355 CoaBonv/ealth Avenue, Boston, 11ass. 
May 33th, 1924, 
My dear Lankesier: A most welcome reminder of your industry case in tills 
morning* 1 have looked at the spocinons and now they are in a fund gating 
compartment the Goata Rican bugs that secured a free passage to this 
country are being separated from life. I aa sure that there are several 
stangors in tha collection. It will be possible to identify and include the 
novelties contained in this recent aoquistitiou in the 9th number of the 
Sohed. Qreh. this noble publication is already on its my to completion 
and gives to you and dear eld Powell an abundance of notoriety. 
It would be great spore -&o take a flying chance ib coffee 
under your experienced guidance, but all 1 have to spend those days is income 
(what the Government does not need),as ay funds are tightly invested. Then 
again, I might pull you down to failure, because ay luck in new ventures has 
always been sad. I have at hand at this very minute a most attractive offer 
fron a ran in New York who desires lay co-operation in the banana business. 
He wants ”25,000 advanced at once. He will pay me 050,000 at the end of a 
year. In reviewing lay varied ventures in the realm of finance I find only 
two records that look good: I ones sold a yoke of oxen for more than I £>ai& 
out; I once sold a Ford automobile for more than it cost esc. All of ay other 
ventures have boon disraal failures, and I concluded long ago that the only 
safe place for say surplus cash was a savings bank or a reliable insurance com¬ 
pany. And now the insurance companies eat into my quarterly income in a savage 
tray. 
The suzaraer is creeping in and I an conpeiaplating a hurried 
departure for the country and a well desreved rest. This winter lias been a hard 
one beacaus© it has boon filled with administrative duties. 
Yours with the best wishes in the world, 
