Volume 32 Index
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Labagh, Abraham
letter from, 249
inquires about religion, 249
Lacépède, Bernard Germain Etienne de LaVille-sur-Illon, Comte de
Histoire naturelle, 178
Ladvocat, Jean Baptiste
Dictionnaire historique, 177
Lafayette, George Washington Louis Gilbert du Motier de, 429, 430, 431n
Lafayette, Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de, 429-31
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de
letters from, 252, 427-32
knows L. Littlepage, 3
and Beaumarchais heirs' claim, 252
and Mazzei, 273, 276
expected in U.S., 312, 314, 429-30, 431n
released by Austrians, 427, 430, 431n
and French Revolution, 427-9, 554, 555
returns to France, 427-32
family of, 429, 430
in Holland, Hamburg, 429, 430
prefers quiet life of a farmer, 429, 430, 431n
and Stephen Sayre, 453
La Grange, France, 427, 431n
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme Le Français de
Astronomie, 180
La Marche, M. (Paris)
TJ buys linens from, 394n
La Marche, Madame de (Sister Geneviève de Saint Théodose; Geneviève Marie Abert)
letter from, 392-5
asks TJ to buy convent school property, 392-5
identified, 394n
Lamb, John
carries Algiers treaty, 456
Lancaster, Pa.
as state capital, 222n, 307-9, 336n, 389, 538
newspapers, 310, 330
Federalist sentiment in, 483
T. Coxe at, 572
residents, 589n
Lang, John, 447n
Langdon, John, 255, 392n
languages
Chinese, 35-7
sign languages, 35-7, 449n
American Indian, 44, 50, 51n, 134, 135n, 243, 297n, 449
TJ's vocabulary form, 44, 50, 51n, 449
variety, on Ga. frontier, 50
TJ's education, skills in, 124, 299
comparisons of North American, Asian, 134
methods of learning, 344-5
See also English language; French language; German language; Spanish language
La Rochefoucauld, Alexandrine Charlotte Sophie de Rohan-Chabot, Duchesse de
and Short's plans, 72, 89n, 154
and Patricots, 157, 331n
regard for TJ, 296, 297n
in Paris, 430
La Rochefoucauld, Céleste Le Blond de (Sister Marie des Anges; Marguerite Scholastique Céleste Le Blond), 392-5
La Rochefoucauld, François, Duc de (1613-1680)
Maximes, 179
La Rochefoucauld d'Enville, Louis Alexandre, Duc de La Roche-Guyon et de, 331n, 554, 555
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, François Alexandre Frédéric, Duc de
Voyage dans les États-Unis d'Amérique, 85
La Roche-Guyon (Rocheguyon), France, 291, 331n
La Rochelle, France, 395n
Latimer, George, 457n, 576, 577n
Latimer, Henry
resigns from Senate, 570, 571n
letter from cited, 571n
latitude, 334, 480n
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 230
Lattimore, Matthew, 501
Laurance, John, 316n
Lausanne, Switzerland, 180
Laval, John, 345n
Lavater, Johann Kaspar, xxxvii
Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent
mentioned, 5n
Traité élémentaire de chimie, 178
and manufacture of gunpowder, 313, 314, 315n
Lavoisier, Marie Anne Pierrette, 5n
Law, Edmund, 270n
Law, Elizabeth Parke Custis, 270n
Law, Thomas
letter from, 270
owns boarding house, 260n
pamphlets of, 270
identified, 270n
and Duncanson, 358n
Lawersweiler, Jacob L., 576n
law of contracts
maxims, 485, 488n
law of nations
and indemnification of consuls in wartime, 132
works on, 179
maritime law and neutral rights, 194n, 195
and potential exclusion of resident ministers of other nations from U.S., 383n
Lazaria (b. 1791, TJ's slave), 164
Lazzerini, Signore, 554, 555
league of armed neutrality. See neutrality, league of armed
leather, 402n
Le bien informé (Paris), 192n
Le Blond, Marguerite Scholastique Céleste. See La Rochefoucauld, Céleste Le Blond de
Lebrun, Charles François, 204
Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (Hugh Blair), 180
Lee, Arthur, 455-6
Lee, Charles, 548
Lee, Francis Lightfoot, 456
Lee, Richard Henry, 456
Lee, William (of Va.; d. 1795), 456
Lee, William Ludwell, 525, 526n
Leesburg, Va., 144
Leghorn (Livorno), Italy
U.S. consul, 273, 276, 279n, 340
and transatlantic communication, 275, 278
English merchants, 588
Le Havre, France
Portsmouth sails to, 72, 149, 191
consulship at, 162n, 182, 184, 325, 326, 327n
Paine at, 185
Americans at, 189, 202-3
affected by suspension of U.S. trade with France, 325, 326
Leiper, Thomas
letters to, 301, 545-7
letters from, 209-10, 221-2, 259-60, 572-4
