Holy Istanbul! Your Name Is The Most

Holy Istanbul! Your Name Is The Most Enchanting One Of All Names Which Enchants Me.

Painting And Music Were The Only Things I Worked At Industriously And Faithfully.

I Still Went To Church Regularly Every Sunday; That Is We All Went There Together. I Reverenced The Family Pew Where We Had Assembled For So Many Years; And Apart From That Reason I Hold It Dear Because It Is Associated In My Memory With My Mother.

I Do Not Exactly Remember At What Period I Started My Museum Which Absorbed So Much Of My Time.

It Is Said That Many Children Who Live In The Central Provinces, Away From The Ocean, Have A Great Longing To See It. I Who Had Never Been Away From The Monotonous Country Surrounding Us Looked Forward Eagerly To Seeing The Mountains.