£91,000 TO RELATIVES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6544, 28 February 1928, Page 7

£91,000 TO RELATIVES

£l5O TO CHARITIES THOMAS HARDY’S WILL [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Fob. 26. The late Mr Thomas Hardy was much wealthier than was anticipated. A will dated August 8, 1922, left unpublished manuscripts and correspondence to his literary executors, who are his wife and Mr Sydney Corkerlll, of tho Fitzwilllam Museum, Cambridge, giving them power to dispose of them without injury to any persons of character. The executors are requested to cause to bo published an edition of complete poems at a price within reach of the poorer readers. _ Mr Hardy left £so' to tho pension fund of the London Society of Authors £SO each to tho Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and to tho Council of Justice for Animals, with a view to lessening the sufferings of animals in transit to homes and slaughter houses, and condemnatory action with regard to tho caging of wild birds and rabbits. A few gifts of books and portraits have been made to galleries and friends. Otherwise tho estate goes to his wife, his brother and sister. The Daily Mail states that Mr. Hardy left £91,000

WESSEX UNIVERSITY, BEQUEST IN HARDY'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 be published at a price within the reach of the poorer readers. Ho bequeaths half of his residuary estate in trust for the first Wessex University established. If it is not established within five years of his wife’s 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 bequests to charity and relatives