64/123 For nine months I could not stand erect, but had to hobble about with a stick. This illness caused me to give up my teachership. I went on with my art studies and the science of chemistry; though I went no further in heliochromy. I sent about fifteen works to South Kensington, and gained as my third-grade prize in list A the 'Dictionary of Terms used in Art' by Thomas Fairholt, which I found a very useful work. Towards the end of the year, my father, whose health was declining, sent for me home to assist him in the school. |