DR. NANSEN'S REMARRIAGE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:]
Sin,—Allow me through the medium of your esteemed paper to contradict the statement made by the Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail about Dr. Nansen's remarriage. I know for certain that Dr. Nansen before starting on his Polar expedition did not obtain a "legal separation" from his wife in order to permit her to marry again in the event of his dis- appearance or death, without being put to the trouble of proving his decease. The following extract from the Swedish Press will prove my assertion. The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter writes about this report as follows :—" At present the foreign papers are teeming with more or less absurd and whimsical stories about Nansen. For example, one Belgian paper seriously informs its readers that the very first thing Dr. Nansen has to do when he has arrived in Norway is to remarry his own wife, on account of the legal separation' which took place shortly before he started to the North Pole. The same paper also states that Dr. Nansen did this in order that his wife could marry again in the event of his disap- pearance or death, without being put to the trouble of proving his decease."—I am, Sir, Sze., HILDEGARD,,YER:t7rn. Newcastle-on-Tyne, August 25th.
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