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Some supposedly close relative friend ? of Alan Turing has been trying to acheive a sale price of £300,000-£500,000 for a small collection of Mr Turings research papers ? which to me seems inordinately expensive, its the kind of thing that is normally donated to national collections, obviously whomever this person is ? they wish to profit crazily from mr Turings efforts rather than their own labours, its people like this who i’m not sure really deserve citizenship of this country, the exploitative and the seflish really add little to culture, Mr turing certainly wasnt of such a nature himself, considering the bid got upto £240,000 and yet the seller in question did not decide to accept this offer as the reserve he had earlier greedily been advised to set at £300,000.

This seems greedy for a paperwork whose content could be distributed digitally very easily in this computer age so inspired in part by the codebreakers of the 40’s, its not as if in these times it can be considered in any way decent to try an extort these kind of sums from museums whose budgets must be strained at it is , with of course the usual threat of such works being sold abroad, as far as im concerned let the seller sell to some foreign buyer, if he can get the money and stop attempting to fleece UK museums. After all which museum of the world does it make most sense to house such papers in “Bletchley Park”, as such let him sell them to some foreign buyer, so when he has the little pile of money he desires, he has to walk around with the burden of guilt that he is despised by his fellow english men for having denuded his own heritage for the sake of profit and money.

people like this make me sick.