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Bloomington, Ind. April 8th 1887.
Prof. C. E. Bessey: Dear Sir:
We shall elect in June a Professor of Botany at a salary to begin with of $1500 to $1800 according to the man and his reputation and experience. We want a botanist who is recognized as a [?] and worker among botanists.
Have you any desire to migrate eastward? I am not prepared just yet to make you an offer, but your reputation is such that I thought of you at once, as soon as the selection was decided on.
If you do not wish
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Prof. Charles Bessey, State University, Lincoln, Nebraska.
My Dear Mr. Bessey,
We were pleased to know that the "Encyclopedia of Gardening", which I sent you proved so satisfactory. I thought you would enjoy the Volumes not a little. If the next, which is to come, does not promptly reach you write me a postal card to that effect. It will be out soon. I hope to look in on you again this summer on my Western tour. I trust you will find life in Nebraska more enjoyable than in Iowa. Nebraska is indeed a splendid State. I am glad to inform you that our subscription lists have material increased in that State during the past year.
Yours sincerely, David W Judd.
Dictated. P. S. Since dictating the above letter we have received your article on the "Country School and the famers boy", which I have turned over to Dr. Hexamer. Doctor Hexamer sends his regards.
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New York, October 18, 1887. 188
Prof. Charles Bessey, Lincoln, Nebraska.
My Dear Mr. Bessey/–
We wrote to you some time since about getting up a book on Grasses. Do you feel any more disposed to do so now. It will afford us great pleasure to have you bring out a book on Grasses. Indeed we are satisfied that you are the man to write such a book for all the Western country. While Professor Beals book covers the subject to some extent, we believe that one from you would better serve the purpose of practical farmers. The book just brought out by Charles L. Flint which you see announced as just brought out is simply the old book 30 years of age, republished with new covers, the manuscript is exactly the same. It does not fill the bill by 30 years. Now is the time for a new book; one written by you for all the Western, Middle and Southern States. Will you not write us in reply that we may announce you as the author of the forthcoming work?
Yours very truly, David W. Judd, per T.
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Dakota Agricultural College.
Brookings, Dakota Oct 4th 1887
Prof C. E. Bessey Lincoln Neb. My Dear Friend
Today I began my labors in the botanical laboratory of the D. A. C. – and right at the very ontset I am minded to write to ask, in case I shall have difficulty in securing materials for the work laid down in the first part of your textbook, if you can aid me in securing what is not at Rand? May I also feel at liberty to send you specimens of the lower orders, particularly the parasites of the grasses and autumn flowers, for classification? I write because I fear you may be too busy to assist me, and I confess frankly the need of assistance.
The work started pleasantly enough. I gave them hairs of petunia and of potato stems that had grown in a dark cellar. if you could suggest a list – short – of the most valuable books for my