Word: houghtons
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...federal judge yesterday sentenced map dealer-turned-thief E. Forbes Smiley III—who has admitted to stealing eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library—to three-and-a-half years in prison followed by three years of supervised release...
...cohesive Middle-earth world of men, dwarves, elves and orcs has left fans rabid for [an error occurred while processing this directive] any scraps of the voluminous unpublished writings the master of myth and fantasy left behind. So hobbitheads worldwide broke out flagons of mead in celebration after Houghton Mifflin's announcement that, next spring, it plans to publish Children of Hurin, a tale that Tolkien tinkered with throughout his lifetime but never finished. The story follows two human siblings and their attempt to evade their tragic fate by overcoming a heavenly curse. Abandoned and resumed several times by Tolkien...
Prolific international map thief E. Forbes Smiley III is headed into uncharted territory: Smiley—who admitted he stole eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library and faces up to 10 years in prison and over $2 million in restitution and fines—is pleading for mercy. The renowned prowler is asking for leniency, in the form of a sentence no longer than 36 months in prison, even as library officials say Smiley has yet to fess up to all of his thefts. Smiley, who admittedly stole a total of 97 maps from a number...
Administrators from several of the nation’s top libraries, including Harvard’s Houghton Library, will meet at Yale on Aug. 7 to determine the ownership of 97 maps stolen by E. Forbes Smiley III. But at least four of those libraries, including the Houghton, are missing copies of the same maps, raising concern that Smiley may have taken more than he has admitted to stealing from seven libraries over a seven-and-a-half year period in a plea bargain he signed in June. The maps missing from Harvard’s collection, for example, overlap...
...established map dealer pled guilty on June 22 to stealing 97 antique maps, valued at over $3,000,000, from renowned libraries in the U.S. and England, including eight maps from Harvard’s Houghton Library. E. Forbes Smiley III’s practice of visiting libraries, cutting maps out of rare books, and selling them to dealers around the world came to an end when he dropped an Exacto knife blade in Yale’s Beinecke Library last June. According to documents filed by the Department of Justice, the library employee who found the knife became suspicious...