Research Catalog

Title

The Declaration of Independence : the evolution of the text / by Julian P. Boyd ; edited by Gerard W. Gawalt.

Author

Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-1980.

Publication

Washington : Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gawalt, Gerard W.

Description

102 pages : color illustrations; 34 cm

Summary

"For more than fifty years, Jefferson scholar Julian P. Boyd's study of the evolution of the text of the Declaration of Independence, which the Library of Congress published while the nation was in the throes of World War II, has remained the preeminent textual presentation of the most fundamental document of the United States. The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text (1943) was part of the nationwide undertaking meant to celebrate America's fundamental freedom in conjunction with the bicentennial of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. Out of print now for more than forty years, Boyd's study brought together photographic reproductions of all known drafts of the document in one large-format book. In this new edition edited by Gerard W. Gawalt, specialist in American history at the Library of Congress, a fragment of a document unknown to scholars in 1943, the earliest surviving composition fragment of the Declaration, is reproduced in color for the first time. Gawalt explains how the discovery of this fragment sheds light on the process of drafting the Declaration of Independence."--Jacket.

Subject

• United States. > Criticism, Textual
• United States
• Declaration of Independence (United States)
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Preface: Specialist in Early American History Manuscript Division, Library of Congress / Gerard W. Gawalt 9 -- Foreword: Librarian of Congress from 1939 to 1944 / Archibald MacLeish 13 -- The Drafting of the Declaration of Independence: Historian, The Thomas Jefferson Bicentennial Commission Editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, from 1943 to 1980 / Julian P. Boyd 15 -- Document I George Mason's Draft of the Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776 41 -- Document II Jefferson's "First Ideas" on the Virginia Constitution, 1776 47 -- Document III Richard Henry Lee Resolution of Independence 51 -- Document IIIa Fragment of the Earliest Known Draft of the Declaration of Independence, Written by Thomas Jefferson in June 1776 55 -- Document IV John Adams' Copy of Jefferson's Original Draft 59 -- Document V Jefferson's Rough Draft of The Declaration of Independence 65 -- Document VI Copy of the Declaration Made by Jefferson for Richard Henry Lee 73 -- Document VII Unidentified Copy of the Declaration Made by Jefferson [Cassius F. Lee Copy] 79 -- Document VIII Copy of the Declaration Made by Jefferson for James Madison 85 -- Document IX Unidentified Copy of the Declaration Made by Jefferson [The Washburn Copy] 91 -- Document X The First Printing of the Declaration, As Inserted in the Rough Journal of Congress 97.

Call Number

E221

ISBN

• 0844409804
• 9780844409801

LCCN

98054837

OCLC

40542958

Author

Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-1980.

Title

The Declaration of Independence : the evolution of the text / by Julian P. Boyd ; edited by Gerard W. Gawalt.

Imprint

Washington : Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1999.

Edition

Rev. ed.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Gawalt, Gerard W.

Other Form:

Online version: Boyd, Julian P. (Julian Parks), 1903-1980. Declaration of Independence. Rev. ed. Washington : Library of Congress in association with the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation ; Hanover : Distributed by University Press of New England, 1999 (OCoLC)654280366

Research Call Number

*R-USLHG E221 .B69 1999