specialised « but in those 4A|rs it was still ia the 

 stage of the family doctor^ If you had to write a 

 will, you wrote a will. If you had to go to eourt, 

 you went to eourt* 



Gilbt You mentioned that he had been the lawyer for 

 J« B, McMasters* 



Oogginss fhey wez*e both laembers of the Franklin Inn Club* 



Gilbi What kind of olub? 



Goggins: Franklin Inn was the literary elub of Philadelphia* 

 It was started* I thihk, by S* Weir Mitchell* 

 Owen Wister and Bdward Bok, Mr« Curtis of the 

 Ladies Home Journal and some of the book publishers 

 were influential in Its founding* It was a lunch 

 olubf housed in a little old residence in a back 

 alley* Father was a nexaber and he and Mr* McHasters 

 %nr^ apparently congenial* I think they were both 

 rather modest* My father wasn^t a good booster 

 for hlMself * I remember one time* as a lawyer he 

 thought. ••well, I donH know whether he thought it 

 or somebody urged it*. .he should Join organisations 

 to make friends and get business* He went to a 

 meeting of some group where he had been invited 

 one time and came home reeking of tobacco* which 

 he didn^t use himself. He shook out his clothes 

 and never went back* ji 



