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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82039792
Collection material in English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Roger Sherman, delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. senator and representative, and jurist from Connecticut, were obtained by gift of John Franklin Jameson, 1915, and purchases between 1908-1945.
The first volume of the Sherman Papers was bound by the Library of Congress in 1943. A second volume was bound in 1961, and additional loose material was processed subsequently. The finding aid was created in 2016.
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Roger Sherman is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.).
The papers of Roger Sherman are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Roger Sherman Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Roger Sherman (1721-1793) span the years 1746-1827 and consist mainly of bound financial material, legal documents and agreements, notebooks, and some correspondence. Two notebooks contain accounts of monies loaned the United States between September 1777 and August 1780, Sherman's expenses while attending the Continental Congress, June 7-Oct. 2 1777, the British national debt, 1740-1775, and extracts from the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Included is a notebook of a handwritten confession of faith and a 1776 almanac signed by Sherman containing personal accounts, 1775-1776. Also in the collection are a letter to William Williams, August 1777, regarding the appointment of General Horatio Gates to the Northern Department of the Continental Army, and photocopies of five letters between Sherman and John Adams concerning the ratification of the Constitution, July 1789. Other correspondents include Justus Mitchell, Theophylact Bache, and Sherman family members.
This collection is arranged chronologically in two bound volumes of mostly financial and legal documents, with some correspondence, and a container of notebooks and other unbound material arranged by type.
Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82039792