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My horizon now began to widen, I began again to think of Europe, [[strikethrough]] where I did not know [[/strikethrough]] I imparted this desire to [[strikethrough]] but it[[/strikethrough]] Mrs Hartzell and I was amazed that I should have an exhibition of my pictures in Cincinnati, and see what could be done. So it was that in the fall of 1890 all my hopes were centered in an exhibition which lasted two or three weeks. All that human effort could do was done by these good friends, but the gods refused to be propitious, and no pictures were sold. That I should not be completely disheartened, my benefactors gave me a sum the amount of which I have forgotten [[strikethrough]]which I have forgotten two hundred fifty dollars, [[/strikethrough]] I would have taken twenty five dollars for the pictures. The only [[strikethrough]] things [[/strikethrough]] part that seemed to have any value were the frames for which [[strikethrough]] I paid [[/strikethrough]] I had paid money.

With this sum and a commission of $75.- from Mr. E- of Philadelphia I set sail for Rome via Liverpool & Paris on the City of Chester January 4th 1891.