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COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE 
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^ohson,,^sel^^ //: ; .jan. 5st,. /MP r , /89 
Walter Deere Esq.. 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Deaf' jJ'iT’-. 
I received your note with 25 e- in stamps enclosed oraerum 
one copy of rny oook •• where the big urees trow'’ 1 . X thank yo i f or ki.no 
answer . 
x'his my first attempt at publishing afo well as distributing ex- Leca- 
tae has or out- ht me such trifling encouragement upon all those cire lar 
p. e. sent o it that L look at the whole enterprise in o it a half-heir ted 
way. l occupy only the humble po^sition of a f oreman at this station ■»- 
a no the fact that, the recluse of nay position and sundry e ire ; .m- sauces 
neonless to mention render me buried alive when l know I am fit for bot- 
Pg-p ^ u^e than milking, rny cow a no feeding my pips aside from, spend ing w 
days in manual labor where the brain is fever is* to be ejtfmel eyed in 
different ways. - before Xleaving the old country . I looked with, con¬ 
tinence upon connections the severance of' which thorough my emigrating 
and the struggle following afterwards has made almost aw wreck of me. 
I have ha^vdl y now sue celled' in patch inf. up what is left of my former 
self . an tryim to launch in c>en«fl s success! ilXy n,avi©;ated in pme 
by years . I have to expe ience sadly what it is to oc entirely with-' 
out* either connection or reputation. I arranged thus with my earns that 
the answers to them should reach, here when my book was in type. 1 sonfr 
:oel.ow the mss. and upon receiving the bids from printers X am confron¬ 
ted with such stun n ink a deficit that X could not undertake to coast in i(5 
withn it havinf- some assurance of a clear bajfca nee sheet in sit ht. - *11 
what I am able to muster after waiting weeks and weeks, after mail in*, my 
600 cards in these States and Canada is one check of 
Nty»’ie from a .pent!emfcan in i ew fork. and $1.50 in sta?x 
my Dook . X advertised in honesty that i wo ild furnish i l at co- t for 
^5 c . out if I cchild • disDoso of 250' copies, 62 cents wo .hr be cal lea i«w 
to pay the.' setting and printing . not even paper of each copy. -6till. 
1 will redeem my pledge.and your copy will reach you. not a list only, 
nay the full bookhs it is in mss. now . But I have to see a/little more 
assurance of suebess. X have'a volume on orchid hybrids in *ann almost 
ready for the printer, and its completion has been ray effort for now 
years, owtvt ( have to be free from hampering cares aDo it my specimens. 
X have no idea what position you occupy, four address was taken i^mn 
the sofeotists* directory, borrowed and returned since, i. . a man who 
passed as the first of his graduating class at College has earned his 
Abroad and salt with hauling manure for months .hut to earn the dry U- 
vint this hare world offers to an ambitious man. If you know of any 
any one who can make use of' my specimens . i beg you to send me his ad¬ 
dress . X have a few subscribers from the old world, and it out two in 
th\is whole continent will warant me $their subscription, X can get my 
book printed. - a printed ckeeklist will accompany each set. printed, 
and numbered tickets will give iuiIf'ieldnoi.es . and my book of at least 
6o pages, not 50 as I figured, will give a vivid description of nifr ve¬ 
getation from Son to 8500 it. elevation. - be s me a the novitates mentLO 
$V for one centi¬ 
mes for copies of 
