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“It was someone who knew what they were,” Roll said, pointing out that none of the other items Lame Duck had brought to Hamburg—all of which were less valuable than the Borges manuscripts—went missing.
News of the missing manuscripts traveled fast in the small community of Borges collectors, and Wronoski and Roll have received e-mails expressing concern from manuscript collectors across the country.
Prominent Borges collectors Thomas F. Staley of the University of Texas at Austin and Jared Loewenstein of the University of Virginia (UVA) expressed sadness at the loss of the manuscripts yesterday.
“I’m hopeful that whoever took them for whatever reason will find a way to get them back where they belong, in hands were they can be protected and studied by scholars,” said Loewenstein, the founding curator of the massive Borges collection...
Though the two lost manuscripts were insured, their loss nevertheless comes as a great blow to the Lame Duck bookstore, which moved into its space in Harvard Square just last year. The Borges collection is one of its most prized possessions, according to Roll. Among many other Borges gems, their...