John LaFarge 



have a chance, were to help make use 

 of it for beautiful things. 



I have kept to these few words 

 which connect our friend and myself 

 with the ideas of art, with the mani- 

 fold interests which belong to that 

 side of the intellect. It will be for 

 others to talk of him in the ways 

 through which they knew him more 

 intimately than I did. It is difficult 

 to believe that the brilliant, anxious, 

 many-sided mind has passed away 

 and has left so little of a record for 

 those sides in which some of us knew 

 him, but which to the great public 

 were unknown. 



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