It was appropriate that your mother, herself an old friend, should assemble a representative selection of Mr.Morgan's old friends around him at such a time.

He was in great spirits and most entertaining.
As your time was so charmingly taken up during your visit home with a younger member of his family, you probably overlooked opportunities of hearing him talk, and do not know what an interesting man he can be.
He will soon begin to build his factory here for the manufacture of automobiles, which he says is a term he prefers to "horseless carriages." Your Uncle George told me he would like to invest in this factory, as George thinks there is a future for automobiles; perhaps not for general use, but as an interesting novelty, which people with sufficient means would like to own for their amusement and the sake of variety.

However, he said Mr.Morgan laughingly declined his offer, as Mr.M.was fully able to finance this venture, though not starting in a very large way.

Your uncle said other people are manufacturing automobiles in different parts of the country with success.

Your father is not very well, though he is not actually ill, and the doctor tells him he ought not to be so much at his office, as the long years of application indoors with no exercise are beginning to affect him unfavourably, but I believe your father would die if he had to give up his work, which is all that has ever interested him outside of his family.