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 Pamphlet on America, England and the Holy Alliance (1824)
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Pamphlet on America, England and the Holy Alliance (1824).
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 pamphlet: 'I received a few days ago a pamphlet on the subject of America, England and the Holy alliance, and read it with unusual...' The pamphlet is designated by subject; its author is unnamed in-passage (the letter's business is discovering who sent it), so the new Work carries the subject designation, author omitted.). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Recent and explicit ('I received a few days ago a pamphlet... and read it with unusual [attention]'); the sender was anonymous, so no flattery context at the time of reading; small discount for the OCR truncation of the adverbial phrase.