ABSTRACT
Albert C. Barnes had informally reestablished his twice-severed ties with the University of Pennsylvania in late 1941 through a friendly correspondence with the former Arboretum School lecturer John Fogg. Dewey’s “tender heartedness for sinners,” revealed by a ready acknowledgment of the attractions of university life, produced a letter in which the collector laid out for Chisholm the frustrating history of his relationship with William Penn. The original Indenture had called for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Penn to share the power of appointment, and undoubtedly Barnes intended George W. McClelland be made aware of the proposed amendment. Penn President George W. McClelland wrote to Barnes to convey the university’s formal approval. Jon Dasu Longaker, the stepson of a Penn professor of English, had earned a baccalaureate degree at the university in 1941. Penn officials took some comfort that the university was still specified in the collector’s Indenture.
