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Portageville N. Y. Sept 5/87

Prof. Bessey:
Dear Sir:

I promised when
I left Lincoln to let you hear
how I was getting along; Well, botanically
speaking, I haven't done
much. I have been enjoying myself
visiting & seeing the sights
too much to do very much work
in the botanical line. This is a
splendid place for such work.
Have found a goodly number of
lichens, mosses, slime moulds, toadstools,
cut-fungi &c. Have preserved a
few of the latter two in alcohol.
I have classified 25 flowers, the
list of which I enclose. Have also
collected asters, [solidagos?], ferns
& grasses that will require
more time than I can now
give for classification.