Transcribe Lucas, Fred A. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1882-03-04)

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two things are necessary, time and money to buy books. What I expend in a year for books would cover the amount paid by workmen for tools ten times over. Do people who are well off and have no families work for pleasure? Perrot & Baily were paid $5. when I at the most received $4;. and I only received that for a comparatively short time. I have frequently said that. Should be glad to do Bailly's work for the same money & if I could not turn out an equal amount of work would take less. If you have any three men about the shop whom you feel that you can call on collectively to do the number of things that you expect of me, please name them. This may seem to you as an empty boast, but you should recall that you expect me to do a little of everything, to plan cases and plan what to put in them, to make catalogues and know how much material should cost and what it should sell for, to know what we have and what we want, whose work pays best and whose the least, to have a better knowledge