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but seemed to break down and he said to me "Well, Carroll if you still persist in your desire to study Art you can go to your Uncle in New York and take up your studies this winter. I will help you all I can, but I am not sure how long it will be after this disaster"...So, on the 1st of November 1871 I left Chicago from the station at 22d St with my modest little kit, as most all my clothes were burned, and made the familiar journey to New York which in those days was thirty six hours- I was at once ensconsed in the little front bed room on the fourth floor of my Uncle's comfortable home at 522 5th Avenue. This relative was the most prosperous one of our relations. He was my maternal grand mother's brother and has a taste for Art, possessing a very good collection of Amer-

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