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to Bessey 17-IX-1881

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Botanical Gazette.

Museum of
Wabash College.

Crawfordsville, Ind., 188

the whole scheme. You are in the field
with a capital text book & we all think
it is time for a capital [western?] -------------
I have scores of correspondents writing
[sic.] for the best manuals to use in
all the states I have enumerated. What can
I answer them? Botanical work there is
most discouraging and any help that is
needed should be supplied. Please give
your opinion of the need & feasibility of
such a work & all you think about
it. This is of course [inter?] [?]–

Sincerely yrs–

John M. Coulter.

P. S. Maybe you know of some one at work
upon just such a book.