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	Our Price: $15.00 Year: 1987 Pages: 64 Binding Paperback Product Code: 0914076639

Description   by Jack P. Greene (au), James N. Green, curator. As the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia's Independence Hall in the momentous summer of 1787, they were not two blocks from Carpenter's Hall, where the fifty-five year old Library Company of Philadelphia had occupied two rooms since 1774. The Library Company had opened its doors to the First and Second Continental Congresses, and so it was probably only to formalize an arrangement taken for granted that the directors resolved, on July 5 1787, to "furnish the Gentlemen composing the Convention now sitting, with such books as they may desire during their continuance in Philadelphia." Two days later William Jackson, secretary to the Convention (and a member of the Library Company) returned the thanks of the delegates to the directors for "their polite attention." And so the Library Company became "The Delegates Library." (Philadelphia: The Library Company of Philadelphia, 1987.)

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