Rare books curator in West Virginia returns 119-years overdue library book to Massachusetts: 'This came back in extremely good condition'
On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity” from the New Bedford Free Public Library. It would take 119 years and the sharp eyes of a librarian in West Virginia before the…
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