NEW HAVEN, Conn. --A rare letter penned by author Lewis Carroll in 1890 recently surfaced on the Internet auction site eBay, where the seller detailed everything from its beautiful signature to its distinctive purple ink.
To a Yale University librarian, however, it all sounded a bit too familiar for comfort.
Now, police at the Ivy League university are investigating when and how the valuable letter was purloined from its Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The search for the culprit has taken police down a proverbial rabbit hole as they try to track the letter's path from Yale to a Utah-based collector, who purchased it from another seller without knowing it had been stolen.
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