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giving of course due credit to the book which is their basis?
I send by the same mail a catalogue of the Robinson Girls' School here, with which I am connected.
With the hope that you will excuse my presumption, I am
Yours respectfully Adaline A. Knight Exeter, N. H.
to teach the little people from the stand point of your work.
I arranged outlines of lessons and worked them out accordingly. They have been successful, and the thought has suggested itself to me that I can do something with these lessons of mine, as [sic.] nothing seems to be in the market in that line – for children from eight to eleven years.
Will you allow me to send you my manuscript for examination? I know I am asking much, and I can only trust to the kindness of a fellow teacher. The lessons are brief, I am not ambitious for anything but a primer. If you should think they have any value, would you allow me to try to sell them,
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July 6. 1885 Dear Mr. Bessey,
I am grateful for your kind note, and appreciate your goodness in yielding vacation time to a stranger's primer by same mail with this letter. Will you unsparingly criticize my small attempt, and tell me how its methods strike you? I shall be glad
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if you will let me know if they seem to you practical.
I fear, after all, that I have attempted what I am not fitted for and that I have ambition without power as regards this matter. If the MS. tells such a story do not fear to tell me so.
I know that the modicum of talent for teaching primary botany with some credit does not necessarily make one a good book maker.
With many thanks for your
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August 26.
Mr Bessey Dear Sir,
I trust you will believe that I appreciate your kindness in consenting to read the Ms. of my Botany Primer, and that this note is in no sense intended to hurry you about making up your mind about it. But I am a little afraid that it has been missent as I have not heard from you since I mailed it to you – about the middle of July, I believe; perhaps earlier