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Confidential

Minneapolis, Minn.
May 18 1880.

My Dear Sir,

We have been obliged to you for an opinion
of the fitness of Prof. W. H. Herrick
to be professsor of Chemistry
in this institution. Will you oblige
the Board of Regents by saying whether the
gentleman is one whom you can recommend
accordingly.

With apology for troubling you
[Yours?] [very?] truly
[?] [?] [?] Folwell

Professor Bessey
Iowa A[?] [?]