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Newfield N. Jersey
Feb. 23d 1881

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Dear Sir

Please accept my
thanks for your favor of
the 18th [?] with draft
on N. Y. for $7.

I am also much
pleased that you seem
satisfied with my work,
and thank you for your
kind consideration in noticing
it in the Naturalist.

I have still 15 sets of the
fungi (out of the 46 which
I publish of each Cent.), but
have no doubt that they
will all be called for as
soon as the parties desiring
them learn that they are to be
had.

[Reverse of 1]

[2]

We (my wife & I) are now
at work on Cent. VI. which
will be ready some time
the coming spring and perhaps
also Cent. VII. as I am
behind one Cent. and have
the material on hand.

I have to get them out
in the winter as during
the warmer season I have
to be busy on other matters
– I enclose a formal
receipt and with best wishes
remain very truly yours.

J. B. Ellis

[23 Feb 1881]