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Key to Sources with Publishing Information

The following is a guide to abbreviations used by Monticello researchers when they prepare reports such as those appearing as "Brief Reports" or in "The Plantation" section of this Web site. Abbreviations are used for frequently mentioned titles, institutions, members of Jefferson's family, and manuscript notations.

Main Sources

B . . . Boyd, Julian and others, eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Princeton, 1950--, 31 Volumes in 2005.

Bear . . . Bear, James A. Jr., Jefferson at Monticello, Charlottesville, 1967.

Bush . . . Bush, Alfred L., The Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, 1987.

Cappon . . . Cappon, Lester J. ed., The Adams-Jefferson Letters, Chapel Hill, 1959, 2 Volumes.

FAM . . . Betts, Edwin M. and James A. Bear, Jr. eds., The Family Letters of Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, 1966.

FB . . . Facsimile of TJ's Farm Book in Betts, Farm Book.

FBB . . . Betts, Edwin M. ed., Thomas Jefferson's Farm Book, 1953, Charlottesville, 1976.

Ford . . . Ford, Paul Leicester. ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, New York, 1904-1905.

GB . . . Betts, Edwin M. ed., Thomas Jefferson's Garden Book, 1766-1824, 1944, Philadelphia, 1985.

L&B . . . Bergh, Albert Ellery. ed., The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Washington, D.C., 1907, 20 Volumes, Andrew A. Lipscomb was co-editor of first edition 1903-1904.

Malone . . . Malone, Dumas, Jefferson and His Time, 1948, Boston, 1981, 6 Volumes.

MB . . . Bear, James A. Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton. eds., Jefferson's Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767-1826, Princeton, 1997.

N . . . Nichols checklist number in Frederick D. Nichols, comp. Thomas Jefferson's Architectural Drawings,