Irene Zelinski estate

Date: 1972-1973

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Abstract: Correspondence on the controversy surrounding the estate of Irene Zelinski is in two sections. The first contains of eight letters, consisting of one letter from Maria Chabot to Zelinski's nephew, Donald Zelinski, which outlines the controversy, [Dec. 3, 1973] with a letter from D. Zelinski to Anne and Fred Drake, Dec. 1, 1973; two letters from Chabot to Ray James, Zelinski-James' widower, Feb. 5, 1973 and Nov. 18, 1973; one letter from Ray James to Maria Chabot, Feb. 7, 1973; one letter from Albert Skelly, James' lawyer, to Equity Funding Securities Corp. concerning stocks in the estate, Feb. 7, 1973, and one letter from Skelly to Chabot concerning the writing and execution of Zelinski-James' will, Feb. 8, 1973; one letter from Chabot to Michael Sutin, her attorney, concerning her questions about the will, Nov. 12, 1974; and one letter from Sutin to Chabot in response, Nov. 15, 1973. The second section of letters concerning the Zelinski-James estate controversy consists of five letters and one postcard from Anne Drake to Maria Chabot, which are mostly undated, but which can be placed between Nov. 11, 1972, the date of Zelinski's death, and Feb, 7, 1972, a dated letter; and two letters from Maria Chabot to Anne Drake, Mar. 3, 1973 and Nov. 15, 1973. These letters are followed by a letter of condolence from Wolfgang Lederer, Zelinski's psychiatrist, to Anne Drake, Nov. 18, 1973.

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