Republican (constitutionalist) former President Jefferson donates his personal library of seven-thousand volumes to the Library of Congress to replace the original library that had been burned in the sack of the District of Columbia the previous summer.
[restored 12/4/2021]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 76.
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