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Labigarre. See Delabigarre, Peter

Labouchere, Peter Caesar, 2:9, 2:245, 3:54, 3:105–106

La Brousse, M. de

  • Traité de la Culture du Figuier, suivi d'observations & d'expériences sur la meilleure maniere de cultiver, 2:82, 2:83n

Lacépède, Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-Sur-Illon, comte de

  • analyzes bones for Institut de France, 1:101n, 1:250n
  • Histoire naturelle de l'homme, 1:250n
  • identified, 1:250n
  • letter from, 1:248–250
  • mentioned, 3:221n
  • sends greetings to TJ, 1:629
  • TJ forwards letter from, to Turreau, 1:249, 1:417

Laclotte, Jean Hyacinthe, 2:445n

Lacroix, Irenée Amelot De, Baron de Vanden Boègard

  • identified, 4:375–376n
  • letter from accounted for, 4:376n
  • letter to, 4:375–376
  • seeks military appointment, 4:375–376, 4:376

Lacroix, Sylvestre François

  • Complément des élémens d'algèbre, 4:79, 4:80n
  • Cours de Mathematiques à l'usage de l'École Centrale des Quatres-Nations, 4:72, 4:79
  • Traité élémentaire de trigonométrie rectiligne et sphérique et d'application de l'algèbre à la géométrie, 4:79, 4:80n
  • works on calculus, 4:370

Lacy, Stephen H.

  • and Piernet's estate, 3:466, 3:467, 3:472n, 3:652, 4:42, 4:43n, 4:81–82, 4:166n

Ladd, Thomas

  • and Gilliam v. Fleming, 1:304, 1:305, 1:306–307, 1:329–330, 1:331, 1:362–363, 1:364–365, 1:591, 1:608, 2:123, 2:368, 2:396–397, 2:403, 2:407, 2:425, 2:447, 2:448, 2:464–466, 2:674–675, 3:44–45, 3:45, 3:84, 3:85–86
  • identified, 1:307n
  • letter from accounted for, 3:45n
  • letters from, 1:329–330, 2:674–675
  • letters to, 1:306–307, 2:464–465, 3:45

Ladvocat, Jean Baptiste

  • Dictionnaire Historique et Bibliographique Portatif, 1:580

lady-slipper (Cypripedium), 1:436–437n

Laet, Joannes de

  • Nieuwe wereldt, ofte Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien, 2:503n, 2:511

Lafayette, Adrienne de Noailles, marquise de (Lafayette's wife)

  • dowry of, 2:10, 2:12, 2:13
  • mentioned, 2:16

Lafayette, Emilie Destutt de Tracy (Lafayette's daughter-in-law), 2:17

Lafayette, George Washington (Lafayette's son)

  • inheritance of, 2:14
  • marriage and marriage contract of, 2:16, 2:17
  • mentioned, 3:447
  • sends greetings to TJ, 3:106, 4:359

Lafayette, Gilbert Motier de (1380-1462), 2:12–13

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de

  • and American Revolution, 2:10–11, 3:314, 3:315n, 4:434
  • attempts to emancipate African slaves, 2:11
  • and Bureaux de Pusy family, 4:155
  • and chestnuts, 4:322
  • and Coles, 1:269–270, 1:528
  • description of his finances, 2:10–26, 3:213, 3:214n, 3:446, 3:447n
  • and Destutt de Tracy, 1:270
  • and Destutt de Tracy's commentary on Montesquieu, 4:54, 4:202, 4:446
  • family of, 1:629
  • financial situation of, 1:376, 1:628, 2:8–9, 2:10–18, 2:243–245, 2:287–288, 2:310, 2:418, 3:54–55, 3:212, 3:213, 3:445–446
  • identified, 1:270–271n
  • introduces Corrêa da Serra, 4:359
  • La. land of, 1:270n, 1:529, 1:628, 2:8, 2:9, 2:15, 2:16, 2:17–18, 2:33–34, 2:72–73, 2:243, 2:244, 2:245, 2:418, 3:54, 3:105–106, 3:212–213, 3:248, 3:314, 3:445, 4:29–31, 4:359, 4:649–650
  • on Latin American revolutions, 4:359
  • and Lefevre, 2:74, 2:75n
  • letter from mentioned, 2:512
  • letters from, 1:269–271, 1:528–530, 1:627–629, 2:7–9, 2:242–246, 2:287–288, 2:310, 3:54–55, 3:105–106, 3:211–214, 3:444–447, 4:155, 4:358–359, 4:649–650
  • letters to, 3:313–315, 4:29–31, 4:36
  • letter to mentioned, 4:33
  • mentioned, 3:114, 3:512, 3:538
  • and merino sheep, 2:39
  • on neutral powers, 2:242
  • plans to write TJ, 4:325
  • recommends Lormerie to TJ, 1:342
  • sends dogs, 1:376, 1:457
  • sends greetings to TJ, 3:198
  • sends merino sheep, 1:529, 1:537–538, 1:629
  • and Tessé, 1:528, 1:593–594, 1:627
  • TJ on, 3:504
  • TJ sends greetings to, 3:443, 3:444n
  • travels of, 2:11, 2:13, 2:16

Lafon, Bartholemew

  • "Plan of the City and Environs of New Orleans," 2:525, 3:486, 3:488n

La Forest. See Mathurin, Antoine René Charles, comte de La Forest

La Grange et de Fourilles, Adélaïde Blaise François Le Lièvre, marquis de, 1:372

La Grange (Lafayette's French estate), 1:270n, 1:529, 2:15, 2:17

Lake Erie

  • proposed canal to, 3:459, 3:597–598, 4:160, 4:161n
  • survey on, 3:437

Lake Ontario, 3:459

Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de

  • Astronomie, 4:244
  • and Lambert's calculations, 4:253, 4:260

Lallemand, François Antoine, baron, 1:372

La Marck, Marie Françoise Augustine Ursule Le Danois de Cernay, comtesse de, 2:10

