LOVE LETTERS OF NORDICA.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 68, 20 March 1915, Page 17

LOVE LETTERS OF NORDICA.

I A FAMOUS SINGER AND HER HUSBAND. , I Considerable interest Is excited at Sew rork by the publication of 'Mme. Nordica's 1 love letters, in connection with the legal contest over her will, leaving £300,000 to her busband, George Young, the Wall I Street banker. Young, previously married, procured a divorce, settling a fortune on the first wife. The prima donna's rela- ! rives seek to void the provisions. of the win. I In th controversy that bas axiseJ there nave been etorles of , n esorangement between Young and bis wife, and charges that he was largely indebted to her. Olhese charges form the basis of the effort of -Robert S. Baldwin, a nephew of the singer, to probate in New York a will said to have been drawn by her on January 10. 3914, on Thursday Island, where abe went after her shipwreck la the Golf of Papua that was the cause of her death the following May. Young offers for probate a wfll drawn, by Mine. Nordics soon after her marriage to him In 1808. Under this will the husband would become the chief heir; under tbe other he would inherit only a small amount, whHe the bulk of her estate would go to the relatives represented by Baldwin. Writing from Honolulu, Mme. Nonllca sympathised with her husband's business worries, and said:— "Money Is not aIL We have our great love one for the other. No one can take that from us. "" *"" "Let mc and m y love be a comfort to yoU , J e .' wll walk °»t J »to the wide world hand in band, and live somehow, somewtoere, bappily together. " T wa £» m,T ? •fr" l ' l ot material losses, never. The fact of business disappointments only serve to make mc love you more. I knew yon were making a brave flght against fearful odds. All I have asked was to let my love be a comfort to you. I seem to have failed—bnt, 'Heaven Snows, not because I didn't «ry to do my "It was not because I did not love and a d< s e , yo , U - , ! BCDd y° u ™>w. once again most lovingly and tenderly, all gwentaiin Us£» ,thoni?hte *h« Godwin her p you.^ From New Zealand Mme. Nordics wrote telling of failure in 'Australia. She continued:—

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