“C. H. ANDREWS & SON

Insurance Agents

Milledgeville, Ga., March 22, 1900. Dr. Edwin Newton, Atlanta, Ga.—

Dear Friend: Recently meeting you after many years of separation and recalling incidents of our boyhood days in Athens, Ga., gave me very great pleasure.

The naming of many loved ones who have preceded us to the “beautiful land” saddened our unexpected meeting. But the recital of some kind act of theirs to us, wayward boys, quickly cleared our husky voices and brightened our tear-dimmed eyes again. There is a magical Isle in the River of Time and you and I call it: The Long Ago.

You request of me a description of the old drug store in Athens, Ga., in which I served as an apprentice from August, 1849, until December, 1856, and of an interview there between Dr. Crawford W. Long and Dr. Charles T. Jackson of Boston, Mass. These are among the treasures of mine on the “Magical Isle of Long Ago,” and between that time and now the River of Time has run rapidly toward the dark, deep sea that has no bounds. But, I serve you as I can.

When I first knew of and entered upon service in that old store, it was a one-story frame, shingle roof store, on Broad street, between frame shoe store and Bloomfield’s brick clothing store, and opposite the midway entrance to the university campus. Today this is all changed and a twostory brick building stands where the old drug store then was.

In 1849, and for years previously, Drs. Reese and Ware owned and occupied this drug store. In 1851 Dr. Reese retired and Dr. E. R. Ware became sole proprietor. In 1852 C. W. and H. R. J. Long bought of Dr. Ware the drug store and amid the several changes I continued the principal clerk and book-keeper in that old drug store. The Drs. Long were brothers and both were practicing physicians. …”

Reference Data:

Some Personal Recollections and Private Correspondence of Dr. Crawford, by Joseph Jacobs and Charles Thomas Jackson, 1919, page 41