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Identifier: historyofrisepro00dunl_3 (find matches)
Title: A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950
Subjects: Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ing story in any words but his own. His early efforts, hissuccess, his gratitude to those who noticed him, are all honor-able, and show that he is still the child of nature. Since you pay me the compliment to number me amongthose whose names shall appear in your proposed work, andsince you ask of me some of the events of my life, I shall nolonger hesitate to comply, at least in part. Well then, to beginat the beginning, I was born at Killingsby, Windham County,Connecticut, on the 3d of February, 1800.1 My father being afarmer of moderate circumstances, of course my course in earlylife was none of the smoothest; it being midst rocks andstumps, briers and thistles, and finally, through all the per-plexities and privations incident to the life of a poor farmersson. I might tell you of going barefooted to church, hundredsof times in warm weather, three miles distant, and of a thousandsimilar incidents, such as would only convince you of early 1 Francis Alexander died in Italy in 1880. 232
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From the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston RURAL SURROUNDINGS 233 poverty after all; the relation of such facts might not interestyour readers so much, perhaps, as it might injure the feelings ofmy very aged and very respectable parents. (Their ages are 76and 77, and they are living in much comfort and quiet, in abeautiful white cottage which I erected two years ago, expresslyfor their benefit.) From the age of eight up to twenty, Ilabored almost incessantly, the eight warm months of the year,upon my fathers farm. The other four months in the year Iwent to a country district school, till I was seventeen. Myeighteenth and nineteenth winters I kept school (in the samedistrict where I had been one of the scholars previously), andtaught the small fry under my charge, the bad pronunciationand bad reading which I had imbibed from my old school-masters, and which I have found it so difficult to unlearnsince. I had never received any pay whatever for servicesupon the farm, except

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