Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (80 page)

DESCRIBED
AS
A
“
CONVULSIVE
STRANGULATING
”
Robert Hooper,
Quincy's Lexicon-Medicum: A New Medical Dictionary
(Philadelphia, 1817), 611. See also Nicholas Bakalar, “First Mention; Pertussis, 1913,”
The New York Times,
April 13, 2010.

“I
T
'
S
IMPOSSIBLE
TO
P
AINT
”
PTJ,
VII, 441.

“
BOTH
SUFFERE
D
AS
MUCH
PAIN
”
Ibid., 441–42.

“P
RES
ENT
ME
AFFECTIONATEL
Y
”
Ibid., 636.

“M
R
. J.
IS
A
MAN
OF
GR
EAT
SENSIBILITY
”
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
181.

“B
EHOLD
ME
AT
LENGTH
”
PTJ,
VIII, 568.

“M
Y
G
OD
! H
OW
LITTLE
DO
”
Ibid., 233.

WALKING
UP
TO
S
IX
OR
EIGHT
MILES
A
DAY
Ibid., 90.

“I
MUST
HAVE
P
OLLY
”
Ibid., 141.

“I
THINK
I
HAVE
SOMEWH
ERE
”
Kaminski,
Founders on the Founders,
292–93.

“O
UR
COUNTRY
I
S
GETTING
”
PTJ,
VIII, 357.

“W
E
HAVE
INTELLIGENCE
”
Ibid., 293.

“I
T
IS
SAID
THAT
G
REAT
B
RITAI
N
”
Ibid., 196.

“O
UR
GOVERNMENTS
”
Ibid.

NINETEEN
·
THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORLD

“
W
ILL
YOU
TAKE
THE
TROUBLE
”
PTJ,
IX, 158.

SHOPPING
IN
F
RANCE
MB,
I, 565 and ff.

ATTEN
DED
MASQUERADE
BALLS
Ibid., 600.

A
FORWARD
BARONESS
Ibid., 611.

MADE
HIS
WAY
TO
V
ER
SAILLES
Ibid., 562.

H
E
ALSO
VIS
ITED
P
ATSY
Cynthia Kierner,
Martha Jefferson Randolph,
Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times
(Chapel Hill, N.C., 2002), 51–59.

“
A
HO
USE
OF
EDUCATION
”
PTJ,
XI, 612. See also Kierner,
Martha Jefferson Randolph,
54.

H
E
TRIED
TO
PLAY
CHESS
MB,
I, 610.

“I
HAVE
HEARD
HIM
SAY
”
Ibid.

CALL
ED
ON
THE
C
OMTESSE
D
'H
OUDETOT
AT
S
ANNOIS
PTJ,
VIII, 241. See also William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
75.

“
IN
ALL
ITS
PERFEC
TION
”
Ibid.

THE
COMMISSION
ING
OF
A
STATUE
Ibid., VII, 378. “The intention of the assembly is that the statue should be the work of the most masterly hand,” Harrison told Jefferson. “I shall therefore leave it to you to find out the best in any of the European states.” (Ibid.)

COM
E
TO
A
MERICA
“
FOR
THE
PURPOSE
”
Ibid., 567. “I trust that having given to your country so much of your time heretofore, you will add the short space which this operation will require to enable them to transmit to posterity the form of the person whose actions will be delivered to them by History. Monsieur Houdon is at present engaged in making a statue of the king of France. A bust of Voltaire executed by him is said to be one of the first in the world.” (Ibid.)

“A
N
IMPROVEM
ENT
IS
MADE
HERE
”
Ibid., VIII, 455.

“
T
O
COMMUNICATE
TO
ME
”
Ibid., 301.

DOCUMENTS
ABOUT
F
RENCH
MARINES
Ibid., XI, 31.

TO
CONV
INCE
THE
C
OMTE
DE
B
UFF
ON
Ibid., IX, 158.

TRAVELED
TO
A
SC
HOOL
FOR
THE
BLIND
MB,
I, 595.

EXCHANGED
A
MERICAN
N
UTS
AND
BERRIES
Ibid., 599.

THE
A
MERICAN
EXPLORER
J
OH
N
L
EDYARD
Ibid., 586.

L
EDYARD
WA
S
PLANNING
A
JOURNEY
JHT,
II, 67–68.

“I
T
IS
CERTAINLY
O
F
GREAT
IMPORTANCE
”
PTJ,
VIII, 73.

