Correspondence regarding the first University of Virginia copy of Eliot's Indian Bible [manuscript] 1907 Jul 11.

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Correspondence regarding the first University of Virginia copy of Eliot's Indian Bible [manuscript] 1907 Jul 11.

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William M. Forrest writes Tuttle in reference to the University of Virginia Library's copy of Eliot's Indian Bible; he states that the Library possessed a copy that had formerly belonged to "Dr. C.D. Ebeling." Ebeling's books were purchased "by I[srael] Thorndike and given to Harvard in 1818." Harvard sold the Bible in 1819 and in "some unknown way, the U.Va. got it by 1828." Forrest states that the Bible was in the University of Virginia Library as late as 1892 and asks if the Bible was destroyed in the 1895 Rotunda fire. Tuttle's reply (dated July 12, 1907) states that the Bible was listed in the 1828 Catalogue of the University Library and in "a manuscript catalogue of the Library, begun in 1858." This manuscript catalogue "was used as a check list after the fire and records the book as lost in the fire."

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