“ Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye, and edited by their father. Miss Eggleston is versatile. She does many kinds of artistic decorative work for amusement. Among other things she models in leather, having executed the cover for the album containing autographs of distinguished American authors, which was presented to Mrs. Grover Cleveland as an acknowledgment of her interest in the copyright bill, by Edward Eggleston. Miss Eggleston spends the winter in New York and makes her home during the rest of the year at Lake George, where she has a studio in her father's picturesque stone library. ”

“ She drew constantly and modeled occasionally in clay, but she had no teaching until she was received into classes in Cooper Institute in October. 1875. She was under age, being not yet fifteen, but was accepted on account of remarkable promise. ”