William Weeden, in his book Economic and Social History of New England, 1620-1789 (1890) calls Eliot's library "The most comprehensive list I have seen," adding "The brilliant and permanent literature of Queen Anne had made hardly any impression in our colonies, but this collection had two volumes of 'The Tattler.' It is a most heterogeneous lot, old histories, sermons, a few medical books, and more upon law, miscellaneous literature, almost all now unknown to the ordinary reader."
