Violins - Revision history

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	'''1783 November 20.''' "Pd. for pocket book 12/6--mendg. violin 2/6."<ref>Ibid, 539.</ref>		'''1783 November 20.''' "Pd. for pocket book 12/6--mendg. violin 2/6."<ref>Ibid, 539.</ref>

-	'''1784 November 30.''' "pd. for fiddle strings 7f4."</ref>Ibid, 1:569.</ref>	+	'''1784 November 30.''' "pd. for fiddle strings 7f4."<ref>Ibid, 1:569.</ref>

	'''1788 August 15.''' "Pd. for a small violin 36#."<ref>This was a kit which Jefferson used for practice and later gave to a student at the [[University of Virginia]]. Ibid, 1:712.</ref>		'''1788 August 15.''' "Pd. for a small violin 36#."<ref>This was a kit which Jefferson used for practice and later gave to a student at the [[University of Virginia]]. Ibid, 1:712.</ref>

-	'''1792 July 13.''' "Pd. for fiddle stings .97." <ref>Ibid, 2:876.</ref>	+	'''1792 July 13.''' "Pd. for fiddle strings .97." <ref>Ibid, 2:876.</ref>

	'''1793 December 24.''' "Pd. for violin strings 2.06."<ref>Ibid, 2:907.</ref>		'''1793 December 24.''' "Pd. for violin strings 2.06."<ref>Ibid, 2:907.</ref>

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
-	*Cripe, Helen. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974, 44-47.</ref>	+	*Cripe, Helen. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974, 44-47.
	*Salgo, Sandor. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5962 Thomas Jefferson: Musician & Violinist] (Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc., 2000. Available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/books.html Monticello Museum Shop]		*Salgo, Sandor. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5962 Thomas Jefferson: Musician & Violinist] (Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc., 2000. Available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/books.html Monticello Museum Shop]

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-	[[Thomas Jefferson]] owned a number of '''violins''' over his lifetime. However, it is unclear how many and what happened to them over the years after his [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]]. As Helen Cripe argues, Jefferson could have owned a smaller violin or kit that [[Nicholas Philip Trist]] received from Jefferson later on.<ref>Helen Cripe, [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] (Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974), 44, and Trist Memorandum. Found in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref> Researchers can say he had three: a violin he bought from Dr. Pasteur in 1768, one he bought from Sir John Randolph in 1775, and a small violin noted in 1788. There is a family legend that Jefferson saved a violin from the Shadwell fire in 1770. If that violin is different from the Pasteur violin, then it might be four.	+	''No article yet exists on this topic. The following are primary source references to violins compiled by Monticello researchers.''

-	After Jefferson's [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]], [[Joseph Coolidge]] sold two violins to London. The disposition of a single one of these instruments has never been documented and it is not known conclusively where any of them are located.	+	==Primary Source References<ref>Please note that this list should not be considered comprehensive.</ref>==
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	'''1768 February 11.''' "Recd. of Charles Hudson for fiddlestrings, 7/6."<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>		'''1768 February 11.''' "Recd. of Charles Hudson for fiddlestrings, 7/6."<ref>[[Short Title List\|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

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	==Further Sources==		==Further Sources==
	*Cripe, Helen. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974, 44-47.</ref>		*Cripe, Helen. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974, 44-47.</ref>
-	*Salgo, Sandor. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5962 Thomas Jefferson: Musician & Violinist] (Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc., 2000. Available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/books.html Monticello Gift Shop]	+	*Salgo, Sandor. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5962 Thomas Jefferson: Musician & Violinist] (Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc., 2000. Available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/books.html Monticello Museum Shop]

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-	[[Thomas Jefferson]] owned a number of '''violins''' over his lifetime. However, it is unclear how many and what happened to them over the years after his [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]]. As Helen Cripe argues, Jefferson could have owned a smaller violin or kit that [[Nicholas Philip Trist]] received from Jefferson later on.<ref>Trist Memorandum. Found in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref> Researchers can say he had three: a violin he bought from Dr. Pasteur in 1768, one he bought from Sir John Randolph in 1775, and a small violin noted in 1788. There is a family legend that Jefferson saved a violin from the Shadwell fire in 1770. If that violin is different from the Pasteur violin, then it might be four.	+	[[Thomas Jefferson]] owned a number of '''violins''' over his lifetime. However, it is unclear how many and what happened to them over the years after his [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]]. As Helen Cripe argues, Jefferson could have owned a smaller violin or kit that [[Nicholas Philip Trist]] received from Jefferson later on.<ref>Helen Cripe, [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] (Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974), 44, and Trist Memorandum. Found in [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref> Researchers can say he had three: a violin he bought from Dr. Pasteur in 1768, one he bought from Sir John Randolph in 1775, and a small violin noted in 1788. There is a family legend that Jefferson saved a violin from the Shadwell fire in 1770. If that violin is different from the Pasteur violin, then it might be four.

-	After Jefferson's [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]], Joseph Coolidge sold two violins to London. The disposition of a single one of these instruments has never been documented and it is not known conclusively where any of them are located.	+	After Jefferson's [[Jefferson's Cause of Death\|death]], [[Joseph Coolidge]] sold two violins to London. The disposition of a single one of these instruments has never been documented and it is not known conclusively where any of them are located.

