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May I ask him to come and spend a day with us, Annabel? 'Do by all means, father, she answered. 'Mrs. Ormonde heard from him yesterday. He came into possession of his library-building the other day. 'I will write, then. This was Monday; on Wednesday morning Egremont came. The nine months or so which had passed since these three met had made an appreciable change in all of them.
For the future he had made no promises, beyond saying that in his library-building there were two rooms which were to be devoted to lectures. The library itself was now his chief care. This was something solid; it would re-establish him in his self-confidence. Yes; 'Thoughts for the Present' had been a failure. The first lecture was far away the best. It dealt with Religion.
Contracts for a library-building were made early In 1872, and work on it was begun in May of the same year, the structure being finished in 1875. It has a frontage of one hundred and ninety-two feet on Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Park, and a depth of one hundred and fourteen feet on both Seventieth and Seventy-first Streets.
Lenox conveyed to the trustees three hundred thousand dollars in stocks of the county of New York and bonds and mortgage securities, and also the ten lots of land fronting on Fifth Avenue on which the library-building now stands. One hundred thousand dollars were set apart for the formation of a permanent fund, and two hundred thousand dollars for a building-fund.
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