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[[circled]] 735 [[/circled]]
[[stamped]] JUL 28 1924 [[/stamped]]

[[letterhead]] Dr. Gaillard S. Tennent
Asheville, N.C. [[/letterhead]]

July 24., 1924
W. Atlee Burpee Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa., 
    
Dear Sirs:-
"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man."
   For years office, home and social contacts strangely failed to satisfy a primitive hunger for something closer to nature until a plot of garden soil taught me the truth of Bacon's wise words.
   Gardening can satisfy the age-old longing of man to create something orderly and material out of chaos and nothingness.
   A few years of experimenting taught me that sustained interest in gardening depends on practical results, and practical results hang on dependable seeds.
   Burpee's Seeds are dependable, and planting them I have reaped many bountiful harvests [[strikethrough]] a [[/strikethrough]] in latter years.
   For nine or ten months yearly they have yielded an abundance of the best vegetables for my household with a surplus for friends and for canning.  They have knit closer domestic bonds with a flower garden, the joy of wife and

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@siobhanleachman:- I've received a reply from TC via twitter @transcribesi about this issue. They say "YES put No./Date at top or bottom (sep from txt) - AAG wants this text searchable BUT we also want coherence of letter"