43 Shepard St., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 6th August, 1903. 
Dear Mr. Collins: 
I have just been looking over with much pleasure and interest your draw¬ 
ings of the grasses. They seem to me to be excellent and entirely satisfactory. 
Of course, I shall have Professor Hitchcock look them over before publication 
to be quite sure of the identity of the species. I have approved a bill of 
one hundred dollars in your favor and referred it to our bursar for payment re¬ 
questing remittance to be*sent to your Providence address. Kindly let me know 
in case it is not duly received within a few days. Kindly send me also a bill 
for the drawings which you made before coming to the herbarium. Miss Day tells 
me that you were nob quite certain whether I meant them to be at the rate of 
fifty cents per plant or per figure. I should say fifty cents per figure would 
be a perfectly satisfactory price so far as we are concerned. I ain really very 
happy to have the work done at that rate. 
In case you feeli during the next few months that you can spare further time 
to devote to our work please let me know and it is quite possible that I can 
send you some more plants to illustrate. 
Inclosed I send the promised list of the plants which have already been col¬ 
lected for the Ixsiccatae Grayanae. It is most kind, of you to offer to bear 
our exsiccatae in mind and I assure you we shall greatly appreciate any aid you 
may find it convenient to give us along this line. 
Sincerely yours, 
Mr. J. franklin Collins. 
