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MORTIMER
(Sir John, 1923-2009, Q.C., Barrister and Writer)
Typed Letter Signed to Geoffrey F.A. Best,
(b. 1928, Professor of History, Edinburgh University, 1966-1974), thanking him for your letter and for your kind offer of hospitality, Mortimer is afraid we were fighting a lost cause in Leeds, but your help was enormously valuable and I do thank you again for giving up your time to join us, he is glad you didn't feel the time was wasted and I believe New Society and the New Statesman are supporting our call for liberty in the near future, with a P.S. returning your copy of Victorian Studies, 1 side 4to, Flat 2, 73 Holland Park, London, W.11., 12th February
Item Date: 1969
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Background
From 1966 John Mortimer resolved only to defend, to rescue the accused from 'the maze of the judicial system' Here he had just appeared for Arthur Dobson, a Bradford bookseller and publisher, arrested for bringing out My Secret Life by 'Walter' (1967), a Victorian 'gentleman' dubbed 'The English Casanova'. Geoffrey Best and other historians had appeared as expert witnesses for the defence. Dobson was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, £1,000 fine, and £2,000 towards costs, as it was clear from other books in a second charge that his main motive was to make money.
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