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Morse

Peabody Academy of Science,
Salem, Mass.,
Apr. 13th 1881

My dear Sir.

Could you find it convenient to give
six lectures on Physiological Botany
this summer at our School?

[?] that possibly you [?]
have contemplated a trip East this
summer you [?] be willing to accept
the small sum that we can offer
you for this course, namely one hundrer
dollars ($100). The lectures might be
given in the course of two weeks commencing
upon July 18th.

[?] you kindly answer within a week
and [?] [?]

Yours very truly
E[?] [J?]. Morse