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

od anatomy than the osteologists and to be able to suggest proper attitudes to the Taxidermists; this & a thousand and one other things, to say nothing ^of the fact^ that you hold me responsible for the care of material on hand while lack of money prevents me from employing the best methods to preserve it.\ And for this I am to be paid as much as a Workman, and after working eleven years am to put in every minute like a hod carrier. Do not mistake my meaning. I say, and have always said, that under the existing circumstances I do not see how you can pay me more - or in fact anything at all - but at the same time I </u do > say that given a proper place my services are worth more than $3,50 per day As for my earning more by making more time, </u that > is simply out of the question. You tell me to make the most of my opportunities & to push myself, and then expect me to work more than nine or ten hours a day. It would be equally kind to put a man in a leaky boat and tell him to keep afloat by bailing with a thimble. What little work and reading I do now keeps me up every night and does not allow me a Sunday even and I have