48 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



(S.W. J. TO A. A. J.) 



Leipsic, Sept. 23, 1853. 



Dear Father and friends at home, . . . I have staid 

 in Leipsic the whole of the vacation since the 20th of July, 

 and shall probably remain here through it, i.e. till Oct. 20. 

 Mr. Weld made a journey of two weeks with knapsack 

 on back through the Thuringian Provinces lying west and 

 slightly south from Leipsic. I would have accompanied him, 

 but wanted to study German, and concluded to remain here. 

 ... I was greatly rejoiced to hear that Mother had been able 

 to make so much of a journey as the one to visit Uncle 

 Charles. I wish she was over here, I would like to "tote" 

 her down to Lombardy to spend the winter where the climate 

 is not precisely like that of Deer River. As to newspapers, 

 Weld and I now take the Tribune for Europe weekly, it costs 

 5 dollars per annum including postage. I have received a 

 copy of Northern Journal of Aug. 31 containing some R. R. 

 talk and the Independent. The Independent though marked 

 paid was not marked franco which is the only paid under- 

 stood here, and cost me 3 groschen, 7 1/2 cents. The Northern 

 Journal cost me 20 cents, being so covered up in wrapper as 

 to pass for a letter. The German postoffice is a puzzle, so all 

 the Americans here concur in saying. I spend usually a half 

 hour daily in a reading room in the city where, besides one 



U. S. paper ' ' The Satanic Press ' ' the infamous H , I find 



the London Times, Punch, and several other English journals 

 besides hosts of German papers. With regard to the Caven- 

 dish Society, the subscription is $6.00, more or less, annually 

 according to the number of volumes printed. The New York 

 agent is H. Bailliere. He is paid for the current year and 

 I have the receipt. 



I have money enough to last till March, and more too, unless 

 unforeseen expenses arise. My estimate of necessary living 

 expenses for the winter for 6 months is as follows and is 

 liberal so far as I can judge. 



