Transcribe Allen, George N. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1873-07-28)

be deferred, I think that a much larger sum could be counted on.

  But should you go this fall

I hope to give you an order for a few hundred dollars worth of material - minerals & fossils. I know not precisely the terms you would expect to require. If the time of payment were extended to the date of delivery a larger amount might be pledged than if the money was to be advanced soon. Perhaps you will inform me on that point. From what you said I apprehend that $500 or $600 weld secure for us a fine display of the copper lead & zinc our European mines, the (Duleyshanx Fluors, Calcites, Quartz & c, with moderate single specimens of the new forms; also many of the most interesting European forms of fossils in [Ammonites] (and allied genera,) cri-