Ah, Yes. The 'Collecting Things' Stage of Grief

Jun 20, 2007

What would you do if your wife left you for a famous writer? If you're Henry Wellcome, you'd start to collect things. At the time of his death in 1936, his holdings outnumbered those of the Louvre, according to this Bloomberg story.

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