The Twins and the Scholar

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most famous letters in the history of Biblical scholarship:

University Library, Cambridge

May 13, 1896

Dear Mrs. Lewis,

I think we have reason to congratulate ourselves. For the fragment I took with me represents a piece of the original Hebrew of Ecclesiasticus. It is the first time that such a thing was discovered. Please do not speak yet about the matter till to-morrow. I will come to you to-morrow about 11 p.m. and talk over the matter with you, and how to make it known.

In haste and great excitement