# Sources used in conversation — 22–24 September 2026 Compiled 24 Sep 2026, 23:39 CDT, from Grok replies on JeffersonMind, SillyTavern, Founders Online, and related archives. Not a bibliography of Jefferson studies. These are pages actually cited or opened while building briefs, the character card, and ancillary reference. Vault suggestion: `JeffersonMind/reference/2026-09-24_sources_last_three_days.md` --- ## Founders Online (National Archives) Permanent links use `https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/…` Search URLs (`?q=`) are not IDs. ### Letters and papers named this week | Document | Permanent link / note | |---|---| | Jefferson to Chastellux, 26 Nov 1782 (Martha’s death) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-06-02-0192 | | First Annual Message, 8 Dec 1801 (Tripoli excerpt) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-36-02-0034-0003 | | Notes on a Cabinet Meeting, 15 May 1801 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-34-02-0088 | | Hamet / Tripoli peace message, 13 Jan 1806 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-3010 (Early Access) | | Special message on Burr, 22 Jan 1807 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-4925 (Early Access) | | Proclamation, British armed vessels, 2 July 1807 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-5863 (Early Access) | | Jefferson to Washington, 10 Jan 1781 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-04-02-0408 | | Jefferson to Mazzei, 24 Apr 1796 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-29-02-0054-0002 | | Jefferson to Washington, 31 Dec 1793 (resignation) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-27-02-0584 | | Jefferson to Dickinson, 6 Mar 1801 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-33-02-0156 | | Bill for Diffusion of Knowledge (Revisal 79) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0132-0004-0079 | | Bill for Proportioning Crimes (Revisal 64) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0132-0004-0064 | | Tenants in tail / entails, 14 Oct 1776 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0224 | | Catalogue of Revisal bills, June 1779 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-02-02-0132-0003 | | Jefferson to Francis Eppes, 5 Feb 1785 (Lucy) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-07-02-0465 | | Jefferson to W. H. Harrison, 27 Feb 1803 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-39-02-0500 | | Autobiography / Notes on Early Career, 1821 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-17-02-0324-0002 | | Jefferson to John Page, 25 Dec 1762 | Founders search: Author Jefferson, Recipient Page, date 1762-12-25 | | Jefferson to Wythe, 28 Feb 1800 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-31-02-0342 | | Jefferson to Wythe, [June? 1776] (suspect Courier extract) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-01-02-0173 — **do not use as youth voice** | | Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 12 Oct 1786 (Head and Heart) | already in corpus; series Jefferson/01-10-02-0309 | | Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 1 July 1787 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-11-02-0440 (confirm on page) | | Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 27 July 1788 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-13-02-0311 | | Jefferson to Maria Cosway, 26 Sep 1788 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-13-02-0513 | | Jefferson to C. W. Peale, 19 Aug 1804 (polygraph) | Founders title search; PTJ vol. 44 cluster | | Jefferson to C. W. Peale, 18 Feb 1806 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-3252 (Early Access) | | Jefferson to C. W. Peale, 17 Apr 1813 (plow / hills) | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0069 | | Jefferson to C. W. Peale, 28 Dec 1825 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/98-01-02-5775 (Early Access) | | Supplementary note on moldboard, 21 Feb 1805 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-45-02-0562-0002 | | Analysis of Weather Memorandum Book, Jan 1817 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/ (title search 1817 weather) | | Memorandum Books, Second Series | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/02-01-02-0022 (1788) and neighbors | Danbury, Holmes, Coles, inaugurals, and the rest of the filled queue are listed in repo `ingest_queue.md`, not repeated here. --- ## Notes on the State of Virginia (public-domain texts) - Wikisource: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia - Internet Archive, Stockdale London 1787: https://archive.org/details/notesonstateofvi1787jeff - Stanford SDR 1787 Stockdale: https://purl.stanford.edu/sy618st7292 - Wikipedia (bibliographic only, not RAG): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia - Contextus 1787 query list: https://contextus.org/Jefferson,_Notes_on_the_State_of_Virginia_(1787) - Forbes annotated edition (modern notes — **not for Data Bank**): Yale / De Gruyter 2022 - MHS manuscript of *Notes* (Coolidge): https://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/ Queries used: VI, XI, XIII, XIV, XVII, XVIII, XIX. --- ## Monticello / Thomas Jefferson Foundation - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/martha-wayles-skelton-jefferson - Tuckahoe (earliest memory): https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/tuckahoe - Farm Book: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/farm-book - Maria Cosway: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/maria-cosway - Architecture overview: https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/thomas-jefferson-and/architecture/ - Academical village: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/jeffersons-plan-academical-village - Polygraph: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/polygraph/ - Moldboard plow: https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/moldboard-plow/ - Bill for Diffusion of Knowledge: https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/bill-more-general-diffusion-knowledge - Correspondence / copying practices: https://www.monticello.org/stories/jeffersons-correspondence --- ## Other documentary archives - Library of Congress, Jefferson Papers (epitaph scan etc.): https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/ - LOC item, epitaph on Martha, 6 Sep 1782: https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib000750/ - MHS Jefferson Papers portal (Farm Book, *Notes* MS, architectural drawings, catalogs): https://www.masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/ - MHS Coolidge Collection guide (architectural drawings series V, ~396 items): https://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0031 - Kimball 1916 *Thomas Jefferson, Architect* (K-numbers): Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/thomasjeffersona0005jeff and UVA/IATH HTML https://www2.iath.virginia.edu/wilson/TJA/tja.home.html - Encyclopedia Virginia, Jefferson to Chastellux transcription: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/letter-from-thomas-jefferson-to-the-marquis-de-chastellux-november-26-1782/ - Encyclopedia Virginia, Jefferson and architecture: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/jefferson-thomas-and-architecture/ - Jefferson Weather and Climate Records (UVA CDE / PTJ): referenced via Smithsonian feature https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discover-why-thomas-jefferson-meticulously-monitored-the-weather-wherever-he-went-180985727/ - Teaching American History, First Annual Message Barbary excerpt: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/first-annual-message-to-congress-3/ - American Presidency Project, special messages: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ - Britannica, First Barbary War: https://www.britannica.com/event/First-Barbary-War - Britannica, Federal style / Jefferson & Latrobe: https://www.britannica.com/art/Federal-style --- ## Architecture and objects (reference, not RAG) - Khan Academy, Monticello: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/later-europe-and-americas/enlightenment-revolution/a/jefferson-monticello - History.com, Monticello as laboratory / gadgets: https://www.history.com/articles/thomas-jefferson-monticello-architect-agronomist-inventor - History.com, Jefferson inquires about Cosway via Angelica Church: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/may-24/thomas-jefferson-inquires-about-a-former-flame - Bedini, *Thomas Jefferson and His Copying Machines* (1984) — cited via Monticello polygraph article - CSAC / UW–Madison note on copying machines: https://csac.history.wisc.edu/2023/01/13/jeffersons-xerox-machines/ --- ## SillyTavern documentation - Windows install: https://docs.sillytavern.app/installation/windows/ - Update Node.js: https://docs.sillytavern.app/installation/updating/node/ - Data Bank (RAG): https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/core-concepts/data-bank/ - Chat vectorization: https://docs.sillytavern.app/extensions/chat-vectorization/ - Character design fields: https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/core-concepts/characterdesign/ - Characters panel: https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/characters/ - Third-party field explainers (2026): https://tavernsprite.com/blog/sillytavern-character-card-fields/ Official clone: https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern (`release` branch). --- ## Project repo (source of truth for slugs) - Private GitHub: `jmarshallpittman/JeffersonMind` - Control files: `00_timeline.md` … `05_redteam.md`, `scout_briefs.md`, `ingest_queue.md`, `GROK_PROJECT_INSTRUCTIONS.md` - Corpus: `corpus/*.txt` - Briefs 73–100 added 24–25 Sep 2026 (UTC commits `6e18cc6`, `99a2d30`, and neighbors) --- ## How to use this note - **Data Bank:** only Jefferson’s words from Founders or Wikisource *Notes*, after `FILLED: true`. - **Lorebook / human notes:** Monticello encyclopedia, Kimball, Bedini. - **Do not RAG:** Wikipedia voice, History.com narrative, Peterson/Ellis/Meacham, 1998 DNA papers, this source list itself. When Scout resolves a brief, the durable URL belongs on `ingest_queue.md`, not only here.