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Agricultural College.
Ames, Iowa.

Department of Botany,
June 14th 1887

My dear Dr. Bessey.

Please accept my
many thanks for your kind invitation
to accompany you to the bad lands.
There is nothing that I would enjoy
more than to go off on a botanical
trip with you. But as I have
pledged my sister that I would
visit her during the coming vacation
it does not seem right to leave
family and kim at this time.

I however look forward with much
pleasure to the time when we shall
meet. It is our intention to leave
here on Thursday June 23; remain over
right of Omaha. Do some shipping
and get to Lincoln in the early evening
think about 8 o'clock. We will than