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HENRY HOLT & CO.
PUBLISHERS
12 EAST 23d ST., MADISON SQUARE, NEW YORK.
July 27, 1880
Prof. C. E. Bessey,
Dear Sir:
Yours of the 24th [?] [hand.]?
Mr Readhead, of R & W. called on us to-day and ordered 40 copies of your Botany.
We are [hurring]? the book all we can, but won't be able to ship any of them before next week.
A sample copy will be sent to you from the very first box that we get in.
Respectfully Yours,
Henry Holt & Co.
[?]
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12 EAST 234 STREET. MADISON SQUARE.
NEW YORK.
[?] 27/80
Dear Sir:
Will probably send your [?] proof-[?] of Bessey-[?] within a week or two.
The Botany in [?] a well [?] could be expected, and [?] [?] opinions. The enclosed [?] [?] probably please
will give you [?]
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notice of a [see]? edition.
Very [?]
Henry [?]
Prof. C. E. Bessey
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"There is no discount [?] [Torn Page] merits of their two books [?] [Torn Page] and Botany). [Thy?] [?] [?] [?] [the?] [best?] [you?] produced in their respective subjects. Dr. Pachard I have known so long that the excellence of his work is merely a fulfillment of my expectation, but Prof. Bessey was so much a stranger that I am surprised to see the masterly [originality?] with which he [bundles?] his [subjects?]."
(signed) A. [Winchill?]
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'Return to WINNESHIEK COUNTY BANK,
DECORAH, Iowa,
If not delivered within 10 days.
[DECORAY]?
JUL
20
9AM
10A
C. E. Bessey Esq
Ames.
Io.