Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Thomas Jefferson Randolph (1792-1875), oldest son of Martha Jefferson Randolph and Thomas Mann Randolph, and favorite grandson of Thomas Jefferson, served six terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and became a member and eventually Rector of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.[1] Jefferson personally guided his grandson's education and consequentially gave Randolph seventy-two titles from Wythe's library—almost twice as many as any other recipient other than Jefferson himself.
Wythe Books Given to Randolph 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][3]
Page three of Jefferson's inventory of books received from George Wythe's estate, September, 1806. This list indicates which volumes Jefferson intended to give to Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Page four of Jefferson's inventory. Courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society
| Aristophanes Gr. Lat. 6.v. 8vo. |
| do. _ _ _ _ _ Gr. Lat. p.f. |
| Theocritus Gr. Lat. 4to. Foul. |
| Ovid de arte amandi. 12mo. |
| Pindar. 3.v. p.f. Foul. Gr. |
| Poetae minores. 12mo Foul. |
| Addison’s works. 1st. v. 12mo. [ed. entry inserted later?] |
| Musae Anglicanae. 3.v. 12mo. |
| Buchanani Psalmorum libri. 12mo. |
| Excerpta ex Luciani operibus. à Kent. 8vo. |
| Lucretius. 12mo. Foul. |
| Lucretius by Creech. 2.v. 8vo. |
| Horatius Delphini. 8vo. |
| Horatius. Foulis. 12mo. |
| Horace by Francis. 4.v. 12mo. |
| Juvenalis et Persius. Delph. 8vo. |
| Quinctilianus de instutitione Oratoriâ. 4to. |
| Blair’s lectures. 1st. vol. 4to. |
| Isocratis opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo. |
| Lysiae opera omnia. Gr. Lat. 2.v. 8vo. |
| Ciceronis orationes selectae Delph. 8vo. |
| Scapulae Lexicon. fol. |
| Hederici Lexicon. 4to. |
| Portroyal Gr. grammar by Nugent 8vo. |
| Ruddiman’s larger Latin grammar 8vo. |
| Exercises of Syntax. 12mo. |
| Tooke’s Diversions of Purley 8vo. |
| Barrington’s Orosius. Saxon & English. 8vo. |
| Auli Gellii noctes Atticae. p.f. |
See also
- Ann Cary Randolph Bankhead
- Dabney Carr
- Ellen Wayles Randolph Coolidge
- James Dinsmore
- James Ogilvie
- Jefferson Inventory
- John Wayles Eppes
- Last Will and Testament
- Martha Jefferson Randolph
- Thomas Mann Randolph
References
- ↑ Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, s.v. "Thomas Jefferson Randolph," accessed July 8, 2013, http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Thomas_Jefferson_Randolph.
- ↑ "Library of George Wythe," Thomas Jefferson Libraries, Monticello, accessed July 2, 2013. 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.
- ↑ Regarding "Polybius. Gr. Lat. 3.v. 8vo," Thomas Jefferson inherited two Greek and Latin, three-volume sets of Polybius from George Wythe. We do not know precisely which editions Wythe owned. The sources for the George Wythe Collection suggest two different editions that meet the criteria: one published in 1670 in Amsterdam and another published in 1763 in Leipzig. The Wolf Law Library decided to try to purchase both editions since Wythe had two Polybius sets and probably didn't own two copies of the same one. We somewhat arbitrarily assigned the Amsterdam edition to Thomas Jefferson Randolph since Jefferson may have preferred that edition (based on his purchase of it for the University of Virginia library) and may have given his preferred edition to his favorite grandchild over his nephew. We, therefore, assigned the Leipzig edition to John Wayles Eppes. These assignments could be completely incorrect.