Part 2 (1/2)

OUR STREET

”Our street is still and silent, Grass grows fro knells Our studious rinders ever call, No hucksters hborhood And leaves us to our ease

But now it lives and brightens, assumes a livelier hue; The pavements wide, On either side, Would seeht not note the difference, The change froay, But I can tell, and know full well, Priscilla walks our way”

Shortly after his return to college Richard celebrated his nineteenth birthday, and received these letters from his father and mother:

April 17th, 1883

MY DEAR BOY:

When I was thinking what I could give to you to-morrow, I remembered the story of Herder, hen he was old and weak and they brought hiht to quicken his for you that have helped me Maybe, this year, or soive you, soth

God bless you my son--

YOUR OLD MOTHER

who loves you dearly--dearly

THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER PHILADELPHIA, April 17th, 1883

MY DEAR BOY:

You are to be nineteen years old on Wednesday After two years ood a boy that I could not wish you to change in any serious or great thing You havewhat you have been, what you are You fill us with hope of your future virtue and usefulness

To be good is the best thing of all; it counts for rateful that you have even in youth been wise enough to choose the right road You will find it not easy to keep upon it always, but rele back to it I do not know but I think God loves the effort to do as well as the act done

I congratulate you my dear son, on your new birthday I wish you health, happiness and God's loving care May he bless you my son forever I enclose a trifle for your pleasure My love to you always, but God bless you dear dick

DAD

In the fall of 1885, Richard decided to leave Lehigh and go to John Hopkins University, where he took a special course in such studies as would best benefit hi this year in Baltimore Richard's letters show that he paid considerable attention to such important subjects as political economy and our own labor problelect football or the lighter social diversions In a short space of ti to dinners and dances, and had fallen in love with an entirely new set of un to send contributions to the azines, and an occasional acceptance caused hiard to one of these early contributions thatletter:

PHILADELPHIA

January 1887