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I suppose I have but $400. as Father promised, — there 

 remains $150. for my stay and travels in England which 

 could scarcely last one month. Add to this $500. and we have 

 $650. or 130£ with which I can circulate some time. 



In my last I wrote about what Mr. Tucker communicated 

 to me on the subject of becoming chemist to the Ag. Soc. of 

 N. Y. It need not he mentioned out of the family that I am 

 wanted at Yale College as 1st. assistant in the Laboratory — 

 with a salary of $700-800 and prospect of shortly rising in 

 station and salary. This would of all things please me, for at 

 New Haven I should enjoy the best scientific society that any 

 place in the U. S. furnishes. One and probably two of my 

 friends and fellow students will be Professors there in a few 

 years. We shall see. 



May 31. Today I saw Dr. Frankland, Professor of Chem- 

 istry in Owen's College here. I shall enter his Laboratory 

 tomorrow and work there a month or more. This will cost 5 

 guineas. He is very celebrated in gas analysis, and that is 

 what I want to learn. — 



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



Deer River, July 4th, 1855, 



Dear Samuel, — Yours dated June 15th. came to hand on 

 the 30th., acknowledging the receipt of £50, $247.50, for which 

 acknowledgment so promptly made I thank you, and hope 

 when you receive another draft you will as promptly do the 

 same. I went to Lowville yesterday and purchased a draft 

 on some bank in New York for $500., for half of one per ct. 

 premium. I hope you will be able when you receive the $500 

 to get along comfortably with it, but if you find you want 

 some more, write me in time. I speak of more money only 

 in case you require more to carry out your plans for future 

 usefulness — and feel that you suffer loss for the want of 

 necessary funds to complete your plans. 