Lambarde, William

  • Eirenarcha: or Of the office of the Iustices of peace, 3:547

Lambert, John

  • letter to, 4:164
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n

Lambert, William

  • astronomical calculations, 2:54, 2:55n, 4:634–637
  • calculates longitude of U.S. Capitol, 4:275–276, 4:651–660
  • calculates Monticello's longitude, 4:235–236, 4:239n, 4:246, 4:247–266, 4:276, 4:368, 4:369, 4:402–406, 4:407–408
  • clerk of the House of Representatives, 1:275, 1:359n, 1:512
  • congratulates TJ, 1:54–55, 1:237–238
  • To the Critical Reviewers of Boston, 3:285
  • and domestic manufactures, 1:560–562
  • on House of Representatives, 1:274–275, 1:534–535
  • identified, 1:54–55n
  • and latitude calculations, 3:367n
  • letter from accounted for, 2:68n
  • letters from, 1:54–55, 1:274–276, 1:356–359, 1:489–498, 1:534–535, 1:539–540, 1:560–562, 2:54–55, 2:60–68, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:566, 3:285, 4:235–236, 4:275–276, 4:402–406, 4:407–408, 4:634–637, 4:651–660
  • letters to, 1:237–238, 1:511–512, 2:541, 4:368–369
  • letter to accounted for, 2:54n
  • lunar calculations, 1:539–554, 2:54, 2:60–68
  • ode for Fourth of July by, 2:399, 2:400–401
  • and prime meridian, 1:275–276, 1:356–359;1:489–498, 1:511–512, 1:534–535, 2:54, 2:55n, 2:337–338, 2:398–399, 2:541, 2:566, 3:285, 3:367n
  • Table for Computing the Moon's Motion, with Explanations, 1:540–554, 1:571–572, 1:608–609

Lamétherie, Jean Claude de, 2:551, 2:552n

lamps

  • at Bell Rock lighthouse, 4:363

lamps, alabaster

  • brass chain for, 1:190, 1:309

Lancaster, Joseph

  • Improvements in Education, 1:662

Lance, William

  • identified, 4:106n
  • letter from, 4:105–107
  • letter to accounted for, 4:107n
  • and Seventy-Six Association, 4:105, 4:106n

land conveyances. See indentures

Lane's Ordinary (Fairfax Co.), 1:52n

Langdon, John

  • elected governor, 2:348
  • identified, 2:231–232n
  • letter from, 2:230–232
  • letter to, 2:274–277
  • and political situation, 2:230–231, 2:274–277
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624

Langhorne, John, trans.

  • Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langhorne, William, trans.

  • Lives (Plutarch), 1:580

Langland, William

  • The Vision of Pierce Plowman, 1:390, 1:397n

Langley, Batty

  • Pomona: or, The Fruit-Garden Illustrated, 2:82

language. See also Sanskrit language

  • books on French, 2:27n
  • books on Spanish, 2:32n
  • Chinese, 1:518
  • French language
  • French training of T. J. Randolph, 1:520, 1:557
  • German language
  • Indian, 1:205, 1:269, 1:520–521, 1:555–557, 1:599n, 1:651–652, 3:596–597, 3:616
  • Italian language
  • Latin
  • A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (Dufief), 4:71, 4:79
  • A New Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages (Dufief), 3:97–98, 3:137, 3:393
  • and phonics, 2:306–307, 2:308n
  • Russian, 1:556
  • sign, 1:662
  • Spanish language
  • TJ on study of, 4:162–163
  • translations by TJ, 3:11–14, 3:21–23, 3:652–653
  • translations by Warden, 1:142–152

Lania (TJ's slave; b. 1805)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

Lannes, Jean, Duc de Montebello, 1:371, 1:372

lanterns, 1:303

La Pérouse, Jean François de Galalup, comte de

  • Voyage de La Pérouse autour du Monde, 1:445–449

La Peyrouse (Kotzebue), 4:269, 4:274n

Lapie, Pierre

  • Carte réduite de la Mer Méditerranée et de la mer Noire (Zannoni and Lapie), 1:247–248

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de

  • Americans correspond with, 4:196
  • error of detected, 4:634
  • Exposition du Systême du Monde, 1:348, 1:349n, 1:357, 1:491
  • Wood's book sent to, 2:171

Laportea canadensis. See Urtica Whitlowi (wood nettle)

La Rivière. See Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

La Roche, Martin Lefèbvre de (abbé), 3:9, 3:17, 3:87, 3:89n, 3:330

La Rochefoucauld, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, Duchesse de. See Castellane, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, marquise de

La Romana, José Caro, marquês, 2:247, 2:248n

La Rouërie, Armand Charles Tuffin, marquis de, 2:74

Lasalle, Philippe de, 2:591

Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, comte de (A. Le Sage)

  • Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique et Géographique, 3:552, 3:578
  • Genealogical, chronological, historical, and geographical atlas, 4:325, 4:326n

Lasteyrie, Louis, marquis de (Lafayette's son-in-law), 2:17

Lasteyrie, Virginie, marquise de (Lafayette's daughter)

  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

Lasteyrie Dusaillant, Charles Philibert, comte De

  • agricultural report of, 2:83
  • Du Cotonnier et de sa Culture, 1:37, 2:83
  • identified, 3:115n
  • letters from, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
  • Du Pastel, de l'indigotier, 3:461–462
  • sends books on arts and sciences, 3:114–115, 3:461–462
  • sends greetings to TJ, 1:141
  • Traité sur les Bêtes-à-Laine d'Espagne, 2:83
  • A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, History and Analysis of Pastel, or Woad (trans. Dearborn), 3:462n

Latin

  • of Buchanan, 2:215
  • document in, from
    • Tucker, 1:617–619
  • education in, 3:327, 3:372, 3:501, 4:131, 4:372, 4:648

Latin America

  • revolutions in, 4:359
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506, 4:508n

Latin and English Dictionary abridged (Ainsworth), 1:35

latitude

  • calculations for Poplar Forest, 3:361–367

Latour, Arsène Lacarrière, 3:478n

La Tour-Maubourg, Anastasie, comtesse de (Lafayette's daughter)

  • inheritance of, 2:17
  • marriage contract with, 2:16
  • sends greetings to TJ, 4:359

La Tour-Maubourg, Charles, comte de (Lafayette's son-in-law), 2:17

La Trémoïlle, Marie Geneviève de Durfort, duchesse de, 2:10, 2:15

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

  • Anniversary Oration, 3:624, 3:625n
  • and carving for TJ, 4:66, 4:459
  • designs houses in Philadelphia, 4:63
  • drawings by, 2:39, 2:40n, 2:106, 3:535–536, 3:537n, 3:581–582, 3:590–591
  • to find work for Dougherty, 1:199
  • furnishes President's House, 1:43n
  • identified, 1:474–475n
  • letters from, 1:473–475, 3:534–538, 3:624–625, 4:63–67
  • letters to, 1:595–596, 3:555–557, 4:459
  • and model of corncob capitals, 1:473, 1:475n, 1:595
  • oversees work at Washington Navy Yard, 4:63
  • and payment for Italian sculptors, 1:78n, 1:113, 1:114n
  • A Private Letter to the Individual Members of Congress, 3:537
  • proposed visit to Monticello, 1:366, 1:474, 1:595–596
  • and window glass for TJ, 2:80, 2:188, 2:346, 2:362
  • works on Capitol, 1:65, 1:92, 1:474n, 3:534–537, 3:555–556, 4:64–66, 4:67n

Latrobe, Henry, 1:65n

Lauffeld, Battle of

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

Laurent, Simon, 3:235, 3:237n, 3:484

La Vauguyon, Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, duc de

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

law.

