190 LETTER-FILES OF S. W. JOHNSON 



lishecl. With his return to Paris in improved health, 

 the impulse to get back to work was irresistible and 

 he soon started for home, where he resumed, under 

 those abiding disabilities which such an illness always 

 leaves, the work which was an integral part of his life. 

 The friends who had bidden him Godspeed were there 

 to welcome, and among the first to send greetings was 

 Professor Collier: 



Welcome home to you ! I have just heard from one of my 

 laboratory students who has been analysing fertilizers at your 

 Conn. Exp. Station, of your return, and I hasten to con- 

 gratulate you. I do hope you are wholly restored, and that 

 you may come up to Vermont this vacation. . . . Somehow 

 your name, and your experience, is so inseparable with that 

 work [Experiment Station] that I can't but hope you may 

 be connected with it, if only as advisory head of the concern. 



After a summer spent in rest and outdoor exercise. 

 Professor Johnson was able to resume his college work 

 at the opening of the fall term. For the first time in 

 many years, twelve full months had passed without a 

 publication of any sort, and he wrote fewer non-pro- 

 fessional letters than ever before. In response to one 

 of the few, now lost, Professor Storer wrote on the 

 18th of November: 



I am delighted to hear from you — and to get so favorable 

 an ac't. Curiously eno' I had had a mem. in my note book 

 for a week to ask Eliot if he had ever heard from you. The 

 amount of the business is, young man, that we are both of 

 us less young than we were some years since — and all organic 

 chem. does go to prove that thesis. Thank the Lord I don't 

 have to profess that branch in my old age. Permit me to 

 remark most emphatically that three lectures a week is not 

 light work for those kinds of men who steam up and who vim 



