From Leon Keyserling (Oldest son), 1924

From New York; descriptions of entrance exams and class work [at Columbia University]; mentions visiting his mother (at the NY sanitarium); discussion of the Democratic convention in NY and fight to denounce the KKK; writes about his mother's ailing health; his impressions of the book, You Gentiles and differences between gentiles and Jews; description of a vacation in the New York countryside; mentions "the children" (his siblings) attending school in Beaufort and advises his father about what they should study; discusses the threat (to Judaism) of men who convert from Judaism to Christianity; his views on evolution; descriptions of college life; questions whether he should join a fraternity and mentions applying to work at the college newspaper; describes fraternities and the unwritten rule the Jews and gentiles did not join the same frat (however he does not sense anti-Semitism at Columbia); discusses the art of debating.