Your cautious son,
Pierrepont.
P.S. I wrote George Damon congratulations on his marriage to Verbena Philpot, the girl, you remember, whose father insisted that I should be his son-in law. The letter evidently followed him to Europe where the happy couple appear to have gone, for the other day I received this cablegram: "Letter received. Congratulations belong to you."
LETTER NO. XIX.
LETTER No. XIX.
Pierrepont tells the governor "what's what"
about Helen Heath and cites an example of
matrimonial felicity secured by peculiar
methods pursued by the husband.
Chicago, Nov. 7, 189—