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Mementoes of Dean Stanley : scrapbook, 1877-1881.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 555
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Childs, George William, 1829-1894, collector.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881.
- Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn.
- Westminster Abbey.
- Genre:
- Scrapbooks.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gift of Nora Jane Quinlan, 1993.
- Physical Description:
- 1 v
- Place of Publication:
- 1877-1881.
- Biography/History:
- Philadelphia publisher and philanthropist; owner of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
- Summary:
- Morocco-bound volume of letters to Childs and other materials associated with Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, dean of Westminster Abbey, focusing on a stained glass window of George Herbert and William Cowper given to the Abbey by Childs; Stanley's visit to the United States in 1878; the death of Stanley in 1881; and Childs's contribution to a posthumous tribute to Stanley, organized by Phillips Brooks. Contents include two photographs of Stanley and one of Brooks; nine letters to Childs, including one from James Macaulay, one from Stanley, and four from Brooks; and printed clippings and pamphlets concerning the window and Stanley's death.
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