This new ed. of Boyd?s authoritative study of the drafting of the Declaration of Independence (DoI) includes the fragment of a draft of the DoI that was unknown in 1943, when this text was first published. Discovered in 1947 by Boyd, Jefferson?s composition fragment was first exhibied to the public in 1995, and it is here made available in a color reproduction for the first time. Library of Congress historical specialist Gerard Gawalt writes about...
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