Kiama Library Calculates A$28,000 Fee for Book Found in Sealed Fireplace Without Borrower Record

An 1858 volume returned to a New South Wales library carries a theoretical late charge derived from nineteenth-century rates, though the ledger that would verify the debt was lost in the 1870s.

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