Books for the use of the United States in Congress assembled, 1783 and 1800

Libraries and the Cultural Record

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 109-122

  Glynn, Tom ^a   Hagensick, Craig C ^a  

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EID: 60949630542     PISSN: 19324855     EISSN: 19329555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/lac.2002.0023     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. James Madison, The Papers of James Madison, ed. William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachel, 17 vols. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962-91), 6:63;
2. Biographical Dictionary of the United States Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989), 1395, 1410, 1498.
3. Ralph Ketcham, James Madison: A Biography (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1971), 140.
4. Irving Brant, James Madison: The Nationalist, 7780-1787 (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1948), 288-89. It is possible that Jefferson already owned many of these sixty titles. Thus the omissions do not necessarily reflect a difference of opinion.
5. Brant, James Madison, 289. Which writers would be considered "radical" in 1783 is, of course, a moot point.
6. Annals of the Congress of the United States, 42 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Gales &Seaton, 1834-56), 1:679.
7. Biographical Dictionary, 704, 1053, 2036.
8. Boston Independent Chronicle, 13 May 1790.
9. Quoted in Charles A. Goodrum and Helen W Dalrymple, The Library of Congress (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1983), 9.
10. William Dawson Johnson, History of the Library of Congress, vol. I, 1800-1864 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904), 17-18. This is the Library's official history, and it actually goes back to 1774.
11. However, it makes no mention of Madison's committee. More recent works on the history of the Library in-clude John Y. Cole,Jefferson's Legacy: A Brief History of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993);
12. and Goodrum and Dalrymple, The Library of Congress. Also see The Library of Congress: A Documentary History (Bethesda, Md.: CIS, 1987 [microfilm]).
13. Annals of Congress, 10:684.
14. First Booklist of the Library of Congress: A Facsimile (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1981), n.p.
15. Both databases may be accessed free of charge at the Inter-University Consortium for Political Science Research .