Charles Bessey, Letters, 1885-1887

Talleyrand Place, near Jacksonville, Fla. April 15 1885

Prof. C. E. Bessey:

Dear Sir— Your favor of the 8th is at hand and I have forwarded to you by express two bundles, being [Fascicles?] I & VI of my Southern plants, the price of which is $36.00. Hope to have Fasc. II or VIII nearly next winter.

I have mailed to you a circular giving particulars relative to my wood distribution, & hope you will be pleased to subscribe.

Yours very truly A. H. Curtis

Talleyrand Place, near Jacksonville, Fla. April 27 1885

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey: Dear Sir –

Thanks for your generous patronage. I will get your woods ready soon. Before I am ready to saw them to length I think there will be time to get a card from you so you had best write what length you prefer – whether 12 inches or less. I will send you some extra palm wood. Hope you have my [Fascicles?] on this.

Yours truly A. H. Curtis

Cornell University Apr. 21. 1885

My Dear Professor Bessey

Your list of Plants from the Iowa Agr. Coll. Rep. was received with a great deal of pleasure. I need not say that it will be invaluable to me in my work in a similar direction here which I have but recently revived.

I hope before a very great while to send you something on our Flora here – the Higher Crypt. and Flowering [?]. on wh[?] I had done considerable work. But as there have been [changes?] & unexpected hindrances heretofore there may be in the future.

Very Truly Yours William R. Dudley

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Department of the Interior, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C., Feb'y 10, 1885.

Prof. Charles E. Bessey. Dean of Faculty, Industrial College University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 24th [?], relative to the International Congress of Educators, which is to meet this month in New Orleans, was duly received. If you cannot personally attend the meeting, can you not send a paper, on the subject that you mention – The endoresement of Research – by the states, for some one to read?

Thanking you for giving me the change in Prof. S. R. Thompson's address. I am

Very Truly yours John Eaton Commissioner