Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Jefferson's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Jefferson and Letters on the Study and Use of History
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Letters on the Study and Use of History.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having owned this work by Henry St John, Viscount Bolingbroke.
Evidence ledger
- Sowerby's catalogue documents that Jefferson's library included works of Bolingbroke, whom Jefferson read closely and transcribed at length in his youth.