STATE EXPERIMENT STATION 251 



(F. H. S. TO S. W. J.) 



476 Boylston St., Boston, 28 July, 1894. 



My dear Johnson, — I send you by mail a copy of a new 

 edition of the old elementary chemistry which for many a 

 year was part and parcel of my life. The inception of it — 

 or, rather, that of the methodized laboratory experimentation 

 which the book was made to help out — was probably out and 

 away the most important act of my life. Why can't you 

 spunk up and say some words about this book in the American 

 Journal of Science f Trusting that you are as full of "rest" 

 and vigor as a coiled spring, I am as always, truly yours, 



F. H. Storer. 



(S. W. J. TO F. H. S.) 



Sweet Ferns, Holdemess, N. H. Aug. 8, '94. 



My dear Storer, — ^Yours and the book were duly reed., I 

 am grieved to think, nearly a fortnight ago. I read the book 

 through the same day, but that feat broke my bank, or back 

 or both, and I have not read or writ since. In fact I got over- 

 done in April and since have been "holding on by the gills" 

 only — came up here "mortal tired," and have been exclusively 

 occupied with the endeavor to get up my muscle and improve 

 the digestive ferments. I am hopeful that the affair will 

 prove a success, but I am yet in the woods or at least in cop- 

 pice, and bothered a good deal by tanglelegs and rampikes. 



It will afford me keen pleasure to undertake the notice, and 

 I will spunk up directly and let myself out for that job for 

 all I'm worth. Yours faithfully, S. W. Johnson. 



(F. H. S. TO S. W. J.) 

 476 Boylston St., Boston, 28 Sept. 1894. 



Dear Johnson, — Prithee tell me — right off straight ! — the 

 name and address of the Sec. of the American Association 

 for the promotion of Agricultural Science or, rather, I would 



