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Granville Ohio
June 2 1889

Prof. C. E. Bessey

Dear Friend.

I hope you will pardon me for troubling you with a question which my isolation prevents me from other wise settling.

On a cedar tree I think [?] town during recent rainy weather a parasite plant has appeared chich I do not [?]. It seems to bare [?] demoralyzed the tree for it is covered with dark [?] excrements from the twigs. The recent ones are soft and [pareucalyptus?] [?] and an filled with