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Thomas Jefferson

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 Speech of Dr. Lieb in the Pennsylvania Assembly (1796)

Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Speech of Dr. Lieb in the Pennsylvania Assembly (1796).

Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Dr. Lieb.

Evidence ledger

  • First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading of an identified printed speech: 'I know not when I have received greater satisfaction than on reading the speech of Dr. Lieb, in the Pennsylvania Assembly.' Author and venue in-passage; proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Explicit and enthusiastic ('I know not when I have received greater satisfaction than on reading the speech of Dr. Lieb') with political uptake (congratulating republicanism on the acquisition); no flattery context (Lieb is not the correspondent).