| [. . .] | Text not crossed out in the manuscript. |
| <. . .> | Text circled or surrounded in pen (this generally concerns fragments that Tocqueville wanted to delete, but the presence of a circle around a word sometimes served solely to draw the author’s attention: Is the use pertinent? Does the word conflict phonetically with the one following?). |
| ≠. . .≠ | Word or text crossed out by one or several vertical or diagonal lines. |
| {. . .} | Word or text crossed out horizontally. |
| / | Sign placed at the end of the sentence to indicate that a horizontal line separates it in the manuscript from the one that follows. |
| .-.-.-.- | Illegible for physical reasons. Generally due to the very poor condition of the original. |
| [*] | Note of Tocqueville, present in the manuscript but absent from the published version. |
| * | Note of Tocqueville, omitted in certain editions. |
| [. . . (ed.)] | Information given by the editor. |
| a, b, c,. . . | Notes of the editor. |
| (A), (B),. . . | Notes of Tocqueville that refer to the end of the volume. |
| 1, 2, 3,. . . | Notes of Tocqueville placed at the bottom of the page. |
| OC | Edition of complete works published by Gallimard under the direction of J. P. Mayer at first, and François Furet and Jean-Claude Casanova afterward. |
| Œuvres complètes. Paris: Gallimard, 1951-: |
| t. I: | De la démocratie en Amérique. 2 vols. (1951) |
| t. II: | L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. 2 vols. (1952, 1953) |
| t. III: | Écrits et discours politiques. |
| | vol. 1. (1962) |
| | vol. 2 . (1985) |
| | vol. 2 . (1990) |
| t. IV: | Écrits sur le système pénitentiaire en France et à l’étranger. 2 vols. (1985) |
| t. V: | Voyages. |
| | vol. 1: En Sicile et aux États-Unis. (1957) |
| | vol. 2: En Angleterre, Irlande, Suisse et Algérie. (1958) |
| t. VI: | Correspondances anglaises. |
| | vol. 1: Avec Henry Reeve et John Stuart Mill. (1954) [cité comme Correspondance anglaise.] |
| | vol. 2: Correspondance et conversations d’Alexis de Tocqueville et Nassau William Senior. (1991) |
| | vol. 3: Correspondance anglaise. (2003) |
| t. VII: | Correspondance étrangère d’Alexis de Tocqueville. 1 vol. (1986) |
| t. VIII: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Gustave de Beaumont. 3 vols. (1967) |
| t. IX: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et d’Arthur de Gobineau. 1 vol. (1959) |
| t. X: | Correspondance et écrits locaux. (1995) |
| t. XI: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard. Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Jean-Jacques Ampère. 1 vol. (1970) |
| t. XII: | Souvenirs. 1 vol. (1964) |
| t. XIII: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Louis de Kergorlay. 2 vols. (1977) |
| t. XIV: | Correspondance familiale. (1998) |
| t. XV: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Francisque de Corcelle. Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville et de Madame Swetchine. 2 vols. (1983) |
| t. XVI: | Mélanges. (1989) |
| t. XVII: | Correspondance à divers. Not yet published. |
| t. XVIII: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville avec Adolphe de Circourt et Madame de Circourt. 1 vol. (1984) |
| OCB | Edition of complete works directed by Gustave de Beaumont. |
| Œuvres complètes publiées par Madame de Tocqueville. Paris: |
| Michel Lévy Frères, 1864-1878: |
| t. I-III: | De la démocratie en Amérique. |
| t. IV: | L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. |
| t. V: | Correspondance et œuvres posthumes. |
| t. VI: | Correspondance d’Alexis de Tocqueville. |
| t. VII: | Nouvelle correspondance. |
| t. VIII: | Mélanges, fragments historiques et notes sur l’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. |
| t. IX: | Études économiques, politiques et littéraires. |
| manuscript | In the notes of the editor, the working manuscript of the Democracy in America (YTC, CVIa, four boxes). |
| v: | variant |
| YTC | Yale Tocqueville Collection. Collection of manuscripts of Yale University, belonging to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Sterling Library owns several supplementary manuscripts. |
| YTC, BIIb | In this classification: lists of questions meant for American interlocutors. |
| YTC, CIIc | In this classification: “Sources manuscrites,” alphabetic list, drawn up by Tocqueville, of travel notes. |
| YTC, CVa-CVk | In this classification: drafts of Democracy. |
| CVa | “Bundle no. 8” “Notes that very probably have no place to be used” (59 pp.) |
| CVb | “Bundle no. 13” “Various documents on the system of administration in America from which a note can be done for the chapter titled Of Government and Administration in the United States;” (34 pp.) |
| CVc | “Bundle no. 6” “That equality of conditions is an accomplished, irresistible fact, that breaks all those who will want to struggle against it. Consequence of this fact” (9 pp.) |
| CVd | “Bundle no. 5” “Ideas and fragments that all relate more or less to the great chapter titled: how the ideas and sentiments that equality suggests influence the political constitution” (53 pp.) |
| CVe | “Bundle no. 17” (two copies of 13 and 17 pp.) |
| CVf | “Bundle no. 4” “Notes, detached ideas, fragments, criticisms, relative to my two last volumes of the Democracy” (52 pp.) |
| CVg | “Bundle no. 9” “Drafts of the chapters of the second part of the Democracy” (partial copy in Bonnel’s hand, three notebooks numbering a total of 416 pp. and two boxes with the original manuscript). This is the so-called “Rubish.” |
| CVh | “Bundle no. 3, 1-5” “Notes, documents, ideas relative to America. Good to consult if I again want to write something on this subject” (five notebooks, 484 pp.) |
| CVj | “Bundle no. 2, 1-2” “. . . detached . . . on the philosophic method of the Americans, general ideas, the sources of belief . . . to be put in the . . . and that cannot be placed in the chapter” (two notebooks, 138 pp.) |
| CVk | “Bundle no. 7, 1-2” “Fragments, ideas that I cannot place in the work (March 1840) (insignificant collection)” (two notebooks, 148 pp.) |
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