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...James A. DeLacey, proprietor of Dunster House Bookshop, 20 South Street, announces the publication of a bibliography of the writings of Edwin Arlington Robinson, ex '95, prepared by Robert Johns Bulkley '32, and Lucius Beebe '27. The bibliography, which contains mention of all Robinson first editions and collector's items to date, includes more than fifty books and also establishes for the first time the status of the pirated edition of the missing canto of "Lancelot", published here under the title "Three Poems" in 1928. This is probably the rarest of all Robinson items, exceeding in scarcity even the famous...
More than 200 congratulatory letters and telegrams from all over the country have been received during the past two days by James A. Delacey, manager of Dunster House bookshop, the remission of whose jail sentence for selling a copy of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterly's Lover" in Superior Criminal Court at East Cambridge last week has attracted nation wide interest, and more messages are arriving at his office hourly...
...action of the public officials in repealing the fine and sentence of James Delacey, proprietor of the Dunster House Bookshop, brings the infamous case to a close. It is the only ending to an odious business and the officials deserve more to be praised for their intelligence than congratulated for any show of "clemency...
...securing the conviction; in performing his public duty he had no choice. His plea yesterday for revocation of the charges was naturally based on his and the community's indignation against the Watch and Ward Society's use of falsehood and deception in securing the evidence against Mr. Delacey...
...Watch and Ward" were successful in their efforts to convict Delacey; public condemnation of the methods employed by this organization, self-created to guide the morals of a Commonwealth, was successful in keeping Mr. Delacey from jail. In this one case the society has given ample evidence of its lack of excuse for existence. A sense of justice can in no way condone the immoral means of the "Watch and Ward" to put an end to Immorality. Mr. Delacey now stands acquitted and his accusers sufficiently stigmatized in the eyes of the world. The only hope remaining...