Letter from Israel Gollancz, New York City, to J. Pierpont Morgan, 1923 June 2 : autograph manuscript signed.

Accompanying this letter with books for Mr. Morgan; saying "May a fellow-Cantab, & - what is even more significant as a common tie - a fellow-member of our dear old Christ's College - beg your kind acceptance of the accompanying books? I have had the privilege of visiting your Library, & hope to have the pleasure of seeing you yourself, to express gratitude for all your goodness to our College, to thank you personally for your public-spirit in letting one see your treasures, & to endeavour to win your valued cooperation in my efforts to commemorate permanently the tercentenary of England's greatest book - the great treasure of the English-speaking world, held by them as the most precious common heritage - the First Folio of the Plays of William Shakespeare. The book we have recently issued in London will, I hope interest you, for it contains some facsimiles now first reproduced. With it is the statement of the Shakespeare Association, for the Endowment of which I am now striving. It is hardly likely that you will ever secure of M.S. of the poem of Pearl. If you should add such an English MS. to your Collection, you would gain the richest prize of Medieval literature. Meanwhile I shall deem it a great honour if I can win your admiration for this most beautiful English poem, which captured me when I was little more than an undergraduate at Christ's - My joy in it will never fail."