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1205 Franklin St.
Oakland, California
Nov. 7th 1885.

Prof. C. E. Bessey,
My dear friend,

Home
at last from a long tour
of the eastern states, their
wonderful cities, [?],
herbaria &c, &c.

First seve[r]al days of
house-cleaning and shaking
ourselves together – after a
years absence – then
we will get down to
work upon the magnificent
collection of 1884 from
Northern Arizona, neglected
by attendance last
winter, upon the great fiar.

I have [no?] suspicion
that you would like