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The year 1926 is for me a most memorable one 
as it came near being the final chapter in my career, 
A sore foot developing into blood poisoning made the 
amputation of my left leg above the knee necessary. The wjs: 
two weeks in Emergency Hospital, however, found me all 
right again and I was soon at my desk at the Gallery as 
usual. The hospital experience was a most agreeable 
one, made so by my many friends who visited me constantly 
and kept my room fragrant with no end of blossoms. 
The year 1925 was also marked by the death, after 
a most painful illness, of Mrs. Holmes and the consequent 
desertion of the home on Belmont Street. The place was 
offered for sale but there were no purchasers, the much 
boosted real estate market having collapsed the year be- 
fore. Mrs. Holmes 1 sister, Agnes Osgood Clifton, kept 
house for me for a few months, after which I took rooms 
at the Cosmos Club where I have lived ever since. The 
Belmont Street house at this date, July 1929, is occupied 
by my bachelor son Osgood. 
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