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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
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others, which he hadmade merely from seeing them on the stage in character; andwhich were to be published in the Mirror of Taste. Ithought them very extraordinary. Leslie was then in thebookstore of Messrs. Inskeep and Bradford, an apprentice.Two days after I saw him at the fish club on the Schuylkill,where he came with Bradford to sketch the scene, or some ofthe characters there assembled. I never saw him again tillhe called with his friend Morse to see me a day or two beforehe returned to England in April, 1834. On Mr. Leslies arrival in this country in 1833, I addresseda letter to him, requesting such information as would enableme to be accurate in my biographical sketch of him for thiswork: his prompt, frank, manly reply is before me, and it wouldbe injustice to him and to the reader not to give his own words. After mentioning the facts already given respecting hisparents and his birth, he proceeds: In 1799 my father re-turned to America with his family, consisting of himself, his
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PATRONS OF LESLIE 3 wife, and sister, and five children. We lived for a short time inthe State of New Jersey, close to the Delaware, and directlyopposite Philadelphia; and there I remember that, on beingsent to school for the first time, a condition was made with theschoolmaster that I should be permitted to amuse myself withdrawing on a slate, when not engaged in saying my lessons.My father, whose health had been long declining, died in 1804,in Philadelphia, where we then resided. Before this event, Ihad been sent to the University of Pennsylvania, where, underDr. Rogers, professor of English grammar, history, etc., andMr. Patterson, professor of mathematics, I received all theschool education I ever had. Here, as well as at the littlecountry school in Jersey, I was more attentive to drawingthan to my other studies, though now obliged to practise itby stealth. In the year 1808 I was bound apprentice for sevenyears to Messrs. Bradford and Inskeep, booksellers, mymother being unable to

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