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University of Nebraska Lincoln Nebr. Dec. 29 1884
My dear Dr. Vasey.
As you are aware I have changed my place of work, I find the herbarium here very small and especially poor in plants from other parts of the country. Now I remember what you did for the College at Ames, and I am wondering whether I can not induce you to consent to do as well by this University in the way of specimens. I not only [?] ordinary herbarium specimens, but those of economic interest.
You will, I know, p[?] me if I am asking or suggesting too much. I built up a good collection at Ames, and I want to do so here, and so shall make all note of preposterous demands upon my botanical freinds everywhere. Of course I have brought my own private collections with me so that I can go on with my work, but I want to [?] the work of making a good working collection for the University.
Very Truly Charles E. Bessey
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Ottawa Kas. 11/12 1884
Prof. Bissell Dr. Sir
I have suffered for the last two years from the depredations of what some have termed a fungus that has attacked my apple grafts in the joint & caused me serious loss last year I ordered some grafts of Mr. Silas Wilson of Atlantic Iowa & some of these were affected & Mr. W. wrote me he visited you & showed you a sample & you pronounced it a fungus & that it could be destroyed by fumigating the cellar where the grafts [are stored?] with sulphur once a month.
Will you have the kindness to write me if this information in regard to destroying the fungus & thus saving my grafts from injury can be depended on if it has been proved by [sic.] use. Also if you are not fully informed in regard to it can you refer me to someone who is. Any information you may be able to give me on this subject [sic.] will be thankfully received & paid for if requested.
Very truly yours A. Willis
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Edited by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr., and Prof. E. D. Cope.
Prof. C. E. Bessey, Associate Editor of the Department of Botany.
The American Naturalist. Published monthly by McCalla & Stavely, 237-9 Dock St., Philadelphia, at $4 a year.
Office of the Department of Botany, Willow Brook, N. Y., Sept. 1st 1884
Agreement between Henry H. Wing and the State University of Nebraska per C. E. Bessey. Agt.
Henry H. Wing agrees to perform the duties of Instructor in Agriculture in the University for one year, beginning with the first of the year 1884-5, with a view to a permanent engagement, if at the end of the year both parties wish to continue the relations.
The salary for the first year [sic.] is to be $1200.
Henry H. Wing C. E. Bessey Agt. for [?] [?]
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Bethlehem Pa Oct 3, 84
Prof. C. E. Bessey
Merely a line to say how well I was pleased with the notice you gave my Desmids of the U.S. Had hoped to see you at the convention in Phila., but the two days expected to spend there were so fearfully hot & already a sufferer from the heat, could not leave home.
Have [made?] [??] valueable [?] this summer to the list of Desmids – about 25 – of which Prof. Butler collected some of the [?]. Thanks for the notice.
Truly & fraternally Francis [Willis?]
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1509 Locust St Phila May 11 1881
Prof C. E. Bessey – Dear Sir:
I received the pages of Botanical Notes and I thank you very much for your kind notice of my paper.
I hope to have the pleasure of seeing you at the meeting of the A. A. A. S. next August, if not earlier.
Very truly yours [Albert DeS Abbott?]