Article May 24, 1900 Issue

Interesting Bibles

Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital

A tribute to the Bible comes indirectly from the interest which is shown in copies that are rare, or that have had peculiar associations. Many private libraries are enriched by single copies of the Bible. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has a magnificent copy of John Eliot's Indian Bible, printed in Cambridge, Mass., in 1663, for which he is reported to have paid $1,000. An original Mayflower Bible, evidently belonging to the Whites, the parents of the first child born in the Plymouth colony, has recently been discovered, so to speak, in a private library, where its value was not known. This Bible has notes on its pages and margins which connect it with the eventful voyage. There is even a crude pen-and-ink sketch of a ship labeled the Mayflower.—Topeka (Kan.) Daily Capital.

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