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Conway MacMillian

Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore.

Jan. 31st 1887

Dear Professor Bessey:–

Your kind letter
was duly received and greatly appreciated.
I had feared that you would
scarcely find time amid the [press?] of
work to answer my rambling epistles.

Work goes on
quickly. I am conscious of much
development and acquisition. The plan
which I have adapted of working in
all the main departments of the
laboratory rather than specializing
at will, has so far been very successful.
I labor along in an independent
way – reading [?]
by and doing fifteen hours of laboratory
work a week. My [scheme?]