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Mr. Jefferson’s library: “a necessity of life”

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Phill Greenwalt

Part three in a four-part series “I cannot live without books,” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in June of 1815. The former president had just packed his personal library—some 6,700 volumes—into a wagon train and shipped it north to … Continue reading →

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