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Show MISSING TREASURES IE PUffO 01 SALE Virginia on Trail of Rare Manuscripts Taken From Richmond During War. By International News Service. NEW YORK, May 6. Following sensational sensa-tional disclosures made today, tho sale of Americana from the library of the late Benson John Losing, artist, author and historian, scheduled to begin on' Thursday Thurs-day afternoon at the Anderson galleries, may not ho held. The sale announced "one of the most notable of recent years," has attracted the attention of bibliophiles all over the country. The Anderson Auction company Is In receipt re-ceipt of a letter from the governor of Virginia, In which he states that about one-third of the 300 ttcm3 composing part I of the sale are the property of the state of Virginia Dispatches from Richmond state that the manuscripts, which Include the rarest specimens of handwriting and autographs of famous men and women, were tRken from the state library of Virginia. It is thought that they were abstracted during dur-ing the civil war following the evacuation evacua-tion of the capital of the Confederacy. For years Virginia authorities have been searching for them. A dispatch from Richmond states that an assistant attorney general and the state librarian are on their way to New York to take legal action for the recovery recov-ery of the rorltlcs. Just what proof the attorney general of Virginia has in his possession Is not known. |