All Early Letter by Thaddeus Stems, In an address on "Thaddeus Stevens as a Country Lawyer," which I pre- pared sor the Pennsylvania State Bar Association last June, and subsequent- ly elaborated and illustrated sor publi- cation in the Lancaster County Histor- ical Society proceedings, I avowed

autobiographical notes that he ever entertained any notion of leaving Lancaster or that there was any such incident between his admission to the Bar and his early entry into public life. Moreover, on September 13, 1813, we find his father, writing to James, then at Lancaster, giving an account of how a Federalist

purposes is to prepare and perpetuate the history and biography of our profession in Pennsylvania. His struggle—or, rather, that of his widowed mother, for her-lame boy, the youngest and favorite—to get an edu- cation, his escapades at Burlington and graduation from Dartmouth, his choice of the law and

side by side on the rolls of the congregation of that church where James Buchanan, after he had been President of the United States, made for the first time the profession of his faith, I read on last Sunday names like Watt, Anderson and Jack- son with Reist, Graybill and Shaub. The other exception is