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December 14th 1933
My dear Albert
Ellen had a rather torn cutting from
a Cleveland paper from Mary De Vore a
week or more ago. As we got none
I wonder if you did? There was more
of the news we wanted about the
Campbell Wills than in any paper
I’ve seen yet. Briefly Uncle Robert died
in 1879, Aunt Virginia three years later.
She left the estate to two trustees, and
In 1895 these men divided the estate
equally between the three sons, (it is said
each received 1,500,000 Dollars). James was
appointed trustee for Hazlett, he died in
1890 and Hugh became Hazlett’s Trustee,
but in 1926 he turned over the Trusteeship
to the St Louis Union Trust Company.
Two law-suits were brought to upset
Hugh’s Will, the Jew boys one, and the
Others by Anton Schules on Hazlett’s behalf
on the grounds that Yale College unduly
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influenced Hugh. Both suits failed, naturally!
Charles Clarke’s alleges that Uncle Robert’s
Will was never filed for Probate and
that therefore the dispositions of the
Estate are null and void.
This article also said that Hugh had
been offered fabulous sums for the
“mystery House”, as the Campbell’s house
is known as, because of its position
in a business centre, but he promised
his father that Hazlett should never be
moved while he lived.
The article also went on to say that
in an old history of ST Louis there is a
biographical sketch of Uncle Robert telling
of his and his wife’s charm and
popularity and hospitality, and that
for half a century he was one of the
most conspicuous citizens of St. Louis!
When I took Lily’s negatives to Derry to
Get copies Mr Dixon was so charmed with
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The pictures he got two coloured for us as free [?]
got a [?]
more and
enclose two.
Much love
To both
From both
Yours ever affectly
Charlotte M MacCulloch
Writing on a
Book on my
Knee by the
Fire so please
Forgive quivers!
Transcribed by Brian McCrory
