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On June 17, 1988, decedent wrote a letter to Mr. Newman.
Decedent wrote:
It struck me that Bar’s wife Charlene remodeled
The Little House and ruined it and when her husband
owns Hundred Acres and The Big House she is likely to
rip out all the Pittsburgh Twindows and put in sash
windows, as she did in the Little House.
I know the implication of ‘the dead hand.’ BUT.
The Big House is more my monument than the Washington
Monument is George’s . . I designed and built
my monument. Charlene would somehow hang lace curtains
on the Washington Monument if she could. Or put up
awnings where there aren’t any windows.
In light of this, decedent wanted his will to include the
following language: “No changes or alterations in the Structure
or the General Make-up of the Big House on Hundred Acres shall
ever be made.” Decedent further wrote:
I know that when I am dead, ‘they’ can do things
to the Big House and I’ll never know it. But lying in
bed trying to go to sleep at night while I live, and
visualizing the horrors that woman can perpetrate on My
Monument keeps me awake and in terror. Knowing that my
Family Lawyer has made it impossible for any such
desecration will be a welcome and effective soporific.
On June 24, 1988, Mr. Newman wrote a letter to decedent.
Mr. Newman informed decedent that he had made changes to
decedent’s will regarding restricting changes to the Big House
and the percentage inheritances of the residuary estate. Mr.
Newman advised decedent that when the new wills were typed, he
would forward them to decedent for him to review.
On June 28, 1988, Mr. Newman mailed decedent a revised draft
of decedent’s new will for decedent’s review and approval.
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