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Professor C. E. Bessey, Ph. D.,
Iowa Agricultural Coll.,
Ames,
Iowa.

University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, N. C. 17 August 1880.

Dr. C. E. Bessey,

My dear sir:

I received from your publishers
a few days since, a copy of your new Botany. I thank
you very much for requesting them to send it. Being just
now employed as a Special Agt. of the Census to investigate
the [Mica Interest?] of this State. I have only had
opportunity to glance at the work. I am very favorably
impressed with what I have read and when the
pressure of business is over – a few weeks hence – will examine
it carefully. I think it probable that I shall
adopt it in one of my advanced classes.

Very truly
F. W. [?]

Prof. Geol. [?]. & Botany U. N. C.
Prof. Bot & Physiology in Med. Dept.