This scarf is one of the few pieces of Hardy’s clothing that survive. When Hardy died, his wife Florence asked their gardener Bertie Stephens to burn her husband’s clothes on a bonfire. Stephens recalled how ‘all was burnt in her presence except a scarf which she gave me for my use.’
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