  • agrarian, 4:168
  • books on, 1:158, 1:416, 2:103, 2:104n, 2:288, 2:420, 2:521, 2:676, 2:677, 3:173–176n, 3:236–237n, 3:546–547
  • civil, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:526, 2:527, 2:678, 2:679, 3:31, 4:477
  • common, 1:381, 2:357, 2:521, 2:522, 2:527, 2:532, 3:117, 3:144, 3:165, 4:293, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:300–301
  • criminal, 1:382, 1:384n
  • Du Pont de Nemours on, 4:330–331
  • feudal, 3:174–175n
  • French, 2:676, 2:678, 3:47–48, 3:71, 3:73n, 3:130–132, 3:159–160, 3:203, 3:226–227, 3:236–237n, 4:477, 4:643n
  • of Great Britain, 1:382, 1:424, 4:293, 4:294, 4:296–297n, 4:297–298, 4:299–300, 4:302n
  • Jewish, 3:124, 3:165
  • and judicial review, 1:380
  • martial, 1:571, 3:120–121
  • natural, 3:138–139, 3:142, 3:144
  • Roman, 2:676, 3:47–48, 3:130–131, 3:132, 3:151n, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:236n, 3:237n, 3:546, 4:502, 4:643n
  • Spanish, 2:471, 2:678, 3:52–53, 3:71, 3:160–161, 3:175n, 4:477, 4:643n
  • study of, 3:276
  • TJ on study of, 4:162
  • TJ provides training in, 1:245, 1:389, 1:416, 2:28, 2:51, 2:77n, 2:259, 2:420
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:503
  • Virginia (See Virginia: laws of)
  • and the West, 3:423–424

Law, Edward, 1st Earl of Ellenborough, 3:261–262

  • on Fox, 4:234

Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis (Thomas Law's wife), 3:209n

Law, Jonathan

  • identified, 1:95n
  • letter from, 1:95
  • letter to, 1:126–127
  • and meeting of Conn. Republicans, 1:95, 1:126–127

Law, Thomas

  • on Anglo-American relations, 4:234
  • and Federalist criticism of TJ, 3:260–263, 4:234
  • identified, 3:209n
  • letters from, 3:209, 3:261, 3:552, 4:234–235
  • letters to, 3:298–299, 3:578–579
  • letter to Wagner, 3:261–262
  • sends prospectus to TJ, 3:552, 3:578–579
  • taxation policy of, 4:234, 4:235n
  • Thoughts on Instinctive Impulses, 3:209, 3:261, 3:298, 3:578, 3:579n

Lawfeld. See Lauffeld, Battle of

Law of Nations. See Le Droit des Gens, ou, Principes de la loi naturelle, appliqué à la conduite & aux affaires des nations & des souverains (Vattel)

The Laws of Las Siete Partidas (Carleton and Moreau Lislet), 3:53n, 3:160–161, 3:168

Laws of Orleans. See A Digest of the Civil Laws Now in Force in the Territory of Orleans (Kerr and Moreau Lislet)

The laws of the United States of America (Swift), 2:521

Lawson, Sarah

  • boardinghouse of, 3:552

Lawur, Peter

  • letter from accounted for, 1:677

Lazaria (Maria) (TJ's slave; b. 1797)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:388

lead

  • manufacture of, 2:376
  • white, 1:55n, 1:77

Leake, Walter, 2:211

Leander (British warship), 1:228n

Leavenworth, Mark, 3:542, 3:543n

le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

  • La Fête du Petit Blé; ou, L'Heroisme du Poucha-Houmma, 1:202, 1:203n, 1:509

LeBourdais, Mr., 1:557

Le Bourgeois, Mr., 2:244

Le Breton D'orgenoy, Francis Joseph. See D'orgenoy, Francis Joseph Le Breton

Leçons d'Histoire (Volney), 1:580

Le Coulteux, Mr., 2:13

A Lecture, introductory to a Course of Lectures on the Cause, Seat and Cure of Diseases (Crawford), 4:336, 4:338n, 4:394

Lectures on Mechanics (Helsham), 1:581

Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy (Adams), 1:581

Lectures on Political Principles (Williams), 3:38, 3:40n, 3:87, 3:189, 3:334

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Blair), 1:576

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory (J. Q. Adams), 4:390, 4:391n, 4:428, 4:430n, 4:435, 4:473, 4:483

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, and Optics, 1:581

Ledyard, John

  • letters from, 2:419, 2:423–424
  • seeks assistance from TJ, 2:419, 2:423–424

Lee, Arthur

  • and cession of Northwest Territory, 4:567

Lee, Edmund Jennings, 1:516

Lee, Henry (1756-1818)

  • as defense witness, 1:277, 1:278–279n
  • medal voted for, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:125–126, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Henry (1787-1837)

  • and father's medal, 2:104–105, 2:106n, 2:224, 2:253

Lee, Rachel Fanny Antonina

  • An Essay on Government, 1:123–124, 3:116, 3:117n

Lee, Richard Bland, 2:170n

Lee, Richard Henry

  • and Clark's 1779 expedition, 4:378
  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602
  • oratorial skills of, 2:156
  • and P. Henry, 4:378, 4:604

Lee, Thomas Ludwell

  • and revision of Va. laws, 1:381–382, 3:570

Lee, Tom (Shackelford estate's slave), 3:36, 3:37n, 3:529

Lee, William

  • assists Ronaldson in Paris, 2:163
  • consul at Bordeaux, 1:118, 1:121n, 3:166, 3:178, 3:442, 3:599, 4:189, 4:529, 4:530n
  • forwards letters to TJ, 2:672
  • identified, 2:672n
  • letter from, 2:672

