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least of my career I deserve little credit for doing my level best, for nothing else received the slightest attention but this meant long effort & extremely small pay — & so it has continued.—

But I have been blessed with several patrons who each one gave me a "booste" in his time & place.

The first was Henry Price an amateur painter. While working in a Hotel at Atlantic City in the summer time, a terrible storm came on & a schooner was [[?]] ashore. I made a picture of it — it came to Mr Price's notice,