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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
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Original in Smithsonian Institution Archives; Record Unit 220; U.S. Nat'l Museum; Division of Plant Records, 1870-1893
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.
CHANCELLOR'S OFFICE.
LINCOLN, NEB. Jan. 13th., 1890. 18
To the Honorable Secretary of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C.,
Dear Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a collection of specimens sent from the botanical Division of the Department of Agriculture for deposit in the herbarium of this University.
Permit me to thank you for the same and to assure you that the specimens will be at once placed in the collection, where they will be accessible for study and reference.
Very truly yours, Charles E. Bessey
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
Washington, D. C., June 17, 1890.
DEAR SIR:
Contribution No. 1. from the U. S. National Herbarium is sent to you herewith. If you wish to receive the succeeding numbers of the series, please fill the blank on the back of this card and return it to me, that we may have your corrected address for our mailing list.
GEORGE VASEY, Botanist.