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tion that there was more potency in one really good piece of art with a very great character for its subject, than in many indifferent pictures. He secured the assistance of Margaret Lucas, a distinguished sis- ter of John Bright, by whom he was introduced to the sculptor of the queen, William Theed, and We have, according to the opinion of the family, the finest bust of the great commoner in the World. This was unveiled the 28th day of Third Mo., 1884. l Charles F. Coffin, of Lynn, Mass., one of the best friends of Friends School, and a very dear friend of Whittier, presented the portrait of the poet to the School, Tenth Mo., 24th, 1884. The last time Charles F. Coflin sat as a member of the school committee he made a very impressive speech, and secured the Studio of the Three Oaksu by convincing the committee of the expediency of it. Ella J. Wheeler had named her donation of S3o,ooo the Eliza- beth Fry fund, because she admired the excellent Woman who had reformed the prisons of the world. She Was looking at the bust of John Bright, and she said: That is excellent for the boys, but Elizabeth Fry should be in the other corner for the girls. You send to London and ask Mr. Theed to cut her out of the same quality of Carrara marble, and you place her in the other corner upon a proper pedestal, and I will pay for it all, and she did as she agreed. h It was unveiled Ninth Mo., 29th, 1885. Robert C. Winthrop said of the three, in a beautiful letter com- plimentary to Vifhittier, dated Tenth Mo., 16, 1884: Eloquence, poetry, and philanthropy will form an inspiring group for your scholars to have ever before their eyes, and may lead them to emulate what they admiref' John Bright Went to the Royal Academy to see the bust of Eliza- beth Fry which was exhibited there a short time, and he said: I am proud to have mine by the side of it. Mrs. Fry's children all approved of it in letters which We have in our possession, also George Richmond, of London, who painted her portrait when living. We have three excellent pictures by William Bradford, the dis- tinguished marine and Arctic painter. Une, in the sitting-room, he gave because he was a New England member of the Society of Friends, as a monument here of himself and of his work. Walter S. Meader generously contributed Ice Under the Midnight
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Sun of the North,', by Bradford, now in the hall, and Mrs. Brad- ford donated a beautiful cartoon of a shipwreck on the coast of Nantucket, over the door as you enter the library. Mary R. Osborne donated the exquisite copy of Andrea Del Sarto's Holy Family, now in the hall. She also gave to us the electrical apparatus, many years ago, by which the school-rooms were first lighted with electricity. We have received from George W. Whitaker, of Providence, three very valuable paintings-a free donation to the School, painted by himself. They are most highly- prized and appreciated. They are Mount Chocorua, Niagara Falls, and an excellent fruit piece in the dining-room. We have, in the library, a Hne view in Barrington-a gift by the painter, Elijah Baxter, of Providence. It has received much commendation. Hannah J. Bailey, of Winthrop, assisted in part by Ella J. Wheeler, has lighted up the whole house, in all its parts, with excellent art and beautiful pictures, which have contributed very much to the homelike, cultivating, and aesthetic infiuence of house and home. We received in 1881 the Abner and Sarah Slade fund of 351,5oo, a donation of Sarah Slade, of Swansea, in the name of herself and her deceased husband. This was expended for the library and for philosophical apparatus, and has been of vast benefit to the School. It was very much strengthened by another gift of Timothy K. Earle, of Worcester, Mass., of Egoo for the library. These two sums of money gave a new life to the literary spirit of the School, which has continued to this present time. Charles H. Smith, of Providence, whose son graduated here in 1895, gave a very noble donation of 315550, the income to be used for the purchase of books for the boys' and girls' reading-rooms. This was a beautiful and beneficent work, the influence of which will be everlasting. Ella J. Wheeler also gave to us a painting by one of our students Qformerlyj, Henry R. Kenyon. The picture had been received in the Paris salon, and now bears the mark I,452. Sarah F. Tobey, of blessed memory, left to us a beautiful collection of sea-shells- the work of a life-time. We received from the World's Columbian exhibition at Chicago a bronze medal and a diploma for excellence in wood-carving. It is a subject of great importance that no land has been sold, except to make permanent improvements on the property, or to pay
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