Content warning: death
Chapter 21: At Your Earliest Possible Convenience
To:
Mr. Gilbert Blythe
Hughes Hall
Redmond Medical School
Kingsport, Nova Scotia
21 May 1888
Dear Mr. Blythe,
I write to you today in my capacity as the duly appointed executor of the estate of Miss Marilla Cuthbert of Green Gables, Avonlea, Prince Edward Island.
It is my solemn duty to inform you that Miss Cuthbert passed away on the 19th day of May of the current year. Her last will and testament leaves the bulk of her estate, including the aforementioned Green Gables, including its lands, water rights, crops, livestock, house, buildings, etc. to her joint heirs, Master David Keith and Miss Dora Keith. As both Master Keith and Miss Keith are minors, they will not inherit the property until they either attain the age of 21 or marry.
In the meantime, it was Miss Cuthbert's express wish that a trustee be designated to oversee the estate. This letter shall serve as official notification that you, Mr. Gilbert Blythe, are that trustee. You will hold the estate in trust for Master Keith and Miss Keith until they reach the age of majority, with the power to make any and all decisions regarding the property.
You have also been named trustee of a fund in the amount of $2,178.13 for the maintenance of Master Keith and Miss Keith in place of the former trustee, Miss Marilla Cuthbert.*
I understand from your address that you do not currently reside in Avonlea. However, I must beg your pardon in requesting that you present yourself at your earliest possible convenience at my office in Carmody in order to witness and sign the necessary documents relating to the dispersal of the estate and administration of the property and funds.
Your obedient servant,
Mr. Robert E. Spencer, Esq.
Carmody, PEI
*Anne of Avonlea, chapter 22