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 Speech on the amendment of the constitution proposed by Mr. McDuffie
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Speech on the amendment of the constitution proposed by Mr. McDuffie.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Edward Everett.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading: 'the very able and eloquent speech you have been so kind as to send me on the amendment of the constitution, proposed by Mr. McDuffie. I have read it with pleasure and satisfaction.' Author = the addressee; proposed as a new Work. (One of the last letters of his life, April 1826.)). Self-report reliability discount 0.8: Explicit reading with pleasure of the author-addressee's speech (flattery discount) offset by explicit partial dissent ('concur with MUCH of its contents') - qualified agreement strengthens per doctrine.