Chapter 12 No.12

Coins-Origin of My Feeling for Them-Humble Commencement-Groping in the Dark-My Scanty Means and Equally Scanty Knowledge, but Immense Enthusiasm and Inflexibility of Purpose-The Maiden Acquisition Sold for Sixteenpence-The Two Earliest Pieces of the New Departure-To Whom I first went-Continuity of Purchases in All Classes-Visit to Italy (1883)-My E