Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts, Annual Report for the Year Ending September 30th, 1935
Sleeper, and the survivors and survivor of them, and therepresentatives of the survivor, all my interest in the pic tures, statuary, works of art, bric-a-brac, furniture, books and papers, contained at my death in all the stories of the main building of said Fenway Court other than the fourth Story and the attic, and also in or upon the grounds adjoin ing said building, and all such articles as are above men tioned wherever situated intended or destined to be con tained in those stories other than the fourth story and the attic, including all the property in which I own the bene ficial interest through my ownership of all the Shares of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, In corporated, all the aforesaid real and personal property to be held by said Coolidge, Cushing, Endicott, Higginson, Johnson, Pope and Sleeper, in trust as a Museum for the education and enjoyment of the public forever, but no works of art shall be placed therein for exhibition other than such as I, or the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Fenway, Incorporated, own or have contracted for at my death. And I direct that, if any question arises as to what is intended or destined for said stories other than the fourth story and the attic, the judgment of my Executors or Ex ecutor Shall be final.
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