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with your money is to move. We need not attempt to be any thing more than we are - Perrys - until we get away from 1214 H. When we get into a more respectable neighborhood, then we shall show the Jewell in us - the proud, ancestral Jewell who held his head high in New England three centuries ago - then we shall come into our own - then we shall be respectable and your children shall move in a society which befits them. There will be no more Turners, or [Burgrus?], or Jack the barbers. We shall be able to be clean and choose good companions. We shall not be compelled to select persons beneath us as companions. Claude will be able to be a better boy and I shall have a home to which I should not be ashamed to invite the boys of my Fraternity who are all