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Show oo CANNOT DISPOSE OF BURNS' PAPERS Liverpool. England. Aug 1 Tbe Liverpool Athenc-um has received notice no-tice that the legality of its recent sale of the so-called Glen Riddell inanu scripts of the poet Burns will be taken to the courts The London dealers who bought the manuscripts supposedly In behalf of an American at a price said to be (26,000, has been warned not to part with their owner ship for the present The action In the courts will be based upon the contention that the manuscripts, which were presented to the Athenaeum Athenae-um over a century ago, by Dr Currie, a Burns critic had only been loaned to him and that they really belong to the nearest heir of the poet, who is Ml68 Annie Burns Even If Dr. Cur rie's ownership was established, it may also be contended, tbe Atheneum J which received tbem from his widow-as widow-as a gift, coveted to keep them permanently perma-nently and had do authority to dU- I POSA9 of them as it did. |