Tocqueville also enlisted the help of a 22-year-old Brown University graduate, Francis J. Lippitt, who was able to speak and read French fluently. His job was to read the American pamphlets and summarize them in French. Tocqueville wanted Lippitt to remain unbiased, so he never told him that he was working on a book about America.
The list of Tocqueville's sources was compiled from the footnotes of Democracy in America and Tocqueville's manuscripts. Those which Tocqueville found most valuable are starred.
U.S. Congress, Senate and House Documents, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd Congresses
A Collection of the Laws of the United States
Jackson's Message on Internal Improvements (procured from Edward Livingston)
Annual Reports of Secretary of Treasury, 1823-1832
I.G. Worcester, The Town Officer, 1827
Massachusetts, "Historical Collection of State Papers"
General Law of Massachusetss, 3 vols., 1823
Connecticut, "Constitution of 1638"
Connecticut, "Code of 1650"
Revised Statutes of New York
Rules and Orders (NY State) 1832
Williams, New York Annual Register, 1831, 1832
American Almanac, 1831, 1832, 1834
National Calendar, 1833
Companion to the Almanac, London, 1834
Emerson (?), Medical Statistics
Niles' Weekly Register
Elliot's Pocket Almanac of the Federal Government, 1832
Montesquieu
Blackstone
J.L. de Lolme, The Constitution of England
* J. Story, Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, 3 vols., 1833
* J. Kent, Commentaries on American Law, 4 vols.
* L.P. Conseil (ed.), Melanges Politiques et Philosophiques Extraits des Memoires de Thomas Jefferson, Precedes d'un Essai Sur Les Principes de L'Ecole Americain et d'une Traduction de la Constitution des Etats-Unis, Avec un Commentaire Tire, Pour la Plus Grande Partie, de L'ouvarage Publiee, sur Cette Constitution, Par William Rawle ll.d, 2 vols., Paris, 1833
Th. Sergeant, Constitutional Law, Being a View of the Practice and Jurisdiction of the Courts of the United States, etc.
W.A. Duer, Outlines of the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States, 1833
Annual Law Register of the United States, 2 vols., 1821-1822
W. Sullivan, Political Class Book
Traite sur Les Regles des Actions Civiles, New Orleans, 1830
W. Darby, View of the United States, historical, geographical, and statistical, etc., 1828
D.B. Warden, Description statistique, historique et politiquedes Etats-Unis, etc., 5 vols., Paris, 1820
Major S.H. Long, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, etc., 2 vols., 1823
Major S.H. Long, Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, etc., 2 vols., 1824
C. Malte-Brun, Annales de Voyages
M.E. Descourtilz, Voyages d'un naturaliste, 3 vols.
Volney, Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique fait en 1795, 1796, et 1797, Paris, 8 vols.
A. von Humboldt, (title uncertain)
Fisher, Conjecture sur l'origine des Americans (?)
J. Adair, History of the American Indians
Heckewelder and Duponceau Correspondence, in Transactions of the Historical and Literary Committee of the American Philosophical Society, 3 vols.
* Jefferson, Notes sur la Virginie
Le Page du Pratz, Histoire de la Louisiane
Charlevoix, Historie et description generale de la Nouvelle France
Gookin on Indians, in Collections of Mass. Historical Society, ed. of 1806
John Tanner, Narrative of Captivity and Adventures, 1831 (bought [?] by Tocqueville from author)
Schoolcraft, Travels in the Central Portion of the Mississippi Valley
J.H. McCulloch, Jr., Researches ... Concerning the Aboriginal History of America, 1829
U.S. Congress, Legislative Documents, 20th, 21st, 22nd Congresses
source: George Pierson, Tocqueville and Beaumont in America, p.728-730
Documents - Legal and Political
Other Documents and Statistics
Legal Commentary
Description
Native Americans
(read a summary and excerpts of Jefferson's famous "Notes on Virginia")