Charles Bessey, Letters, 1885-1887

Iowa Agricultural College, Ames.

Department of Botany. Sept 10th 1885.

Dear Bessey:

This will be at Lincoln to welcome you home. My questions this time are not [?]. I have just been over to the Treas. office to look up when you bo[u]ght herbarium paper The last bill says 11. 13 Hunter 3,000 sheets for $22.58 but wh[?] is Hunter? Did he satisfy you. Where do you buy Genus covers? Hunter also?

By the way what do you think is the best material for [?] sp[?] to [?] sheets [?] [?] or some [?]?

I hope you had a fine time at Grand Rapids. Prof Budd – you will have seen them.

Miss A[thens?] has been doing so much extra work for a concert here that she has been quite sick I hope she may not be taxed in this

manner again Miss Athens was very kind to my temporary widow and remained to cheer her during all my absence. The pleasure of my return was not unmixed with regrets that Mrs. Athens then thought she must return to the college.

But I must not take up your time further.

Yours [?] [?] Byron D Halsted

Iowa Agricultural College, Ames.

Department of Botany. Sept 15th 1885.

My dear Bessey:

Please accept my many thanks for your very informatory letter. I have written [Castor & Harry?] for samples.

Yesterday in looking over some packages stored over the museum cases I found a package marked with your name and "Private property." It was not fully wrapped up and the contents seemed to be largely examination papers in geometry. I have given it a secure place There were also some drawings of yours illustrating inflorescence in the same place which are saved. A hoste of old seed catalog[u]es and other pamphlets I have left undisturbed They may be of value to you their owner.

Yours very truly Byron D. Halsted

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P. S. Please let us have your paper for the Proceedings of the S. P. A. S. at your convenience. I trust you will make it [any?] fall as the ideas need a thorough presentation to the world —BDH

Boston Mass

Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. Department of Botany.

Dec 12th 1885.

Dear Bessey:–

I have been going over the M.S. S. for the S. P. A. S. proceedings which are to go to the printer very soon I am very anxious that you have a full paper upon your subject, and if it is not now ready I will suggest that, to give you more time, you send it direct to Prof. Shelton Manhattan Kas. The printing will probably be done by the Ag. Col. printing dept. I am so much interested in your points that it will be a disappointment to not see[n?] them fully presented. — I am here in Boston and go to Cambridge daily alternating between Farlow and Goodale Profs B[a?]rns and Bailey are here. I hope you are well and prospering