Quarterly Bulletin to New York to live, and the Ohio home was no longer the family headquarters. He joined his children in New York early in igo5, and Mrs. Noble closed the old home and followed soon after. For two years he painted, and made many pencil sketches. A series of one hundred and twenty-eight small marine paintings date from this* time. In Mr. Dunsmore's words, these marines "bear an ethereal quality, a mingling of asceticism and calm spiritual elevation." It was his art which brought him peace to the time of his death in April, igo7, in New York City. Mrs. Thomas S. Noble lived to the age of eighty-seven and died at her home in New Rochelle, — a great spirit, whose principal wish was to see her husband's work worthily placed. Since her death, two of his paintings, "John Brown's Blessing" and "Witch Hill" have been presented to The New-York Historical Society. These were the gifts of the children of Thomas S. Noble and Mary C. Noble, through Mrs. Mary Noble Welleck, a daughter, and Mark A. Noble, a son, in whose charge the paintings were left. The artist's other surviving children, Mrs. Grace Noble Anderson, Dr. Thomas S. Noble, and Mrs. Edith Noble Brewer concurred. The artist's children have also presented to the Society, in their parents' memory, the impressive portrait of Thomas S. Noble, painted in Cincinnati in i8g6 by his pupil, his friend, and his then-neighbour, John Ward Dunsmore. It is now on exhibition in the Society's Gallery of American Artists. 123