60 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



Old Museum. Then went to Cafe de Baviere and dined with 

 Waring and Burton. Thence we went to Heureuse cafe and 

 ate Connecticut pie and drank chocolade. Called an hour or 

 so at Waring 's room and then went to my inn. Bought a 20 

 Rthl. suit of clothes and visited the American Minister Gov. 

 Vroom in the evening. There made the acquaintance of 

 several Americans. 



After several weeks of travel, Mr. Johnson settled 

 in Munich, where he worked for eleven months under 

 Liebig, von Kobell and von Pettenkofer. He also 

 studied German agriculture. The number of English- 

 speaking students in Munich was small, the common 

 language became a common bond, and the life, com- 

 prising many different interests, gave a broader cul- 

 ture than in these latter days of specialization. Mr. 

 Johnson mingled with the musical and artistic set of 

 students, and his increasing mastery of the language 

 permitted familiarity with the riches of German litera- 

 ture, interest in which was stimulated by social inter- 

 course with the family of Professor von Kobell, the 

 chemist and poet. In the first letter sent home after 

 reaching Munich, he said: 



I have at last arrived at Munich where I shall probably 

 spend the 2d year of my European residence. I arrived here 

 in a snow storm. The climate of Munich is the worst of all 

 Germany. Lying at a great elevation and near the Tyrolese 

 Alps, it is subject to great and sudden changes of tempera- 

 ture. But I don't believe it beats what I have been accus- 

 tomed to. A Blackriverite can stand all any thermometer 

 can. There are here Geo. J. Brush of Brooklyn, Geo. W. 

 Weyman of Pittsburgh, Penn., M. C. Weld and S. W. John- 

 son all old companions in the Yale Laboratory and another 

 of our old company, 0. D. Rood of New Haven, is on the 