Lee, William Raymond

  • forwards items to TJ, 4:4, 4:215, 4:220
  • identified, 4:220n
  • letter to, 4:220

Leeds, Francis Godolphin Osborne, 5th Duke of, 1:516, 1:517n

Leesburg, Va

  • Republican mechanics of, address TJ, 1:89–90

Lefevre, Jean Baptiste

  • land warrant issued to, 2:74, 2:75n, 2:94

Leforest, A., 2:154

leg

  • broken, 2:289

Legaux, Pierre

  • and Alexander grape, 4:524, 4:525n

Le Gendre, Louis, 3:235, 3:237n

Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ (Bracton), 1:383, 3:547

Lego (TJ's estate)

  • acreage of, 4:387
  • lease dispute with Alexander, 1:488n, 2:85–86, 2:150–151, 2:199, 2:200, 2:212–213, 2:239–240, 2:277–281, 2:282, 2:286–287, 2:294
  • and McClure's weaving establishment, 4:143
  • overseers at, 1:137–138n, 3:180, 3:181n, 3:196, 3:642, 4:101
  • rent at, 3:522
  • slaves at, 3:37, 3:180–181, 3:196
  • surveys of, 2:107–108, 2:109n, 3:570–573
  • tobacco grown at, 2:86, 2:200, 2:239, 2:240
  • wheat grown at, 2:239, 2:240, 3:191

Leib, Michael

  • and Gallatin, 1:598, 1:599n
  • identified, 4:174n
  • letter from, 4:173–175
  • letter to, 4:164
  • and Macaulay, 2:304
  • supports Duane, 4:174
  • as U.S. senator, 4:163, 4:164n, 4:173

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:506n

Leiper, Thomas

  • and Duane, 3:450–451, 3:452n, 3:506, 3:507, 3:585
  • purchases TJ's tobacco, 4:593

Leitch, James. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

  • accepts draft, 2:234n
  • account with TJ, 1:64, 1:65n
  • agent for TJ, 3:83, 4:77
  • asks TJ for nails, 2:77
  • and gunpowder sales, 3:583
  • identified, 1:65n
  • letters from, 1:64–65, 1:458, 2:40, 2:77
  • letters to, 4:182, 4:358, 4:477, 4:496, 4:647, 4:686–7
  • letter to, 1:302–303
  • requests payment from TJ, 2:40, 2:52–53, 2:77, 2:80
  • and timothy seed, 4:156, 4:194
  • TJ orders clothes from, 4:496
  • TJ orders goods from, 1:302–303
  • TJ orders household goods from, 4:182, 4:209, 4:210, 4:211, 4:358, 4:477, 4:647, 4:686
  • trades nails for goods, 1:64, 1:303, 1:458
  • vouches for Norris, 3:465

Leitch, Samuel. See also Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

  • identified, 3:242n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Leitch, Samuel & James (Charlottesville firm)

  • agent for TJ, 3:200
  • letter from, 3:242
  • letter from accounted for, 4:400n
  • letter to, 4:400
  • and nails, 3:242
  • TJ's account with, 4:400

Lemaire, Etienne

  • identified, 1:56n
  • and kitchen inventory of President's House, 1:43n, 1:155, 1:156n
  • letters from, 1:59–60, 1:71–72, 1:188–189, 1:222
  • letters to, 1:55–56, 1:161–162
  • maître d'hôtel, 1:42
  • offers to run errands in Philadelphia, 1:59–60, 1:71
  • paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:294
  • sends oil and syrup to TJ, 1:161, 1:188–189, 1:222, 1:245, 1:257
  • TJ praises, 1:55–56, 1:71

Le Maire, Jacques, 1:450

Lemaire, Santiago, 3:478n

Le Mercier de La Rivière, Paul Pierre

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Lenox, Peter, 1:41

Lenthall, John, 1:65n, 1:92

"Leolin." See Austin, James Trecothick

León y Gama, Antonio de

  • Descripción histórica y cronológica de los piedras, 1:521, 1:556

Leopard, HMS

  • and Chesapeake incident, 2:261n

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Lerasle

  • Encyclopédie Méthodique: Jurisprudence, 3:130, 3:174n, 3:175n, 3:546

Le Ray de Chaumont, Jacques Donatien, 2:13, 3:446

Leroy, Louis

  • Les politiqves d'Aristote, 3:547

Le Sage, A. See Las Cases, Emmanuel Auguste Dieudonné Marin Joseph, Comte de (A. Le Sage)

Le Sage, Alain René

  • Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, 4:163n

Lescallier, Daniel

  • identified, 1:184n
  • letter from, 1:184
  • sends book to TJ, 1:184
  • Vocabulaire des Termes de Marine Anglais et Français, 1:36, 1:184n

Leslie, Charles

  • A Short and Easie Method with Deists, 3:590

Lesslie, John

  • and TJ's flour, 4:12, 4:58

Le Tellier, François Michel, marquis de Louvois

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502

Le Tellier, John

  • identified, 2:316n
  • and Jefferson Cups, 2:xlii, 2:315–316, 2:474, 3:83, 3:154, 3:168, 3:177
  • letter from, 2:474
  • letter to, 2:315–316

A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government (Walsh), 3:190n, 3:199, 3:200n

letter press, 3:xlvii, 3:358 (illus.)

Letters of Abbe Salemankis to a Friend in Ireland ("Salemankis"), 2:263, 2:296

The Letters of the British Spy (Wirt), 4:471, 4:472n, 4:560

Letters on Political Liberty (Williams), 3:189, 3:190n, 3:207

Letters on The Subject of The Catholics (Smith), 2:161

Letters to Friends (Cicero), 1:386

Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighbourhood (Priestley), 1:119, 1:121–122n

A Letter to Harrison G. Otis, Esquire (J. Q. Adams), 4:435n

Letter to Henri Gregoire (Barlow), 1:588, 1:590n

A Letter to the Honorable John Randolph ("Numa"), 2:264, 2:290

Lettres sur la Vieillesse (Meister), 3:137, 3:393

lettuce

  • impact of drought on, 4:38
  • seeds, 4:527

Leunclavius, Johannes

  • Ivris Græco-romani tam canonici qvam civilis, 3:546

Lewis, Capt.

