This PhD dissertation was written in 1957 and is a remarkable piece of scholarship. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, TJ's favorite grandson was a complicated man with a huge burden to carry on the legacy of his famous grandfather. Manor born like his father and his father's father, "Jefferson" was the executor of his grandfather's estate (including his private and public papers) resulting in the first publication of Jefferson's papers in 1829. You can purchase that first volume on LULU and I highly recommend you purchase that volume (VOLUME 1 of THOMAS JEFFERSON'S papers) and read this as the follow-up, since Thomas Jefferson Randolph produced, compiled and arranged for the publication of this remarkable volume.