Jackson, Amador Go. Cal. 
Jan. 24th. /95. 
Mr. Walter Deane, 
Your kind interest taken in me since receiving my stafe — 
ment giving you an i$dea why my little uook was not out yet, has been 
sincerely appreciated by me . I quite understand the reason you put to t - 
iorth why ray circulars have not reached tie success I sought for them. 
I must say too that it is but reasonable. But as I told you , It is my 
first attempt, ana much will have to be learned. But then I understood 
that my price of $ 7 was so much below what was usually paid { $ 10 I 
was told ) , that with the inducement of' my book etc. I looked ior the 
little confidence institutions of means and rich endowments mi&ht show. 
I am not in this enterprise for mercenariness, far from it. Last weeks 
( last to reach me ) Gardners’ Chronicle again gave a hint about the 
need^a list of Hybrid orchids would. Wine is a list while it at same 
time tills the requirements the highest expectation can place upon such 
publication. - there it lays -, and with my brave wife I have last night 
pondered how in this world I could,pay the heavy printing bill for such 
expensive type-setting * ( perhaps Harvard library might take a copy 
when out , and you thus get a look gat my system and painstaking work ) 
as that list would be . I have been much releaved in my worry by an 
order from Prof. irelease and one from the new Stanford University .. 
the contract for my book will, be let yet this month , I think , ( tie 
writing back and forth requires so much time as I get mail but twice a 
week in this recluse }, and X am still in fond hope of raising a little 
above the amount covering the expense I have had already so\iar . My sa¬ 
lary has been cut since writing you before , •* to equalize jf^^What can 
a man of brains and talent expect in this world 2 I have taste d, tte cnj&o 
of disappointment in the most horrible fashions a man can be forced to t 
but this alter tie final settling in a. country where I thought I found 
a' place for life and work in tranquillity , that is a hard blow . ’*io 
equalize ” , indeed^ Of all the five foremen which they employ I am the 
