1282 Hunter Ave.,
Columbus O., Feby 12, 1891
Prof. C. E. Bessey,
Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Sir,
I am in receipt of an announcement by the American Book Company of a "Special Edition of Gray's "Manual" on thin paper, for Tourists and Field Use, price $2.00.
Mr. H. H. Vail writes:
"Following up the suggestion made by you some months ago, the company has resolved to print a special edition of Gray's Manual on their French paper with narrow margins so as to make the book small and compact for satchel use. It will be bound in full leather, limp, and cut flush, very much like a foreign guide book. The binding will be on parchment strips such as are
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used in the best English Prayer Books, and we shall aim to make it a valuablel book for botanists and tourists. Its price will be two dollars."
I hope in view of the interest you have taken in such editions of botanies that this will prove acceptable news. It was your suggestion in the Naturalalist for 1886 (July) that led me to write to them about the matter.
The succesful issue may be worthy of notice in The Am Naturalist soon
Very Respectfully Yours
Aug. D. Selby
