Emily Canellos-Simms is a citizen of Kewanee, Illinois who jumped to the Guinness Records for paying an exorbitant sum after returning to the library a copy of Days and Deeds to his local audience 47 years later.
However, it was not she who arranged for the loan of Burton Egbert Stevenson’s book of poems on April 19, 1955, but her mother. By the time Emily found the tome, the calendar had done its job and the two-cent-a-day penalty had accumulated to such an extent that the check was considered the largest booklet in history.
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How much did Emily Canellos-Simms pay?
Given that Emely found the book in 2002, the fine turned out to be quite steep: $345.14. The delay was the same as for John ‘Jack’ Foster, a professor emeritus at Queen University in Belfast, who found a book he didn’t remember reading in the locker at his old post at the University of British Columbia. Which? “The Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough”.
The biggest surprise came when he realized he should have returned the copy on October 11, 1966… And that was in 2013! 47 years had passed and he had amassed an earring worth £8,557. However, Queen University – the rightful owner – decided to forgive the debt.
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However, there is one case that is more than 47 years late: george washington he borrowed “The Law of Nations” from the New York Library after becoming President and did not return it in its time, but the Mount Vernon estate did 221 years later.