HARNED/WhiTMAN                       Miscellany                      Will & Testament     ca. 1882 

Box 7 Folder 10WILL.
[No. 692.] Printed and sold by John C. Clark & Sons, 230 Dock St., Philadelphia.
Be it Remembered, [*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
That I, (Walter) or Walt Whitman resident of
the City of Camden, state of New Jersey
being of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and considering the
uncertainty of life, do therefore make, publish and declare this to be my last Will and
Testament, in manner and form following, that is to say:
Item: — I constitute and appoint George
William [Washington] Childs, [and] Robert Pearsall Smith [*and Thomas B Harned x*]
Trustees of all my personal property contained now
in my house No 328 Mickle St Camden
New Jersey excepting from this trust all the
items specifically named and devised below.
II. I direct and instruct the Trustees above
named to make such disposition of my
personal effects above named as in their
judgment will be satisfactory to my
friends and the public.
III. I desire my Trustees appointed above
to place my papers, books, letters & manuscripts
of all kinds in the hands of my friend
[John Burroughs] for such use as he may
think best.And as to all the rest, residue and remainder of my Estate, real, personal or mixed, of
whatever nature or kind, or wheresoever situate at the time of my decease, I do hereby give,
devise and bequeath
[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
And lastly, I do make, constitute and appoint
to be the Execut.............................................................................. of this my last Will and
Testament, hereby revoking all former Wills and Testaments by me at any time heretofore
made, and declaring this to be my last Will and Testament.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my seal,
the.............................day of....................................in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and...................................................
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the
testat...........above named, as and for................
last Will and Testament, in the presence of us,
who have hereunto, at.......request, subscribed
our names in.........presence, and in the presence
of each other, as witnesses hereto. }Will.
[*THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS*]
Never Executed
found in
Walt Whitman's
Room
Written about 1882
by Pearsall Smith –
Evascwes & Aiken –
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