126 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



tural Society to secure audiences for their plea for aid 

 to the Scientific School, which was at this time strug- 

 gling to maintain a precarious existence without endow- 

 ment. Two letters, the first written from the home of 

 Mr. Paris Dyer of the ''Raspberry Hill Nurseries" in 

 Windham County, Connecticut, and the second from 

 ''Cream Hill," the inherited estate of Dr. S. W. 

 Gold at West Cornwall, Connecticut, give the itiner- 

 ary of two of these frequent journeys of missionary 

 endeavor : 



Brooklyn, Conn., Sept. 22d, 1859. 



Dear Father and Mother, — Day before yesterday I began 

 a tour of agricultural observation through this state. I at- 

 tended yesterday the place where a horse fair ought to have 

 been but for the bad weather, viz. Rockville, Tolland Co. 15 

 miles east from H't'fd. Today I attend what little the rainy 

 day allows of the Windham Co. Ag. Soc. I expect to make 

 a little speech if there collect people enough at the Soc's ban- 

 quet. I am stopping ^Wth Mr. Dyer, Sec'y of the State Ag. 

 Soc. at his father 's house, where the big open fire makes shine 

 and dry weather in-doors, although outside all is drizzle and 

 drip. Next week I shall visit the Hartford and Fairfield 

 Co. Ag. Shows. The week after, the Tolland Co. show and 

 the New Milford (Litchfield Co.) town show. Now I shortly 

 shall go to the fair grounds, and see the mud and rain of 

 Windham Co., with an occasional animal and a produce or so. 

 With much love, Samuel. 



West Cornwall, Litchfield Co., Conn., Nov. 2d/59. 



Dear Father, — I write a hasty note this morning to acknowl- 

 edge the receipt of the $100. which came in due time. I am 

 on a month's tour among the farmers of Conn, and expect to 

 speak every evening of the week except Sat. and Sunday. 

 Professor J. A. Porter is with me and pays the shot. To- 



