Charles Bessey, Letters, 1885-1887

The University of Kansas.

Chancellor's Office.

Lawrence, Feb. 9th, 1886.

Prof. C. E. Bessey, My dear Sir:

Yours of 3d was [duly?] recd. I am sorry that the trains by which you must come & go have such unseasonable hours. The "Eldridge House" is our best hotel and I will engage a room in advance for you, and will call in the morning about 8.15 o'clk to see if you would like to accompany me to the University. Our buildings are a mile & a half from the [?], but we have a street car here and a car leaves for Univ'y hill at 8.15. If you can get your breafast & be ready to take that car with us you can be with us during our session – from 9 to 1 o'clk. If I understand the matter your lecture is to be of a somewhat popular [?]. Now that perhaps is not sufficiently indicated by the wording of the subject. If you think a change in the wording of the subject would prove more [?] to our citizens & students please indicate a different wording by return mail, so that the prtion can be put out by Saturday

Hoping that you may be able to reach us [safely?] – again assuring you of a warm welcome, I remain

Very sincerely yours J. H. Snow

P. S. Would you feel like giving a talk to my class in Botany at 12 o'clk on Tuesday? The class is just beginning the subject & numbers nearly 100. I should be delighted to give you the time & know that the students would appreciate & pr[?] it.

Ann Arbor, June 28, 1886.

Professor C. E. Bessey, Dear Sir:–

I send in another envelope an article by one of my best students on Growth of P[inus?] T[orbus?].

He has spent some months on it and I can vouch for his accuracy. I would like to have it published in the Naturalist, if you have room for it, and would like some extras. Considering the difficulty of some portions of the study, it is one of the best students papers I have ever had presented. I send it just as he handed it in, with the exception of a few erasures and vital corrections.

You will have to arrange the plates to suit yourself and remember according to your own system. I would have had

him rewrite it but he left a little before the close of the term.

It throws some light on the duration of the life of the xylem and in this and some other particulars is of value as a scientific production.

Yours truly V. M. Spalding

Torrey Botanical Club Columbia College 49th Street and Fourth Avenue

New York, Mch 15 1886

Prof C. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb. Dear Sir:

At its last regular meeting the Torrey Botanical Club elected you one of its Corresponding Members. I take pleasure in announcing to you the election.

Yours truly, Maria O. Steele Corr. Secty.

138 Montague St., Brooklyn, [??].