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29 [?] Cambridge. Feb. 16, 1887.
Dear Prof. Bessey,
I am much obliged for the information contained in your letter. The printer will reach your name in a few days. I omitted accidently from the list sent you the paper on Injurious Fungi in Am. Pomolog. Soc. 1885. also the reviews of papers which will appear under the titles of the authors.
In haste, W. G. Farlow.
The package you sent will probably come in next mail.
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Dear Prof. Thanks for your letter. The paper is a [??] of U. S. mycology and will be a bulletin of the Harvard library. It has given me no end of trouble and work. It is now set up to [R.?] and will soon be done.
Yours, truly, W. G. Farlow.
[written sideways, left:] Your letter only just received today the 15th!!
[written sideways, right:] [??] [?] [?] [?] copies.
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29 [?]] Cambridge. Aug. 31, 1887.
Dear Prof. Bessey,
I hoped to see you at the Ass. Meeting but unfortunatey most of the botanists from the West were unable to be present.
I have been head over heels in work this summer and the weather, moreover, was too hot to allow one to do much. I have had no vacation
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for at New York I was too busy to get any rest or even much amusement.
You sent some time ago a specimen in a small box and it is to that that your last letter refers. I examined the specimen at the time and found what appeared to be two things. The large round cells are what Saccardo called Protomyces xylogenus afterwards referred to Coccospora
aurautiaca [Walbr?]. in the [Sylloge?]. The description of the [Sylloge?] would barely be suggested by Saccardo's figure, however.
The other four which gave the color to the whole I have not been able to recognize for I have not been able to compare it carefully enough with Curtis's things. Have you any more information about it?
Except Mr. Watson, everyone is away. Prof. Gray will be back about the first of October.