
          Offer to do these Oregon & Calif. [California] plants 
 and nothing else, cutting short all vague
 promises of consultation, for your first 
 named sum, and you yourself to finish 
 the analyses [crossed out: of] [added: for] all the drawings required 
 or which they will agree to publish, and 
 pay for it out of that sum. (Securing 
 the proper analyses well made under your
 own eye, all the rest could be respectably
 done by their draughtsman & engravers at 
 Washington. Or, offer to do these 
 collections for $1200 (or even $1000, the first 
 apologizing for his fling about the extravagance 
 of price, which comes with a poor grace after 
 they have paid $1500 for the description 
 of the few paltry lichens.), for your 
 knowledge of the plants of the region in question 
 happens to be so full that you may tell
 him you can doubtless afford to do them 
 so cheap as to avoid the charge of overreaching 
 extravagance (though you will not undertake 
 the Sandwich Islands plants (which are those 
 next to be sought after) nor the Antarctic 
 (which are next) add any such rate. But 
 that, with this proposition you will make 
 no engagement about consulting with 
 any body, least of all with any person or persons
        