8. Early National Period (1789-1828)
Adams, John, Abigail Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams. Edited by Lester J. Capon. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. RVS: E 322 .A4 1988
Audubon, John James. The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon. Edited by Alice Ford. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987. RVS: QL 31 .A9 A3 1987
Byrd. William S. Letters from a Young Shaker: William S. Byrd at Pleasant Hill. Edited by Stephen J. Stein. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1985. (Nineteen letters written by author to his father from Shaker community at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, between 1826-1828, plus other correspondence.) PIN: BX 9793 .B97 A4 1985
Calvert, Rolalie Stier. Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821. Edited by Margaret Law Callcott. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. NRG: F 187 .C5 C35 1992
Cogan, Neil H. The Complete Bill of Rights: The Drafts, Debates, Sources, and Origins. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. RVS: KF 4744 1997
Drinker, Elizabeth. The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker. Edited by Elaine Forman Crane. 3 vols. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991. (Contents: Vol. 2, 1796-1802; Vol. 3, 1803-1807. Reveals something of the life of the Quakers in Philadelphia throughout the period covered. Drinker was anti-slavery. Diary gives a picture of women’s role in the society of the times.) RGC: F 158.9 .F89 D75 1991
Hamilton, Alexander. The Basic Ideas of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Richard B. Morris. New York: Pocket Books, 1957 RVS: E 302 .H2 H2574 1957
Hamilton, Alexander. The Reports of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Jacob E. Cooke. (Harper Torchbooks.) New York: Harper & Row, 1964. (Contents: Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit, January 9, 1790; The Second Report on the further Provision necessary for establishing Public Credit (Report on a National Bank), December 13, 1790; Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, February 23, 1791; Report on Manufactures, December 5, 1791.) NRG: HJ 8106 .A3 1964
Jackson, Andrew. The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Vol. 1. Edited by Sam B. Smith and Harriet Chappell Owsley. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980. (Contents cover period 1770-1803. Vols. 2 and 3 are in the PCL Stacks at UT, Call No. E 302 J365 1980.) RGC: E 302 .J35 1980 V. 1.
Jefferson, Thomas. Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Edwin Morris Betts and James Adam Bear, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1986. (Letters from Jefferson to his fourteen children and grandchildren and from them to him. Focus is on family matters but include discussion of farm problems, the construction of the house and gardens at Monticello, etc. Detailed index reveals that slavery and slaves figure in several letters, as do American public affairs, the Burr conspiracy, European affairs, intellectual life, scientific interests, personal life, etc. Period covered: 1783-1826.) EVC: E 332.86 1986
Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1984. (Contents: Merrill D. Peterson wrote the notes and selected the texts.) RGC: E 302 .J442 1984
Kaminski, John P. and Jill Adair McCaughan, eds. A Great and Good Man: George Washington in the Eyes of His Contemporaries. Madison, Wis.: Madison House, 1989. PIN: E 312.62 .G63 1989
Landreth, John. Journal of John Landreth, Surveyor . . .Commenced in 1818 and Ended in 1819. Edited by Milton B. Newton, Jr. Baton Rouge, La.: LSU Press, 1985. (Journal of an expedition to southern Louisiana in search of liveoak and red cedar timber for the U.S. Navy. Also some material on Alabama. Notes conditions of travel, accommodations for travelers, dietary and other customs, as well as observations about botany and geology. NRG: F 374 .L24 1985
Maclay, William. The Diary of William Maclay and Other Notes on Senate Debates. Edited by Kenneth R Bowling and Helen E. Veit. (Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America.) Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. ( Besides diary of proceedings, includes analysis of debates, details of behind-the-scenes politicking and social life in New York and Philadelphia. Comments on character of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, etc. Period covered: March 4, 1789-March 3, 1791.) RVS: KF 350 .D63 1972
McLaughlin, Jack, ed. To His Excellency Thomas Jefferson: Letters to a President. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. CYP: E 332.86 .T6 1993
Otter, William, Sr. History of My Own Times; or, the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sen., Comprising A Series of Events, and Musical Incidents Altogether Original. Edited by Richard C.Scott. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1995. (Author a plasterer, etc., who emigrated from England. Is a “counterpoint to romantic notions of virtuous, respectable craftsmen in the early republic.” An “inside account of the brawling racism common in the early nineteenth century. Details “the rowdy male subculture of the times.” Was plasterer, tavernkeeper, slavecatcher, etc. Covers years 1801-1835.) RVS: E 165 .O89 1995
Tanner, John. The Falcon: A Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1994. (Originally published in 1830 and written in the late 1820s. Tells of capture at age 9 in Kentucky by Shawnee and sold to an Ojibwa family. Lived with them in Minnesota, Michigan, Ontario, and along the Red River. Married Indian woman in 1800, returned to Kentucky, then soon rejoined with Ojibway family. Tried unsuccessfully to blend the two cultures.) RVS: E 87 .T16 A3 1994
Tully, William. The Journal of William Tully: Medical Student at Dartmouth, 1808-1809. New York: Science History Publications, 1977. NRG: RM 88 .T84 1977
Ulrich, Laurel. A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Knopf, 1990. (Hybrid source. Verbatim diary entries interspersed in Ulrich’s interpretive material. Includes quotations from other documents by persons associated with the subject. Ballard lived in Halliwell, Maine, on the Kennebec River.) RGC, RVS: F 29 .H15 U47 1990
Veit, Helen E., et al, eds. Creating the Bill of Rights: The Documentary Record from the First Federal Congress. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. CYP: KF 4749 .C74 1991
Walters, Kerry S., ed. The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1992. (Writings by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ethan Allen, Constantin Francois Chasseboeuf (Count de Volney), Thomas Paine, Elihu Palmer, and Philip Freneau.) PIN: BL 2747.4 .W33 1992.
Washington, George. George Washington: A Collection. Compiled and edited by W. B. Allen. Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Classics, 1988. (Documents 167-235 deal with the years when Washington was president..) RVS: E 312.72 1988
Washington, George. The Diary of George Washington. from 1789 to 1791: Embracing the Opening of the First Congress, and His Tours through New England, Long Island, and the Southern States, Together with His Journal of a Tour to the Ohio, in 1753. Williamstown, Mass.: Corner House, 1978. CYP: E 3112.8 1789-91e
Wood, Gordon S., ed. The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820. Rev. ed. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. NRG, RGC, RVS: E 164 .R57 1990
(See also The United States: Federalist Era through 1877)