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...Mask and Wig" of the University of Pennsylvania, has applied to the state for a charter...
...learned the other day from a gentleman, who was once the Law school librarian, of Charles Sumner's gift to the Law school of a wig of Lord Brougham's, the same which Lord Brougham wore when presiding in the House of Peers, and a little of the subsequent history of the wig. The story seemed to me of a good deal of interest and I think it ought to be more widely known...
When Mr. Sumner was in London in 1839, Lord Brougham offered him the wig as a present and Mr. Sumner accepted it, thinking he would give it as a curiosity to the Law school. At that time he wrote to George S. Hilliard, the historian...
...Lord Brougham has given me his full bottom, Lord Chancellor's wig, in which he made his great speech on the Reform bill. Such a wig costs twelve guineas and then the associations of it! In America it would be like Rabelais' gown...
When Mr. Sumner returned to America he gave the wig to the Law school and at the time asked Judge Storey to have it put in a case and preserved. But for some reason this care does not seem to have been taken. It was then kept for many years in the old Law school building (now the store of the Co-operative Society) but at length its associations seem to have been entirely forgotten. Mr. George S. Hale says he once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that...