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for I see no evidence of it.
Many Universities would have
been glad to purchase it for
a large sum of money.

I send some more seed
by mail tomorrow, and am
promised by a fine Turk gardener
an assortment of best seeds next
week. Some I will send to C[...]
direct. Some send you to be tried
by Annie + the plantation. She is
the mascot -- better let her nurse them
the first years

Lewis thinks the baby
production is suspended for a year,
and you can come next spring. Tell
him such a guess about the suspension
is unreliable + I fear you cannot leave
them. May a kind Providence keep
you. Your afft husband

A. W. Terrell