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 Unitarian sermons
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Unitarian sermons.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Rev. Mr. Bancroft.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (Explicit first-person reading: 'the copy you were so kind as to send me of the revd. Mr. Bancroft's Unitarian sermons. I have read them with great satisfaction.' Author and genre in-passage; proposed as a new Work.). Self-report reliability discount 0.85: Explicit completed reading with satisfaction ('I have read them with great satisfaction, and always rejoice in efforts to re[store primitive Christianity]'); the copy came via a third party (Davis), so author-flattery is absent.