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Excerpt from The Rich Legacy: Memories of Hannah Tobey Farmer, Wife of Moses Gerrish Farmer
The portrait of Mrs. Farmer - the frontispiece in this volume - gives as true an impression of her personality and presence as a picture can con vey. The singular mobility of face, the charm and fascination of voice, can never be else than a mem ory until we find her again in the Everlasting Home. This photograph, by Mrs. Emily Stokes, is from a crayon portrait lately made by Mrs. Eva D. Cow dery, from an oil painting by Frank H. Tompkins. The original is a monument to Mr. Tompkins' patience and skill as well as, to his rare intuitive powers; for he had only a sketch, made after death, and a photograph of twenty years ago from which to develop on canvas a face so living that the one expression of all is, Will it not speak?
The silhouette in Chapter I. Is of Mrs. Far mer's mother, Mrs. Olive (tobey) Shapleigh; herfather, Richard Shapleigh, is shown by a silhouette in Chapter II.
In Chapter VII. Is inserted a fac-simile of the posters used by Mr. Farmer while lecturing on electricity in 1847.
Chapter XXVI. Has a reproduction in helio type of the music of Mr. And Mrs. Farmer's song, The Patriot's Grave.
The picture of the Island Home, United States Torpedo Station, Newport, r.i., is found in Chapter XXXIV.
Bittersweet-ih-the-fields in Eliot, Mrs. Far mer's last earthly home, may be found in Chapter XXXIX. It is from a photograph taken by Mrs. Farmer's niece, Miss Marguerite Rogers.
The fine portrait in oil of Mr. Farmer, by Frank H. Tompkins, is reproduced, in Chapter by the Boston Photogravure Company.
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