I read in Panama City Herald today that dozens of Thomas Jefferson's books were found at Washington University in St. Louis. Some of them even had handwritten notes from him, which make them all the more valuable.
Actually the number of books is 69 and the school already had five others. Librarians are searching the rest of their rare book collection for more volumes that might have belonged to the nation's third president.
The school's 74 Jefferson books ranks it as the third-largest collection in the nation after the Library of Congress and University of Virginia.
But, I have to wonder why someone hasn't looked through the collection before. You never know what you'll find in all that stuff.
Just Like Finding Sunken Treasure. --Cooter
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