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within the scope of a
large number of the [?]
who were eager to [?]
the pages of your beautiful
[?] volume for the guidance
that before was nearly or
quite impossible to get because
of the inaccessibility of much
of the literature of botanical
[?]. I am very glad
you have brought into so close
a [companion?] the forms of a school
manual, the details of this [enchanting?]
science.

Very truly yours,
N. [?]