BETRAYED TRUST
DICKENS PAPERS STOLEN LONDON, July 3. J. L. W. Bostock, a free lance journalist, was sentenced to a yearjs imprisonment for theft of the Dickens letters. - • Bostock secured the confidence of the officials at the- Dickens Trust House, Bloomsbury, and was given access to the most valuable books. He tore out paintings and letters from a special edition of Forster’s “ Life of Dickens.’ During visits extending over 18 months altogether, he stole 40 irreplaceable articles, 15 of which he sent to America. Dealers are returning 12, and it is hoped to secure the others. A recent inventory at Dickens Trust House showed that 52 very valuable documents had been stolen. These included the original preface to “ Dombey and Son,” and letters written by Dickens to Queen Victoria, Gladstone, Thackeray, Disraeli and others.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21384, 11 July 1931, Page 12
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134BETRAYED TRUST Otago Daily Times, Issue 21384, 11 July 1931, Page 12
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