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George Washington's Library Book Returned, 221 Years Later

George Washington's Library Book Returned, 221 Years Later

Source: All About Jazz

It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a New York library.

The former president borrowed “The Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel on 5 October 1789, according to the records of the New York Society Library. Staff discovered it was missing when they conducted an inventory of books in the library's 1789-1792 ledger earlier this year. Washington had never returned the book an essay on international ...

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