  • master of schooner Liberty, 1:307, 2:349

Lewis, Ann Marks (TJ's niece)

  • financial situation of, 3:90–91
  • identified, 3:91n
  • letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Charles, Jr. (TJ's uncle), 1:168n

Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ's brother-in-law)

  • family of, 1:167, 1:168n, 1:415n
  • financial situation of, 3:90, 3:91, 3:242–243
  • identified, 3:92–93n
  • on Kentucky life, 3:92
  • letter from, 3:91–93

Lewis, David J.

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Lewis, Henry, 1:27

Lewis, Howell

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, Isham (TJ's nephew)

  • identified, 1:168n
  • letter from, 1:167–168
  • letters of introduction for from TJ, 1:215, 1:216
  • letter to, 1:181–182
  • and murder of slave, 1:168n
  • seeks TJ's assistance, 1:167–168
  • TJ offers to teach surveying to, 1:181–182

Lewis, James

  • account of, 4:9
  • and Henderson lands, 1:440, 1:454, 1:459
  • tends to ill slave, 3:283, 3:368, 3:529

Lewis, Jesse

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lewis, John

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349

Lewis, Joshua, 2:443n

Lewis, Lillburne (TJ's nephew)

  • family of, 3:90
  • and murder of slave, 1:168n

Lewis, Lucy B. (TJ's niece)

  • financial situation of, 3:90–91
  • identified, 3:91n
  • letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Lucy Jefferson (TJ's sister; Charles Lewis's wife)

  • death of, 3:92n
  • family of, 1:168n, 1:415n, 3:90–91

Lewis, Lucy Meriwether, 2:120, 2:241, 2:340

Lewis, Martha C. (TJ's niece)

  • financial situation of, 3:90–91
  • identified, 3:91n
  • letter from, 3:90–91

Lewis, Martha Woodson (Robert Lewis's wife), 3:179

Lewis, Mary Walker (Nicholas Lewis's wife)

  • identified, 2:291–292n
  • letter from, 2:291–292
  • letter to, 4:38
  • letter to accounted for, 2:38n
  • seeks appointment for Wood, 4:186–187
  • sells victuals to TJ, 2:37–38, 2:291, 2:292n, 4:210
  • TJ sends figs to, 4:38

Lewis, Meriwether

  • and artifact collection of Clark, 1:510
  • death of, 1:436n, 1:602–603, 1:606–608, 1:632, 1:668, 2:30, 2:35, 2:42, 2:44, 2:120, 2:121, 2:191–192, 2:208
  • executor of, 2:123, 2:336, 2:567, 3:110, 3:166
  • identified, 1:436n
  • and Indian dialects, 1:520, 1:556
  • land warrant granted to, 2:121, 2:122n
  • letter to, 1:435–437
  • Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140
  • and Neelly, 2:30–31, 2:34, 2:73n, 2:121, 2:191–192
  • papers of, 2:31, 2:34, 2:35n, 2:72, 2:121, 2:122, 2:123, 2:127, 2:140, 3:181–182
  • Pernier's claim against estate of, 2:34, 2:192, 2:208–209, 2:364n, 2:672, 2:673n, 3:49, 3:110
  • personal belongings of, 2:34, 2:121, 2:123, 2:191, 2:192, 2:208, 2:241, 2:340
  • plants discovered by, 2:90–91, 2:140, 4:524
  • prepares for expedition, 1:101n, 1:194n
  • and publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:668–669, 3:33, 3:150, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 4:147
  • seeds brought by, 1:192, 3:150, 3:166
  • and stone block for TJ, 4:66
  • TJ introduces Bradbury to, 1:435–436
  • TJ on, 2:336, 2:340
  • TJ's claim against estate of, 2:294
  • TJ sends greetings to, 1:511
  • will of, 2:123–124, 2:140

Lewis, Nicholas

  • family of, 4:186
  • land of bought, 3:622

Lewis, Nicholas Meriwether

  • seeks appointment for Wood, 4:187
  • TJ receives land from, 4:386

Lewis, Randolph (TJ's nephew)

  • family of, 3:90
  • moves to Ky., 1:168n

Lewis, Robert, 3:179, 3:211

Lewis, William

  • and batture controversy, 2:444–445n, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:658, 3:235, 3:271, 3:483

Lewis, William W.

  • and merino sheep, 2:233, 2:360, 2:361, 2:453, 2:454, 2:481, 2:496n

Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • and chronometer, 3:83n
  • history of, 2:332, 3:166–167, 3:181–182, 3:309, 3:582, 3:649–650
  • journals of, 1:603, 1:607, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30, 2:31, 2:34, 2:72, 2:123, 2:140, 3:181–182
  • land warrants awarded in consequence of, 2:120, 2:121n
  • plants discovered during, 2:90–91, 2:140, 3:150, 3:166
  • publication of journals, 1:249, 1:412n, 1:436, 1:443, 1:630n, 1:668–669, 2:30–31, 2:72, 2:140, 4:568
  • route of, 4:550–551
  • seeds from, 1:192n, 3:150, 3:166
  • stone block for TJ, 4:66
  • and stone block for TJ, 1:473, 1:475n

Lewis (E. Randolph's slave), 4:231n

Lewis (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1760)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:386

Lewis (TJ's slave; b. 1788)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387

Lexicon Ivridicvm Ivris Cæsarei simvl, et canonici, fevdalis item, civilis, criminalis, theoretici, ac practici (Calvinus), 3:546

Lexington, Va.

  • Ann Smith Academy, 1:367, 1:368, 1:506, 1:507n, 3:155, 3:201
  • mail service to, 3:56, 3:104
  • Washington Academy, 1:367, 1:368n

libel

  • Duane sued for, 4:174–175
  • proposed punishment for, 4:122
  • prosecutions during TJ's presidency, 1:276–278, 1:349–350

Liberty Hall Academy. See Washington Academy (later Washington and Lee University)

Liberty (ship), 1:307, 2:349

Liblong, Col. See le Blanc (Siblong) de Villeneufve, Paul Louis

libraries

  • congressional, 2:81–83
  • formed by Demaree in Ky., 1:455–457
  • TJ on, 1:205–206
  • TJ on congressional, 1:592
  • TJ's personal, 1:35–38, 1:390, 1:400n
  • Westwardmill Library Society, 1:66–67, 1:205–206, 1:508

