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DYLAN BOB: (1941- ) In a Codicil to his Will, Dylan makes provisions for his children and brother - DYLAN BOB: (1941- ) American singer and songwriter, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 2016. D.S., Robert Dylan , (a rare form of his signature), four pages (separate leaves; apparently lacking the final witnesses page), 4to, New York, 26th August 1976. The typescript document is headed First Codicil to Will of Robert Dylan and proposes various amendments to Dylan´s original Will filed on 22nd September 1975, the changes largely relating to the singer´s brother, David Zimmerman, and Dylan´s children, in part, ´If I am survived by my brother DAVID ZIMMERMAN, I give to him the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars and the residence occupied by him, as well as the ten acres of land surrounding the same, hereafter collectively called the ´Minnesota residence´......(5) Each child of mine who shall survive me and who shall make the transfer described in Paragraph E of Article II shall have the power to substitute at any time or times by valid Will or Codicil thereto executed before or after my death, duly admitted to probate in any jurisdiction, any person or persons whom he shall designate, or such child´s estate and its successors in interest, as beneficiary of such child´s trust, even if the assets constituting his trust shall not have been received by my Trustees at the date of his death. The power shall be deemed to have been exercised only if by specific reference thereto in a Will or Codicil a child shall have expressed an intention to exercise the same. In the absence of such substitution or upon the termination of such substitute´s interest, such child´s trust shall be set aside for his lawful issue living from time to time......´ Signed and dated by Dylan at the conclusion, adding the date and an amendment to the place in his hand, initialling the latter BD . The foot of the final page bears a partial paragraph of text reading ´The foregoing instrumengt was at the date hereof, by ROBERT DYLAN, signed as and declared to be the First Codicil to his Will dated September 22, 1975. Such signature and declaration were made in the presence of all of us who, at his request and in his......´ . Three file holes to the left edge of each page and with some light discolouration to the margins, VG Dylan´s younger brother, David Zimmerman, is the singer´s only sibling and he assisted with the production of Dylan´s album Blood on the Tracks at Sound 80 Studios in Minneapolis in September 1974. Of Dylan´s six children, five had been born by the time the present document was signed.