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Presidents' Day Discovery

Hat tip to my mother for this one...

Just in time for Presidents' Day, a remarkable discovery was made at Washington University in St. Louis: 74 volumes in the rare book room were once owned by Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson scholars have now confirmed that Washington University has the third-largest collection of Jefferson's books, after the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia. Some of the volumes are marked in Jefferson's own unusual way--writing a small letter "T" at the bottom of pages. Some have comments (and corrections!) in the margins, and even notes tucked into the books themselves.

You can learn more about the discovery at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The New York Times.