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MTR. OF KALLMAN

103 Misc.2d 339 (1980)

In the Matter of The Estate of Chester Kallman, Deceased.

Surrogate's Court, New York County.

March 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laventhall & Zicklin (Robert Zicklin and Elliot L. Evans of counsel), for petitioner. Corbin & Gordon (Elizabeth M. Taylor of counsel), for respondent. Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Allan E. Kirstein of counsel), for ultimate charitable beneficiaries.

MILLARD L. MIDONICK, J.

In this vigorously and expertly litigated proceeding, the sole issue to be resolved concerns whether or not the decedent during his lifetime made an outright gift to the New York Public Library of the papers of Wystan Hugh Auden, the wellknown poet. These papers consist of all manuscripts, letters, unpublished and published writings — all written materials belonging to him, found...

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