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(LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.) Pitkin, Timothy. Autograph Letter Signed to Hezekiah Howe.
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.) Pitkin, Timothy. Autograph Letter Signed to Hezekiah Howe. 8vo with integral address leaf; torn at seal. Washington, 28 February 1815
- Notes: Letter from Pitkin, a U.S. Representative from Connecticut, to New Haven book dealer Hezekiah Howe, declining his offer to purchase books in Europe for the devastated Library of Congress: "I would inform you that Mr. Jefferson's library has been purchased, & the Committee, at present, do not intend to purchase any more books." Jefferson's library was acquired as the core of the new Library of Congress after it had been burned by the British in 1814.
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