3 September

Born in 1810 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter.

Above: The Surveyor: Portrait of Captain John Henry Lefroy, 1846

Also, born in 1849, American novelist, short story writer and poet Sarah Orne Jewett.

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,—this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

From Jewett’s 1884 novel, A Country Doctor