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nurses were not known in those days and my brother Charley was sent for to come and help care for me. The family physician Dr. Blackman treated me. Although a Homeopath, he had to keep me much under Morphine on account of my  intense suffering.  During this illness my relatives were most kind to me, and in my little note book I speak with affectionate gratitude of my kind Aunt. My forced absence from the Academy schools was a great discouragement to me. A curious system of drawing which found favor, and, which rather shocks me now, was the almost photographic reproduction of the casts on a large scale and the working upon the same drawing for months. I remember a very tall fellow by the name of Daintree who made a

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