bequeathed

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Bequeathed to the museum by historian and journalist Richard Collier, the collection was amassed in the 1970s and is comprised of about 1,700 accounts of those who witnessed the pandemic first hand.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2018

Bequeathed by the British, Ghana's judicial system displays all the solemn trappings of the Old Bailey, complete with decorous courtrooms and gowned-and-wigged judges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bequeathed to the gallery by the late Manhattan collector R. Horace Gallatin, Meryon's etchings shared top honors in the show with Gallatin's two other favorite print-makers: Rembrandt and Albrecht Durer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bequeathed by Mr. Jacob Bell to the National Gallery, London, where it now hangs.

From Landseer A collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter with introduction and interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

My father, tiller of the soil, Bequeathed them to me with my name.

From The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Blewett, Jean