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POSTAL CARD
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OCT 22
Prof. C.E. Bessey, Ames, Iowa
Iowa Agri. Coll.
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Crawfordsville, Ind., Oct. 21-80 My Dear Professor: I am very glad to know that you intend to send the Gazette some notes from your laboratory. Be assured that I will remind you of the promise so solemnly given. I am using your botany this term to my very great satisfaction. A note from Prof. Goodale says he is glad his review of your book miscarried, as he thinks your Part II will be more useful than Part I. So, see if you shouldwrite for all of us you would have a sorry time. -Faithfully [yr?] Jm. Coulter.
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[?] on Your [Dr?] Johnson [?] [August?] 10, 80
Prof C E Bessey
John,
Your letter asking [me?] to examine and give my opinion of your work on Botany has reached me after considerable delay. It will give [?] Johnson to examine your work especially as the [?] of it indicates an effort – to correct many of the deficiencies of the textbooks now in use. We begin this full [?] the [??] A & M College of [Ky?] and I shall feel free to accept such works in [that?] [?] – [as?] [some?] best adapted to our wants. I have already accepted [?] Zoology of the [?] published by [?] [?] [?].
[?] delay. I expect to close my [?] [work?] on the [Ky?] Geol Survey this month
Yours D. R. [Grandall?] A & M College of [Ky?]
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Dear Sir- I have the pleasure of informing you that your [plage?] (Fasc. III) has been forwarded with others to [us?]. [Patterson?], from whom you will receive it in the same manner as last year- I expect to travel extensively this year [and] to have another good Fasicle a year [..]