Library SummaryStatus: Completed Type: Real Size: Huge (1001+) |
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| Library Information |
| Library date |
1826-07-04  | |
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| Library size (titles) |
5611 to date | |
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| Sources |
Reconstruction of books owned at Shadwell (destroyed by fire 1 February 1770); books inherited from his father Peter Jefferson, acquired by Jefferson prior to 1770, &c. Manuscript catalog; "1783 Catalog". Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society. A subset, books owned as of March 1783, has been reconstructed and transcribed here (c. 1770s-1812) Manuscript catalog; "1789 Catalog". Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society. Books purchased by Jefferson while in Europe. Transcription available here (1789) Manuscript list; Philip Nicholas Trist, List of Books sold by Thomas Jefferson to Congress, 1815 (1823). Published as James Gilreath and Douglas L. Wilson, Thomas Jefferson’s Library: A Catalog with the Entries in His Own Order. Library of Congress (1989). Manuscript catalog; Retirement Library Catalogue, Library of Congress. Transcription available here. Books purchased by Jefferson after the 1815 sale (1815-1826) Auction catalog; Catalogue. President Jefferson's Library. A Catalogue of the extensive and valuable Library of the late President Jefferson, (copied from the original MS, in his hand-writing, as arranged by himself,) to be sold at auction, at the Long Room, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington City, By Nathaniel P. Poor, on the 27th February, 1829. Washington: Gales and Seaton (1829) Reconstruction of books owned at Poplar Forest; partly drawn from the sale of the library of George A. Leavitt (1873). Transcription available here. | |
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| Provenance marks |
Typically penned a "T" adjacent to the I signature mark and an "I" next to the T signature mark | |
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| Entity Information |
| Date of birth |
1743-04-13 | |
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| Date of death |
1826-07-04 | |
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| Gender |
male | |
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| Legacy connections |
Carr, Dabney (brother-in-law) | |
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