Box 12, Folder 1: Correspondence January-March 1875

[Newspaper Clipping-Chicago Botanic Garden, Letter from H.H. Babcock to Increase Allen Lapham. January 28th.]

Chicago Botanical Gardens Office No. 11 Eighteenth Street, Chicago, Ill., U.S.A. Jan. 28th 1875

I.A. Lapham, L.L.S.

My dear Sir: Your kind favor of the 25th was duly received. I thank you much for your words of encouragement and congratulation. Indeed I am highly gratified at the tone of the many letters already received in response to our circular, which evince a more general interest in the enterprise than I have presumed to expect. We have secured a room in a fire proof building for the safe keeping of destructible material until our own buildings are completed. I have taken especial note of the interesting memorandum accompanying your letter.

Believe me, dear sir: Yours very truly H.H. Babcock

H.H. Babcock Jan 28 1875

F. Kuehn State of Wisconsin Treasurer's Office Madison, Feby 1, 1873

I.A. Lapham Esq. Milwaukee

Dear sir Enclosed plese find my [illegible] $1500 for amount audited this very yr of Geological Survey

Truly yours Secy. Kuehn [illegible]

W.W. Daniels

University of Wisconsin

Madison, February 2, 1875 Ansd. Feb 6

Dr. I.A. Lapham, My dear sir, The peculiar substance you sent me last week I have not yet examined for want of time. I shall endeavor to do so tomorrow. Should it prove to be a hydro-carbon mineral I would be glad to bring it to the notice of the Academy to it next week, and so should be glad of any facts you may be able to give me in relation to it. Have you authentic information in relation to its occurence? And how and in what quantities does it occur? I had...