LANG (Andrew, 1844-1912, Scottish Folklorist, Poet & Scholar)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed in a very shaky hand to an unnamed correspondent asking he has “made a middle, adding Hanotaux’s new study to Joanne. May I draw your attention to a weird cause célèbre, in Roughead’s Trial of Oscar Slater (Hodge, Glasgow)? It is most astonishing as study of evidence and of ‘probable error’...” he says he has written about it and “can do so again if you like as a very curious point or two need exploring...”, 3 sides 8vo., 1 Marloes Road, 1st October no year but

Oscar Joseph Slater (1872-1948) was the victim of a miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death, he was freed after almost two decades of hard labour at Scotland’s HM Prison Peterhead through the efforts of multiple journalists, lawyers, and writers, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. William Roughead edited the book about the Trial.
Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) wrote a book about Jeanne d’Arc which was published in 1911

Item Date:  1911

Stock No:  42220      £145

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