Washington Heights library gets book returned — 55 years later

A book was returned to the Fort Washington branch in Washington Heights. It contained a check for $100 and the checkout date was April 1958. The library is not revealing who wrote the check.

  'Fire of Francis Xavier' was checked out of the Fort Washington library branch in Washington Heights. When it was returned, it had a check in it for $100, presumably to cover the fines.

A mystery Good Samaritan is giving the library its dues — returning a book 55 years after it was borrowed.

An uptown branch of the New York Public Library finally got “Fire of Francis Xavier” back — more than five decades after the biography of the 16th-century priest was checked out.

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