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Library of Congress Loan Record

[October 26, 1855]

RECEIVED of the Librarian of Congress, the following Books, which I promise to return, undefaced, to the said Librarian, within the time hereinafter specified, or to forfeit and pay twice the value thereof; as also twenty cents per day for each day's detention beyond the limited time of a Folio Volume; ten cents per day for the detention of a Quarto Volume; and five cents per day for the detention of an Octavo or smaller Volume.

WHEN RECEIVED

WHEN RETURNED

OCTAVO, OR SMALLER VOLUME

To be returned in one week

 

 

 

1853  Sept.  19th.

1855.  July 13

Metamorphosis of Apuleius

  "         "         "

1854  May  17th

Knox History of Ceylon, 4to.

1854  Feby.  9th.

1854.  July  26th.

Confessions of an Opium Eater

  "         "         "

  "        May  17th.

Diary, &c. of Lord Malmesbury, 4 vols.

  "       March  30th

  "           "       "

Jesse's London & its Celebrities, 2 vols.

  "         "           "

  "        July  27

Shakespeare, 1st v. (Mr. Lycett's.)

  "        Aug.  11

  "        Septr.  2d

Fercal's Mysts. Of the Inquisition

  "         "        "

  "           "        "

Calderon's Works, 1st vol. (Vellum)

  "         "        "

  "           "        "

Cumberland's Min. Theatre, v. 14.

  "         "        "

  "           "        "

Blessington's Country Quarters, 3 vols.

  "        Septr.  2d

1855  July  13

Edgeworth's Works, <-1st v-> 2d v.

  "         "          "

  "        "       "

           Do.                                3d & 4th v. Mrs. Davis.

  "         "          "

  "        "       "

           Do.                                 9th v. 

  "         "          5

  "        "       "

Irving's Conquest of Florida.

1855  Sepr.  18

  "        Octr.  26

Shakspeare & his Friends, 3 vols

  "         "         "

  "           "       "

Stand. Novels, 41st. v. Vathek

  "         "         "

  "       Sept  18th

Hood's Prose & Verse (transferred to next book.


From The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Volume 5, pp. 125-26. Transcribed from the original in the Library of Congress, Receipt Book G, 345 and H, 288.



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