Thomas Jefferson’s library

October 27, 2008 – 9:34 pm, by Jonathan Green

Thomas Jefferson’s library held 6,487 volumes. In 1814, the 3,000 volumes then held by the Library of Congress were burned by the British. Jefferson sold his 6,487 to the Congress as a replacement. They too were burned in 1851. Read Harper’s and you will know these things.

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