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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