The Recorder, also known as the Lady’s and Gentleman’s Miscellany, was printed in Richmond by Henry Pace and James T. Callender. The following issues contain articles about the relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. July 21, 1802 […]
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Will and Codicil of Thomas Jefferson
In the codicil to his will, page 2, Thomas Jefferson freed Burwell, John, Madison and Eston Hemings and Joe Fosset.
Two Extracts from Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book
A List of Slaves: Farm Book Listing Slaves, 1795-1796 Farm Book Listing Slaves, 1820
Deed of Manumission to James Hemings
“This identure made at Monticello in the county of Albemarle, commonwealth of Virginia on the fifth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety six witnesseth that I Thomas Jefferson of Monticello aforesaid do emancipate manumit and make free James Hemings, son of Betty Hemings…”
Isaac Jefferson: Memoirs of a Monticello Slave
The Memoirs of Isaac Jefferson begin, “Life of Isaac Jefferson of Petersburg, Virginia, Blacksmith, containing a full and faithful account of Monticello and the family there, with notices of the many distinguished characters that visited there, with his Revolutionary experience and travels, adventures, observations and opinions, the whole taken down from his own […]
Papers of John Hartwell Cocke
Cocke, a close friend of Jefferson, mentions the Jefferson-Hemings relationship twice in his diaries. 1853 January 26 (in the diary beginning 1852 November 19) John Hartwell Cocke, who helped Thomas Jefferson found the University of Virginia, often complained in his diaries about the practice of slave owners […]
Microfilm Series of the Thomas Jefferson Papers at the U.Va
The University of Virginia Jefferson Papers are heterogeneous in origin if not in nature. The best guide to their original provenance is the annotation or docketing that Jefferson himself placed on each item that he retained for his own files. These endorsements have been filmed and noted where they exist, and they constitute the best […]
Researching the value of your books
For general information on evaluating, selling, and preserving old books, visit Your Old Books. This RBMS brochure is now online and can answer many general questions about how to determine what books are potentially valuable. You can locate antiquarian booksellers and appraisers through the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of American website or under “Book Dealers, Used […]
Selected Music Materials
Published Music Mackay-Smith Collection of European Music, 1650-1910: Presented to U.Va. in 1946, includes complete runs of what at that time constituted the major musicological journals, reference works, bibliographies, printed library catalogs, monographs, and scores. The collection’s greatest strength is in contemporary editions of 18th-century instrumental music, particularly chamber music (trio sonatas). Musical selection corresponds […]
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