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 Constitution for the Equinoctial republics
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Constitution for the Equinoctial republics.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Du Pont de Nemours.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person completed reading: 'I received... your letter covering the constitution for your Equinoctial republics... I brought it with me, and have read it with great satisfaction.' Work identified in-passage by description and author (the addressee, Du Pont de Nemours); proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.8: Explicit completed reading ('I brought it with me, and have read it with great satisfaction') with an evaluative judgement of fit ('well formed for those for whom it was intended'); addressed to the author (flattery discount), and the text is a manuscript constitutional draft rather than a published work.