# Mr. Meeson’s Will

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- Book: [Mr. Meeson’s Will](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-rider-haggard/mr-meesons-will) ([Mr. Meeson’s Will.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-rider-haggard/mr-meesons-will.md))
- Authors: [H. Rider Haggard](https://www.bookquiver.com/h-rider-haggard)
- Publisher: Hachette India Little Brown
- ISBN: 978-93-5731-105-2
- Published: 2025-11-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A clash of wills! Partly a Robinsonade, Mr Meeson's Will was based on a well-known anecdote of the time. The London Globe in fact seemed to hit that Haggard had based his book on a previous book by Aubert, when the Clarence and Richmond Examiner provided an eyewitness account of a gathering attended by Haggard where some legal pupils after having had a fair bit of wine intended to hoax their " eminent Chancery lawyer" and " these newly made advocates" had proposed this curious question in a rather ribald context – whether a will written on skin would be considered legal. The examiner cited this as the source of the plot which concerns a marooned man's will tattooed on the back of a woman in a desperate attempt to remedy his earlier will.