BOTANICAL MUSEUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
Oxford Street 
Cambridge 38, Massachusetts 
June 19, 1956 
Dr. Leslie A. Garay 
Department of Botany 
University of Toronto 
Toronto, Canada. 
Dear Leslie: 
I want to acknowledge with thanks your good letter 
of June 12, 1956. 
The news that Mr. Dunsterville is willing to loan us 
the negatives of his drawings of orchids is indeed good. 
However, I do not know whether we can. arrange for immediate 
copying Because I am going away next week for two or two and 
a half months and Charles will be away for at least one month 
this summer. With 350 negatives to print, it would cost more 
than we would like to invest, since we could do the work our¬ 
selves for a small fraction of that amount. If, of course, 
Mr. Dunsterville insists on immediate return of the negatives, 
I suppose that there will be no way out but have them done, 
and if you find out that this is so, I hope that you will 
write to Charles during the summer, so that he may have them 
done. It seems to me, however, that if Mr. Dunsterville could 
wait until Gu-f*iiu' ta ag it would be possible for us to do this in 
a week easily, and we could make it our first job when we re¬ 
turn. Certainly I do want to have these orchid drawings in 
the Herbarium. 
Naturally we would not reproduce Mr. Dunsterville*s draw¬ 
ings in any publication. These, as you understand, will be 
mounted in the Herbarium and used only for reference work in 
identification. We could even have a little coloured label 
on each Herbarium sheet with the photograph, saying "not for 
reproduction". We certainly do want to do everything we can 
to act in accord with his wishes. 
Wish I could be here when you are at the orchid Herbarium 
but Charles will be here and I know that you will be able to get 
a lot of work done. I hope that while I am. in the highland areas 
of Colombia I shall be able to make extensive collections of 
orchids and you may be sure that I shall be glad to separate 
duplicates for you when I get home. The Bpiatephium was pub¬ 
lished in the Bulletin of the American Orchid Society for April. 
