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Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station.

EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH OFFICE.
STARKVILLE, MISSISSIPPI.

S.M. TRACY, DIRECTOR.

Agricultural College, Miss. April 24th, 1890.

Dear Bessey:

Yours of 4/16 at hand. Of course I will sell
duplicates if I cannot exchange, but would much prefer the latter,
even if I receive specimens already in herbarium; as such dupli-
cates are valuable for foreign exchange. Can you not send such
plants? I do no care for anything excepting grasses, sedges,
and ferns. I have never sold speciments, and do not know what
usual rates would be, but shall be satisfied with whatever you
think is fair. I have laid out the grasses, and have added a few
foreigner not on the list sent. I have so few sedges and ferns
that I prefer to use them in exchange, rather than to sell them.

Yours as ever,
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