Clarence King 



and the ensuing acquaintance was 

 one of the many gracious episodes 

 in Clarence King's European ex- 

 perience. 



King's collecting of paintings and 

 drawings began somewhere about 

 this time, and we can all who knew 

 him remember how remarkable was 

 the choice of what he gathered and 

 how unexpected. The little dark 

 room in the old Studio Building in 

 Tenth Street held paintings and 

 drawings and stuff of all kinds fit for 

 museums. He might say to a friend, 

 as he has to me, " By the bye I have 

 a Turner or a Millet somewhere here," 

 and then bring out from behind trunks 

 and the other deposits, which his no- 

 madic life obliged him to warehouse, 

 some example of the artists. Then, 

 we remember also that he liked to 

 lend. It pleased him to have others 

 enjoy what he had not the time and 

 the place for. There remained in his 

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