 Although he did not originally intend that the stenographs of his thousands of lectures be published, he relented and named his second wife, Marie Steiner-von Sivers, to direct his "Nachlass", which has produced more than three hundred volumes since his death in 1925.Older examples of such appointments, such as Kenelm Digby for Ben Jonson, are essentially editorial rather than legal.A contemporary case is Christopher Tolkien's work on J. R. R. Tolkien's papers.