AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PENNSYLVANIAN
Governor Pennypacker,
Harrisburg, Pa.
To you and the members of the legislature I return my profound acknowledgment for the interest in our Jamestown Celebration. I shall refuse ever to ride again to Gettysburg with a drawn sabre.
His Excellency,
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
Governor Pennypacker,
My dear Sir:
May I beg your Excellency to consider favorably the appropriations made for our charitable institutions which are really doing the work which the state should otherwise do.
I beg your Excellency's special consideration for the Protectory for Boys above Norristown, which contains 300 inmates and will be able to receive 300 more, when the new wing shall be completed, which is now in progress of erection.
I have the honor to remain,
Your faithful servant,
My dear Governor:
I send you a note from Edward S. Buckley, trustee, as to the appropriation to the Pottsville Hospital.
The Evening Bulletin last night in its correspondence columns had an article on the Ripper bills, in which the writer refers to you as "Easily the brainiest and greatest governor Pennsylvania has ever had." It stirs me to the depths to have the truth spoken. The conviction is everywhere.
Most sincerely yours,
Hon. Samuel W. Pennypacker,
Executive Building, Harrisburg.
My dear Governor:
I received your communication of the 27th inst. on my return to Philadelphia to-day. A large number of lawyers are opposed to Judge Biddle's renomination on the ground of his advanced
