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speedy agreement.
We enclose an inquiry to which you may reply at once if convenient.
Respectfully yours, J H Sanders Pub Co. A H S
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Apr 23. Yrs at $7.50 per column.
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Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb.,
Dear Sir: :-
Yours of the 23rd ult relating to your charge per column for contributing matter to the Gazette has remained unanswered until this time on account of absence of Mr. Alvin H. Sanders, who had conducted the correspondence with you upon this subject.
We regret to have to say, that while we have the very highest opinion of your qualifications for this sort of work, the price name[d] is so much in excess of what we are paying for originial matter in other departments of our paper that we will not be able for the present at least to avail ourselves of your valuable services in this line. It will afford us a great deal of pleasure however, to forward the Gazette regularly to your address, gratis, in consideration of the few paragraphs already furnished; and when later in the year we make our arrangements for contributors for 1888 we may be pleased to reopen negotiations with you with a view towards securing your assistance. You are, of course, aware that during the spring and summer months farmers and stock growers have not nearly as much leisure to devote
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to the study of such subjects as in the winter, and on the whole we are satisfied that the better policy would be for us to not enter into any form of arrangement of this sort just now.
Thanking you for your courtesy in the matter and hoping that you will not fail to call upon us at anytime that we can be of any service to you in your work, we are,
Yours very truly, J. H. Sanders Pub Co.
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Department of Botany and Horticulture. Texas State Agricultural and Mechanical College. T. L. Brunk, B. S.
College Station, Brazos County, Texas, Nov. 11. 1887.
Dr. C. E. Bessey, Dear sir:
I have been unable to find specimens of [?] B & C. or of Peronospora viticola B & C on grape in my short stay here.
If you can spare small specimens of each please to send them as I must desire them to use with my class in Fungi. I will try and return the favor.
I have found tele[?]tospores of Puccinia [pruni-spinosae Pers.?] on cultivate plum here at college. They are also just forming on the Peach. I will mail you specimens in a few days when they appear abundantly on the Peach.
Very truly yours, T. L. Brunk.
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Burlington & Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska. (C.B & Q.R.R. Co., Owner.)
Office General Manager.
Omaha, March 17, 1887.
Dear Sir:
We are advised by counsel that the Inter-State Commerce Law prohibits the granting of passes, expect to persons in the Railroad service, and that this includes passes now outstanding, although issued prior to the enactment of the law.
The penalties imposed for violation of the law are so severe, that until it is otherwise construed, by the Commissioners or the Courts, we do not feel justified in taking any risks; and I am compelled, therefore, with great regret, to ask you to kindly return to me, at the above address, by or before April 1, 1887, the annual sent you for this year.
Yours truly, G W Holdrege General Manager.
To Prof C.E. Bessey Lincoln Neb