June 1» 1933. 
13 rili >iaston, i aesachnsetts. 
Ily-dear IT* Edwards* 
Your letter dated - ay 13, eerie in 
yesterday. 1 have been hoping to he* r frets you that another 
package of spec! v:->np wa a n t <v- be- aus it . on Id tea:-. 
that you have alo- ©d do n conspicuously in output. 3 have / 
not receive-' - ' --ny orchids fr you since the shipment of 
arch ‘ 5 including numbers 3y0 to 3B9, He specimens num¬ 
bered 390 to 398 wentione-3 in your letter of April .17, --tare 
not arrived. I fear this is another lost package! in® 
mashers in about Months and those nine spectrum 
•n- fibers lost is not an ahe uratring proposition* In thirty 
or forty years of experience with collectors I hwava never 
experience such - record, I dislike to criticise you in 
this hi -.liner, hut I deeply worried about th--* situ. '.ion. 
I simply cannot spend University money at the rate of three 
thousand six hundred dollars a year for the services you 
are rendering. I rot a. v- ry long I‘ "ter t you onapriX 
9, (this t th la" - ter that did not reach you}* I 
quote- the- following - lines* I aus i•' position to inform you 
that I hould much 'r-afer to have you ork on "p ; r spooiim m 
basis”, e xvould undertake to accept all of your orchids 
and oedy plants up to three thousand dollars at fifteen 
cents 'per specimen for oody plants and t enty c nts «p s -c- 
ixaen for orchids. khat would he approxi;. ately fifteen -t oub- 
and and ith -a limit of four duplicates to each number. . '..at 
would bo somewhere in the vicinity of four thousand numbers. 
In tMa connection I draw your ,ttention to the f ct that in 
nearly ye nr you -iuv<:- only collected •■kout four hw/idre 
numbers of ••• orchids with very few duplicates* Andwoody plants 
I understand that you have not yet paused th one thouson- - 
mark. If you will entityte th 'cost perspecimen of your . 
collections, I ar. *vare th t you will realise that you will 
find every reason to be satisfied with the ement that 
has been in force, and'to understand why .we -would much y-re- 
fer to pay for specimens at stated rvie, 
I think this part of that letter is 
.enough to clarify ay statements on April 11 regarding what 
your final reaction would be to -.. '‘per specimen busie*. I 
suggested an 3 mediate reply to ay proposition with the pro¬ 
pose 1 that we would send to you four hundred dollars at,once 
and four hu -'red. on « ul first, to keep you giong: until you 
could make a final decision as• to whether you ’wished, to act 
as a general collector or continue with the Arnold .-.rboretum. 
.'.‘he lines' cuoted at 
the end of the first paragraph introduced this proposition* 
I desire to be fair in iny position. I 
think the record and my letters prove this. 
. kincerel ’ youres, 
