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 Denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Benjamin Waterhouse.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person completed reading: 'I have received and read with thankfulness and pleasure your denunciation of the abuses of tobacco and wine.' Work identified in-passage by subject and author (the addressee); proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Explicit received-and-read claim with thankfulness and pleasure, addressed to the author (flattery discount), but immediately followed by qualified DISSENT ('Yet, however sound...') - disagreement in the same breath strengthens per doctrine.