Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1885, by JAMES S. CLAXTON, In the Office of the Clerk of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY ÁLFBED MARTIEN. INTRODUCTION. MY YOUNG FRIENDS: When you are introduced to a new acquaintance, you feel a desire to know something about him beyond the mere name. I think, then, you will like these letters better if I, the Editor, tell you something about the boy who wrote them. I shall be very brief, for his life was a smooth and common-place one, though he, like other boys, thought it full of important incidents, and sometimes felt that it was full of troubles. Philip Conway was the only son of a wealthy merchant of Philadelphia. He lost his mother 1* (v) |