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Joseph Milligan’s Statement on the Size of Thomas Jefferson’s Library, [ca. 2 August 1815]
Joseph Milligan’s Statement on the Size of Thomas Jefferson’s Library
[ca. 2 Aug. 1815]
The following Statement is a recapitulation of the difference of Counting Stated by way of Dr & Cr
| over Counted | Lost in Count | ||||||||||||
| Dr | Chapter | Folio | 4to | 8vo | 12mo | Cre | chapter | Folio | 4to | 8vo | 12mo | ||
| 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 15 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 16 §21 | 1 | ||||||||
| 16 | §I | 1 | 17 | 1 | |||||||||
| 17 | 2 | 19 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 21 | 1 | 31 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 24 | 1 | 3 | 33 | 2 | |||||||||
| 28 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | ||||||||
| twice |  |
25 |  |
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| Counted | 26 | ||||||||||||
| 27 | 10 | 71 | 134 | 16 | |||||||||
| 28 | |||||||||||||
| 30 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 36 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| 37 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 39 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| 10 | 73 | 153 | 25 | ||||||||||
| Deduct | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||||||
| 8 | 72 | 149 | 22 | over counted | |||||||||
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 204:36384); entirely in Milligan’s hand, with some of the rules in red ink; undated; with Milligan to TJ, 2 Aug. 1815, on verso; endorsed by Milligan: “Statement of difference of Count with Explenations.”
1. Reworked from “§I.” Here and in next line, “§” is a symbol for “section.”