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Revision as of 15:06, 6 March 2014
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.
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.[1] That inventory has not been found, but in 2008, Endrina Tay, from Monticello's Jefferson Library, and Jeremy Dibbell, a librarian at 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.[2] Jefferson divided the list into nine sections. Seven of these sections are headed by the name(s) of recipients, the other two—the ones for Dabney Carr and Jefferson himself—have no headers.
Recipients of Wythe's Books
Jefferson gave away 183 titles to various family members, a joiner at Monticello, and his grandson's tutor. Click on each name below to learn more about the individual and see a list of the titles he or she 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
Books Retained by Jefferson
Jefferson kept 149 titles for his own library. The list[3] follows, and is subdivided into categories assigned by Jefferson. The titles in blue link to copies in the Wolf Law Library's George Wythe Collection.
Page six of Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1807. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to keep for himself.
Page seven of Jefferson's inventory.
Page eight of Jefferson's inventory.
| [Th]ucydides Gr. Lat. notis variorum. Dukeri fol. | |
| Thucydides Eng. by Smith. 2.v. 4tto. | |
| Xenophontis Cyropaedia. Gr. Lat. Hutchinson. 4to. | |
| Bryant’s Mythology. 3.v. 4to. | |
| Sallust. Delph. 8vo. | |
| Aelianus Perizonii notis. 2.v. 8vo. [ed. Perizonii inserted with carat] | |
| [Mo]drn [Histo]ry } |
Blair’s Chronology. fol. |
| Puffendorf’s introdn to the hist. of Europe 1st. v. 8vo. | |
| [Eccles]astl. | Stackhouse’s history of the Bible. 5.v. 8vo. |
| [Agricu]ltre. | Auctores rei rusticate. Cato, Varro etc p. 8vo. |
| [Chemi]stry. | Dobson’s Commentary on fixed air. 8vo. |
| [H]is[t] | Plinii historia Naturalis. Varior. 3.v. 8vo. |
| Goldsmith’s Animated Nature. 4.v. 8vo. | |
| Digges’s Stratioticos. 8vo. | |
| Description of Nairne’s electrical machine. 8vo | |
| Epicteti Manuel Gr. Lat. 4to. | |
| Theophrasti careteres. Gr. Lat. 12mo. Foulis | |
| Boetius de Consolationes. 12mo. Foulis. | |
| Minuciius Felicis Octavius. 12mo. Foulis | |
| Hume’s essays. 1st. vol. 8vo. | |
| [Relig]ion | The Bible 4to. |
| Novum testamentum. Gr. 8vo. Lond. 1728. | |
| do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12mo. Lond. 1743. Bower | |
| do. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 12mo. Lond. 1730. Tonson [ed. entry inserted later?] | |
| Testamentum vetus LXXII. et novum. 3.v. 12mo. Cantab. 1665. | |
| Hammond’s New testament. fol. | |
| Clarke’s Concordance. 12mo | |
| Liturgia Anglicana Gr. 12mo. | |
| do. _ _ _ _ _ _ Lat. 12mo. | |
| Mori opera. 2.v fol. | |
| Puffendorf de officio hominis et civis. Johnson 8vo. | |
| Carey’s reports in Chancery 16s. | |
| Reports in Chancery tempore Finch. fol. | |
| Vernon’s reports. 2.v. fol. | |
| Wythe’s Chancery decisions. fol. & 8vo. | |
| [Commo]n law. | Cragii Jus feudale. fol. |
| Glanvil. 12mo. | |
| Bracton. fol. | |
| Les tenures de Monsr. Littleton. p.f. | |
| Perkins’s treatise on the law of England. p.f. | |
| Coke on Littleton. fol. defective. | |
| Coke’s Institutes. 3.v. fol. | |
| Viner’s abr. F. to Y. inclus. 10.v. fol. | |
| Blackstone’s commentaries. 1st. & 4th. vols. 4to. | |
| Laws of the US. 4.v. 8vo. | |
| Laws of Virgā. various edns. | |
| Brownlow’s entries | |
| Clerk’s guide by Manly. 8vo. | |
| Brown’s Modus intrandi. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Pigott’s conveyancing. fol. | |
| Brydall’s conveyancer. 8vo. | |
| [L]aw of bailments. 8vo. | |
| Trover. 8vo. [ed. entry partially shaved] | |
| Plowden’s reports. French. fol | |
| do. _ _ _ _ _ _ English. fol. | |
| Croke’s rep. 3.v. fol. | |
| Siderfin’s fol. | |
| Shower’s 2.v. fol. | |
| Levinz’s 2.v. fol. | |
| Andrews’ fol. | |
| Cases in L. & Eq. or 10th. Modern. fol. | |
| Report of the case of Kampier & Hawkins in the G.C. of Virga. 8vo. | |
| Washington’s reports. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Call’s reports. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Law Ecclesl. | Nelson’s letters testamentary. 8vo. |
