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Lodi
[?]
13
O.

Prof. C. E. Bessey
Ames
[Iowa]

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I am still open to suggestions
and plans. I think it would be
a good thing if could see
you any way.

Your Brother,
H. W. Bessey.
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I refer in this letter to the $400 or thereabout which belongs
to me.
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Lodi, Apr 12th, 1880.

Dear Brother:

Have
finished my school, and am
now arranging as well as I
can, our farm affair. Shall
[be?] back to Oberlin soon.

I have given considerable
thought to the contents of your
letter. Am willing and even
anxious to listen to your
counsels, but several things
are yet to be considered.

About studying medicine –
the impediments to that
course are much greater
than you suppose. Finally
I have no money. My