Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-09-04 | Page 3 | Protest Sale of the Manuscripts

PROTEST SALE OF THE MANUSCRIPTS London, Sept 4 -The protest against the sale of the Glen Rlddall manuscripts of Robert Burns, which were sold to an American collector by the Liverpool Athenaum several Atcks ago lor $25,O0i, has laken det inite form in an action to restrain actual transfer of the manuscripts, begun by the poet'6 only surviving granddaughter. Annie Burns of Cheltenham Chel-tenham She asks that a Robert Burns' nearest kind, she be declared executrix of the hitherto uuconiirmc-d personal estate of the Scottish bard The action Is lodged with the consent Df the great grand children of Roturl Burns