



Produced by John Young Le Bourgeois






A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
of the
LIFE AND CHARACTER
of
JOSEPH  CHARLESS,
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO HIS GRANDCHILDREN.


Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever
things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are
lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue,
and if there be any praise, think on these things.  Phil., chap.4,
verse 8.

SAINT LOUIS:
A. F. COX, PRINTER, OFFICE OF THE MISSOURI PRESBYTERIAN.

1869.







Letter One



MY DEAR GRANDCHILDREN:

We are reminded daily of the uncertainty of human life: for the
young and the old, the gay and the grave, the good and the wicked, are
subject to death.  Young people do not realize this, but it is
nevertheless true, and before you are old enough, my children, to
understand and lay to heart all that your mother would tell you of her
dearly beloved father, she may be asleep with grandma, close beside him
in Bellefontaine.  An earthly inheritance is highly esteemed among men.
For this reason great