Your Digital Docent on Instagram: "The Library of Congress at its founding was just that a research Library for the United States Congress so why does it have a division on Music? Why would congress need to research music? . When the British burned Washington in 1814 most of the Library of Congress' collection was destroyed. Thomas Jefferson offered to sell his collection of books that he had been collecting for over 50 years. Within that collection were 13 books on Music and from there the door