28 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



from one yrs. expenses. I had to supply a stove and a lamp, I 

 now supply but 1/2, $5.00 more gain at least for 1 yr. The 

 exchange gives me a carpet and $8.00. I have not hesitated 

 to make the exchange, although a little money is required now 

 instead of by and by. I am owing E. U. $7.14. I need a pair 

 of boots. ]\Iy old cap will last until I go to Wallingford, then 

 I ought to have a new one. No ! I shall need none. I can 't 

 afford to visit next vacation, it will do. What has become of 

 the $50.00? I have the list of expenses, it is long or I could 

 transcribe it. Only one or two items I regret, live and learn. 

 I have a few dollars left, — $4.00. I hear not Prof. Silliman's 

 lectures, they cost $12.50. I take an instructor in German, it 

 costs $5.00. I buy no candy except cough candy, and I rejoice 

 to have no occasion for it. I do the best I can, considering my 

 frailties. I strive to overcome them. I guess $10.00 will keep 

 me the rest of the term — 



After repMng to the preceding appeal, his father 

 wrote : 



Deer River, 27th Novr. 1850. 



Dear Samuel, — Yours dated 28th Ult. was received asking 

 for $10. I w'rote and enclosed $15. — that you might get a 

 cap and visit cousin Gilbert at Wallingford next vacation — 

 but have received no answer as yet, whether you received the 

 letter or not. You either have not received it, or have for- 

 gotten the charge given you to acknowledge the receipt of 

 money as soon as may be after the receipt of it. I write now 

 to learn whether or not the above has been received. I 

 directed the letter to S. W. Johnson, Chemical Department, 

 Yale College, New Haven. 



Write the time and amount you need to pay up for this 

 term, I think you calculate $125. That amount is in readi- 

 ness when needed, will buy a draft as before. You are daily 

 remembered by 



Your affectionate father. 



