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Oberlin June 27th, 81.
Dear Brother:
The deed is just received. Will have the new deed made at once and sent to Lansing as directed. All are well.
Hubert reports favorably. Will write you more fully concerning the deed book. Address me at Lorain Ohio.
Your aff bro. Willis Bessey
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Lorain, Ohio. July 31, '81.
Dear Brother:
Your letter of the 17th is before me. I am very glad you will visit Mother as soon. I will be at home if it be possible. Am running an Engine in this place and may not be able to make the train. All were well when last I was at home. Hoping to see you soon, I [?]. With love to all,
Your aff. brother, Willis Bessey
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Crawfordsville, Ind., July 3rd '81
Dear Prof. Bessey:
Now is the time to push my claims upon you. I am ready to receive something from your pen for the Gazette; anything that you may choose to write, but preferably something physiological. I know the Naturalist drains upon you, but you said a reminder would call something from you for the Gazette. The Jan. No. goes out with the next mail. I think you will see it starts well, but where is our physiology?
Sincerely yrs.,
John M. Coulter.
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from Coulter
Botanical Gazette.
Museum of Wabash College.
Crawfordsville, Ind., Sept. 17 1881
Prof. C. E. Bessey:
My Dear Sir:
Several of us have had in mind for some time the publication of a manual of Botany to take the piano of Gray's Manual in the western states. Dr. Gray is too much occupied with the whole of N. Am. to turn aside & publish a more local work, but still there are teachers of botany throughout the states west of the Mississippi to whom such a manual would be most acceptable. The idea is to have such a work follow exactly the plan of Gray's Manual, in fact be a companion to it. Then as to range there have been two plans. One is to take the Mississippi as the Eastern limit & run west to about the 104th Meridian & south to the limit of Gray's Manual extended west. That would exactly take in beginning at the north, Dakota, Minn., Neb., Iowa, Kansas & Missouri. The other plan is to follow the Mississippi to the