Charles Bessey, Letters, 1891

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.

Brookline, Mass., September 4, 1891.

Dictated.

My dear Professor Bessey:

I have your note of the 31st and I write to say that I hope by all means you will write out your paper on Prunus pumila for Garden and Forest. It is high time that we should endeavor to cast some light on this puzzling genus as it is represented in America.

Why can't you send me some fresh fruit and foliage of Pru nus Americana as it grows with you and from as many different trees as possible? I don't believe that we can find any stable characters in the stones which vary enormously in Prunus always, but I should very much like to see fruit and foliage of the trees as they grow in your section.

Yours faithfully, signature

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Neb.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. DIRECTOR'S OFFICE.

Brookline, Mass., September 26, 1891.

Dictated.

My dear Professor Bessey:

Your box of specimens arrived some days ago and I write to thank you for the trouble you have have taken in sending them.

The Chokecherry appears identical with the plant I have found at the base of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. It looks dif ferent from our eastern Chokecherry and from the Pacific-coast P. de missa but I am at a loss to find characters to distinguish it. If you can give me and further light on this subject, I shall be exceed ingly obliged to you.

Faithfully yours, C. S. Sargent signature

Prof. Chas. E. Bessey, Lincoln, Nebraska.

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JOHN A. DEMPSTER, President. J. R. SCHOFIELD, Secretary. A. O. TAYLOR, Treasurer. GENEVA IRON & WINDMILL CO. MANUFACTURERS OF WINDMILLS, PUMPS AND TANKS. __________________ All Kinds of Foundry Work. Iron Fronts a Specialty.

Geneva, Neb., July 23, 1891.

Prof. C E. Bessey, My Dear Professor: Yours of 22" received. Please accept my heart felt thanks for your kindness. I shall be pleased to accept if opportunity offers and I assure you that I will do all in my power to so discharge the duties there, if successful, that you may never regret having recomended me. to the position. Enclosed you will find Pres. King's letter as requested. Should I secure the position I should like to spend the