Anonymous Patron writes “With a toast of Champagne and a lunch of roast pheasant (shot by the host himself), George Ramsden, a British bookseller in a pinstripe suit, signed a $2.6 million agreement to sell the 2,600-volume Edith Wharton library to the custodians of the Mount, the writer’s estate in Lenox, Mass., which she designed, built and finally left forever in 1911 as her marriage unraveled.
“It is the most important acquisition we could possibly make,” Stephanie Copeland, head of the Mount’s restoration project, said in an interview just before she signed the deal.
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