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 Travels in Switzerland
Thomas Jefferson's attested relationship to Travels in Switzerland.
Thomas Jefferson is attested as having read this work by Simond.
Evidence ledger
- First-person reading testimony (First-person engaged consumption of a titled work by household reading-aloud: 'The ladies' visit to Monticello has put my readers in requisition to read to me Simons' travels in Switzerland.' Author (Simond) and subject in-passage; no catalogue match; proposed as a new Work. The aural mode is recorded in the discount rationale.). Self-report reliability discount 0.8: The consumption is aural and in progress ('has put my readers in requisition to read to me Simons' travels in Switzerland') - mediated contact discount; strengthened by the reported effect on his knowledge ('I thought I had some knowledge of that country before, but I find I had no idea of it') and by his ensuing substantive commentary on the Swiss.