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University of South Carolina,
Chapel Hill, [Sr.6.] 17 August 1880

Bessey,
My dear sir:

I received from your publishers,
a few days since, a copy of your new [Botany]. I thank
you very much for requesting them to send it. Being just
now employed as a Special Agt. of the Census to investi-
gate the [Mica] Interests of this State. I have only had
opportunity to glance at the work. I am very favora-
boy impressed with what I have read and when the
pressure of business is over - a few weeks hence - will ex-
amine it carefully. I think it probable that I shall
adopt it in one of my advanced classes.

Very [highly]

F. M. [Commander]

Prof. Geol. L[?] + Botany U.R.C
Prof. Bot + [Physiology] in Med. Dept