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August 26.

Mr Bessey
Dear Sir,

I trust you
will believe that I appreciate
your kindness in consenting
to read the Ms. of my Botany
Primer, and that this note is
in no sense intended to hurry
you about making up your
mind about it. But I am
a little afraid that it
has been missent as I
have not heard from you
since I mailed it to
you – about the middle
of July, I believe; perhaps earlier