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Original in the Missouri Botanical Garden
Archives, George J. Englemann Collection
The University of Nebraska
Lincoln
Department of Botany.
March 24 1888
Henry Shaw
St. Louis Mo.
Dear Sir
Accept my thanks for the copy of Englemann's Botanical Works. so kindly
sent by you.
You deserve, also, the thanks of all botanists for the generosity to the botanist [instruction] of the country of such a magnificient volume. It will give some great pleasure to make a proper mention of it in the American Naturalist.
[Believer] [ ]
Very truly Yours
Charles E. Bessey
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The writing is so hard to decipher. I went by context in some cases, not being certain of the written word.