Hilliard of Sept. 16, 1825; see Elizabeth Cometti, Jefferson's Ideas on a University Library (Charlottesville, Va., 1950), p. 22. [back]
Note: 15 Page, "Our Library," dated Sept. 10, 1895, in Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia , II (Nov. 1895), 79. [back]
Note: 18 18 U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 19 Cometti, p. 22. [back]
Note: 20 Minutes of the Board of Visitors, Oct. 15, 1825, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 21 Bruce, II, 38, 40. [back]
Note: 22 "Notes for the Consideration of the Board of Visitors," 1820?, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 23 Bruce, II, 188. [back]
Note: 24 U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: 25 Kimball, pp. 90-101. But see also note 17. [back]
Note: 26 Kimball pp. 90-101. [back]
Note: 28 Kean lists a Leoni edition of Palladio and adds the marginal note "(at Monticello)." Thus the book appears to have been the property of the University on May 16, 1825, but whether it had been purchased by the University or given to it by Jefferson is uncertain. [back]
Note: 29 The titles that have been so supplied will be apparent from the annotations to the descriptive catalogue. A word on the sources of information concerning Jefferson's personal libraries, however, is in order. Kimball's, pp. 90-101, was the pioneer effort at listing the architectural books in all of Jefferson's private libraries. Other than manuscript lists, there were formerly available only three important printed sources of information on the library Jefferson sold to Congress: Catalogue of the Library of the United States (Washington, D.C., 1815); Catalogue of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C., 1830); and Catalogue of the Library of Congress, in the Capitol of the United States of America (Washington, D.C. 1840). That these need to be used iwth caution may be evidenced by a single example. The 1840 Catalogue assigned to Jefferson's library the congressional copy of Claude Leopold Geneté's Nouvelle construction de chiminées (Liege, 1760), which apparently never belonged to Jefferson. Fortunately, the work of E. Millicent Sowerby has superseded the earlier and less reliable printed catalogues. For the last of Jefferson's libraries, no such similar study exists, and recourse still has to be made to the 1829 sale catalogue, of which a facsimile was issued by the Clements Library in 1944 without annotation. [back]
Note: 30 Books on music, painting, and sculpture in Jefferson's personal library not included in this study are listed in the Appendix. [back]
Note: p15.f1 The note on p. 309 of Adam says: "A temple built by Agrippa in the time of Augustus, and dedicated to all the gods, was called Pantheon, Dio. liii. 27." [back]
Note: p16.f2 William B. O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings at the University of Virginia: The Rotunda (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1960) , p. 20. [back]
Note: p19.f1 The references to Pliny and Vitruvius are noted as: "Plinius Junior, L. 2. Ep. 17; & L. S. Ep. 6". and "Vitruvius, L. 6." [back]
Note: p19.f2 A Catalogue of a Collection of Illustrated Books and Volumes of Prints, mostly of the Eighteenth Century (London Sotheby Parke Bernet and Co., 1975) , p.99. [back]
Note: p22.f1 See John Bennett Schwartzman, Leon Battista Alberti: A Bibliography (Charlottesville, Va.: American Association of Architectural Bibliographers, 1962) . [back]
Note: p24.f2 Jefferson, Monticello, to Coffee, July 10, 1822 (Coolidge Collection, MHS): "You are right in what you have thought and done as to the Metops of our Doric pavilion. Those of the baths of Diocletian are all human faces, and so are to be those of our Doric pavilion. But in my middle room at Poplar Forest, I mean to mix the faces and ox-sculls, a fancy which I can indulge in my own case, altho in a public work I feel bound to follow authority strictly." [back]
Note: p26.f1 Aldrich note: "The Peckwater Quadrangle at Christ Church, the Church and beautiful Campanile of All Saints in Oxford, are of the number, and, most probably, Trinity Chapel. See Mr. Warton's Life of Dr. Bathurst, p. 71." [back]
Note: p26.f2 Aldrich note: "Those of the devotional kind are still current in all our best choirs." [back]
Note: p54.n1 In a later footnote Chambers says "I do not pretend to give this as a very accurate plan of that building: exact measures of Chinese structures are of small consequence to European Artists: and it is a matter of great difficulty to measure any publick work in China with accuracy, because the populace are very troublesome to strangers, throwing stones, and offering other insults." [back]
Note: p91.1 "All the interior friezes Jefferson took from Desgodetz Les edifices antiques de Rome " (Frederick D. Nichols and James A. Bear, Jr., Monticello [Monticello, Va.: The Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1967], p. 24). [back]
Note: p157.f1. The specifications on a drawing, reproduced by Kimball as No. 62, are quoted by him (p. 133) as saying in Jefferson's hand, "The form and proportions of this building are taken from Jones's designs, pl. 73 only that this one is square. " The same drawing is reproduced as Fig. 5 in Nichols and is indexed there as N-91-92, where Nichols says of the specifications on the back that they "indicate Jefferson's composite method of designing." [back]
Note: p179.f2 See Emil Kaufmann, "Three Revolutionary Architects, Boule, Ledoux, and Lequece," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society , n.s., XLII, pt. 3 (Oct. 1952), 491; Rich Borneman, "Some Ledoux Inspired Buildings in America," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XIII (Nov. 1954), 15; and Frederick D. Nichols, "Two Millionth Book," Chapter and Verse -3, Feb. 1975, p. 3. [back]
Note: p236.fl Lancaster, "Jefferson's Architectural Indebtedness to Robert Morris," Journall of the Society of Architectural Historians, X (March 1951), 2-10. [back]
Note: p255.n2 Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, April 16, 1821, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: p265.n3 Jefferson to Thomas Appleton, Oct. 8, 1823, U. Va. Library. [back]
Note: p265.n4 O'Neal, Jefferson's Buildings , pp. 2-3. [back]
Note: p265.n5 Lancaster, "Jefferson's Architectural Indebtedness to Robert Morris," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , X (March, 1951), 10. [back]