£91,000 TO RELATIVES

Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 February 1928, Page 7

£91,000 TO RELATIVES

r£lso TO CHARITIES THOMAS HARDY’S WIDE LONDON'. Feb. 26. * The' late Mr Thomas Hardy waa jtnuch wealthier than was anticipated. \ will dated August 8, 1922, left funpublished manuscripts and correspondence to his literary executors, who are his wife and Mr Sydney 'Corkerill, of the -Pitzwiiliam Museum, -Cambridge, giving them power to dispose Of them without injury to any .persons of character. The executors are requested to -cause, to be published an edition of poems at a price within reach of the poorer readers. Mr Hardy left £SO to the pension ifund of the London Society of Authors £6O each to the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and to the Council of Justice for Animals, with a view to lessening the sufferings of ranimals in transit to homes and slaughter houses, and condemnatory action with regard to the caging of wild birds and rabbits, A few gifts of books and portraits 7hav£ been made to galleries and friends., Otherwise the estate goes to ihis wife, his' brother and sister. The Daily Mail states that Mr. Hardy left £91,000 WESSEX UNIVERSITY.

BEQUEST IN HAEDY • S WILL. LONDON, Feb. 26. The Daily Mail states that the novelist, Thomas Hardy, left £91,000. His will requests ■ that a complete edition •of his poems bo published at a price ■within the reach of the poorer readers. .He bequeaths half of his residuary in trust for the first Wessex University established. If it is not -established within five years of his wife ’a death, it passes to Magdalene 'College, Cambridge. The remainder of the estate is left in trust to the widow -and Hardy’s brother and sister, after Ixelquests to charity and relatives.