Liebault, Jean

  • Maison Rustique, or the Countrie Farme, 2:82, 4:139, 4:142n

Lieper, Thomas. See Leiper, Thomas

Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth (Roscoe), 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435

The Life of Catharine II, Empress of all the Russias (Tooke), 1:580

Life of George Washington (Marshall)

  • TJ on, 1:589, 1:590n, 3:564, 3:565n

The Life of George Washington (Ramsay), 1:35

Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, called the Magnificent (Roscoe), 1:164n, 1:435

Ligon, James

  • clerk for Gibson & Jefferson, 4:13n, 4:58n, 4:234n, 4:467, 4:530
  • witnesses document, 4:278n

lilac, 1:61, 3:354

Lilburn (TJ's slave; b. 1809). See Hern, Lilburn (TJ's slave)

lilies

  • Allegheny, 1:660, 2:36
  • Canada, 2:103, 2:104n
  • TJ requests of McMahon, 3:545
  • Turk's-cap, 4:523

Lilium canadense (Canada lily), 2:103, 2:104n

Lilium superbum (Allegheny lily; Turk's-cap lily), 1:660, 2:36, 4:523

Lille Belt, HMS

  • encounter with USS President, 3:638, 3:639n

Lilly, Gabriel, 2:279, 2:281n

  • Monticello overseer, 4:543

Lilly (TJ's slave; b. 1791). See Hern, Lilly (TJ's slave)

lima beans, 1:631, 1:657, 3:502

lime (Citrus aurantifolia), 1:631–632

lime (mineral), 2:150, 2:201

limestone survey (Albemarle Co.), 3:432–433, 3:458

Lincoln, Daniel Waldo

  • An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1810, before the "Bunker-Hill Association," 2:504, 2:505n, 2:666

Lincoln, Levi

  • family of, 2:666
  • identified, 1:49–50n
  • letters to, 1:49–50, 4:100
  • and Madison, 3:245, 3:246n
  • paid by TJ, 1:41, 1:49
  • as potential Supreme Court justice, 3:118, 3:124, 3:126, 3:151, 3:165, 3:178, 3:182, 4:100
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:625
  • and Yazoo land scheme, 3:127, 3:129n

Lind, James

  • An Essay on diseases incidental to Europeans, 3:38, 3:40n

Lindsay, Mr., 2:40

Lindsay, George G.

  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Lindsay, Reuben

  • en route to Montpellier, 1:562–563
  • friend of TJ, 4:671
  • on McGehee, 3:35–36
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254, 4:346–349
  • and Short's land, 4:60

Lindsey's Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 1:359n

linen, 3:202, 3:280n, 3:309, 4:27, 4:102, 4:138, 4:231n

Lingan, James McCubbin, 1:75

linguistics. see philology

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné)

  • A general system of nature, through the three grand kingdoms of animals, vegetables, and minerals (trans. Turton), 1:581
  • and Indian hemp, 4:667
  • and mineralogy, 2:489, 2:490n
  • Systema Naturæ, 4:536

Linnean Society of London, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521n

Linnean Society of Philadelphia, 1:663, 2:70

linseed oil, 1:55n, 1:77, 1:97

Linum perenne. See flax (Linum perenne)

lion's foot (Prenanthes serpentaria)

  • as snakebite remedy, 1:58n

Liriodendron tulipfera (tulip poplar; tulip tree), 3:353

Lisbon. See also Jefferson, George (TJ's cousin): and consulship at Lisbon

  • earthquake in, 4:189, 4:190n
  • and Gibson, 3:435–436, 3:441–442, 3:443
  • sheep shipped from, 2:431, 2:481
  • U.S. consulship at, 1:114, 3:441–442, 3:523–524, 3:541–542, 4:185, 4:212, 4:219

Lislet, Louis Moreau. See Moreau Lislet, Louis

List of Post Offices in the United States, 1:514

De La Littérature des Nègres (Grégoire), 1:36, 1:588, 1:590n

Little Bear (Chippewa chief), 2:58n

Little Belt. See Lille Belt, HMS

Littlebury, trans.

  • Herodotus, 1:580

Little Dick (TJ's slave; b. 1781). See Dick (TJ's slave; b. 1781)

Littlejohn, John

  • chairs committee of Republican mechanics, 1:90n

The Little Medly: containing short remarks on the . . . New Testament (Brunt), 1:403

Littlepage, Mr., 2:397, 2:433

Littleton, Thomas

  • Anciennes loix des François, 3:130–131, 3:175n, 3:546

Livandais, Mr. See Livandais, Jacques M.

Livandais, Jacques M., 3:484

Lively, Charles

  • petition to General Assembly, 4:346–349
  • rents Indian Camp, 1:234, 1:235n
  • rents land from Short, 4:197

Liverpool, Robert Jenkinson, 2d Earl of

  • as British foreign secretary, 4:587, 4:671
  • and J. Henry's mission, 4:541, 4:628
  • parliamentary comments of, 4:539

Liverpool Botanic Garden, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:435, 4:146

Lives (Plutarch; trans. W. & J. Langhorne), 1:580

livestock. See also cattle; horses

  • draught animals, 3:170, 3:348, 3:349, 3:371n
  • for Monticello, 1:81n
  • oxen, 4:373, 4:526
  • pigs, 4:109, 4:110n, 4:381, 4:382
  • at Poplar Forest, 4:306, 4:373, 4:381, 4:526

Livingston, Brockholst, 1:195n

Livingston, Edward. See also Livingston v. D'orgenoy; Livingston v. Jefferson; The Proceedings of the Government of the United States, in maintaining the Public Right to the Beach of the Missisipi (Thomas Jefferson)

  • Address to the People of the United States, on the measures pursued by the Executive with respect to the Batture at New-Orleans, 2:455, 2:456n, 2:516, 2:518n, 2:658, 3:30, 3:133, 3:173n, 3:235, 3:236n, 3:271, 3:483
  • An Answer to Mr. Jefferson's Justification of His Conduct in the Case of the New Orleans Batture, 4:292n
  • bankruptcy of, 2:402
  • Batture Sainte Marie (See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over: pleadings in)
  • bill of complaint against TJ, 2:545, 2:546–50, 2:659, 3:226, 3:227n
  • canal of, 2:444n, 2:445–446n, 2:547, 2:548
  • Claiborne on, 2:434, 2:471–472, 2:682, 3:25, 3:157–158
  • E. Trist on, 4:572
  • Examination of the title of the United States, 3:476, 3:483
  • Gallatin on, 2:528, 3:68, 3:70, 3:71–72
  • and Godefroi Du Jareau, 2:484
  • identified, 2:549–550n
  • Moreau Lislet on, 3:174n, 3:175–176n
  • offers to aid Trist family, 4:572–573
  • opens canal on batture, 3:175n, 3:404, 3:406, 3:494–495, 3:496–497
  • portrait of, 4:370 (illus.), 4:xliv
  • proclaims right to batture, 1:287n, 3:233, 3:234–235n, 3:248n, 3:484
  • and riots at Batture Sainte Marie, 2:440–442n, 3:26n, 3:495
  • TJ on, 3:203–204, 4:292n
  • and TJ's Statement of Facts in the Batture Case, 4:110
  • validity of land claim, 3:27n

