
          delivered here to him just about 
 the publication price, which is
 [crossed out: mark] printed on the covers. 


 I do not think $2000 could 
 possibly be cut back from Riocreux's
 work. At that price 
 or like it I see no way, unless 
 government will employ him. 
 Could not Emory get him under 
 salary for a while.


 You know my arrangement
 with Sprague. It now puts me 
 under all the risks I ought to
 run. I engage to pay him 
 $900 a year, from the 1st July, 
 and he promises to work 6 hours 
 a day. I shall doubtless be 
 out of pocket considerably at the 
 end of the year; but any other way
 I should be badly off. This year
 I must have his work & in that
 way.


 It is late and I very 
 tired.


 Ever Yours 
 A. Gray
        