NORTH EASTON, MASS. 
November 1, 1933. 
My d e ar T r . Yd ward s: 
Your letters dated Sept. 23, and Get. 14 have 
"been received. Also I have received the specimens sent with the ex¬ 
ception of 522. In my last letter I reported that no.509 was missirg 
This was an error in listing. That number isMax.il lari a uneata Lindl. 
I have looked through all of the papers trd.ee and do not find, any 
traee of no. 522. Your letter of the 14th Get. dth its terrible news 
adds simply another tragedy to the many thet have happened, in my ex- 
peri enee with collectors. The loss of your assistant makes the loss 
of th* specimens h wholly secondary matter. But what can be "one. It 
surely was not through any fault of yours that the eanoe was upset 
and^ lost and the penalty you had to pay seems a queer interpretation 
of human affairs. I realize and this you know, that your output has 
mot been adequate and that for the money we have spent our return has 
been most disappointing. Your record for woody plants has been too 
slight. And for this I have no expl nation, because in the ease of 
woody plants you are not up against the proposition that so often 
characterizes orchids. 
I do not know what arrangement we should make 
fo the future after your contract time is up. It may, depending on 
your showing from now on, be best to continue on a three months basis. 
That is, if our financial structure here does not go entirely to the 
dogs. One has to be very ©autious in planning ahead these flays, and I 
should hesitate to make any binding agreement as far ahead as the 
last day of your present service. I suppose it will be well to send 
another payment at once. This I shell attend to before the end of this 
week. 
I hope you will be able to make up for the lost 
specimens and in your return to Comayagua I certainly hope you were 
able to add some of the lost species to your bag. It is most disappoint 
iwg to think that many good things were lost in that river accident. 
There were several good things in your last ship¬ 
ment the one referred to in your letter of Sept. 23, (The Oct. lot 
has not yet come in). 
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~ The T® \ s ®®rtsinly criticism here of your nro- 
seem U he ijT thl5 fiscal V™ should get out of the 
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Very truly yours, 
