LIFE AND STUDY IN EUEOPE 65 



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



Munich, Oct. 5—54. 



Dear Father, — I have been so long delaying to write a good 

 long letter that now, seeing no immediate prospect of getting 

 ready to do that, I take this slip of paper, determined to fill 

 it and send it off. I gave accounts up to the middle of Aug. 

 and later, I believe, in my last to Jason. I have been all the 

 time in Munich and have been mostly quite well, am now very 

 well. The cholera, after carrying off 3000 — 3 pr. ct. — of the 

 citizens of Munich, has been officially declared to exist here 

 no longer as an epidemic, and things are getting lively again. 

 I was surprised a week ago by a call from my old friend 

 James Wm^ing who hammered through St. Lawrence Co. with 

 me 4 or 5 years ago. He has been travelling through Europe 

 the last 6 months. He staid here 5 days and we did up all 

 the IMunich sights, and they are neither few or small. . . . My 

 correspondence with Mr. Y. Le Kay de Chaumont has extended 

 to other than money matters. His first letter was French, 

 I answered in English. He wrote me this summer a Yankee 

 letter, inquiring about the navigation of the Danube near 

 here. I had the pleasure of giving him some information he 

 wanted. I commenced yesterday taking instruction in glass- 

 blowing from Mr. Greiner, a celebrated thermometer, etc., 

 maker here. I go again today as soon as I finish this. I can't 

 neglect so good a chance of acquiring some skill in an art 

 so useful to me. The next semester opens in 3 weeks. I shall 

 then do little but attend to Laboratory work. I have been 

 studying Agriculture (German Authors) this vacation and 

 shall do more of the same sort of thing. 



I send Mother a new kind of Rose, the Munich Rose. They 

 do not grow except in their native city. I can't get a slip, 

 or a young plant. I have only been able to get a blossom. 

 This, although somewhat dry and flavorless, is yet rather 

 pretty and will keep a long time, fully retaining its colors. 

 I send it to IMother since I have no sweetheart or no sweeter 



