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Chronology

Earlier

1636 founding of Harvard

first educational property was 329 titles and over 400 volumes , p. 2

1701 founding of Yale

books pooled by local minsters , p. 2

1734 Virginia General Assembly taxed liquor to buy books

for William and Mary; a penny a gallon on imported liquors “provide dthat some part thereof should be spent in books.” , p. 3

1740 founding of University of Pennsylvania

inherited from Benjamin Franklin’s Academy , p. 2

1750 Governor Jonathan Belcher gift to Princeton

shortly after opening as College of New Jerey https://library.princeton.edu/about/history , p. 2

1750 King’s College, which became Columbia

fine library of Hon. Joseph Murray , p. 2

1763 Dartmouth’s library collection

twenty volumes from William Dickson (six years before Dartmouth acquired its charter) , p. 2

19th Century

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1814 Jefferson attempted to buy Joseph Priestley’s collection

for the collection that would eventually be UVa’s, but failed for lack of funds , p. 3

1814 Library of Congress Library destroyed by British

Jefferson offered his collection for acquisition by the Federal Government (August 1814) , p. 4

1816 Albemarle Academy absorbed into Central College (which just received appointment)

neither ever offered classes, but Jefferson was involved with both and used them as models , p. 3

1819 UVa Charter from the Commonwealth of Virginia

, p. 3

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1824 Jefferson’s appropriation from Va. Gen. Assem.

$50,000 based on possible reimbursement by the Federal Government of state expenditures during the War of 1812 (winter 1823-24) , p. 4

1824 Francis Walker Gilmer to England to buy books

books and apparatuses for $6,000 “high hopes of laying the foundations of a great library.” list of classical titles from Dr. Samuel Parr, and London bookseller Bohn was selected as the University’s English agent , p. 4

1825 first consignment of books arrives

eight boxes of purchased volumes with the Bohn label in Charlottesville (January 1825) , p. 4

1825 Jefferson asks for donations

in Charlottesville Central Gazette and the Richmond Enquirer asking for donations (April 1825) , p. 4–5

1825 American agent, Cummings, Hillard and Company (Boston) has a list of books

7,000 volumes, $18,000, list of volumes by Jefferson (June 1825) compared with catalog made by first Librarian, John Vaughan Kean, not duplicating Bohn , p. 5

1825 First session of UVa

, p. 3

1826 purchases fro Cummings, Hilliard and Company arrive

stored in the pavilion on the West Lawn, now the Colonnade Club, which was temporarily being used for the Library (winter of 1825-1826) , p. 5

1826 Jefferson witnessing the capital on top of a pillar of the Rotunda

which would house the books of UVa for more than a century (April, 1826) , p. vii

1826 Jefferson’s death

(4 July 1826) , p. 5

1826 printed catalog authorized by the Faculty

(December 1826) , p. 5

1828 printed catalog completed by second Librarian, William Wertenbaker

purchased and donated volumes, followed Jefferson’s classification based on list for the Boston book agent, numbered 8,000 , p. 5

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1830 snapshot of collection sizes

8,000 UVa, 30,000 Harvard, 8,500 Yale, 8,000 Princeton, 6,000 Brown, 3,500 for Dartmouth, 3,400 for William and Mary American Almanac coverage of UVa was all fields , p. 6

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1895 Rotunda fire

not much happened after Jefferson’s Death until the fire of the Rotunda; his statue saved, although the books lost (1895) , p. viii, 1

20th Century

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1927 Harry Clemons becomes librarian

(1927) , p. ix was previously “driven by the Chinese bandits from Nanking University” and the first librarian with the rank of professor, also took a refresher course at Columbia University, pun “All is not literature that litters” , p. xi 12 hour schedule, 8-2 and then 8-2, longhand , p. xiv-xv

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1950 Harry Clemons term as librarian ends

(1950) , p. ix