French, Harry W. (Harry Willard), 1854- · Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham · leaf 77
1822, while painting in New Haven, Mr. Morse presented the Yale-College Library with five hundred dollars. This was, perhaps, the mostmunificent gift ever contributed, when the circumstances are considered;for, not six months later, when a hall-thief stole the artists hat, he wrote,that, to buy… … the sisters. — BY S. F. B. MORSE. art-gallery of the college a painting of Allstons for which he paid seventhousand dollars. In 1824 he was appointed upon the Mexican Commis-sion, and left for Washington in high hopes of receiving great profit fromsuch a trip. On reaching Washington he learned that…
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