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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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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
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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
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Joseph Beck, Robert Kemp, Charles Coppock.
R. & J. Beck, Manufacturers and Importers of Microscopes, Optical and Physical Instruments, Philadelphia and London, No. 1016 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, April 7 1881
W. H. Walmsley, Manager.
Profr. C. E. Bessey Ames, Iowa Dear Sir
The receipt this morning of a [conclusive?] [order?] for [?] for the Agricultural College at Lansing, Michigan [?] me that [?] had no reply to my letter to you on the same subject of Feb. 26th last.
At the risk of boring you, I mail you a copy of the Tenth edition of our Catalogue [?] [?] you have not [?], your idea of ordering [interests?] as intended in your letter [?] [?] [?] House. I assure you that no [?] shall be spare to [please?] you in every way, & any [?] [?] in [?] or [outfits?] will be made to suit you. And I may add that we are now prepared to [find?] the [?] [Stands?] with [Swinging?] [?] if [?].
[Iowa??]
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