# Sources — SillyTavern Jefferson tutorial **Response covered:** the step-by-step SillyTavern tutorial for a Thomas Jefferson mind (install, API keys, card fields, lorebook, Data Bank, example quotes). **Authored:** Saturday, 19 September 2026, about 8:11–8:20 PM CDT. **Artifact:** `Jefferson-Mind-SillyTavern-Tutorial.md` **Earlier companion:** `Historical-Persona-AI-Glossary-and-Sources.md` (glossary + method sources, same evening). --- ## How to cite Founders Online Founders Online asks for this pattern: > “[Title],” *Founders Online,* National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/... > [Original source: *The Papers of Thomas Jefferson*, vol. …] When you paste a letter into `corpus/`, copy the **Permanent link** and the **Reference** block from the bottom of the Founders page. Do not invent a document ID. --- ## SillyTavern and model APIs | What it supported | URL | |---|---| | SillyTavern repo | https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern | | Docs home | https://docs.sillytavern.app | | Windows install | https://docs.sillytavern.app/installation/windows/ | | API connections | https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/api-connections/ | | Data Bank (RAG) | https://docs.sillytavern.app/usage/core-concepts/data-bank/ | | OpenRouter + SillyTavern (18 Jun 2026) | https://openrouter.ai/blog/tutorials/sillytavern-openrouter/ | | OpenRouter apps page | https://openrouter.ai/works-with-openrouter/sillytavern | | Aituts SillyTavern guide 2026 | https://aituts.com/sillytavern-guide/ | | Character card V2 fields | https://tavernsprite.com/blog/sillytavern-character-card-format/ | | Anthropic console (Claude API) | https://console.anthropic.com | | xAI console (Grok API) | https://console.x.ai | | xAI REST / OpenAI-compatible base | https://api.x.ai/v1 — docs at https://docs.x.ai | | xAI US regional endpoint | https://us.api.x.ai/v1 | | Reddit note on Grok URL in ST | https://old.reddit.com/r/SillyTavernAI/comments/1hg6iwo/how_to_use_grok_api_key_in_sillytavern/ | **Billing caveat used in the tutorial:** claude.ai and SuperGrok chat subscriptions are not the same as API keys. Confirmed as product practice, not as a quote from those vendors’ pricing pages on this pass. --- ## Jefferson biography and house facts | Claim in the tutorial | Source | |---|---| | ~19,000 letters written (Boyd / Monticello working figure) | https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/number-letters-jefferson-wrote/ | | Death 4 July 1826; cause not single; bedridden late June | https://www.monticello.org/encyclopedia/jeffersons-cause-death | | Last words uncertain (“Is it the Fourth?” / “This is the Fourth?”) | https://web.archive.org/web/20190202095619/https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-last-words | | Died on the Jubilee; Adams the same day; epitaph three items; 1827 sale of property and enslaved people | https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/brief-biography-of-jefferson/a-day-in-the-life-of-jefferson/all-my-wishes-end-at-monticello/ | | Birth 13 Apr 1743 Shadwell; death Monticello 4 Jul 1826; Adams correspondence 1812–1826 | https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Jefferson-1 (secondary; verify dates against Monticello / Founders) | | “I cannot live without books” context (1815 library sale) | https://www.nps.gov/jeff/learn/historyculture/thomas-jefferson.htm and Monticello Libraries quotes page below | --- ## Primary texts cited as examples | Text | Date | Where to get the full letter | |---|---|---| | Letter to Danbury Baptist Association | 1 Jan 1802 | https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/letter-from-thomas-jefferson-to-the-danbury-baptist-association-january-1-1802/ — also Wikisource and Miller Center | | “I cannot live without books” to John Adams | 10 Jun 1815 | https://tjlibraries.monticello.org/tjandreading/quotes.html — pull full text from Founders Online search: Author Jefferson, Recipient Adams, date 1815-06-10 | | “Wolf by the ear” to John Holmes | 22 Apr 1820 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0518 | | Jefferson to Edward Coles on slavery / emancipation | 25 Aug 1814 | Teaching American History reprint: https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/letter-to-edward-coles/ — Founders original via Monticello Coles page | | Coles to Jefferson (the challenge) | 31 Jul 1814 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-07-02-0374 | | Coles follow-up | 26 Sep 1814 | https://encyclopediavirginia.org/primary-documents/letter-from-edward-coles-to-thomas-jefferson-september-26-1814/ | | Religious-liberty quote sheet (secondary compilation) | various | https://www.au.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/with-sovereign-reverence.pdf | **Letter to Peter Carr on education, Paris, 10 Aug 1787** was named in the tutorial as a RAG test. Confirm the Founders permalink before filing; search Founders: Author `"Jefferson, Thomas"` Recipient `"Carr, Peter"` Date 1787-08-10. --- ## Source collections (not individual letters) - Founders Online home: https://founders.archives.gov - Founders search, Jefferson as author: https://founders.archives.gov/?q=Author%3A%22Jefferson%2C%20Thomas%22 - Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Papers 1606–1827: https://www.loc.gov/collections/thomas-jefferson-papers/ - Internet Archive letter selections (public-domain older editions): e.g. https://archive.org/details/jeffersonpapers100jeffrich - Project Gutenberg / Wikisource for *Notes on the State of Virginia*, inaugurals, Autobiography --- ## What this sources file is not - Not a dump of every paper cited in the earlier glossary note (RAG/LoRA literature). That lives in `Historical-Persona-AI-Glossary-and-Sources.md`. - Not legal advice on post-mortem publicity or Founders Online terms of use. Founders pages carry their own rights language; private study is the intended use of this vault packet.