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it won't do hurt if it does no good. J. C. Easton and Sarah 

 staid with us last night, he bro't the piano and it is set up 

 in the hall and Esther plays occasionally on it. ... Our love 

 to you. Affectionately, A. A. Johnson. 



(S. W. J. TO J. C. AND S. J. E.) 



Heidelberg, Apr. 21, 1855. 



Dear Jason, I left Munich last Wednesday morning and 

 have arrived here on my way home. I enclose to you several 

 letters, all alike, to Am. publishers. By reading one of them 

 you will understand what it is about. I don't expect this 

 thing will take to such a tune as will be satisfactory to the 

 Baron Liebig. ... I stayed a couple of days at Stuttgart 

 and visited Hohenheim, the great Ag. School of Wiirttemberg, 

 and mail today a letter about it to the Country Gentleman. 

 Not to talk about publicly is the fact that it is slightly 

 probable that I may be appointed chemist to the State Ag. Soc. 

 of New York, also that probably I may have offers to conduct 

 an Extensive Ag. School near Philadelphia, but of this more 

 hereafter. I shall be either in Paris or in London by the first 

 of May. Extraordinaries excepted. Love and regards to all 

 who need or deserve. 



Dear Sarah, I send you this little engraving of Heidel- 

 berg, the beautifully situated and romantic old town where 

 in 1386 the first Protestant University in Germany was 

 founded, now one of the most celebrated in the world. Ahem ! 

 Bad sentence! Go on! ... There are quite a number of 

 American students here. Here the great chemist Bunsen has 

 the finest laboratory in the world, not quite done. I wish I 

 could stay and work with him this summer, but this is out of 

 the question. Keep this picture and frame it in the style I 

 recommended for the Munich pictures. . . . Farewell, 



S. W. Johnson. 



