"Reading", p. 4

As a fourteen-year-old student at Boston’s English High School, the future bibliophile composed this essay on the value of reading. In impeccable cursive, young Morgan (known as Pierpont to family and friends) pronounced most novels “useless trash” but allowed that “well written and true stories” can teach us “how to treat other persons with proper reverence and respect.” He concluded, “How necessary, yes, how important it is that all should read for their well-being and happiness.”