Correspondence from Joseph Hill Paddock [ME’79], 1880-1881

1875-79? [Note written on back of advertisement for Lechauweki Springs] “Tuck, Have an examination in chemistry at 8 ½ at Chandler house will be back about 10 PM providence permitting You can go to bed J.H.P.” 1880 November 7 (Office of the Lehigh Valley Rail Road Co., Bethlehem) remarks that he is doing well at L.V.R.R. and recalls a ship that Richard’s father had named Richard III and saw the ship at Amboy with a load of old English rails, wishes him a pleasant voyage up the river (going to Albany, Dudley Observatory?), of University matters he cares less (2 pages) 1880 December 12 knows that Richard dislikes prompt replies, knows not how to amuse Richard about the college affairs, has moved from Sun Inn to Getz’s at Market & New, can ride P. &. R. R.R. free so can go to N.Y. on to Coopertown’s for brother’s wedding by way of Albany 1881 September 11(Dawson, Fayette Cty) late response due to his Unstable situation, has new work on bridge and tunnel, remarks about marriage and a soft spot in his heart for a girl near Richard 1883 January 11 wedding announcement Carrie Belle Angell – Joseph Hill Paddock, Winfield, N.Y. (Paddock murdered April 4, 1894 by a mob of Slav and Hungarian workers in the H. C. Frick Coke Works riots inPittsburgh)