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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSir John Randolph, 1680, Commonplace Book- Date: 1680
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CollectionThomas Jefferson Papers, 1606-1827 The papers of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), diplomat, architect, scientist, and third president of the United States, held in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, consist of approximately 25,000 items, making it the largest collection of original Jefferson documents in the world. Dating from the early 1760s through his death in 1826, the Thomas Jefferson Papers consist mainly of his correspondence, but they also include…- Contributor: Jefferson, Thomas
- Date: 1606
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ArticleThe Jamestown Records of the Virginia Company of London: A Conservator's Perspective Library of Congress senior paper conservators Sylvia R. Albro and Holly H. Krueger tell the remarkable story of how Library conservators rescued Thomas Jefferson’s colonial Jamestown records from disintegration.
- Date: 1553
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ArticleVirginia Records, 1606 to 1737 Descriptions of the twenty-one volumes of colonial Virginia records once owned by Thomas Jefferson, now at the Library of Congress, and how to find and use them online.
- Date: 1606
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ArticleVirginia Records Timeline: 1553 to 1743 The Library of Congress owns twenty-one manuscript volumes of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Virginia colonial records that were originally part of Jefferson’s personal library. Half of these are in the Manuscript Division with Jefferson’s papers, and the remainder are in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division. This timeline covering early Virginia history is meant to illuminate the period documented in these volumes.- Date: 1553