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A gift to tess Simpson? Stephanie Stafford
This delicate cubist painting, whose title and precise date have been
lost in time, was a gift from Elizabeth to Esther (Tess) Simpson,
the Academic Assistance Council’s (AAC)1 first Assistant Secretary.
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