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Visitors to Monticello

Print Book, English, 1989
University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1989
Anecdotes
ix, 210 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780813912325, 9780813912318, 0813912326, 0813912318
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1780: "A noble spirit of building" / a German Officer
1782: A philosophical encounter / Chevalier de Chastellux
1796: A touring Irishman on the mountain / Isaac Weld, Jr
1796: A Frenchman views Jefferson the farmer / Duc de La Rouchefoucauld-Liancourt
1802: A querulous guest from Washington / Anna Thornton
1807: The visit of a British diplomat / Augustus John Foster
1809: "The haven of domestic life" / Margaret Bayard Smith
1815: Boston comes to Monticello / Francis Calley Gray
1815: "Old books and young society" / George Ticknor
1816: An expatriate Frenchman eyes the museum / Baron de Mantlezun
1816: "Call it Olympus" / Richard Rush
1817: A friendly Englishman at Monticello / Lieutenant Francis Hall
1820: A cordial reunion / Isaac Briggs
1824: A book peddler at Monticello / Samuel Whitcomb, Jr
1824: A Yankee Congressman pens a portrait / Daniel Webster
1824: A professor meets the father of the university / George Long
1825: A German Prince climbs the mountain / Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
1826: A visit to the dying sage / Henry Lee
1827: Prospects most magnificent / Henry D. Gilpin
1830: A frigid tour of the desolate house / Anne Royall
1832: Glorious landscape - noble ruin / John H. B. Latrobe
1840: Monument of an unbeliever / Reverend Stephen Higginson Tyng
1841: An Englishman finds beauty amidst desecration / James Silk Buckingham
1853: "The empty offerings of laudable curiosity" / Benson J. Lossing
1862: Johnny Reb at Monticello / B. L. Aycock
1872: A student's excursion / David M. R. Culbreath
1899: A tour of Jefferson M. Levy's Monticello / Maud Howard Peterson
1901: A democratic pilgrimage to Monticello / Jefferson Club of St. Louis
1902: A national humiliation / Amos J. Cummings
1912: A pilgrim turns crusader / Maud Littleton
1924: An architect's view / Fiske Kimball
1954: After the overhaul / New York Times
1956: Homage of a third-world leader / President Sukarno of Indonesia
1958: "Our man Stanley" at Monticello / The New Yorker
1984: "An old man... but a young gardener" / Richard L. Williams