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Benjamin Clymer's Gift

Marian D. Schwartz

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Description:Benjamin Clymer’s Gift is a short story about love and loss, greed and deceit.Benjamin Clymer was a farmer whose wife taught him to read when he was twenty-three. Alone in a room in a boarding house after her untimely death, books transported him into other people’s worlds, allowing him to briefly forget his own loss. Years later he had an idea for a memorial to her: he would leave his life savings to establish a writers’ workshop that would be a nurturing place for authors.In the spring of 1927, he went to see an attorney, Charles Gustafson, to have his will drawn. The attorney listened with amazement to Benjamin's plan for his bequest. He had never met a man as decent and trusting as Benjamin, who believed without question that his gift would be honored if there was a proper legal document. Gustafson drew the will, insisting on a clause that Benjamin found objectionable. A year later Charles Gustafson found himself in a battle with a college president twice his size to honor the terms of Benjamin's most unusual gift.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Benjamin Clymer's Gift. To get started finding Benjamin Clymer's Gift, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 41

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Release: 2015

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Description: Benjamin Clymer’s Gift is a short story about love and loss, greed and deceit.Benjamin Clymer was a farmer whose wife taught him to read when he was twenty-three. Alone in a room in a boarding house after her untimely death, books transported him into other people’s worlds, allowing him to briefly forget his own loss. Years later he had an idea for a memorial to her: he would leave his life savings to establish a writers’ workshop that would be a nurturing place for authors.In the spring of 1927, he went to see an attorney, Charles Gustafson, to have his will drawn. The attorney listened with amazement to Benjamin's plan for his bequest. He had never met a man as decent and trusting as Benjamin, who believed without question that his gift would be honored if there was a proper legal document. Gustafson drew the will, insisting on a clause that Benjamin found objectionable. A year later Charles Gustafson found himself in a battle with a college president twice his size to honor the terms of Benjamin's most unusual gift.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Benjamin Clymer's Gift. To get started finding Benjamin Clymer's Gift, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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