Livingston, Louise (Edward Livingston's wife)

  • offers to aid Trist family, 4:573

Livingston, Mary Stevens (Robert R. Livingston's wife)

  • illustrates Essay on Sheep, 3:63, 3:64n

Livingston, Robert R.

  • Essay on Sheep, 1:667, 1:668n, 2:39, 2:83, 3:63, 3:64n, 4:637
  • family of, 1:20n
  • identified, 4:638n
  • letter to, 4:637–638
  • as member of Continental Congress, 4:475, 4:476n, 4:600, 4:601, 4:602
  • and merino sheep, 1:529, 2:39, 4:637
  • recommends Van der Kemp to TJ, 4:500, 4:501n
  • TJ sends batture pamphlet to, 4:624, 4:637
  • and Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:507n, 4:614

Livingston, William, Jr., 1:195n

Livingston v. D'orgenoy, 3:233, 3:234n, 3:246–248, 3:265, 3:484

Livingston v. Jefferson. See also Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over

  • background of, 4:291–292n
  • dismissal reported to TJ, 4:303–304
  • Marshall's opinion in, 4:297–303
  • TJ congratulated on dismissal of, 4:572
  • Tyler's opinion in, 4:293–297
  • U.S. Circuit Court dismisses, 4:304, 4:311, 4:367–368, 4:477, 4:520n, 4:631, 4:639

Livy (Titus Livius)

  • Historiarum Libri Qui Extant, 1:580
  • TJ on, 2:153

Liza (slave), 4:15

Lloyd, James, 1:473, 2:70

Lloyd, Thomas, 1:214n

Lobinhes, Dr., 2:11, 2:12

Locke, John

  • An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1:576
  • portraits of, 3:305
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:503, 4:506n
  • and Woodward's work, 1:254n

locks (canal), 3:286–288, 3:303, 3:421–422

locus in quo, pleading on. See Batture Sainte Marie, controversy over: pleadings in

locust

  • bristly, 3:354
  • common, 3:353

Logan, Andrew

  • and Bank of the United States, 4:371–372, 4:373n
  • identified, 4:372–373n
  • letter from, 4:371–373
  • seeks TJ's advice, 4:372

Logan, George

  • sells plows, 2:312–313, 2:334
  • sheep of, 1:16

Logan, James

  • translates Cato Major, or Discourse on old age (Cicero), 3:137

Logan, James (Mingo Indian)

  • speech of, 2:204, 2:205n, 2:340

Logan County, Ky., 3:647–648

Logique (Destutt de Tracy), 4:203, 4:209n

Logwood, Burwell

  • identified, 2:119n
  • letter to Duncan, 2:119
  • and Peyton's estate, 2:119, 2:255, 2:383, 2:482, 3:648

Logwood, Pruey Peyton, 2:117, 2:254, 3:648

Les lois civiles dans leur ordre naturel (Domat; trans. Strahan), 3:160, 3:175n, 3:176n, 3:547

Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amerique sous le vent (Moreau de Saint Méry), 3:160, 3:175n

Lomax, Elizabeth, 1:305n

Lomax, Lunsford, 2:84, 2:256

Lomax, Thomas

  • exchanges seeds with TJ, 1:631, 1:657
  • identified, 1:631n
  • letter from, 1:631–632
  • letter to, 1:657
  • as Mazzei's friend, 4:35
  • and P. Henry, 4:603

Lombardy poplars, 1:192n

London

  • Courier, 3:577, 3:578n
  • exchange at, 3:524, 3:558
  • firms, 3:426
  • items imported for TJ from, 2:142–143
  • Linnean Society of, 1:163, 1:164n, 1:521
  • Royal Society of, 4:227, 4:228, 4:353
  • U.S. agent at, 3:37

Long, Gabriel, 1:415, 1:416n

Long, James

  • letter from, 1:464–465
  • seeks TJ's assistance, 1:464–465

Long's Hotel (Washington, D.C.)

  • Fulton lectures at, 2:250, 2:251n
  • inaugural ball at, 1:10n

Long's Ordinary (Spotsylvania Co.), 1:416n

A Long Talk, delivered before the Tammany Society, or Columbian Order, on their anniversary, A.D. 1810: in Providence (Pitman), 4:306n, 4:395–396

looking glasses, 1:303

looms, 3:202, 4:143, 4:428

López, Gregorio

  • Las siete partidas del sabio rey Don Alonso el Nono, 3:53n, 3:175n, 3:176n

Lormerie, Louis Philippe Gallot de

  • on Florida, 3:33
  • on forest management, 3:33–34
  • identified, 1:131n
  • and Ky. land, 1:342
  • letter from accounted for, 1:343n
  • letters from, 1:128–131, 1:342–343, 3:32–35
  • letter to, 1:354–355
  • Memoir on American Forest Management, 1:131–134, 1:342, 1:354
  • seeks permission to ship goods to France, 1:128–129, 1:342, 1:354

lotteries

  • East Tennessee College, 2:266–267, 2:268n, 2:365
  • Potomac & Shenandoah navigation, 4:288
  • Susquehanna Canal, 4:391

Loudoun, John Campbell, earl of, 1:291

Loudoun County Superior Court, 1:417

Louis XI, king of France

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:506n

Louis XII, king of France

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:501

Louis XIV, king of France

  • declaration of 1683, 3:160, 3:236n
  • and edict of 1693, 2:524, 3:130, 3:131, 3:132, 3:160, 3:174n, 3:226
  • and edict of 1710, 2:524, 3:174n, 3:235, 3:236–237n, 3:484
  • and La. territorial charter, 2:676, 3:48n, 3:489–490
  • and ordinance of 1669, 2:657
  • Short on, 3:197
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:504

Louis XV, king of France, 2:657

  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:502, 4:507n

Louis XVI, king of France, 2:276, 3:66n, 3:221n

  • execution of, 4:483, 4:484
  • in Van der Kemp's proposed book, 4:504

Louis XVIII, king of France, 3:221n

Louisa County, Va.

