Joseph J. Ellis (49 page)
Authors: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Tags: #Statesmen - United States, #United States - History - 1783-1815, #Historical, #Presidents & Heads of State, #Presidents, #Anecdotes, #Political, #Presidents - United States, #General, #United States, #United States - Politics and Government - 1783-1809, #History & Theory, #Political Science, #Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), #Biography & Autobiography, #Statesmen, #Biography, #History
61.
Adams to Jefferson, 22 June 1819; Jefferson to Adams, 9 July 1819; Adams to Jefferson, 21 July 1819, Cappon, vol. 2, 542–546; Adams to Vanderkemp, 21 August 1819,
Adams
, reel 124. For the best and most recent scholarly study of the Mecklenburg matter, see Pauline Maier,
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
(New York, 1997), 172–177.
62.
Butterfield, ed.,
The Diary and Autobiography
, vol. 3, 335–352.
63.
For the deathbed scene with Abigail, see Paul C. Nagel,
Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family
(New York, 1983), 129–130; Jefferson to Adams, 1 June 1822, Cappon, vol. 2, 578–579.
64.
Jefferson to Adams, 12 October 1823; Adams to Jefferson, 25 February 1825, Cappon, vol. 2, 599–601, 610.
65.
Jefferson to Adams, 11 April 1823; Adams to Jefferson, 25 February 1825, ibid., 591–594, 610; Adams to Vanderkemp, 27 December 1816,
Works
, vol. 10, 235.
66.
Adams to Jefferson, 10 February 1823; Jefferson to Adams, 25 February 1823, Cappon, vol. 2, 587–589.
67.
Bennett Nolan, ed.,
Lafayette in America: Day by Day
(Baltimore, 1934), 247–257; Jefferson to Madison, 18 October 1825, Smith, vol. 2, 1942, for the Browere incident; Jefferson to Adams, 25 March 1826, Cappon, vol. 2, 613–614.
68.
Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman, 24 June 1826, Ford, vol. 10, 390–392. The handwritten draft, with its multiple deletions and revisions, is reproduced in Ellis,
Passionate Sage
, 207.
69.
Douglass Adair, “Rumbold’s Dying Speech, 1685, and Jefferson’s Last Words on Democracy, 1826,” in Trevor Colbourn, ed.,
Fame and the Founding Fathers: Essays by Douglass Adair
(New York, 1974), 192–202.
70.
Adams to John Whitney, 7 June 1826,
Works
, vol. 10, 416–417; Lyman H. Butterfield, “The Jubilee of Independence, July 4, 1826,”
VMHB
61 (1953): 119–140.
71.
Sarah N. Randolph,
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
(Charlottesville, 1978), 422–432, for Jefferson’s last hours and words; see also Ellis,
American Sphinx
, 280–281. For the deathbed scene at Quincy, see Eliza Quincy,
Memoirs of the Life of Eliza S. M. Quincy
(Boston, 1861); see also Ellis,
Passionate Sage
, 209–210.
