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 Introductory lecture (Philadelphia, 1801)
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Introductory lecture (Philadelphia, 1801).
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by an unknown author.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading: 'your favor of November 27, with your introductory lecture, which I have read with the pleasure and edification I do everything from you.' The author is the addressee, a Philadelphia physician whose name the source truncates ('DOCTOB') - the new Work is proposed title-only.). Self-report reliability discount 0.8: Explicit reading with the formulaic 'pleasure and edification I do everything from you' - author-flattery discount; strengthened by substantive uptake in the same breath (his response on vaccination's introduction in Philadelphia).