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    Jefferson’s Papers
    Unless otherwise noted, all citations to Thomas Jefferson’s letters and other papers are to the online, electronic edition: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson Digital Edition , ed. Barbara B. Oberg and J. Jefferson Looney (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, Rotunda, 2008). This digital edition is available on the website “The Founders Online” through the National Archives at http://founders.archives.gov/ . The text of the digital edition is arranged chronologically, making page-number citations unnecessary. Citations will give the item’s date and volume number. This edition, still in progress, does not yet include all of Jefferson’s papers.
    Jefferson’s orthography has vexed modern editors. My extracts from Jefferson’s writings generally preserve his unorthodox spelling and his preference for lowercase letters at the start of sentences. In some instances I have capitalized words for readability and clarity of meaning.
    Most of Jefferson’s original papers are held at the Library of Congress. Images of these documents, and some transcriptions, are available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/jefferson_papers/ .
    The Massachusetts Historical Society also holds a major collection of Jefferson’s papers. The society has placed online Jefferson’s Farm Book, architectural drawings, and other papers in a searchable edition with images of the original pages: Thomas Jefferson Papers: An Electronic Archive (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2003), http://www.thomasjeffersonpapers.org/ .
    Thomas Jefferson’s Farm Book , ed. Edwin Morris Betts (Charlottesville, Va.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1953), includes a facsimile of the original Farm Book along with several hundred pages of selected papers. Citations to the facsimile are denoted by plate numbers; citations to papers are denoted by page numbers. The original Farm Book is in the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. For unknown reasons at an unknown time by an unknown person, numerous leaves of the original Farm Book were removed, including an extremely important page (p. 25) listing slaves sold or given away by Jefferson. This page and others have surfaced in other collections.
    Other Jefferson papers, as well as many important papers of his extended family, are in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia. It is useful to consult “A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia,” http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00007.xml .
    Citations to “Ford” are to the online publication: The Works of Thomas Jefferson , ed. Paul Leicester Ford, Federal Edition (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904–5); http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1734&Itemid=28 ; http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1734 .
    Thomas Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson , ed. Andrew Adgate Lipscomb and Albert Ellery Bergh (Washington, D.C.: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States, 1903), Google Books. Print source: Thomas Jefferson: Writings , ed. Merrill Peterson (New York: Library of America, 1984).
    All quotations from Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia are taken from the searchable online edition: http://etext.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html . Print source: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia , ed. David Waldstreicher (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002).
    Madison Hemings Memoir
    The only completely reliable source for this text is an image of the original newspaper article “Life Among the Lowly, No. 1,” Pike County (Ohio) Republican , March 13, 1873. A partial image is available at www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/images/vc11.jpg . The transcription in Brodie, Thomas Jefferson , pp.