Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-15
H0RDICA DISGUSTED
~ ~ HUSBANDS MONEY
PLEAS, LETTERS SAY
.pouowed Too Much
SINGER Had Written Rela-
6ves-Lost Him Part Of
Wife's Estate.

ia .cerninR her relations with her
aeorge w. Young, New York
The letters were filed yesterday
e,nrome Court in New York in a
which Robert S. Baldwin, a nephew
singer. has brought to restrain
from probating an early will of his
,,o baldwin has produced a later
...,cb leaves only small portion of
!. singers fortune of $1'oOo'ooO TO Young
,hs hulk of 1t TO her sisters, one of
nom is Baldwin's mother.
-. 1vho knew Madame Nordica are
.,,rrrised at the keen satire of one
!, ma letters that tells how she caoled
w,,no that he may find an answer to
,.h that he wrote her in one of
...tb Barrett Browning's sonnets.
- from whom the singer was
80 had borrowed about 100000
~, hsr and had failed to pay it back.
nVn, ,.ant writing to her for more cash
~ Ssadame Nordica handed him the fol-
ling from the sonnet:
What do you say
...., counselors dear friends. that should
ps,,aiehtway to the fields and gather
,,o,Ssp %g,' sooth, may do 1t. but not !.
ts tSarrt Ia very tired, my strength is low;
IA snsnas nsna are full of blossoms plucked before
EL IN Mad within them till myself shall die.
-prFERRED TO LOVE soNNETs.
4, the love letters that he wrote her,
4 ..,,.rs which gently intimated that some
...b would be acceptable, he referred
i, wife to the Browning sonnets, select
a. those most highly charged with
..-r,s Of endearment. Some Of the lines
Of these are;
..p.-.syement' (the third sonnet)-Is God
-. Cod that thou art left undone?
..S7Tjef' 1the tenth sonnot)-I tell you, hope
- rrIef Ia passionless.
rasnbsttution'' eleventh sonnet
when some beloved voice that was to you
RRsss RRss, IS? sops? What help? What music will undo
fhat silence to your sense?
The following excerpts of the letters
nav plainly the writer's attitude of mind
,ovard her borrowing husband. and tend
b confirm Baldwin's contention that the
v,,ter had done with him for, good.
Tho first of the series of five letters
vaa written at Laramie, Wyo., and is
tstsd June 8, but the year is omitted. 1t
4. addressed to the writer's sister, Mrs.
baldwin, and her husband, William
Baldwin
epsar Annie and Billy" 1t says, now
have got chapter and verse on the
GENT. as you know, and expect ere long
"a have more information. 1 have been
away great deal and I understand how
person might side-step, but to do things
b such bold and heartless manner, and
% Be SO ugly and neglectful of me, not
10 say abusive, and my hard-earned
money paying for it, Really, 1 have to
hugh at my old fool self!
RHY NICKEL SHARES WE'RE SOLD.
my idea is for Billy when he goes to
New York to see -- (name crossed out
BY Baldwin, and, under promise of Sc
sfecy of course, to tell him everything.
the burden of the song to be that If I
had money 1 would sue for divorce right
away. Some time ago hinted to -
name crossed out by Baldwin, that
should go away and never como back,
and that I wanted to live in London.
/ want also for him to know that
sold the nickel shares to save George
nom being arrested, as he had hypothe-
Gated property which did not belong to
hm and they were after him. AT that
time had not found him out, and he
sas In terrible distress.
You see. I am thinking aloud. think
and think, and the more consider the
more Bee how unworthy he is, and
low horribly have been duped, betrayed.
esoes7ed and abused.
''Your loving sister.
"LuILIB."
n q letter dated from Sydney, New
soath Wales. ON July %, 1913. the singer.
seccsdins to Baldwin, wrote;
2 SHALL NEVER TAKE UP OLD
LIFE"
Dear sverybodyI I shall never
s1ns back into the same atmosphere OF
- up the old life. As for 'condoning'
10 knows7 To suspect is one
ahs but to be furnished with exact date
q dstail is another. This I have re-
I'D By letter In San Francisco.
had long cable from George, say
ns he Is fearful of losing me forever,
- etc., and to read Sonnsts numbers
en-n Of Elizabeth Browning. re
nd Tor him 10 read Sonnet No. 9. and
"a = where we stand at present. He hat
ss'Efsn mo the most heart-rsnd1nE let
- but, Annie am done.s
With love to you, one and all.
'LILLIH."
uader date of August 81. 1918, Madam'
H2.aieA wrote to Mrs Baldwin,
eeorge writes the most imploring low
a You can imagine. But canno
.ssset and fear never shall He cable,
Yesterday that counsel had agreed ol
@zes business. Also on his mortgag
making all together $500 l asl
ains better than that he prosper ant
same time pay me back even one
what he owes me :
TT IS ALL OVER
Ahl Well. it is all over and no for
as he could ever make can restore tn
4ed confidence and trust I repossd ii
- Not anything he failed to provid
material nature ever In any way dis
Nlaed Or distressed me.
was the eonsiderat on-eare-truth-
Ah things spiritual which he with
ana which he had IN his power I
os. Now all his loving letters, Z
honeyed words. fall duh on my hear
-nnot help It - Somsthing
sna gone out of ny mortal life fOl
eeod-by. Keep wen ana happy an
ever see George don't know
lIIIsIHa -