P.S« It may be well to delay your letter to Schlecht&r for a v/hile. 
I am not sura just how he will react to it. Perhaps it will appeal 
to him as the most natural thing in the world under the ciromastanoea, 
and I may do him a grave injustice in thinking anything else. Yet, 
from little bits of evidence, I am not sure that he will be at all 
pleased to find a valuable source of material suddenly removed from 
his grasp. If he resents my entrance into his field ha may cease to 
have tracings made for me of his Costa Riean types that he is now 
about to publish. From his last letter I gleaned that these were 
soon to be published. I wrote to him the other day asking him to 
have tracings made at once.It would be quite too bad to have any¬ 
thing happen that would check the income of needed records. Of 
course I may be anxious for no cause. But, I am sure that you will 
agree with me that the besrtpolicy is to delay any new 3 that might 
interrupt work that is of great importance from the point of view 
of the Central American Orchid Flora. From the evidence it would 
seem that Schleohter takes a very broad miAded view of my work and 
is most anxious to help.me in every way. In fact his friendliness 
is most astonishing. Perhaps it is a mistake to go into this matter 
al all. in any event, please regard this writing as confidential. 
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