ABSTRACT
Sydney Cockerell In the masterly survey of The Dynasts and its author which prefaces your issue of January 151 there is one statement that I venture to dispute, namely, that it was against his wishes that Hardy’s ashes were buried in Westminster Abbey. He was far too humble a man to conceive of such a thing as at all likely. But, as one of his executors, I had put the matter before him, and in the directions he gave for his burial at Stinsford, as well as in the provisional inscription that he designed for his tombstone, he was careful to leave a loophole for a possible alternative.
