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[[margin note]] about 8550 words [[/margin note]] 57 American paintings. Indeed, John H Sherwood was an important and public spirited New Yorker, and at this time, as also upon my return from Europe in '78, and from then [[erased]] time [[/erased]] until his death, on March 17th 1887, my life was much associated with him. I began at once working at the National Academy of Design Schools from the Antique. One of the picturesque land marks of New York was this reproduction of the Doge's Palace in Venice, which stood on the N.W. corner of 4th Avenue and 23rd St. Happily, when it was torn down, in the late Eighties it was preserved piece meal and purchased by some Catholic Institution, and now stands preserved on the upper west side of Manhattan Island. The schools were in the high basement with the windows along Fourth Avenue. As I recall we numbered