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[[image: sketch of man and woman facing each other, wearing coats, man in military hat, a suitcase at her feet]] Framingham Trooper & mother waiting for car big machine Albion Bicknell Lincoln surrounded by group life size Civil War statesmen & generals carpet much in evidence upright landscape & figures rich solid sad Wm. Hill upright landscape Dodge Macknight Three watercolors two snow pictures and a [[?]] and cliff & sea arrangement The latter with a remarkable green sky These in white frames are in reading room which is reached by two short stairways from the gallery fine reading room on level of ground with windows rising high enough to throw in a proper light. [[end page]] [[start page]] 45 [[image: abstract sketch of a front hallway with stairs, presumably the reading room of the Malden Public Library]] Malden Public Library "Hist. Portraits" - by Geo B Meatly FRS p. 74 Geo. Bell London MD CCC XC VII 1907 John Singleton Coply painted a multitude of ports in Am. Copley when well off was glad to leave port. p. etc. etc. Copley's industry never flagged, & he is said to have painted at best 290 oils 40 crayons & 19 miniatures. His portrayal of Manfred & Lord Heathfeld is in Nat. Port Gall Richard Cosway by Geo C. Williamson G. Bell 1905 Cosway in 1770 ARA C was guest of Cipriani at Charring Cross and Bartolozzi was there too. They quarreled & C went away Cosway was married from Ciprianis house at St. Georges Ch. Hanover Sq. in 1781 Was Copley there I wonder. [[Angoline Keifman?]] sort of sponsor for Maria