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inspired by a similar work - Though much superior- by Thos Couture which is now in the Metropolitan Museum and the sketch of which was with Mr Healy's beautiful collection which was destroyed in the great fire of '71 in the Chicago Historical Society.  Likewise, I presented to the Rhode Island School of Design at Providence my painting called "Grandmother's Love Letters", and my portrait of my dear old friend, and fellow artist F.W. Hitch to the Carolina Museum of Art at Charlstown, and to the State Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee Ill my painting of The Christian Martyr, in memory of my [[dear]] Brother Charley, who died there in

I had at this time the generous impulse to present the head of Mark Twain which I painted in the summer of 1890 at


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