"As you know," wrote Boston's late, fictional George Apley (J. P. Marquand's The Late George Apley) to his son John, "for a number of years I have been making a collection of Chinese bronzes. . . . I have made this collection out of duty rather than out of predilection, from the conviction that everyone in a certain position owes it to the community to collect something. . . . They will, of course, be left by my will to the Museum."
Nonfictional but equally conscientious Boston Brahmins have indeed made Boston's Museum of...
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