1858 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER REVEALING A CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY RELATED TO POTATO ROT BY A BALTIMORE AREA NATURALIST

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Offered is a super, very interesting 1858 Baltimore letter handwritten by Lyman Reed to James Gordon Bennett publisher of the New York Herald regarding the scourge of Potato Diseas e and this Baltimore man's investigation and analysis [not present]. The letter about Reed's discovery that insects were the cause of "Potato Rot" makes for another fine example of the City's community of naturalists, scientists and innovative minds. The 1 page 8" x 10" letter is VG. Show more