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James Ogilvie was the tutor of Thomas Jefferson's grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph.^[1] Jefferson gave two titles from the Wythe library to Ogilvie.

Wythe Books Given to Ogilvie by Thomas Jefferson

The list below was adapted from the "Library of George Wythe" in the Thomas Jefferson Libraries project on the website for Monticello.^[2] The Wolf Law Library owns neither title at present.

Detail of page two from Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1806. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to James Ogilvie. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.

See also

See also

• Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
• Dabney Carr
• Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
• James Dinsmore
• Jefferson Inventory
• John Wayles Eppes
• Last Will and Testament
• Martha Jefferson Randolph
• Thomas Jefferson Randolph
• Thomas Mann Randolph

References

1. ↑ Endrina Tay & Jeremy Dibbell, "Reconstructing a Lost Library: George Wythe's 'Legacie' to President Thomas Jefferson, Tales from the Vault, Common-Place, Jan. 2009, http://www.common-place.org/vol-10/no-02/tales.
2. ↑ "Library of George Wythe", Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013, http://tjlibraries.monticello.org/transcripts/wythelibrary/2.html. 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, http://www.masshist.org/database/doc-viewer.php?item_id=1768.