Mr Meeson's Will is an 1888 novel by H. Rider Haggard.R.D. Mullen, "The Books of H. Rider Haggard: A Chronological Survey" Science Fiction Studies, # 16, Volume 5, Part 3, November 1978, accessed 13 December 2013 It was based on a well known anecdote of the time. The plot concerns a marooned man's will tattooed on the back of a woman.Catherine O. Frank, Of Testaments and Tattoos: The Wills Act of 1837 and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will, 18 Law & Lit. 323, 334 (2006).
Adaptation It was turned into silent films in 1915 and 1916 (as The Grasp of Greed with Lon Chaney).
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External links Complete book at Project Gutenberg Mr Meeson's Will (1915 film) at IMDb Images and bibliographic information for various editions of Mr. Meeson's Will at SouthAfricaBooks.com