. Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers . anxious to do my best in this very important work andon so inspiring a subject as General Lowell and want to do itwhen I have plenty of time and under the best the bust was finished and placed in Memorial Hall he wroteme, March 8, 1886, I am happily disappointed in the effect ofthe bust, since it is in position. It looks better than I expected,and is one of the few things of mine upon which I can look withoutmore regret than pleasure. I mysel
. Field, camp, hospital and prison in the civil war, 1863-1865; Charles A. Humphreys, chaplain, Second Massachusetts cavalry volunteers . anxious to do my best in this very important work andon so inspiring a subject as General Lowell and want to do itwhen I have plenty of time and under the best the bust was finished and placed in Memorial Hall he wroteme, March 8, 1886, I am happily disappointed in the effect ofthe bust, since it is in position. It looks better than I expected,and is one of the few things of mine upon which I can look withoutmore regret than pleasure. I myself was not greatly surprisedat this confession of the sculptors frequent disappointments, forI knew that his ideals were always far ahead of the possibility oftheir full expression in the cold marble. Nor was I greatly sur-prised at his marvellous success when I considered his conscien-tious and patient fidelity, of which I had seen many of these he revealed in a letter to me, November 6, 1884,in which he said, In modelling the bust everything in the shapeof a photograph will be valuable, even those taken in childhood. 4 r. LIEUT. C. W. AMORY THE NEW YORK . AvSTOK, : TILD.^N FJUNDATIONS R L THE Nb:w YOHK PUB LI : L! n -) \ --^ -.^ ASTORTiLDrLxN LENOX, ANDFOUNDATIONSL
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