An Affable Barrister to GE, London, 4 June 1872
Title
An Affable Barrister to GE, London, 4 June 1872
Title
An Affable Barrister to GE, London, 4 June 1872
Sender
An Affable Barrister
Recipient
George Eliot
Date(s)
- 1872-06-04
Place
London
Letter Content
An Affable Barrister to GE, London, 4 June 1872
MS: Yale.
King's Bench Walk, | Temple, E. C.
June 72.
Madam,
If a lawyer who reads your work with great interest and admiration may be allowed, without being thought intrusive, to tell you a bit of "shop" I will take the liberty of doing so.
Peter Featherstone makes two wills, one anterior to the other in date, and thinks by destroying the last to leave the other his legal "last will and testament."
In law this would not be the effect. He would die an intestate and his property would be divided among his heirs-at-law.
The destruction of the last would not revive the former, though if it passed undisputed it might be taken for his last will, but different solicitors having drawn them up it certainly would not pass without question. 108
Hoping you will pardon this word on a purely technical point (which probably has been 50 times pointed out to you already),
I remain
Your faithful servant
An "affable" barrister.
MS: Yale.
King's Bench Walk, | Temple, E. C.
June 72.
Madam,
If a lawyer who reads your work with great interest and admiration may be allowed, without being thought intrusive, to tell you a bit of "shop" I will take the liberty of doing so.
Peter Featherstone makes two wills, one anterior to the other in date, and thinks by destroying the last to leave the other his legal "last will and testament."
In law this would not be the effect. He would die an intestate and his property would be divided among his heirs-at-law.
The destruction of the last would not revive the former, though if it passed undisputed it might be taken for his last will, but different solicitors having drawn them up it certainly would not pass without question. 108
Hoping you will pardon this word on a purely technical point (which probably has been 50 times pointed out to you already),
I remain
Your faithful servant
An "affable" barrister.
Signature
An "affable" barrister.
Citation
An Affable Barrister, An Affable Barrister to GE, London, 4 June 1872, Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/91698