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"I am much vexed with myself for not having written this letter sooner. There were several things I wanted to say respecting the need of perseverance in painting as well as in other businesses, which it would take me too long to say in the time I have at command--so I must just answer the main question. Your son has very singular gifts for painting. I think the work he has done at the College nearly the most promising of any that has yet been done there, and I sincerely trust the apparent want of perseverance has hitherto been only the disgust of a creature. | The Early Life of Mark Rutherford 1 The Early Life of Mark Rutherford The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Early Life of Mark Rutherford by Mark Rutherford Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission. Please read the legal small print and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg and how to get involved. Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers Since 1971 These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers Title The Early Life of Mark Rutherford Author Mark Rutherford Release Date January 2005 EBook 7379 This file was first posted on April 22 2003 Edition 10 Language English Character set encoding US-ASCII START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EARLY LIFE OF MARK RUTHERFORD Transcribed from the 1913 edition by David Price email ccx074@ THE EARLY LIFE OF MARK RUTHERFORD Autobiographical Notes I have been asked at 78 years old to set down what I remember of my early life. A good deal of it has been told before under a semi- transparent disguise with much added which is entirely fictitious. What I now set down is fact. I was born in Bedford High Street on December 22 1831. I had two sisters and a brother besides an elder sister who died in infancy. My brother a painter of much promise died young. Ruskin and Rossetti thought much of him. He was altogether unlike the rest of us in face in temper and in quality of mind. He was very passionate and at times beyond control.