66 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



heart to whom to give it. In constant though faint expectation 

 of receiving a letter, I remain as dutiful and affectionate as 

 I was 10 yrs. ago, Samuel. 



Mrs. Abner A. Johnson was a lover of flowers and 

 a skilled cultivator of them, her garden containing 

 many little known varieties. 



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



Munich, Friday Oct. 27, 1854. 



Dear Father, Today rec'd yours mailed at Deer River the 

 6 and at New York Oct. 10 My letters to Lowville and Deer 

 River (one each) have probably arrived before this unless, 

 as may be the case, one of them went down in the Arctic, the 

 loss of which has been known, or reported, here some week 

 or more but is not mentioned in the latest N. Y. papers which 

 arrived today. I rec'd the money all right in time, though 

 at a rather late time. It occasioned, however, no incon- 

 venience. I was absent from Munich when it came and it 

 was two weeks before I returned, and then I delayed some 

 days in order to get up a decently large letter. Munich has 

 recovered its usual healthfulness. The lectures of Baron 

 Liebig commence next Thursday and the laboratory will be 

 open for work on next Monday. 



I wrote some month, or more or less, ago to Eastou 

 mentioning a plan I had of employing myself when I get 

 home, a plan of opening a school of Ag. Science in connection 

 with Lowville Academy.* I expect shortly to hear from him 

 and the rest of the family on that topic. I wrote a letter 

 some weeks since to Father enclosing a Munich Rose to Mother. 

 Has it arrived ? If not, I will get another slip. In my letter 

 to Easton I talked of getting home next summer, and so it 

 will probably be best to make it. I could study here in Europe 



* Fifty-eight years later, in 1912, a course in Agriculture was added 

 to the curriculum of Lowville Academy. 



