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University of Illinois, Champaign, Ills., July 22nd, 1887
Dear Sir:
At the recent meeting of the Association of Teachers of Agriculture, Professor Morrow, Sanborn and Budd were appointed a committee to consider the practicability of securing the preparation of a series of text books on Agriculture and Horticulture for use in Agricultural Colleges.
The committee desires, first of all, to secure the opinions of others directly interested. Will you kindly, at your early convenience, give me your views?
First: -- Is it advisable to take any further steps in the matter?
If you favor the attempt to secure such text books, please state your opinion as to
A . . The number of volumes and the topics each should discuss?
B . . . The size and character of the books --- brief and elementary, or more extended and advanced?
C . . . Who would be suitable persons to compile any or all of the series?
D . . . Any suggestions as to method of treatment, etc.
For the committee, G. E. Morrow.
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J. Sterling Morton.
Arbor Lodge Near Nebraska City, Neb. March 30th 1887
Dear Sir
It will be a great pleasure to comply with your request and address the students, at the University, on the evening of Arbor Day, in the Chapel of the Institution.
Shall arrive on Thursday noon. To Chancellor [?] present my sincerest wishes for his speedy recovery and believe me.
Yours &c J Sterling Morton
To Prof Chas E Bessey
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Officers for 1886-7 President, Parker Earle, Cobden, Illinois. 1st Vice President, T. V. Munson, Denison, Texas. Secretary, W. H. Ragan, Greencastle, Ind. Treasurer, J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo.
Denison, Texas, 10–22—1887
Prof. C. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebr,
My Dear Sir:–
In reply to your esteemed favor of 20th, can say that I have prepared a set of specimens of Vitis, to accompany my monograph of the native grapes of the U. S. for the Dept. of Agriculture, and am to make up another set for Prof. J. E. Pl[?]ch[?] of Montpelier, France, recently engaged for him by Prof. Pierre Viala, French Comr, to study our native grapes, [and] their deseases &c, recently visiting me, and still have material in hand to make up other sets, including all our species – now numbering 21. The specimens are laves, with usually terminal shoots, seeds and annual wood. In a few of the species I am short of some parts, which another year I can make good. I charge $50. a set and furnish specimens from various localities of most of the species, so as to give a good study of each, and agree to supplement with specimens next year to complete the set, where I am now short and supply specimens of any new species I may acquire, without extra charge.
The first sets I collected cost me hundreds of dollars
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and the procuring and growing of vines of nearly all in great variety, much more, but now can afford to make sets for $50. each.
I have great difficulty in keeping through winter my Fla. and California species.
Shall I make you up a set?
Sincerely T. V. Munson
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Marine Hospital Service 1798 • U. S. • 1871
P. O. Biloxi. Miss. U. S. Marine-Hospital Service, District of the Gulf, Port of Ship Island Miss., Surgeon's Office, May 21", 1887
Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln. Nebr.
Dear Sir:
I am interested in your article in June 87, Am. Agri. on the Country School & the [Farmer's?] [Boy?] and quite agree that boys are not induced to look at farm things, work and pleasures in the right light. I have for long wished there were less mathematics and science of language in our schools and more of the point of practical and after life.
But I am a little surprised that you did not answer your own queries, for the present, by advising boys to join the G. J. C. C. and hinting at the adop-