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[?] 21. 1889

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Lincoln Nebraska

Dear Sir,

Pardon me for writing to you on an affair of interest [?] to myself. The circumstances, [?] stated are three. I am a woman of thirty-five; Im plants and their line: and desire to study them closer than can with real opportunities.

I have studied, by myself. [?] School and field work, and collected and analyzed [?] [?] wild flowers and ferns. There new sums to be but [?] advancement possible for me without instruction yet I wish to know much more.

My physician admires one to change [?] for a few months and [?] enforced [?] from home duties (could