Price: $250.00
Unbound. Typed letter Signed ("Cornelius Vanderbilt") dated 27 July 1909 on his 20 Pine Street, New York stationery to the Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, Secretary of Yale University and author of a massive two-volume study of Negro education. A brief letter from Vanderbilt (1873-1942, great-grandson of the pioneer shipping and railroad magnate) confirming a gift of $10,000 to Yale University, which Vanderbilt understood "is to be used to form the nucleus of a fund to provide some adequate memorial to Dean Wright." Henry Parks Wright was Dean of Yale from 1884 to 1909. Folded as mailed, small paper tape remnants on the back of the top corner where it was previously mounted, else fine.
Item #36618
