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 Remarks on the pronunciation of the Greek language
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Remarks on the pronunciation of the Greek language.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Nathaniel F. Moore.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading: 'the remarks on the pronunciation of the Greek language which you have been so kind as to send me. I have read them with pleasure, as I had the pamphlet of Mr. Pickering on the same subject.' Author = the addressee; proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.8: Explicit reading with pleasure, but addressed to the author of the remarks (flattery-context); strengthened by the comparative scholarly frame (read alongside Pickering's pamphlet on the same subject) and TJ's long engagement with the question.