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Show MARK TWAIN'S MANUSCRIPTS New York, Fob. S. The sale of many of the manuscripts of the late Samuel L. Clemens (Mnrk Twain) at , a Fifth avenue auction yesterday, did not include, as had been advertised, adver-tised, a short article he had written criticising Theodore Roosevelt. It was withdrawn at the last moment bv request of the estate, as was a strlo , turo he had written on congress. It whs explained only that the estate desired de-sired to retain them The 125-page autograph manuscript of "A Double-Barreled Detective I Story," was sold to a dealer for ?790. ' Twenty-eight pages from "Adams' Diary" weut for $180. The total realized real-ized was $2,750. The withdrawn article on Roose- j volt refers to him as a "showy char- ' latan, adored as perhaps no Impos-ter Impos-ter of his creed had been adored since the golden calf." ' j |