Box 4, Folder 8: Julia Lapham Correspondence, 1893-1896

Mount Lowe Railway.

1895.

Pass Miss Julia A Lapham. Between Altadena and Echo Mountain.

Until December 31st 1895 unless otherwise ordered.

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Sentinel Office, Milwaukee, Sept 27, 1895

Miss Lapham

Oconomowoc, Wis.:

Dear Madam:

Thank you very much for your letter and the enclosures which I read with interest. Botany must be a beautiful science to draw to its altar devotees in succeeding decades and centuries. I prize highly the catalogue and its supplement which you have so kindly sent me. I was also glad to receive Dr. Short's letter of 60 years ago, and with your permission I should like to print the letter in the semi-centennial edition of the Sentinel, to be published Oct. 16.

There to be a volume of Dr. Lapham's writings issued soon? I hope so, as there must be much [illegible] unpublished material.

Thanking you again,

I remain yours truly,

Philip Wells.

Sentinel Office,

Milwaukee, Wis., July 23, 1893.

Miss Lapham,

Oconomowoc, Wis.:

Dear Madam:

Your letter enclosing the supplementary list of Wisonsin [Wisconsin] flora, published by Dr. Lapham in November, 1840, was handed to me today, because I wrote the article, "In Larkin's Swamp," which appeared in the Sentinel of Monday, July 22, which, I suppose, attracted your attention. I am very much interested in the little leaflet which represents such a vast amount of exploration and patient work, and which furnishes a keysetter than any other new existing, I think, of the native flora of this state. I read, through the courtesy of the Endowment Association of Milwaukee college last fall a lecture written by Dr. Lapham and delivered in 1848 (I think) before the Milwaukee high school. Allow me to say that it was as interesting to me as a novel, especially the part which related to the wealth of the peat bogs, as fuel producers.

Thanking you again for this leaflet, which I have never seen before, I am,

Yours very truly,

Philip Wells.

United States Department of Agriculture,

Office of Chief of Weather Bureau,

Washington, D.C.,

July 8, 1895.

Miss Julia A. Lapham,

Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

Dear Madam:

I am pleased to receive your letter of congratulations. It seems strange that the prime mover in securing legislation for, and to convince the people of the feasibility of, a national weather service, should not only come from Milwaukee, but twenty-five years afterward the Chief of the Weather Bureau should be selected from that city; in other words, my residence was so recently moved from Milwaukee that I almost consider myself a resident thereof.

Hoping to have the pleasure of meeting you and your sister again and continuing our friendship,

I am,

Very truly yours,

Willis L. Moore