Statistics for occurrence #1 of “George Peabody” in chapter 24 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life:

...orters and the begging letters. On the other hand, a man may be grandly useful and yet have a petty desire to advertise himself, as it appears from the newly published memoirs of Louis Agassiz that George Peabody once offered to endow a great museum munificently if his own name could be attached to it, and withheld the gift when that proposal was declined. 1896
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George Peabody 156 2 6 0 0 user votes
George Peabody Este 9 0 1 0 0 user votes
George Peabody Esq 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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