in The Lehigh Burr.In writing in a copy of this book in later years,Richard said:"This is a copy of the first book of mine published.My family paid to have it printed and finding no one else was buying it,bought up the entire edition.

Finding the first edition had gone so quickly,I urged them to finance a second one,and when they were unenthusiastic I was hurt.Several years later when I found the entire edition in our attic,I understood their reluctance.The reason the book did not sell is,I think,because some one must have read it."In the summer of 1882Richard went to Boston,and in the following letter unhesitatingly expressed his opinion of that city and its people.

BOSTON,Wednesday.

July 1882.

DEAR FAMILY:--

I left Newport last night or rather this morning.I stopped at Beverly and called on Dr.Holmes.He talked a great deal about mama and about a great many other things equally lovely in a very easy,charming way.All I had to do was to listen and I was only too willing to do that.We got along splendidly.

He asked me to stay to dinner but I refused with thanks,as I had only come to pay my respects and put off to Dr.Bartol's. Dr.Holmes accompanied me to the depot and saw me safely off.Of all the lovely men I ever saw Dr.Bartol is the one.He lives in a great,many roomed with as many gables,house.Elizabethan,of course,with immense fireplaces,brass and dark woods,etchings and engravings,with the sea and rocks immediately under the w-->>

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