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Botanical Laboratory,
Cornell University,
Ithaca, N. Y.

Ithaca
Aug
16
7 PM
N. Y.

Professor C. E. Bessey,
Ames,
Iowa.

Botanical Laboratory,
Cornell University.

Ithaca, New York,
Aug 16, 1880.

Dear Professor Bessey.

I have received from [?]
Holt & Co. a copy of your Botany. I
have not [read?] it with [very?] care as yet
but have [?] into it [?] [?]
and on the whole am much pleased
with what I have seen. Mechanically
the book strikes one as being very [?].

[?] [?] you will hear from me
[again?] but meantime [where?] [?]
thanks for so kindly remembering
me.

Very Truly Yours
A. N. Prentiss