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	'''1793 December 24.''' "Pd. for violin strings 2.06."<ref>Ibid, 2:907.</ref>		'''1793 December 24.''' "Pd. for violin strings 2.06."<ref>Ibid, 2:907.</ref>

-	'''1826 March 22.''' ([[Nicholas Philip Trist]]). "Mr. Jefferson said...At first I carried about with me that little instrument which I've given to Lewis...I have two [violins] that would fetch in London any price-one a violin of Sir John Randolph's, the other a Cremona more than a hundred years old."<ref>Trist Memorandum. [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-132.</ref>	+	'''1826 March 22.''' ([[Nicholas Philip Trist]]). "Mr. Jefferson said...At first I carried about with me that little instrument which I've given to [Meriwether] Lewis [Randolph]...I have two [violins] that would fetch in London any price-one a violin of Sir John Randolph's, the other a Cremona more than a hundred years old."<ref>Trist Memorandum. [[Short Title List\|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-132.</ref>

	==Footnotes==		==Footnotes==

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[[Thomas Jefferson]] owned a number of '''violins''' over his lifetime. However, it is unclear how many and what happened to them over the years after his [[Jefferson's Cause of Death|death]]. As Helen Cripe argues, Jefferson could have owned a smaller violin or kit that [[Nicholas Philip Trist]] received from Jefferson later on.<ref>Trist Memorandum. Found in [[Short Title List|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131.</ref> Researchers can say he had three: a violin he bought from Dr. Pasteur in 1768, one he bought from Sir John Randolph in 1775, and a small violin noted in 1788. There is a family legend that Jefferson saved a violin from the Shadwell fire in 1770. If that violin is different from the Pasteur violin, then it might be four.

After Jefferson's [[Jefferson's Cause of Death|death]], Joseph Coolidge sold two violins to London. The disposition of a single one of these instruments has never been documented and it is not known conclusively where any of them are located.

==Primary Source References==

'''1768 February 11.''' "Recd. of Charles Hudson for fiddlestrings, 7/6."<ref>[[Short Title List|''MB'']], 1:70.</ref>

'''1768 May 28.''' "Pd. Doctr. Pasteur for violin L5."<ref>Ibid, 1:77.</ref>

'''1768 October 4.''' "Pd. at Hornsby's for fiddlestrings 3/."<ref>Ibid, 1:82.</ref>

'''1768 October 13.''' "Pd. at Hornsby's for fiddlestrings 2/3."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

'''1769 August 10.''' "Pd. Richards for fiddlestrings 3/."<ref>Ibid, 1:147.</ref>

'''1770 June 23.''' "Pd. Hornsby for fiddlestrings 1/3."<ref>Ibid, 1:205.</ref>

'''1770 June 24.''' "Pd. for fiddlestring 7 1/2d."<ref>Ibid.</ref>

'''1770 October 8.''' "Pd. at Hornsby's for fiddlestring 1/10 1/2."<ref>Ibid, 1:209.</ref>

'''1771 July 15.''' "Pd. at Printg. office for fiddle strings 3/1 1/2."<ref>Ibid, 1:257.</ref>

'''1771 July 15.''' "Pd. at Hornsby's for do. 3/9.<ref>Ibid.</ref>

'''1775 July 28.''' "Pd. Hillegas for violin strings 21/3."<ref>Ibid, 1:403.</ref>

'''1775 August 17.''' "Delivered to Carter Braxton an order on the Treasurer in favor of J. Randolph Atty. General for L13. the purchase money for his violin."<ref>Ibid, 1:405.</ref>

'''1776 May 24.''' "Pd. Hillegas for fiddle strings 27/."<ref>Ibid, 1:419.</ref>

'''1783 November 20.''' "Pd. for pocket book 12/6--mendg. violin 2/6."<ref>Ibid, 539.</ref>

'''1784 November 30.''' "pd. for fiddle strings 7f4."</ref>Ibid, 1:569.</ref>

'''1788 August 15.''' "Pd. for a small violin 36#."<ref>This was a kit which Jefferson used for practice and later gave to a student at the [[University of Virginia]]. Ibid, 1:712.</ref>

'''1792 July 13.''' "Pd. for fiddle stings .97." <ref>Ibid, 2:876.</ref>

'''1793 December 24.''' "Pd. for violin strings 2.06."<ref>Ibid, 2:907.</ref>

'''1826 March 22.''' ([[Nicholas Philip Trist]]). "Mr. Jefferson said...At first I carried about with me that little instrument which I've given to Lewis...I have two [violins] that would fetch in London any price-one a violin of Sir John Randolph's, the other a Cremona more than a hundred years old."<ref>Trist Memorandum. [[Short Title List|Randall, ''Life'']], 1:131-132.</ref>

==Footnotes==
<references/>

==Further Sources==
*Cripe, Helen. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=675 Thomas Jefferson and Music] Charlottesville:University Press of Virginia, 1974, 44-47.</ref>
*Salgo, Sandor. [http://tjportal.monticello.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5962 Thomas Jefferson: Musician & Violinist] (Charlottesville: Thomas Jefferson Foundation Inc., 2000. Available for purchase at [http://monticellostore.stores.yahoo.net/books.html Monticello Gift Shop]

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