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move on to Paris. The annoyances of travel really begin on 

 starting out from London, and I feel entirely unequal to 

 encountering them. . . . 



I hope you will try to get some rest, try to get into restful 

 habits. Age is coming upon us and it will not be profitable 

 or pleasant to wear out too rapidly. . . . Sunday I heard 

 Monsignor Capel (Pope's Legate) preach in the Chapel of 

 the Assumption. A very excellent sermon he gave, that would 

 have been in all respects acceptable in Trinity or Center at 

 New Haven. . . . 



In London, Professor Johnson found his surround- 

 ings comfortable and homelike, he was able to rest, 

 and so lingered until Dr. Uricoechea, then living in 

 Paris, took the strenuous measures indicated in this 

 note: 



Now you lazy boy, you get up and leave your nasty foggy 

 climate. True we have not very good weather now here, but 

 it is much better than yours at all events. I write to you in 

 a hurry because I receive this very moment a letter from the 

 Secretary of our Legation who is coming over on Wednesday, 

 and I pray him to take you along. Mr. Guzman will probably 

 call on you personally. Hurry up ! ... 



Mr. Guzman called, his diplomacy won the day, and 

 Professor Johnson cheerfully accompanied him to 

 Paris, where he spent a delightful month with friends, 

 old and new. Letters to his family tell of this and of 

 his trip through Italy: 



(S. W. J. TOE. E. J.) 



Ma chere Elizabeth, I came abroad for change and I have 

 it. Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock my friend Mr. Guzman 

 called for me in London, and in a trice I was with him in the 



