A Serendipitous Discovery in the Deloitte Digital Collection: A Land-Lover and His Land

This paper outlines the serendipitous discovery of a small self-published book that shows that Elijah Watt Sells, one of the founders of the firm Haskins & Sells, was a man of the soil. It also is indicative of the types of digitized materials available at the National Library of the Accounting Profession at The University of Mississippi.