Charles Bessey, Letters, 1880

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New York, Feb. 14th 1880.

My Dear Prof. Bessey,

Were I of the other [sex?], this, considering the date, might be a Valentine – but far from any thing of the sort – it is to be a very prosy matter-of-fact letter. Of course I write without knowing your views, inferences or prejudices in the matter, but with the general impression that you are in favor of whatever will be an improvement, that the Department of Agriculture needs improvement, you do not need to be told. Our [Mr. Judd?] was in Washington recently, and [Baird?] and the East got after him, and quite convinced him that he should be a candidate for [Com??] of Agriculture.

This he is inclined to do, provided he has a strong backing from the scientific agriculturists (in the

broad sense of the term) of the county, — I should be glad to have the appointment made, for I sincerely believe it would be the best possible. To spare much writing I have given on the accompanying, in type writing, my chief reasons.

[?], if there is no reason why you should not do so, I should be very glad if you would write a letter, [?] the appointment, to be used with others to point out to President Garfield the way he should go – Of course you may have other views, and reasons why you should not do this, which will be duly respected [?]

Very Truly Yours, George [?]

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We are on the move — our address, after today, will be 751 Broadway.

Prof. C. E. Bessey, Ames Iowa.

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Scientific Department Tabor College.

J. S. Todd, Professor of Natural Sciences.

Tabor, Iowa, Oct. [?] 1880

My dear Professor Bessey,

I [?] [??] [?] [?] [?] [?] together with a [?] of your Botany would [???] [?] and [?] [?] [?] a [??] [?] [?] at the beginning of [?]. [??] [?] [?] [?] [?].

I [?] [?] taken up [??] [?] [?] [?] ...

If not called for in Ten Days, return to

N. S. Townshend, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

Columbus Sep 8 O.

Prof C. E. Bessey Ames I.

Columbus Ohio Sep 7th, 80

Prof. Bessey

Dear Sir

Sometime since I [?] from Henry [that?] [I?] [bought?] a [copy?] of your Botany for High Schools + Colleges for attack of inflamation of the eyes prevented me at the time from giving to the work the prompt + careful examination which I desired – I am now able to say that the book appears to me to possess the [more? / sure?] merit of Sach's text book at one fourth of the [?], + [to?] be especially adapted to aid students in obtaining their knowledge

of Botanical science from living plants instead of from books alone as is too often done. We shall immediately make use of it in the Ohio State University.

Yours truly N. S. [?]

P.S. I find nothing [that?] I [?] competent to criticise, an occasionally misspelled name is I suppose almost impossible to avoid – You are as likely to use anything I have written, [as?] to use [my? / any?] name for reference or in [?] commendation of the work.

N. S. [?]