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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