  • and Agricultural Society of Albemarle, 3:351n
  • petition to General Assembly, 3:253–254

Louisa Court House, Va., 3:254n

Louisiana Gazette and New-Orleans Daily Advertiser, 3:234–235n, 3:418, 3:616

Louisiana Gazette (Saint Louis newspaper), 4:7

Louisiana (revenue cutter), 2:445n

Louisiana (state)

  • constitution of, 4:648, 4:649n

Louisiana Territory

  • See also Orleans Territory
  • act to establish (1804), 3:407–410
  • and botanical expedition, 1:164n
  • Bradbury explores, 2:533, 4:535–536
  • ceded to U.S. by France, 1:448, 1:672–673, 3:256–257
  • "Chronological Series of Facts relative to Louisiana," 3:281, 3:282–283, 3:292, 3:297, 3:327, 3:328n
  • "Examination into the Boundaries of Louisiana," 3:256, 3:281, 3:282–283
  • and Federalists, 3:256
  • land commissioners in, 2:518, 2:519, 3:27n
  • laws governing, 2:462, 2:676, 3:53n, 3:168, 3:325
  • maps of, 1:247, 1:248n
  • Monroe offered governorship of, 2:35, 2:42–43, 2:44, 2:46n
  • Sketches, Historical and Descriptive of Louisiana (Stoddard), 3:291–292
  • Spanish government of, 2:471, 2:520, 2:524, 2:525
  • sugarhouses in, 2:556
  • TJ on, 2:360
  • tracts on, 1:36, 1:37, 1:38n
  • and Treaty of Paris, 3:256–257
  • vouchers for public money, 1:603, 1:607

Loury, Thomas T.

  • letter from, 3:647–648
  • sends silver ore sample to TJ, 3:647–648

Louvois. See LeTellierFrancois Michel

Lovely Mathilda (ship), 2:353

Love & Madness, A Story too True (Croft), 2:204, 2:339–340

Lovilo (TJ's slave; b. 1801). See Hern, Lovilo (TJ's slave)

Low, Esther Prentiss (wife of John Low [1763–1809])

  • and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (1763–1809)

  • and The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281n

Low, John (ca. 1790–1829)

  • identified, 4:281–282n
  • letters from, 4:281–282, 4:336, 4:408, 4:530–531
  • letters to, 4:365–366, 4:558–559
  • TJ subscribes to The New and Complete American Encyclopædia, 4:281, 4:336, 4:365–366, 4:371, 4:408, 4:409, 4:530–531, 4:557, 4:558–559

Lowry, Andrew, 1:335

Lowry, Morrow, 1:335

Lozano, Joaquin, 3:478n

Lüber, Thomas. See Erastus, Thomas (Thomas Lüber)

Lucan

  • Pharsalia, 4:503, 4:506n

Lucinda (TJ's slave; b. 1791)

  • laborer, 4:379
  • on Poplar Forest slave lists, 4:383, 4:384, 4:385

Lucy (E. Randolph's slave), 4:231n

Lucy (TJ's slave; b. 1783)

  • on Monticello slave list, 4:387
  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:382, 4:383

Lucy (TJ's slave; b. ca. 1800)

  • on Poplar Forest slave list, 4:384, 4:385
  • spinner, 4:380

Ludlow, Charles, 3:524

Ludlow, Edmund

  • Memoirs, 1:37, 1:580

Lukens, Samuel

  • and I. Shoemaker, 4:571, 4:619
  • letter from, 4:571
  • letter to, 4:619

lumber trade, 3:345–346

lunar caustic (silver nitrate)

  • as medicine, 4:416

Lusignem, Louis Hugues Thibault Henri Jacques, marquis de, 2:11, 2:12, 2:14

Luzac, Jean

  • and Van der Kemp's work on copper, 4:614

Luzerne Federalist (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)

  • prints poems on TJ, 1:429–433

Lydia (brig), 1:629, 3:434n

Lydia (E. Randolph's slave), 4:231n

Lyle, James

  • agent for Henderson, McCaul, & Co., 2:180, 2:216–217, 2:433, 2:513, 3:280, 3:341, 3:488, 3:538, 3:627–628, 4:11, 4:75–76
  • identified, 2:180n
  • letters from, 2:180, 3:280–281, 3:488, 3:627–628, 4:75–76
  • letters to, 2:216–217, 3:341–342, 3:538, 4:11
  • TJ pays, 4:10, 4:24
  • TJ's account with, 4:76
  • vision loss, 3:280–281, 3:341–342, 3:489
  • vision loss of, 4:75

Lyman, Jerushia

  • Rush on, 4:673–674

Lyman, William

  • and anonymous letter, 3:578
  • identified, 1:182n
  • letter from, 1:182
  • sends publication to TJ, 1:182
  • U.S. consul at London, 1:182, 4:673, 4:674n

Lyman, William, Jr.

  • arrives at Philadelphia, 4:673, 4:674n

Lynch, John

  • antislavery activities of, 3:267–269, 3:318–320
  • identified, 3:269n
  • letter from, 3:267–270
  • letter to, 3:318–320

Lynchburg, Va.

  • citizens of, address TJ, 1:671
  • economy of, 3:102–104
  • fish shipped to, 2:423, 2:503
  • flour market at, 3:103, 3:341
  • founding of, 3:269n
  • mail service to, 3:56, 3:102–104, 3:147–148, 3:164
  • price of tobacco at, 4:95, 4:105, 4:461

Lyon, James

  • and Georgia Republican, 4:92, 4:127, 4:128n, 4:130–131
  • identified, 4:131n
  • letter to, 4:130–131
  • whereabouts of, 4:112, 4:128

Lyon, Matthew

  • family of, 4:112
  • persecutes Duane, 3:449

Lyon, Oliver, 1:33n

Lyons, Mr., 1:338

Lyons, Peter, 2:369, 2:370, 2:540

Lyttelton, George, Baron Lyttelton

  • The History of the Life of Henry the Second, and of the Age in which he lived, 2:51

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