Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

Box 226 Lincoln Nebr.

10/13/91

Prof C E Bessey State University Sir Kindly express by letter the result of your use of Andersons odorless coffee Brewer especially as to its being odorless & oblige Resp. John L. Marshall

Purple Cane. Dodge Co. Nebraska Dec 4/91

Chas. E. Bessey Esqr DrSir. I have received your Bulletin No. 18, and shall be much gratified to receive the Continuation You refer to in the preface. I am an Old man my dear sir, and if I adhere to old time [n ] [ ] You must ascribe it to 79 years of study. You request criticism, and that contributions of plants omitted may be sent you. If I can find any thing in that way, you may depend upon me to forward them to you. Now by virtue of my old fashioned education, and that I have no modern botany at hand I wish to ask, why You use ["Hicoria"] in

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References.

First Nat'l Bank, Lincoln, Neb. Capital Nat'l Bank, Lincoln. State Nat'l Bank, Lincoln. Lincoln Nat'l Bank, Lincoln. German Nat'l Bank, Lincoln. Columbia Nat'l Bank, Lincoln. American Ex. Bank, Lincoln. Union Savings Bank, Lincoln. Lancaster Co. Bank, Lincoln.

H. B. Claflin Co., New York. John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago. Citizens Nat'l Bank, Des Moines, Ia. State Savings Bank, Des Moines, Ia. Lederer, Strauss & Co., Des Moines, Ia.

LOUIE MEYER, BROKER, MAKES SPECIAL IN BONDS, STATE, COUNTY AND CITY WARRANTS. ___________

Lincoln, Neb. 8/7 1891. Dear Prof

Any little fixing that has to be done by us you will greatly oblige us by having same done, & [Jan] & I can fix it up I am a busy man & some times hard to find-- [ ] L Meyer

FROM SIOUX CITY NEWSPAPER UNION ---------- SAMPLE OF 10-LB. LETTER HEADS. CENTURY LINEN.

Omaha Neb. Sept 25, 1891 Prof-Bussey Lincoln Neb Please find enclosed Slip of Sweet Potato Vine with Bloom. It is something I have never seen before. and- can find no one here that ever has. Please investigate and let me know if there is anything in it Yours Very Respectfully R. A. Miller