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 North American Review (article on African colonization, 1824 number)
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to North American Review (article on African colonization, 1824 number).
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by an unknown author.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading of an identified periodical article: 'The article on the African colonization of the people of color... I have read with great consideration.' Venue and subject in-passage; the article's author is unnamed in-frame, so the new Work carries the designation (distinct from the 1821 NAR critique Work of batch-08 idx 1486).). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Considered reading at the correspondent's invitation ('to which you invite my attention, I have read with great consideration') with a declared knowledge gain ('I learn from it more, too, than I had before known, of the degree of success and promise of that colony'); mild solicited-attention discount.