Rescue Eli's Film Prints!!!

I'm Elijah Berry and I'm a film collector---guilty as charged. My collection, which I inherited from my late mentor, David Shepard, was seized unlawfully. This sounds far fetched, but there it is. In the mean time, the buyer of that collection is ultimately holding it ransom for $2000. When he and his minions raided my storage unit, which, for all intents and purposes should never have been auctioned (I was on a payment plan to get the material OUT!), they trashed and dumped the material my late mother had left me: original playbills, vintage books, etc. Even the bookcases, filing cabinets and film splicers were either dumped or sold. All that is left is the collection of archival film material left to me. It amounts to about two hundred features and shorts. I would most certainly like them back, even though there is a lot missing. Please do help, and I would certainly appreciate it. Thank you for reading and perusing this.