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Photograph of the interior of the Rotunda Annex decorated for Jefferson’s birthday, 1867
(MSS 6436)

John T. Thornton, the son of William Mynn Thornton (Chairman of the Faculty), was twenty years old at the time of the Great Fire. He recorded his eyewitness account on the evening of the fire, Sunday, October 27, 1895, in a letter to his mother,…