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 Native Virginian No. VI (Federal Republican, Baltimore, 1822)
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Native Virginian No. VI (Federal Republican, Baltimore, 1822).
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by an unknown author.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person prior reading of an identified printed attack piece: 'What relates to myself in this paper, (being his No. VI, and the only No. I have seen) I had before read in the "Federal Republican" of Baltimore, of August 28th.' Pseudonymous author, so the new Work carries the signature-and-venue designation.). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Self-defense context motivates careful reading; the claim is specific (knows it is No. VI, 'the only No. I have seen', names venue and date, knows the author's real name was supplied by a friend) and candidly bounded.