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FLOUT WATCH AND WARD IN CONGRATULATORY LETTERS

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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.

Almost every message includes some remark derogatory to the Watch and Ward Society. "A splendid victory over the smut hounds," and "Congratulations on your escape from the clutches of the moral snouters," are examples.

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