Ancient, Curious, and Famous WillsHarris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
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Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills
Harris, Virgil M. (Virgil McClure)
Wills
of Gordon in ‘The last Watch’ to the said Louisa Eleanor Shore
Nightingale. The Bible given me by Pleasley to the said Frederick
W. Verney. The Michael Angelo Sistine Chapel ceiling, stretched on
two screen poles, and my chatelain with the blue seal ring, etc.
upon it to the said Bertha Elizabeth Shore Coltman. The desk given
me by Lea to Beatrice Lushington during her life, and after her
death to the said Louis Hilary Shore Nightingale. The framed ‘Nile’
given me by the said Henry Bonham Carter and the Models of Highgate
Infirmary and Chapel made by Patients there to Sibella, the wife of
the said Henry Bonham Carter. The prints which belonged to dear
Hilary, namely the Correggio ‘Magdalen’ and ‘Christ in the Garden,’
the large Michael Angelo of Isaiah (all framed), also a packet of
papers of Hilary’s (in my despatch box) to be divided between Alice
Bonham Carter and her sister, Elinor Dicey, or if either of them
should die before me, all the said articles to the survivor, but if
neither of them should survive me I direct that the said papers
shall be burnt. The large framed photograph of her father, Sidney
Herbert, given me by his wife, to Mary Herbert, now Baroness Hugel.
The large framed Madonna di San Sisto (with a little secret
between us about Gwendolen’s likeness) to Maude, wife of the said
Frederick W. Verney; such of my blue books, War Office, India and
Statistical and Hospital Reports and Books as he shall choose to
the said J. J. Frederick, and the remainder of them to the said Sir
Douglas. The volume of Prince Albert’s speeches given me by the
Queen, with her autograph in the book, to the said Henry Bonham
Carter. The life of the Prince Consort given me by the Queen, with
her autograph in it, and the Athens photograph book given me by
Emily Verney to the said Margaret Verney. The Illustrated New
Testament and Prayer Book to my two little Goddaughters, Ruth,
child of the said Margaret Verney, and Kathleen, child of the said
Frederick W. Verney. The Roman Catholic books in English or French,
some of which were given me by the Reverend Mother Clare of
Bermondsey, who died in one thousand eight hundred and seventy
four, to the said Mother Stanislaus; my Schiller to Miss Shalders,
formerly Governess to the children of Mrs. Frederick Verney, and to
Blanch Mary Shore Clough some article to be selected by her out of
my personal chattels, not subject to other destinations.
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