The Days of a Man 1:1891 



was taken so that everything might retain the same 



relative place in its new location. 

 Installing Thc collcctions Mrs, Stanford herself had long 

 the general been making were now rapidly installed. The 



collections . ii • • i . . , . . 



picture galleries contained many original paintings, 

 some of which, especially those by Russian artists, 

 were of decided merit. There were also a number of 

 copies of masterpieces by Raphael, Murillo, Del 

 Sarto, and others. Several of these latter, together 

 with a noble work by Benjamin West, were, how- 

 ever, soon transferred to the walls of the old Chapel, 

 in which for ten years all religious services were 

 held. The main part of the lower floor housed a 

 mixed assemblage of objects of varied merit. One 

 room contained half of the well-known Cesnola Col- 

 lection excavated in Cyprus. Others displayed 

 Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Egyptian, Roman, and 

 Indian objects and antiquities. 



Family In the rooms immediately above Leland's, Mrs. 



treasures Stanford gradually placed a multitude of intimate 

 and interesting things of all sorts — family photo- 

 graphs and heirlooms, gifts from relatives and 

 friends (some of no intrinsic value, perhaps, but 

 dear to her as expressions of affection), as well as a 

 number of her own elegant dresses representing 

 earlier modes of fashion, besides a superb collection 

 of lace and one of splendid shawls, historical relics, 

 and I know not what else. 



Critical visitors of former days sometimes laid 

 scornful stress on the extremely personal nature of 

 a part of the family collection and the heterogeneous 

 character of the one just below. But for most of 

 us who came close to the donor and knew her noble 

 devotion, the emotions aroused were very different. 



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