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  Thomas Jefferson, retired at Monticello, offered his personal library to Congress as a replacement for the books that were destroyed when the British army invaded Washington and burned the Capitol during the War of 1812. After some debate, Congress approved the purchase for $23,950. In a single stroke, the acquisition of Jefferson's library expanded the scope of the Library of Congress far beyond its original boundaries of a legislative reference collection devoted to legal, economic, and historical works. In addition to English, Jefferson's library contained books in French, Spanish, German, Latin, and Greek on a wide variety of subjects, from architecture to science, literature, engineering, philosophy, wine- making, and geography. Anticipating that Congress might find his collection too comprehensive, Jefferson noted that there was "no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have occasion to refer." 

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