and TJ's tobacco crops, 114, 115n, 209-10, 259-60, 301, 406n
identified, 210n
letters to cited, 210n, 260n
reports on politics, 221-2
assists Callender, 254
TJ's agent in tobacco quality dispute, 545-7, 549, 572-4
lemon juice
TJ orders, 47, 61, 471
Leonidas, King of Sparta, 571
Lerebours, Alexandre, 144n
LeRoy & Bayard (N.Y.), 446
Les devoirs de l'homme, et du citoien (Baron Samuel von Pufendorf), 179
Leslie, Robert
letter from, 513-14
and APS, 232n
inquires about Washington, D.C., 513-14
letters to, from cited, 514n
Letchworth, John, 57, 65
Létombe, Philippe André Joseph de, 419-20
Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States
appears, 239
Callender exploits, 254
TJ wishes to obtain, 255, 256n, 263
answered, 329, 330n
affects reputation of Hamilton, Adams, 436-7
and U.S. relations with Britain, France, 437
Letters from His Excellency George Washington, President of the United States of America, to Sir John Sinclair, 13-14
Letters of Junius, 179
Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland and its Neighborhood, on Subjects Interesting to the Author, and to them (Joseph Priestley), 469n
"Letter to General Hamilton" (from "Aristides"), 329, 330n
Letter to George Washington (Thomas Paine), 361n
Lettres de M. Euler à une Princesse d'Allemagne, sur différentes questions de Physique et de Philosophie. Nouvelle Edition, avec additions par MM. le Marquis de Condorcet et De La Croix (Leonhard Euler), 179, 180
Lettsom, John Coakley, 112n
Lévesque, Pierre Charles
Collectien des moralistes anciens, 179
Lewis (b. 1788, TJ's slave), 418, 499
Lewis (ca. 1760-1822, TJ's slave), 164
Lewis, Mr., 17
Lewis, Charles Lilburne (TJ's brother-in-law), 15n
Lewis, Eleanor Parke Custis, 391, 392n
Lewis, Frances Parke, 391, 392n
Lewis, Lawrence, 392n
Lewis, Lucy Walker (Mrs. Nicholas Lewis), 44, 134
Lewis, Meriwether
uses Arrowsmith's map, 69n
Lewis, Nicholas
friend of D. Smith, 44, 134
as neighbor of Monticello, 105
trains law student, 561
TJ reports progress of House balloting to, 579n
Lewis, Samuel (Philadelphia)
letters from, 462-4, 574-5
imprisoned for debt, 462-4, 574-5, 602
sends maps for pocket atlas, 463-4, 574-5
identified, 464n
letters to, from cited, 575n
Lewis, William, 308
Lexington, Ky., xxxix, 533n
Lexington, Va., 359-60, 398
Leyden
Gazette de Leide, 132
libel
prosecuted under common law, 32-3, 34n
See also Sedition Act (1798)
Liberty
depictions of, 61-2
Liberty Hall Academy, 359-60
libraries
for Congress, 259, 423
Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth (Baron of Cherbury), 176
lighthouses, 602
Lilly. See Hern, Lilly
Lilly, Gabriel
and management of nailery, 341, 391, 499-500, 517
arranges hire of slaves, 341-2, 390, 417-18, 440, 488, 516-17, 559, 598
receives payment, 401, 402n, 418, 472
and Richardson, 417
letters to, from cited, 418-19n
overseer, 475, 499-500
praised as manager of slaves, 528
lime
for Monticello, 29, 37, 471
Lincoln, Abraham, 420n
Lincoln, Benjamin, 352n
Lincoln, Levi
praised, 146, 465
in Congress, 146n, 465
carries letters, 465, 469, 489
Linn, James, 322, 323n, 432, 583
Linn, William
Serious Considerations on the Election of a President, 134-6, 168, 249
and study of Indian languages, 135n
Linnaeus, Carolus
collections and library of, 55n
works, 178
quoted, 502
Linnean Society, 55n
Lisbon, 75, 586
Liston, Robert, 383n
Little, Charles, 272
Littlepage, Elizabeth Lewis, 3n
Littlepage, James, 3n
Littlepage, John Carter
and L. Littlepage, 40n, 368n, 445
letter to cited, 445n
letter to quoted, 445n
Littlepage, Lewis
letter from, 477-9
in Europe, 3-4, 40, 68-9, 445
return to U.S. expected, 368, 477-9
names TJ executor of will, 478
Littleton, Sir Thomas, 566, 567n
Liverpool, 30, 95
livestock
as capital investment, 84
feed for, 108, 164, 166
in lease agreement, 108, 116, 164-5, 166
improvement of breeds in Europe, Britain, 147-9, 158-9n
potential improvement of breeds in U.S., 148-9
cattle breeds in Ky., 452n
See also horses
Livingston, Brockholst, 348
Livingston, Edward
letters from, 290-1, 550
congratulates TJ, 290-1
and N.Y. politics, 303
influence of family of, 316n
absent from Congress, 418
expects quick resolution of electoral tie, 419n
borrows imagery from TJ's Notes, 550, 551n
poem to McKinnen, 550-1
reports on Bayard, 583
Livingston, Robert R.
