Charles Bessey, Letters, 1881

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Boston Jan 5 8 PM 1881 Mass.

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Prof. C. E. Bessey Iowa Agricultural College Ames Iowa

Cambridge, Jany [?]

My dear Bessey,

Home at last, [I?] find your note of 4th Sept., which it is hardly worth the [?], I suppose, to answer at this late day.

I can say, however, that your list covers all the 1879 publications from here.

I [congratulate?] you upon your own [?] & happy delivery. Your book is well done.

Yours very truly [?] Watson

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Prof. C. E. Bessey State Agric. College Ames Iowa.

Cambridge, Apr. 1st /81

Dear Prof. Bessey,

Mr. James [Brittens?], Editor of Journal of Botany, says that he hears good things of your Botany & would be glad to [notice?] it, but has not [?] it.

Suggest to your publishers the advisability of sending it to him — address, Natural History Museum, South Kensington S. W., London.

Yours very truly [?] Watson

Iowa Agricultural College. Ames, Iowa Friday 1881

Dear Bessey

I telegraphed you from [?] [?] noon to [?] the board for the College [?] [room?] $2.15 [?] [?] [?] of $2.25 [per term?] and $2.00 for [record?] [?] [?] yet the [duplicate?] [at time?] and [?] [?] the [?] [??].

Yours Welch