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sent. Expressing too is almost out of the question. What is to be 
done? can you suggest any method? As to the bibulous paper and the 
other materials, they, too, shall be sent by any opportunity. How 
much paper shall I send? Shall it be forwarded to care of Campbell 
& Co., Mobile, and can you get it from there. The same opportunity 
can carry you the memoirs. 
You do not mistake me in supposing that you have all my sym- 
pathy for the narrow bonds in which you are confined. I can well 
appreciate the craving of a man of science in the toils. But be of good 
cheer! such cannot always exist. The time must come when circum- 
stances will change and you be able to win a name and place among 
your peers. You are now undergoing your training, your apprentice- 
ship, to come out all the brighter and more capable one day hereafter. 
Do not fear for the effect of your long letter. I like long letters, 
although I cannot always return in kind. In fact this is about the 
longest of more than 400 within this year. But if you will write the 
heavy artillery, I will pepper you with musketry as long as you have 
a mind for the contest. Call on me freely at any time. I shall rejoice 
to serve you in any way, and shall always measure my welcome of 
your epistles directly as their length. 
Never fear the non-acceptability of anything you may send. It 
is true Prof. Henry is opposed to indiscriminate collections; so’m I; 
but our idea is a complete North American at least. Besides what we 
don’t want, we can readily pass over to other institutions that do, 
Adieu. SPENCER F. Barrp. 
From J. D. Easter™ to Spencer F. Baird 
GotTTINGEN, 16th Jan., 1853. 
DeEar PROFESSOR, 
For one who wishes, like me, to come and perfect himself 
in a special branch, the German universities are capital. We have 
nothing of the sort in America. Our professors are, you know, too 
2 John Day Easter, Ph.D., D.D., born at Baltimore, Aug. 24, 
1830; class of 1848 at Dickinson College; studied at Yale, and Heidel- 
berg, Analytical Chemist; Professor of Chemistry, University of 
Georgia; later clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church. In 
1905 living in retirement at Redlands, Cal. 
