MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Seventeen rare books that were stolen from John Hay Whitney’s home on Long Island in the 1980s, valued at over $2 million, have been recovered and returned, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Monday.
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A collection of stolen rare books worth millions of dollars, including letters by John Keats and works by Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, is being returned to its owners’ heirs decades after being taken from a New York home. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg handed the 17 works, including a bound collection of Keats’ love letters to his fiancée Fanny Brawne, to the family of John Hay Whitney and Betsey Whitney at an event on Monday.
More than two dozen rare books — including a bound collection of love letters by poet John Keats — were stolen at some point between 1982 and 1989 from the Long Island estate of John Hay Whitney, a wealthy New York publisher who once served as president of the Museum of Modern Art.
A stack of rare books worth millions of dollars was finally returned to the heirs of New York City royalty Monday — decades after they were snatched by a mysterious bookworm, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office said.
