Book Is Returned to Library 82 Years Late: ‘I Hope There Is No Late Fee’

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The San Antonio Public Library received a letter along with the overdue book that was checked out in July 1943

According to the writer of the letter, the book was checked out by their grandma

The book, returned from Oregon in “good condition,” is author Frances Bruce Strain’s Your Child, His Family, and Friends

An Oregon resident returned a library book — nearly 82 years after its due date — that was checked out in Texas in July 1943.

The San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) recently revealed that it received a cheeky letter along with the overdue book, author Frances Bruce Strain’s Your Child, His Family, and Friends , this summer.

The SAPL shared in a news release that the letter’s writer found the book while going through her late dad’s belongings and said that