A page from the manuscript of A Group of Noble Dames. The original manuscript of A Group of Noble Dames was presented to the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., by Mr. Hardy at the suggestion of Mr. Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, M.A., Curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England. In a letter to Mr. Cockerell, dated October 11, 1911, Hardy referred to the gift in the following terms:
"I am rather appalled at the temerity of presenting these old MSS and should much like it to appear on
each record or label in some way either that they were
presented through you, at your wish or suggestion, or
presented to you to distribute as you should choose. It
would, I feel, not be quite becoming for a writer to
send his MSS to a Museum on his own judgment."
