Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Orton, James (1856-01-10)

wait until next summer you had better visit him in person with your letters. But should you apply at once I am not sure ^but^ that you had better write him your request enclosing the 1st or both of the letters of introduction. I propose this because Mr. W. would regard your letter at his liesure, & might see fit to grant a request which he might otherwise refuse & because, should you meet the latter fate it would be less unpleasant to you. I mention this because I know the disposition of Mr. W. but the mode is not absolutely essential to you ? reason on that point as well as myself. My own writing to him would avail nothing particularly if you had the other letters because the turning point of a present applied will be whether he has the money or no. I would give it however (on the same principle that I have advised the application) since it would do no harm, but as you will see, I can not. Mr. W. left me last summer an allowance of $30. per month & Charlie one of $100. Since that time Charlie has demanded & expended $200. per month & myself $60. Mr. W. does not like this & I have already given you one ^a^ quotation from one of his letters upon the subject. I tell him I must have that ($60.) as long as I stay and prove to him why. As This was the character of my last letter, & therefore you see why until the storm blows over (I hope it won't blow me across the Atlantic) I can not connect my name with any one before him. My expenses (which are necessarily much more than yours would be) obliged me to seek $100. from my uncle, which he sent me with the remark that the present pressure of the timing made it difficult to spare ever so small a sum." So that another source that I had hoped for aid in our crisis has failed at least for the present. I have sought every week for a long time a gentleman from Providence with whom I became acquainted when up the Nile, and whom I have understood to be quite a Philanthropist, but I have not as yet heard of his return to Paris. I was in hoped too of getting some advice from Pres. Hopkins whom I was told was going to be in Paris this winter, but I have as yet seen nothing of him. And so Orton I seem to be fettered on every side in carrying aiding to carry out one of the dearest wishes of my heart - to have you here to room, study ab naturalize,sight see & moralize with me.