THOMAS HARDY’S WILL

Evening Star, Issue 19801, 27 February 1928, Page 4

THOMAS HARDY’S WILL

MUCH WEALTHIER THAN SUPPOSED LONDON, February 26. Thomas Hardy was much wealthier than was anticipated. The will, which is dated August 8, 1922, left his unpublished manuscripts and correspondence. to the literary executors, who are his wife and Mr Sydney Conkcril!, of Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, giving them power to dispose without injury to any persons of character. The executors are requested to cause to bo published an edition of his complete poems at a price within the reach of poorer readers. . , , Hardy left £SO to the pension fund of the London Society of Authors, £SO each to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Council of Justice for Animals, with a view to lessening the sufferings of animals in transit to homes and slaughter houses, and condemnatory action in rerrarcl to the caging of wild birds and rabbits. A few gifts of hooks and portraits arc made to galleries and friends, otherwise the estate goes to Ins wile, his brother, and his sister. LEFT £91,000. LONDON, February 26. (Received February 27, at 9.15 a.m.) The 1 D'aily Mail’ states that the novelist Thomas Hardy left £H,OOO. His will requests that a complete edition of his poems be published at a price within reach of the poorer renders, lie bequeathed half of the. residuary trust to the first Wessex University established. U one is not cstab shed within .five years o his wlo s death the bequest passes to Magdalene College Cambridge. Tbc remainder of the estate is left in trust to the widow and Hardy’s brother and sister aftoi bequests to charity and relatives. Svdney * Sun Cable.