Charles Bessey, Letters, 1880

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to Bessey 23-[?]-1880

You ask if I received sufficient [?] encouragement to make it certain that I shall finish up the 10 [Cents.?]

I find the expense is considerable + much time is required but it is paying me as well as I expected so that I think there is no doubt I shall be able to finish the 10 [Cents?]—of I [live?]—I am favorably situated for such an undertaking for this is a wonderfully rich locality for fungi – and living here as I do my expenses are small. Even as it is however I could not do it were it not for my wife who helps me put

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up the [specc.?] and make the books – that is does the binding – I had the first 60 made in Boston but besides the inconvenience of having the work done at a distance the cost was too much, so as Mrs. E. said she would undertake to make as good a book as the Boston binder I bought in N. Y. paper board enough for the 10 [Cents?]. Mrs. E. can now make a better book than at first having had some practice.

Very Truly Yours J. B. Ellis

J. B. Ellis – [desidenala?] – [?] of Pnecimia graminis Pnecimia solida [?] Peronospora Halstedii [?]

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If you should collect anything for the [n.A.F.?] try to get enough for 40 or 45 copies.

Please mention the [?] to any in your correspondance you think would like a set.

Ellis to Bessey 23-II-1880

US POSTAL CARD. Write the address on this side—the message on the other

Newfield Apr 20 N.J.

U.S. Postage One Cent

Prof. C.E.Bessey Ames Iowa

Newfield Apr. 20, 1880

Dear Sir

I send you to day [Cent.?] IV. [?]. [?] [?]. I was behind the [time?] on [Cent.?] III + so [send?] out [Cent?] IV sooner. I hope to finish [Cent.?] V. by the end of the year but perhaps I can not before 1881.

Yours Truly J. B. Ellis