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詹姆士．麦迪逊 (James
Madison) 总统于1815年1月30日同意国会决定购买汤玛斯．杰佛逊图书馆的法案
汤玛斯．杰佛逊很享受他在蒙地赛罗的退休生活。他同意将他个人约6487册书籍卖给国会图书馆的管理委员会，以协助国会图书馆的重建。他个人的藏书数量大约是国会图书馆被烧毁总书籍的两倍之多。第一个国会图书馆收藏的书籍仅限于法律、经济，与历史。但是杰佛逊却说：「我不认为我的藏书里会有国会不想要收藏的书籍。」
Thomas Jefferson, enjoying his retirement at Monticello, offered to sell his collection of 6,487 volumes to the Library Committee of Congress in order to rebuild the collection of the Congressional Library. His personal collection contained over twice the number of books Congress had lost in the fire. It also included a wider range of topics in several languages. The previous library covered only law, economics, and history. However, Jefferson said of his collection, "I do not know that it contains any branch of science which Congress would wish to exclude from their collection."
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