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Haines

Davis City, Iowa,
Sept. 1st 1880.

Prof. C. E. Bessey,

Dear Sir —

Wishing to get a
microscope, I write to you for
information. I desire to have
a fair instrument; one that will
magnify fame 200 to 250 diameters.
Perhaps you have some on
[lines?] which you would like
to dispose of. If so, I would
as soon have it as to order
a new one.

As I am going to study
physiology, I would also feel [sic.] grateful
to you [sic.] for your opinion as to
its relative merits of [Carpenter's?],
[Draper's?], + Dalton's, Physiologies.

I will be at this place during
the fact and [write?] in the ca-