Thomas Mann Randolph

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Thomas Mann Randolph (1768-1828), the husband of Thomas Jefferson's oldest daughter, Martha, served the Commonwealth as a delegate, senator, governor and congressman.[1] Randolph received thirty-eight titles from Wythe's library.

Wythe Books Given to Eppes 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]

Josephus. by Lestrange. fol.

Clarendon’s history. 3.v. fol.
Temple’s works 2.v. fol.
Guthrie’s history of England & Ralph’s continuation 5.v. fo[l.]
Etats Unis de Mazzei. 4.v. in 3. 8vo.
Marshal’s Life of Washington. 4.v. 8vo.
Hippocratis Aphorismata. p.f.
Plinii Historia Naturalis fol.
Shaftesbury’s Characteristics. 3.v. 12mo.
Platonis opera. Gr. Lat. fol.
Montaigne. Eng. 2.v. 8vo.
Tillotson’s works. 2.v. fol.
Grotius de veritate religionis Christianae. 8vo.
Code de l’humanité. 13.v. 4to. par Felice.
Tucker’s Blackstone 5.v. 8vo.
Hooker’s Ecclesiastical polity. fol.
Machiavel.
Mirabeau, Turgot etc 8vo.
Bolingbroke to Windham 8vo.
     ’s Dissertation on parties. 8vo.
     ’s Oldcastle’s remarks 8vo.
Parliamentary Manual. 12mo.
Debates in the H. of Lords 7.v. 8vo.
   in the H. of Commons. 13.v. 8vo.
Irish Debates. 2.v. 8vo.
Postlethwayt’s Dictionary. 1. of the vols only. fol.
Voyages de la Grece 4.v. 8vo. de Guys
Lettres de Savary sur l’Egypte 3.v. 8vo.
Egypte de Volney. 2.v. 8vo.
Darwin’s Botanic garden. 8vo.
     Zoonomia. 3.v. 8vo.
Spectator. an odd vol.
Connoisseur. an odd vol.
Rabelais. 5.v. 12mo. 2d. wanting
Dictionary of Arts & sciences. 4.v. 8vo.
Bacon’s works. 4.v. fol.
Locke’s works. 3.v. fol.

Milton’s Prose works. 2.v. fol.

References

  1. Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, s.v. "Thomas Mann Randolph," accessed July 3, 2013, http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Thomas_Mann_Randolph.
  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.