On the night of July 4th, Philadelphia printer John Dunlap was given the task of printing the first broadside of the Declaration of Independence. The First Official Printing: John Dunlap's Broadside Boyd's The Declaration of Independence: The Evolution of the Text. For more information about the rough drafts, see Julian P. These copies are similar to the final, approved version of the text, but should be considered their own documents, and not copies of the Declaration. Clean copies in Jefferson's hand are in the collections of the American Philosophical Society and the New York Public Library. There is also a draft in John Adams' hand at Massachusetts Historical Society, and a copy contained within notes Jefferson copied for James Madison in 1783 at the Library of Congress. He sent these copies to his friends, including Richard Henry Lee and George Wythe, two Virginia delegates who were absent from the proceedings. While the Committee of Five was reworking the text and after they submitted it to the Continental Congress, Jefferson created "clean" copies of the original draft, as a record of the changes that were made by Congress. They also have a fragment of what is thought to be the earliest draft of the document. The "original" rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, in Jefferson's handwriting with passages scratched out and changed, is at the Library of Congress.
So, when you see a copy of the Declaration of Independence, how do you know which version it is? And, why does that matter? There are also rare newspaper editions where the text is condensed to the front page or spread out over multiple columns, manuscripts of typically unknown origins, and broadsides representing a small fraction of the number that were printed and proclaimed in the summer of 1776. Every few years, when the story of a newly discovered copy of the Declaration of Independence surfaces, the copy is often a Stone engraving, or even a reprint of the Stone engraving by Peter Force. Stone engraving of the engrossed and signed parchment. The image that comes to mind when most people think of the Declaration of Independence is actually the William J. Most Americans and many historians consider "the" Declaration of Independence to be the engrossed and signed parchment, on display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. There is no singular authoritative version of the Declaration of Independence.
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