. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ris Hill, Maine. The writer paid a special trip to ParisHill to see this will. It is inscribed on two sheets of heavy parchmentabout two feet square in the most elaborate style of the scrivenersart. The will was made in England, and was sent over in a tin box,about the shape of a cigar box, on which is stamped the Britishooat-of-arms and the letters, V. E. The will begins thus: This is the will of me, Charles FarrarBrowne Ward, known as Artemus Ward. The testator directsthat his body shall be buri
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ris Hill, Maine. The writer paid a special trip to ParisHill to see this will. It is inscribed on two sheets of heavy parchmentabout two feet square in the most elaborate style of the scrivenersart. The will was made in England, and was sent over in a tin box,about the shape of a cigar box, on which is stamped the Britishooat-of-arms and the letters, V. E. The will begins thus: This is the will of me, Charles FarrarBrowne Ward, known as Artemus Ward. The testator directsthat his body shall be buried in Waterford Upper Village, but in acodicil changes the place of his entombment to Waterford LowerVillage. He bequeaths his library to the best scholar in the schoolsat Waterford Upper Village, and his manuscripts to E. H. Stoddardand Charles Dawson Stanley. After making several bequests tohis mother and relatives, he gives the balance of his property tofound an asylum for worn-out printers. Horace Greeley to bethe sole trustee, and his receipt to be the only security to bedemanded of
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