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Small framed photograph of my home at 140 Michigan Ave Chicago is preserved in the little Carpenters Chest with old letters in the attick over my Studio at Onteora. 

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and I was soon rattling down the the village street towards the station.  I remember when I reached my home at 140 Michigan Ave my father and the family were seated at the table and I rushed in and threw myself in my Mothers arms.  My father quietly looked over his paper and said nothing.  This, I think ended my education [[over?]] what I gathered from the excellent Edwin Stanley Waters.

 Our home was at this time at No 140 Michigan Ave on the SW corner of Munroe St, a spacious and comfortable two story and high basement-brick house standing on a large and valuable site.  The house had been built by a family by the name of Gurnee who had travelled much abroad and brought many things home for its construction which was improvement on the less thourough but cheaper and more quickly wraught American articles.  For

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Cannot make out two of the last three words Do not mark as 'complete' until two or FEWER [?]