MANUSCRIPT THEFT
SIR WALTER SCOTT ORIGINAL.
POLICE SEARCH IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, November 22. A general police alarm, directed to the booksellers throughout the Eastern Section to-day, revealed the theft on October 24th la s t, of two hundred pages of the original manuscript of Sir Walter Scott’s “Guy Mannering,” the property of Air J. P. Morgan. The manuscript had been loaned to the Columbia University for the Scott Centenary Exhibition. Its value is not estimated, but it is assumed to be high.
The manuscript was locked in a glass case. It is assumed that the thieves used a duplicate key. The officials are inclined to 1 believe that the thieves were unfamiliar with the manuscripts, as they passed over incomplete manuscripts of Scott’s “Ivanhoe” and “Waverley,” which are considered the more valuable. The theft has been kept a secret for some time in the hope that the thieves would make contact with the owner, as the disposal of the manuscript considered “10 be Tijipossilile.
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Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 5
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165MANUSCRIPT THEFT Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1932, Page 5
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