Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Orton, James (1855-07-25)

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wish to be able to send you another letter in answer
to your reply to this in order that all may be perfectly
sure. I was astounded^on getting here^ to find my to be 
only $30. per month, & I have </s at > sent home by this mail re-
questing it to be raised at once to $50. My reason for
this is that in studying Nat. Hist. I am anxious to have
a great many books at hand for reference, & I want nearly
1/2 of my allowance for this. I presume that my wish will
be at once complied with, as my letter is half as long as 
this one! I have written you so much, Orton, because
your letter tells me that you are anxious to come to
Paris this fall.Perhaps you have already concluded for the
trip & this will find you ready to start. If so, let me
advise you to bring a on some
Paris banker for 1200 francs, to take a passage
in a , to . to tell the hack man at Paris to take
you - a quelque hotel pres de Luxembourg, on de l'Odeon - 
and at once seek me at the . If, on
the other hand, this letter finds you just settling down 
to some district school, without the most remote idea
of breaking the shell of your American existence,
please don't laugh at me for the pains which I have but rather 
been to in writing it, but rather pause & reflect whether
you have taken the same pains in relation to my
request (in my Cairo letter) as to that specimen of fossils
and Prof. Hitchcock's large "survey of Massachusetts.
Please look at your collection of Minerals, see what it
is worth, think what you will sell it for, find out
how many of the specimens are duplicates, & lastly how
many are different from what you know of my own
collection. Please consider this sheet confidential as far as
you can. I shall expect to hear from you by the close of
next month. Direct as before to care of Green & co.
(Bankers) . Wishing you every reasonable 
amount of success in whatever you undertake
and the blessing of God wherever you may be. I remain
Tours truly
Henry A. Ward
James S. Orton Esq.
Wms. College.
Morstown.
Mass.
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wish to be able to send you another letter in answer to your reply to this in order that all may be perfectly sure. I was astounded^on getting here^ to find my to be only $30. per month, & I have </s at > sent home by this mail re- questing it to be raised at once to $50. My reason for this is that in studying Nat. Hist. I am anxious to have a great many books at hand for reference, & I want nearly 1/2 of my allowance for this. I presume that my wish will be at once complied with, as my letter is half as long as this one! I have written you so much, Orton, because your letter tells me that you are anxious to come to Paris this fall.Perhaps you have already concluded for the trip & this will find you ready to start. If so, let me advise you to bring a on some Paris banker for 1200 francs, to take a passage in a , to . to tell the hack man at Paris to take you - a quelque hotel pres de Luxembourg, on de l'Odeon - and at once seek me at the . If, on the other hand, this letter finds you just settling down to some district school, without the most remote idea of breaking the shell of your American existence, please don't laugh at me for the pains which I have but rather been to in writing it, but rather pause & reflect whether you have taken the same pains in relation to my request (in my Cairo letter) as to that specimen of fossils and Prof. Hitchcock's large "survey of Massachusetts. Please look at your collection of Minerals, see what it is worth, think what you will sell it for, find out how many of the specimens are duplicates, & lastly how many are different from what you know of my own collection. Please consider this sheet confidential as far as you can. I shall expect to hear from you by the close of next month. Direct as before to care of Green & co. (Bankers) . Wishing you every reasonable amount of success in whatever you undertake and the blessing of God wherever you may be. I remain Tours truly Henry A. Ward James S. Orton Esq. Wms. College. Morstown. Mass. [ybg]