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Atlantic and will join us in a few weeks. Weld and I have 

 very nice quarters with a very nice family, and in Munich, 

 a city inferior to none of Europe for its treasures of Art, and 

 with Liebig in Science, we have the promise of a most pleasant 

 as well as profitable time. Baron Liebig is now out of town, 

 but returns in a few days. I shall probably attend some 

 lectures on mineralogy and other sciences, but as before I 

 shall be mostly occupied in the Laboratory. My money has 

 run rather low, but I shall get along very well until July or 

 August, and perhaps later, and then I shall not need a very 

 heavy sum. — 



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



July 3d. 1854. 



Dear Father, — ... I continue to enjoy excellent health, 

 better than for years, — better than last year. Everything 

 goes on most pleasantly and I am progressing in my studies 

 most satisfactorily. I am glad to hear that some vines of my 

 planting are growing to give pleasant shade and that my old 

 Birch tree has begun to be evidently alive. . . . Father says, 

 if I visit Paris call on ]\Ir. Le R. de Chaumont, etc. It is 

 perhaps time that the question of my further movements be 

 discussed. What I wish to do is one thing, what I can do is 

 another. My mind is now made up to stay here until next 

 April or May. Then I shall have finished 2 yrs. Then I 

 shall go home, of course, if I have not means of staying, — I 

 should be a fool if I didn't. But, — but, — I think I ought to 

 stay one year longer and if I saw the way I would certainly 

 stay 2 yrs. Next spring I shall go to Paris as I can't leave 

 Europe without seeing that city. It happens that the attrac- 

 tions of Paris are as great in science as in fashion, and there 

 are a dozen great men there with any of whom I should be 

 proud to study. There is also to be a Crystal Palace, or World 

 Exhibition, opened there next spring and for these reasons, 

 as well as for acquiring a talking use of the French language, 

 I want to stay 6 months in Paris. My education would be 