| Politics. | Xenophontis Hiero. sive de regno. 12mo. Foul. [ed. checkmark in pencil precedes entry] |
| Proceedings of the Virginia convention | |
| Mathematics. | Emerson’s Algebra. 8vo. |
| pure. | Simpson’s Algebra. 8vo. |
| Rowlett’s tables. 4to. | |
| Masere’s principles of life annuities. 4to. | |
| Euclid by Simpson. 4to. | |
| Gibson’s surveying. 8vo. | |
| Treatise on gauging. 8vo. | |
| Astronomy | Gadberry’s doctrine of nativities. p. fol. |
| Geography | Guthrie’s geography 2.v. 4to. |
| Pinkerton’s geography. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Sandy’s travels. fol. | |
| Notes on Virginia. 8vo. 2.copies. | |
| Atlas by Arrowsmith & Lewis 4to. | |
| Plans of forts in America 8vo. | |
| Fine arts. | |
| Architecture. | LeRoy’s Ruins of Athens. fol |
| Sculpture | Spence’s Polymetis. fol. |
| Poetry. Epic. | Homeri Ilias et Odyssea. Barnes. 2.v. 4to. |
| Homeri Odysseus. Gr. Oxon. 8vo. | |
| Virgil. 12mo. | |
| [[Works of Virgil|Dryden’s Virgil. 3.v. 12mo. | |
| Milton’s Paradise lost & regained. Baskerville. 2.v. 8[vo] | |
| Ossian. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| Statius. varior. 8vo. | |
| Romance. | Ovidii Metamorphoseon. Delph. 8vo. |
| Constantia Philips. 2d. & 3d. v. 12mo. | |
| Tragedy. | Francklin’s Sophocles. 2.v. in 1. 4to. |
| Aeschylus. Gr. Lat. 2.v. p. 4to. Foul. | |
| Euripidis Medea et Phoenissae. Gr. Lat. Piers. cum scholii | |
| Potter’s Euripides. 2.v. 4to. | |
| Joddrell’s illustrations of Euripides. 8vo. | |
| Shakespear by Johnson & Steevens with the Supplement 12.v. | |
| [ed. possible additional entry at foot] | |
| [Plautus] notis varior. 2.v. 8vo. | |
| [?] | Fawkes’s Theocritus. 8vo. |
| Bion et Moschus. Gr. Lat. notis Heskin. 8vo. | |
| Virgilii Bucolica Rami. 12mo. | |
| Callimachus. Gr. fol. Foul. | |
| Tyrtaeus. Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul. | |
| Anacreon, Sappho, et Alcaeus. Gr. Lat. 12mo. | |
| Anacreon. Gr. Forster. 12mo. | |
| Moore’s Anacreon. p. 8vo. | |
| Tibullus et Propertius. 12mo. Foul. | |
| Vida. 12mo. | |
| Musae Anglicanae. 3.v. 12mo. | |
| Cowley’s works. fol. | |
| Psalterion. Gr. Lat. 12mo. | |
| [Dialo]gue. | Luciani opera. Gr. Lat. Gesneri. sholiis et notis 3.v. 4to. Amst. 1743. |
| [Didac]tic. | Lucretius. Lond. Tonson. 1712. 4to. |
| do. _ _ _ _ Tanaquil Fabri. 12mo. | |
| Hurd’s Horace. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Petronius. notis varior. 8vo. | |
| Swift’s works. 13.v. 12mo. | |
| Praedium Rusticum. | |
| Pursuits of Literature. 8vo. | |
| Hudibras. p.f. | |
| Plinii epistolae. 12mo. | |
| [Orat]ory. | Artis Logicae. Aldrich. 12mo. |
| Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione. Gr. Lat. Foulis. 8vo. | |
| Cambray on eloquence. 12mo. | |
| Demosthenis orationes selectae. Mounteney. 8vo. | |
| Oeuvres de Demosthene & do Eschine par Auger. Fr. 5.v. 8vo. | |
| Discours de Lycurgue, d’Andocide etc par Auger. Fr. 8vo. | |
| Isocrate d’Auger. 3.v. 8vo. | |
| [Critici]sm. | Greek grammar of Gloucester. 8vo. |
| Basilii Fabri thesaurus eruditionis Scholasticae. fol. [ed. entry inserted later?] | |
| Thesaurus linguae Latinae Cowper. fol. | |
| Littleton’s Latin dict. Lat. Eng. 4to. | |
| Ainsworth’s dict. Lat. Eng. abridged. 8vo. | |
| Gradus ad Parnsassum. 12mo. | |
| Ash’s Introduction to Lowthe’s grammar. 12mo. | |
| Walker’s dictionary. 8vo. | |
| Harris’s Philological enquiries. 8vo. | |
| Blackwell’s sacred classics. 2.v. 12mo. | |
| Lowth de Poesi Hebraeorum. 8vo. | |
| Longinus. Gr. Lat. Tollii 4to. | |
| Claesse’s Mohawk liturgy. p. 4to. | |
| [Polygra]phic. | American Encyclopedia. 18.v. 4to. |
| Erasmi Adagiorum epitome. p.f. | |
| Bacon’s advancement of learning. p. fol. Eng. |
References
- ↑ Jeremy Dibbell, "Mr. Wythe's books &c are packed up...," Object of the Month (blog), Massachusetts Historical Society, June 2009, http://www.masshist.org/object-of-the-month/objects/mr-wythes-books-are-packed-up-2009-06-01.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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, 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.
