Overdue Book Returned To US Library 119 Years Later

The book made its way to a donation pile in West Virginia, nearly 900 miles from its home.

A book on the development of electricity has finally been returned. James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" was checked out in 1904 from the New Bedford Free Public Library in Massachusetts. The book was published in 1882.

The book made its way to a donation pile in West Virginia, nearly 900 miles from its home. According to New York Post, the curator of rare books at West Virginia University Libraries, Steward Plein, plucked the centuries-old science book from the charity bin and noticed that it still had its "withdrawn" sticker intact which meant it was still the library's property.

Mr Plein reached out to the New Bedford Free Public Library and mailed their book to them.