“H
AS
THE
A
BBE
R
OCHON
”
Ibid., 75.

H
E
PURCHASED
A
PORCELAIN
M
ARS
Ibid., 548.

T
HE
FIGURINES
WERE
ACCIDENTALLY
DESTROY
ED
Ibid., IX, 126.

H
E
ONCE
SENT
COR
SETS
Ibid., XI, 45–46.

“H
E
WISHES
THEY
MAY
”
Ibid.

E
NGLISH
TAILO
RING
AND
SHOEMAKING
NEEDS
Ibid., XII, 484–85. Jefferson's direct contact was William Stephens Smith, the Adamses' son-in-law.

“I
HAVE
AT
LENG
TH
”
Ibid., VIII, 473.

Hô
TEL
DE
L
ANGEAC
MB,
I, 594.

“I
CULTIVATE
IN
MY
OWN
GARD
EN
”
PTJ,
XII, 135.

“I
AM
NOW
OF
AN
A
GE
”
Ibid., VIII, 500.

“I
OBSERVED
THAT
”
William Howard Adams,
Paris Years of Thomas Jefferson,
185–86.

“H
E
IS
EVERYTHING
”
Kaminksi,
Founders on the Founders,
293.

“M
R
. J
EFFERSON
IS
A
M
AN
”
Ibid., 294.

A
PORTRAIT
OF
TH
E
DAILY
ROUTINE
PTJ,
XI, 122–23.

“T
H
E
POLITICS
OF
E
UROPE
”
Ibid., IX, 264.

FOR
“
A
HUNDRED
OR
TW
O
”
Ibid., 267.

A
CONVENTION
TO
DE
AL
Ibid., 335.

“I
ALMOST
DESPAIR
”
Ibid.

P
AINE
VISITED
J
EFFERSON
IN
P
ARIS
JHT,
II, 142–43.

T
HE
SON
O
F
A
CORSET
MAKER
Christopher Hitchens,
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography
(New York, 2006), 20–21.

WAS
BORN
IN
T
HETFORD
Craig Nelson,
Thomas Paine,
14.

Y
OUNG
P
AINE
WAS
BA
PTIZED
Ibid., 16–17. “Having been raised in two religions simultaneously during a period when competing doctrines waged armed warfare against one another could have triggered Paine's adult tendency to question all received wisdom,” wrote Nelson. (Ibid., 17.)

MORE
THAN
HA
LF
A
MILLION
COPIES
Susan Jacoby,
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
(New York, 2004), 35.

T
HE
R
IGHTS
OF
M
AN
Ibid., 38–39.

T
HE
A
GE
OF
R
EASON
Ibid., 41–43.

P
AINE
AND
J
EFFERS
ON
BECAME
FRIENDS
Wood,
Idea of America,
213–28, examines Paine and Jefferson in detail. Referring to historical indictments of Jefferson on questions of slavery and of the racial inferiority passages in the
Notes on the State of Virginia,
Wood writes: “Paine may be able to help redeem Jefferson. Since it is clear that Jefferson and Paine thought alike on virtually every issue, Paine's radical and democratic credentials may allow historians, especially those of the left, to see Jefferson in a somewhat more favorable light, or at least see him in light of the eighteenth century, and not in today's light.” (Ibid., 227.) See also Seth Cotlar,
Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
(Charlottesville, Va., 2011).

In 1801, Jefferson offered Paine passage from France to the United States on a U.S. Navy vessel after Paine had spent time in prison for opposing the execution of Louis XVI. By now president, Jefferson argued to Madison that the author of
Common Sense
deserved special attention. “There is a clear enough line between Thomas Paine and citizens in general,” he told Madison. (
PTJ,
XXXV, 125.) Paine declined Jefferson's offer and ultimately arrived in the United States in November 1802.

A
SERIES
OF
MEETINGS
PTJ,
IX, 285–88.

LARGE
PIPES
OF
TOBACCO
Ibid. See also Abigail Adams 2d to John Quincy Adams,
Adams Family Correspondence,
VII, 41–42.

“W
HAT
HAS
BEEN
ALREADY
”
Ibid., 295. “I am so impressed and distressed with this affair that I will go to New York or to Algiers or first to one and then to the other … rather than it should not be brought to a conclusion.” (Ibid.) For Adams's correspondence with John Jay on these matters, see
The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations, by His Grandson Charles Francis Adams,
VIII (Boston, 1853), 372–79.