WHAT A HEEL!: The Purloined Letters

 

Historian and author Edward Renehan, 51, a former director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, pleaded guilty to interstate transportation of stolen property for jacking a March 1, 1840, letter by Abraham Lincoln and two by George Washington, one written August 9, 1791 and the other written December 29, 1778, reports Reuters. A gallery in NY gave Renehan $97,000 for the letters. Renehan could get as much as 10 years in prison.

 

Apparently, the urge to steal irreplaceable documents appears to be an occupational hazard amongst archivists and historians. One NY state archivist was indicted for stealing two Davy Crockett Almanacs, a letter signed by former Vice President John Calhoun and Currier and Ives colored lithographs, and another archivist working for the National Archives and Records Administration facility in Philadelphia pleaded guilty to stealing 165 Civil War documents.

Posted by The Stiletto at May 28, 2008
Categories: What a Heel
 

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