<table><tr><th>To:</th><th>Sellers, Vana</th></tr><tr><td>Cc:</td><td>Jen Gauthie</td></tr><tr><td>From:</td><td>Lesley Groff</td></tr><tr><td>Sent</td><td>Fri 3/23/2018 2:11:43 PM</td></tr><tr><td>Subject</td><td>Re: Jeffrey Epstein-Plant Intelligence Symposium - Lunch invitation</td></tr></table>

Excellent! thank you on all!

We will stay in touch...

...and I will reach out to Jen on another mail...

Have a great day, Lesley

On Mar 23, 2018, at 10:09 AM, Sellers, Vanessa a wrote:

Dear Lesley,

Of course, Wohlleben was encircled by people all the time! I have cc'd Jennifer Gauthier, manager of Greystone books, who is Wohllebens contact person.

introduced herself right before the start of the symposium— I did not have the pleasure to meet Mr. Epstein, but would be delighted to tour him around and show the Mertz Library's rare books collections as well when he returns in the spring.

I am sending here a link to the upcoming programs organized by the Humanities Institute, all at the intersection of the sciences and humanities, which might interest him: <u>https://www.nybg.orelearn/humanities-institute/events-wmposia/</u>

With kind regards,

Vanessa

Vanessa Bezemer Sellers, PhD
Humanities Instinite
New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Blvd.
Bronx, New York, 10458-5126

From: Lesley Groff < Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:42 AM To: Sellers, Vanessa Subject: Re: Jeffrey Epstein-Plant Intelligence Symposium - Lunch invitation

Hello Vanessa and thank you again for your help with tickets for Jeffrey and  yesterday. Jeffrey would really like to speak with Peter Wohlleben, the author of

The Hidden Life of Trees...might you be able to provide me contact details for him or his assistant?

(Jeffrey came back all smiles and told me the Botanical Gardens was spectacular...he asked me to remind him to go back mid May)!

Lesley

On Mar 20, 2018, at 8:01 AM, Sellers, Vanessa wrote:

Understand-

Greetings,

Vanessa

From: Lesley Groff

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7:59 [ AM

To: Sellers, Vanessa

Subject Re: Jeffrey Epstein-Plant Intelligence Symposium - Lunch invitation

Vanessa, unfortunately schedules will not allow! Thank you so very much for the invitation. Jeffrey and  will see you 10am for the symposium! Lesley

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:43 AM, Sellers, Vanessa <████████████> wrote:

Dear Lesley,

We would be delighted to have Jeffrey Epstein and  stay for the luncheon with the speakers and some other guests, in the Garden Terrace Room Foyer, from 1:00-2:15 pm. They would be placed at Janet Browne's table to continue the conversation. This way they can immediately see the Garden and might decide to become members, indeed!

please let me know if they can join us.

Kind greetings,

Vanessa

From: Lesley Groff [██████████████████████████████]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 6:53 AM

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 6:53 AM
To: Sellers, Vanessa
Cc: ██████████████████
Subject: Re: Jeffrey Epstein-Plant Intelligence Symposium

Tremendous! thank you so very much! The name of
Jeffrey’s guest is █████ ██████████...I will let Jeffrey
know he will be on the list! ...and I’m positive he will
have some interesting questions! ;)

Jeffrey will be thrilled...

Lesley
Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein

On Mar 20, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Sellers,
Vanessa <██████████> wrote:

Dear Leslie,

We will be glad to have Mr. Epstein and his friend (name?) join us for the event. I will place them on the list, so they just have to come to the Garden and enter Ross Hall and -- if they wish --ask some interesting questions!

Kind regards,

Vanessa

Vanessa Bezemer Sellers, PhD
Humanities Institute

Vanessa Sellers
Humanities Research Program Coordinator
The New York Botanical Garden
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10458


nybg.org

On view and upcoming:

Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees in Public Gardens, November 18-April 22 The Orchid Show, March 3-April 22

Garden Art & Antiques Fair, May 3-8 Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions ofHawaii, May 19—October 28

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From: Lesley Groff [████████████████]

Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2018 6:41 AM To: Sellers, Vanessa Subject: Jeffrey Epstein-Plant Intelligence Symposium

## Good Morning Vanessa.

Would it be possible to please purchase 2 tickets to the Plant Intelligence symposium on March 22nd for Jeffrey and his friend? I did contact the NYBG and was told the event is sold out and wait list only. Jeffrey would be happy to become a member as well! ...just let me know how to proceed.

Thank you very much,
Lesley
Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein

Begin forwarded message:
From: "Nowak, Martin A."
Subject: Fwd: Re:

## Good Morning Vanessa. (cont.)

Date: March 20, 2018 at
6:32:47 AM EDT

<u>To: Lesley Groff "Gallagher, Katherine"</u>

Please note

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| Field       | Value                      |
|-------------|----------------------------|
| From        | "Browne, Janet"            |
| Date        | March 20, 2018 at 1:33:39 AM EDT |
| To          | "Nowak, Martin A."         |
| Cc          | "Sellers, Vanessa"         |
| Subject     | Re:                       |


Dear Martin, I am
sure there are still
spaces. It is by
ticket, through the
NYBG. Given the
circumstances, the
best person to
contact would be
Dr Vanessa Sellers,
copied in above. 1
hope to see him
there!, very best to
you, Janet

On 3/19/18, 7:48 PM, "Nowak, Martin A."

wrote:

Dear Janet,

## Good Morning Vanessa. (cont.)

My friend, Jeffrey Epstein, would love to attend your
symposium on
"Plant Intelligence"
in New York.

Jeffrey lives in New York and does much philanthropic support of sciences.

He has supported projects at Harvard, MIT and other places.

Is there any chance he could attend?

Please let me know.

Best wishes
Martin