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A young man left Hamilton in 1881 to study art in Europe . He dreamed, one day, of being classed with the ‘swells'. Three years later, he made the following observation, in a letter sent home to his mother: “Surely man was made for something else but the signing of his name to engines of commerce. He must respect other branches of the great tree. If he stops to think a moment he cannot help but feel that commerce, science, religion, and Art are things inseparable, that where commerce and science feed our bodies… the others must occupy and perfect our brains. They are all so necessary to complete the machine called existence” (1) The writer of the letter was William Blair Bruce (1859-1906), one of Hamilton 's most accomplished historical artists.