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Before his death, George Wythe bequeathed his books to his friend and former student, Thomas Jefferson:
I give my books and small philosophical apparatus to Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States of America: a legacie considered abstractlie, perhaps not deserving a place in his musaeum, but, estimated by my good will to him, the most valuable to him of any thing which I have the power to bestow.[1]
Wythe's executor, William DuVal created an inventory before turning the collection over to George Jefferson, the president's cousin and agent, who received the items and sent the inventory to Washington, D.C.[2] DuVal's inventory has not been found, but in 2008, while examining a manuscript book catalog which Jefferson kept from the late 1770s through 1812,[3] Endrina Tay and Jeremy Dibbel, librarians from Monticello's Jefferson Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society, discovered a different inventory—one Thomas Jefferson composed as he decided what to do with individual titles from Wythe's Library.[4] Jefferson divided the list into nine sections. Seven of these sections are headed by the name(s) of recipients, the other two—for Dabney Carr and Jefferson himself—have no headers.
Contents
Jefferson Inventory
Recipients of Wythe's Books
Jefferson kept 149 titles from Wythe's estate for his own library, and gave away 183 titles to various family members, a joiner at Monticello, and his grandson's tutor.[5] Click on each name below to learn more about the individual and see a list of the titles they received.
- Dabney Carr – 45 titles
- James Dinsmore – 7 titles
- John Wayles Eppes – 9 titles
- James Ogilvie – 2 titles
- Ann and Ellen Randolph – 9 titles
- Martha Jefferson Randolph – 1 title
- Thomas Jefferson Randolph – 72 titles
- Thomas Mann Randolph – 38 titles
Page 1
Books given to Carr and Dinsmore
- Main articles: Dabney Carr, James Dinsmore
Page one of Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1806. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 2
Books given to Dinsmore, Ogilvie, the Randolphs, and Eppes
- Main articles: James Dinsmore, James Ogilvie, Ann Randolph, Ellen Randolph, Martha Jefferson Randolph, John Wayles Eppes
Page two of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
juris civilis. fol. |
[H]arris's Justinian. 4to. |
[Vi?]nnii institutiones. 4to. |
Taylor's civil law. 4to. |
Grotius |
Puffendorf. |
———— |
Mathematiques de Bezout. 3d. & 4th. vols. 8vo. |
Ciceronis opera. notis varior. 9.v. 4to. |
Plutarch's lives 1st. to the 6th. vol. 8vo. |
Morals 4.v. 8vo. |
Pope's Odyssey. 5.v. 12mo. |
Shakespear. 3. odd vols. p.f. |
Pope's Homer's Iliad. 1st. 3d. 4th. 5th. 6th vols 12mo |
Odyssey. 5.v. 12mo. |
Dryden's works. 6.v. 12mo. |
Shakespeare by Theobald. the first 6.v. 12mo. |
Pope's works. 9.v. 8vo. |
———— |
Herodotus. 8.v. 12mo. Foulis |
Xenophontis historia. 4.v. 8vo. Foulis |
Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo. |
Caesar fol. Foul. |
Cornelius Nepos. Lat. Eng. by Arrol. 8vo. |
Homeri Ilias. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis |
Odysseus. Gr. 2.v. fol. Foulis. |
Horace de Dacier. Lat. Fr. 10.v. 8vo. |
Ciceronis opera. Lat. 20.v. 16[mo?]. Foulis |
Page 3
Books given to Thomas Jefferson Randolph
- Main article: Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Page three of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 4
Page four of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Aristophanes Gr. Lat. 6.v. 8vo. |
do. _ _ _ _ _ Gr. Lat. p.f. |
Theocritus Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul. |
Ovid de arte amandi. 12mo. |
Pindar. 3.v. p.f. Foul. Gr. |
Poetae minores. 12mo Foul. |
Addison's works. 1st. v. 12mo. [ed. entry inserted later?] |
Musae Anglicanae. 3.v. 12mo. |
Buchanani Psalmorum libri. 12mo. |
Excerpta ex Luciani operibus. à Kent. 8vo. |
Lucretius. 12mo. Foul. |
Lucretius by Creech. 2.v. 8vo. |
Horatius Delphini. 8vo. |
Horatius. Foulis. 12mo. |
Horace by Francis. 4.v. 12mo. |
Juvenalis et Persius. Delph. 8vo. |
Quinctilianus de instutitione Oratoriâ. 4to. |
Blair's lectures. 1st. vol. 4to. |
Isocratis opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo. |
Lysiae opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 2.v. 8vo. |
Ciceronis orationes selectae Delph. 8vo. |
Scapulae Lexicon. fol. |
Hederici Lexicon. 4to. |
Portroyal Gr. grammar by Nugent 8vo. |
Ruddiman's larger Latin grammar 8vo. |
Exercises of Syntax. 12mo. |
Tooke's Diversions of Purley 8vo. |
Barrington's Orosius. Saxon & English. 8vo. |
Auli Gellii noctes Atticae. p.f. |
Page 5
Books given to Thomas Mann Randolph
- Main article: Thomas Mann Randolph
Page five of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 6
Books retained by Jefferson
- Main article: Thomas Jefferson
Page six of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 7
Page seven of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page 8
Page eight of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
See also
- Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
- Dabney Carr
- Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
- James Dinsmore
- John Wayles Eppes
- Thomas Jefferson
- Last Will and Testament
- James Ogilvie
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
- Thomas Jefferson Randolph
- Thomas Mann Randolph
References
- ↑ George Wythe, Last Will and Testament with Codicil, June 11, 1806, Library of Congress, The Thomas Jefferson Papers.
- ↑ Jeremy Dibbell, "Mr. Wythe's books &c are packed up...," Object of the Month (blog), Massachusetts Historical Society (June 2009).
- ↑ Thomas Jefferson, 1783 Catalog of Books, c. 1775-1812, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
- ↑ Endrina Tay and Jeremy Dibbell, "Reconstructing a Lost Library: George Wythe's 'Legacie' to President Thomas Jefferson," Tales from the Vault, Common-Place (January 2009).
- ↑ This list was adapted from the "Library of George Wythe" in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello. See: "Library of George Wythe," Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013. For the manuscript version, see "Inventory of the Books Received by Thomas Jefferson from the Estate of George Wythe, Circa September, 1806," Massachusetts Historical Society, accessed July 2, 2013.
- ↑ The entry for "Wythe's Chancery decisions" includes the folio volume of Wythe's Decisions of Cases in Virginia, by the High Court of Chancery (1795), and six octavo pamphlets reporting seven cases published in 1796 and later: Case upon the Statute for Distribution, Report of the Case between Field and Harrison, Between Fowler and Saunders, Between Wilkins and Taylor, Between Yates and Salle, and Love against Donelson.
- ↑ The parties reported are Peter Kamper (not Kampier) and Mary Hawkins. See Report of Kamper v. Hawkins.