April 9, 1933 
Ay dear hr. Edward®* 
I hope that by this time my letter of Larch 18 is 
in your possession and that all doubts regarding ray plans for you have 
been removed. It seemed to me that I iad made everything clear in my 
letter of February 22$ and your interpretation of ay words caused no 
little surprise. Everything hinged of course on the amount of money 
that would be a% r alable. \ hen we we re instructed to make out the budget 
for 1933-34, the sad news came that a still greater reduction would 
take place in our income, and until I had final figures I could not 
assure you of anything. I thought I rad made this clear, low you tell 
me that you can make more money by selling your services as a general 
collector. As to this I can not express a worth while opinion because 
I do not know what prices you have been promised by other institutions. 
Eut I am surprised at what yousay, because I knew of few institutions 
which have not suffered through the depression and I know of many that 
have had to eliminate their explorations. As for the Arnold Arboretum, 
I am in a position to inform you that I should much prefer to have you 
woz'k on a "per specimen basis", be would undertake to accept all of your 
orchids and woody plants up to three thousand dollars at fifteen cents 
a specimen for woody plants and twenty cents a specimen for orchids. That 
would be approximately fifteen thousand specimens with a limit of four 
duplicates to each number. That mild be some where in the vicinity of 
four thousand numbers. In this connection I draw your attention to the fact 
that in nearly a year you have only collected, about four hundred numbers 
ol orchids witn very lew duplicates.And of woody plants I understand that 
