Anonymous Patron writes “Stolen book returned after 150 years: An 18th-century legal tome has been returned to the North Carolina state Supreme Court 150 years after it was stolen by a Union soldier after the Civil War.
“Report of Divers Cases in Pleas of the Crown Adjudged and Determined; in the Reign of King Charles II” is inscribed by Quentin Busbee, who served as the Supreme Court reporter in 1853, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. The book was published in 1708.
The work was donated anonymously to the library of Indiana University. The only clue to its travels from North Carolina to Indiana is an unsigned inscription — “Obtained in July 1865 at Raleigh, North Carolina.””
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