. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMUS WABD. 31 An Oxford county man, referring to the will, said: Either Artemus intended that his will should be a post-mortemjoke or he was robbed ; for upon his death a very small propertywas found—hardly enough to pay the minor bequests, let alonefounding a printers hospital. E. H. Stoddard and Charles Dawson Stanley never asked for thehumorists manuscripts. George W. Carleton, his publisher, hadthem, and finally turned them over to the writer, who has them nowin his possession. T. W. Kobert
. Kings of the platform and pulpit ... : personal reminiscences and anecdotes of noted Americans. ARTEMUS WABD. 31 An Oxford county man, referring to the will, said: Either Artemus intended that his will should be a post-mortemjoke or he was robbed ; for upon his death a very small propertywas found—hardly enough to pay the minor bequests, let alonefounding a printers hospital. E. H. Stoddard and Charles Dawson Stanley never asked for thehumorists manuscripts. George W. Carleton, his publisher, hadthem, and finally turned them over to the writer, who has them nowin his possession. T. W. Kobertson, the playwright, and his friendand companion, E. P. Hingston, were his English executors. Itseems sad, that, after such careful provisions on the part of thehumorist, on the writer of this memoir should devolve the lovingwork of transmitting many of the humorists best creations toposterity. Besides other bequests, Artemus gave a large sum of money tohis little valet, a bright little fellow; though subsequent denoumentsrevealed the fact that he left only a six-thousand-dollar house inTon
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