The subject of the eight letters in this collection is a Lehigh University Freshman of the Class of 1907 Julian Albert Leonhard. On September 26, 1903 of his Freshman year, Julian was involved in fraternity hazing incident that apparently led to his death October 20, 1903 of typhoid fever. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Leonhard, and the family physician, A.A. Lydecker, M.D. attributed the death to the humiliating hazing being forced to drink contaminated water from a local city saloon. Julian and another fraternity pledge apparently were blindfolded and forced to sit on the floor of the saloon and feed each other “water” (from a source assumed to be city water) by spoon. Julian becomes severely ill and goes home to Haledon, New Jersey where he dies. His parents begin the correspondence with Lehigh University President Thomas Messinger Drown relating in the letters their understanding of the incident determined from their son’s feverish accounting. Based on three newspaper articles about cruel hazing incidents in other universities, apparently the family physician is suggesting to the family to sue the University or at least try to stop the practice of hazing. President Drown responds with letters of condolence to each of the parents and a reassurance of his verbal denouncement of the practice of hazing. Possible some of the parents’ letters are in the University Presidents’ Correspondence files because some of the Drown letters to the parents indicate receipt of their letters. The family attributes the death to contaminated city water. The Brown and White student newspaper reports six cases of typhoid fever among Lehigh’s students at the time, although only one death results, Julian Leonhard. It is uncertain why a family friend in 2011 gets involved in donating the Leonhard correspondence to Special Collections but apparently after over a hundred years the Leonhard family still puzzles over the death attributed to Lehigh fraternity hazing.