Much of the Bland Library ended up in the first Jefferson Library, and thence in the Library of Congress or the VHS.
Kevin Gutzman
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A not-entirely-helpful, but similar acknowledgement from Trevor Colbourn
http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/674 <http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/674>
Samuel Squire, An Enquiry into the Foundations of the English Constitution: or, an Historical Essay upon the Anglo-Saxon Government both in Germany and England, new ed. (London, 1753), 9, 11, 84. Professor Clyde Henson of Michigan State University has for many years investigated the contents of the Bland library; the Bland copy of Squire, signed “R. Bland” and heavily underlined, was last located in the library of the late Dr. Magnus Martin. I am in Dr. Henson’s debt for information on the Bland library in general and for confirming my estimate of the importance of Squire’s Enquiry in particular.
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> In his massive Intellectual Life in the Colonial South (p. 544) Richard Beale Davis wrote that a Prof. Clyde S. Henson of Michigan State University was studying Bland's library and had "gathered all he could about the books in the Colonel's library" -- and that Henson had sent Davis some 80 pages of photocopies of information about these titles (ibid., 1011 n 120).
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> Does anyone know where Henson's findings might be consulted?
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> Thank you and a joyous holiday season to all.
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> Jon Kukla
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