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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY VOL. 151, NO. 3, SEPTEMBER 2007
biographical memoirs
opportunity “to put his oar in.” In the end, it can be said that through
his life and his works, Paul Mellon raised the practice of philanthropy
to the level of a fine art.
Elected 1971
This essay was originally published in Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
109.1 (1999). It is used with the permission of the journal and of the author.