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If not delivered within Five days
Return to
10 East 36th Street,
New York.

New York
Aug
[?]
[N. Y.]

U. S. Postage
Three Cents

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Ames
Iowa

T. F. Allen [M. D.?]
10 East 36th Street
New York Aug 13 1880

My dear Prof Bessey

What a charming &
useful book you have
given us – a veritable
[?] in [?] – you
must have worked hard
over it– There is no
other english work with
which to compare it exactly.

The [?] Bessey [?] turns
out to be a form of that
strange species [Chara
sejuncta?] ABr. I have