1890

Hilton was elected President of Ginn & Cos., the new corporation which was formed the first of the year, to replace the former partnership. Mrs. Hilton is at Chapel Hill, No. Carolina, for the present Mrs. McDuffee flew from California to attend the funeral of her brilliant son Franklin, Professor of English, poet and authority on Shakespeare. She is now at Rochester, N. H., the old home. Her daughter has returned to her professional work in California.

Billy Morgan writes as follows: "Thanks for your prompt response to my letter of the 22nd. I hope very, very much that I can make it possible to be present at this coming reunion.

"What about my family? Why you appear to have gotten the salient facts in that bulletin. As to my dear wife, familiarly known to her family and close friends as Coco, she is blessed with 'abundant health' and keeps busy with this, that and 'tother. Although a native daughter of the Capital City, she loves best the old New Hampshire hills and spends seven or eight months at 'Hideaway' our West Springfield home.

"As for myself, and by the way, I am known to my family and very small circle of close friends by the endearing appellation 'Tivvy'; to my close professional brethren I am simply—Gerry. Being a native son and having been educated—such an attempt was really made in my behalfin the State, I am a thorough going, double dyed New Hampshireite and no length of sojourn in the sunny South can cure me of the malady—Thank God.

"My daughters are married to Navy Commanders. One of them is Administration Aide to the Chief of Naval Operations, and so, stationed in the District of Columbia. Another son-in-law is U. S. Fleet Officer on the SS Pennsylvania and Aide to the Chief of the Pacific Fleet.

"Coco and Tivvy are grandma and granddad to five nice sturdy kids, whom naturally we adore.

"My life during the passing years has been gratifying busy but in the main quite serene.

"I have had more success in life than I probably deserved but I have tried manfully to bear up under such a cross.

"One of the surprising lessons I have learned during the approaching periods of long, long shadows is that the older we grow the busier we are, and since the advent of the increased Federal Bureaucracy the harder it is to keep the home fires burning, but we here, anyhow, have faith the Ted from the metropolis, will ere long cure all the ills which arise from the balanced budget.

"I have consistently refused for the past six years to be shouldered with new burdens, being content to attend to my daily knitting. Only one duty there was which I could not escape and that was the unenviable task of writing the history of the first twenty-five years of the existence of the American College of Physicians. This task is now completed., the manuscript being in the hands of the publishers.

"I may say, with not too much egotism, but with pardonable pride, that I have been honored by occupying every office in the gift of the American College of Physicians, including President of the American Congress on Internal Medicine, a former affiliate of the College, except its President.

"I seek no new honors being content to attend to my daily tasks.

"Thus, dear Hardy, have I endeavored to respond to your demand to give you about myself 'all the news fit to print.'

Billy"

Secretary, 34 Gray St., Arlington, Mass

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