NORTH EASTON, MASS. 
July 6, 1933. 
My dear Mr. Edwardss 
You seem to have created a misunderstanding 
all your own, and express surprise that I should have endeavored 
to give you an opportunity to do work that you feel would he more 
profitable. In your letter to me of March fourth you stated that you 
would he able to make more money if you were to collect for several 
institutions. On larch 18 I told you again that I had set aside 
thirty-six hundred dollars for your work. I say again, because 
9 1 though/ X had made this reasonably clear, to any man who does 
business with ilarvard University^in ray letter of February 22, you 
wrote that it was not clear that thirty-six hundred dollars budgeted 
for exploration in konduras referred to you although you were then 
in the field and a renewal of your contract had not been denied. 
On .arch 9 (the letter you did not receive} I went into detail re¬ 
garding the work you had done for us and expressed surprise that 
you thought you could make more money working for severalcinstitut- 
ions, my surprise being based on the amount of material you had been 
able to assemble for one institution in ? year of field work.I say 
again that you could not make a living as a botanical collector if 
your output were to continue at its present rate. It was then, how- 
evers that, I opened the way for you to work for several institutions, 
offering to take all oi your orchids and woody plants up to three 
thousand dollars at fifteen cents for woody plants and twenty cents 
lor orchids per specimen. My tt 1 tude has been one of complete 
fairness, my desire being, if you decide to work as a general collector 
to carry you along until you can establish contacts. In your letter 
oi rme third you request that I cabl to you if I desire to have you 
go on collecting on the basis of my letter of April 11. As it is 
quite unnecessary for me to state ray desires in view of the fact that 
i,ae record ir clear so f r as the Arnold Arboretum is concerned I do 
no t. intend to send such a cable. It is for you to say what you intend 
w0 do. ust I say a third time that I have budgeted thirty^six hundred 
dollars j.or exploration in Honduras and that you are the one selected 
to vor> under that budget? The only suggestion of a. change has come 
irom you. I have simply been more than fair and in my letters I have 
offered to continue to take specimens from you provided you go afield 
on your own resources. If I say it would be a better business venture 
i; r Arboretum to pay for specimens received, that does not mean 
ta- t ± aro going to make an attempt to withdraw from the contract I 
have made. If you can make more money working for others, I give you 
the opportunity to do so. The only stipulation being that you work out 
<j,ny funcs received from us on the established basis of botanical 
field rates for specimens. Another statement of yours is to have 
attention nows 58 your letter of June 23 contains the statement that 
in my writings ± have said that I cannot pay $3,600.00 for this years 
that, m other words I am withdrawing from a cntract. Had I not 
already sent to you five hundred dollars with a promise of a thousand 
r S U rnn°ni y first? in 8 I repeat that I cannot spend 
;^* 60 ?*? 0 a year of University nohey for the services you are render- 
ng. inis simply means that I am going through with my proposal, but 
