May 7 28 My dear Dr. Pammel:-- I have recently returned from my tour through Va. and Tenn. It was a wonderful trip, seemed to take the people by storm. I have rarely seen such enthusiasm. I hope I can send you one write up which I think is unusually fine. At V.P.I. Blacksburg Va. big polytechnic and military school, the authorities tell me that I had the largest crowd they had ever known since the founding of the Institution, for a Lyceum number, except one which seemed to be as large they overflowed the auditorium. I had to continue it at the church that night, and address the classes in chemistry next day. And they wanted me to stay at night to address their science club, but I could not as I had to go to Tuscaloosa. Since writing you two more of same hybrid