Quarterly Bulletin engaged when she was sixteen and he thirty. Taking a studio in New York City, he worked at his art in order to accumulate a nest egg, for the Civil War had swept away the family fortunes and had left him nothing upon the death of the father. Mary Hogan went to Memphis where her father and eldest brother owned the Memphis Appeal. After an engagement of three years, she and Thomas were married on the strength of two thousand dollars paid for his first painting of "The Slave Market." The young couple came East and spent their honeymoon at Leeds in the Catskills. George Inness was not far away and other artists lived all about. It was a happy summer. George Inness, during this period, used to call on Thomas Noble when it was time to put figures into his landscapes. "Come on, Noble," he would say, "it's time for.you to put the figures in." And his friend would go and sketch in and usually paint the tiny figures to be seen in Inness's landscapes of that period. The fall of 1868 brought the artists back to New York City. The autumn and winter were cheerful and there was much pleasant visiting about in a group of artists and writers. Thomas S. Noble was absorbed in his work and his family. He and his wife were blessed with six children, four girls and two boys, who held his devoted attention. He loved children, and as the years passed, he had grandchildren to claim his love. I was fortunate, as his eldest grandchild, to be with him constantly for the first ten years of my life. I spent delightful hours in his studio, where he allowed me to daub paint on an unfinished portion of his canvas, or lacking that, on a bit of cardboard, he, meanwhile, talking to me of things close to his heart. Sometimes we would walk together, watching the sunsets or looking at the moon and stars, and he always opened new worlds of beauty and knowledge. Thomas S. Noble was a magnificent-looking man, six feet tall, and, as he grew older, about two hundred pounds in weight. His silky, nearly black curly hair was worn long, as — 11 5 ~