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Madison
Apr
22
[?]
Wis.

Prof. [C. E.?] Bessey
Ames, [Iowa?]

Madison, Wis.
April 22 1881.

My Dear Professor,

We [are?] very glad to hear
from you. [The?] book [?] [?]
almost [?] to me. Thanks
for your generosity.

My classes have now been
running two weeks. I enjoy
my teaching very much. The
[?] class have reviewed
the subjects of Structural Botany
included in [?]; [?] up
to page 88. I give them about
a half-hour lecture each day, the
remainder of the time is used for
review of the previous lecture. I
confine myself pretty closely to
[?], new Structural Botany & also
Sachs, of course. In a few days [?]