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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The late fire in Charleston--L and Insurance. (search)
the losses at $3,500,000, we do not include a very large amount which may be allowed for furniture, clothing, works of arts, wines, &c. Of the latter article, alone, we heard of 60 dozen Madeira in one cellar, bottled at different periods in the first quarter of the present century. The destruction of books has been a very heavy item of the losses of personal property. At this time it is impossible to get particulars, either as to their number or value. The theological library, at Bishop Lynch's residence, was probably the most costly collection of those lost, being valued at $35,000. Many of the books which it contained were exceedingly rare, and cannot be replaced. The gem of the collection was an old Polyglot Bible, in six large folio volumes, which was the only copy of that particular edition this side of the Atlantic. At was valued at $1,000. The number of law and scientific works which have perished is very great--Dr. Myduleton Michelle lost his medical library, consist