"He described the time a homeowner in Los Angeles called Sotheby's to say she had opened an old footlocker in her attic and discovered a pile of manuscripts."We had her photocopy a few pages and fax them to us." The papers were confirmed to be the first half of the manuscript for Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn." They had Brink's bring the papers at once to New York, and they were later reunited with the second half of the book in the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library."

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