letters to, 120-2, 302-4, 596-7
letters from, 8-11, 406-9
1791 visit from TJ, xxxvi
receives Appendix, 8, 11n
scientific, technological interests, 8, 409
and steam power, 8-13, 120-1, 230, 302, 304n
system to raise water, 9, 11n, 120-1
comments on politics, 10, 122, 406-9
and mastodon discovery, 288-9, 302, 312, 407-8, 544-5
TJ offers cabinet position, 302-4, 322, 323n, 358, 408-9, 537, 596
chancellor of N.Y., 303, 304n
and N.Y. council of appointment, 303, 304n, 382n
influence of family of, 316n
and W. S. Smith, 352n
elected to APS, 589, 595, 597n
and advancement of agricultural knowledge, 596-7
Livy
works of, 177
Llandaff. See Watson, Richard (Bishop of Llandaff)
Lloyd, James
resigns from Senate, 225-6, 264
letter from cited, 264n
Locke, John
works, 179
Logan (Mingo Indian)
accuses Cresap, 8
authenticity of speech, 93
identified with appendix to Notes on Virginia, 219
Logan, George, 194, 430, 467
Loge Française l'Aménité, 320n
Lomax, Thomas
letter from, 551-2
and national political situation, 551-2
London
as financial center, 83, 275, 278, 473
U.S. consul in, 132, 477n, 536
Paine's demonstration bridge at Paddington, 190, 193n
doctors and medicine, 207, 349n, 510n
"American Nursery," 232n
publishing, 334, 447n
Americans in, 361n, 525-6, 535-6
art, artists, 374n
newspapers, 405
sheriff, 434
merchants, 525
longitude, 321, 334, 346
L'Orient (Lorient), France, 350, 448n
Loudoun Co., Va., 109n, 116, 166n
Louis XVI, King of France, 90n, 148, 159n
Louisa Co., Va., 104, 341-2
Louisiana
meteor observed in, 55n
condemned slaves transported to, 145n
maps, 336
Catholic convent in, 394n
Louisville, Ga., 216, 217n
Louisville, Ky., 603
Love, Andrew, 265
Love, John (fl. 1688)
Geodæsia, 180
Lowell, John, 352-3, 386n
Lowndes, Thomas, 258n
Loyalists. See American Revolution
Lucifer, 523, 551
Ludlow, Daniel, & Co. (New York), 48
Ludlow, Edmund
Memoirs, 176, 177
Ludwell, Frances Grymes, 525n
Ludwell, Philip, III, 525n
Lunéville, France
negotiations at, 187, 192n, 203, 372, 454
treaty, 372-3n, 586
Lutherans, 576n
Luzac, Jean, 132
Lyle, James
letter to, 458-9
letters from, 107, 388
and TJ's debt to Henderson, McCaul & Co., 107, 388, 402, 416, 458-9, 535
Lynchburg, Va., 476, 535, 546
Lyon, James
letters from, 261-2, 305
co-founds Georgia Republican, 34n
Petersburg Republican, 101n
and Callender, 212
publishes Cabinet, 213n, 261-2, 305, 329-30
Madison's subscriptions, 261, 329-30, 358
financial support from TJ, 261-2, 305, 450, 472
identified, 261-2n
letters from cited, 262n
publishes National Magazine, 262n, 305
paid for subscriptions, 471, 472n
Lyon, Mary Hosford, 261n
Lyon, Matthew
family, 261-2n
and House resolution of presidential election, 419n, 487
correspondence with TJ, 582n
Lyons, France, 72, 123, 335, 447-8
Lyons, Peter, 251, 402
Lyttelton, George, Baron
History of the Life of King Henry II, 176