Form 102.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

No. 189

To

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Form No. 102.

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

INCORPORATED
21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.

THOS. T. ECKERT, President and General Manager.

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SEND the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to: Dec 25 1898

To: Homer Moore - Bob Shrimp SD

Letter & Photo Dec 2. Will take

Cyeard al free named.

Pack with great care in plenty

funny backs + short boy
hitched. Mark box via lake

Shore. RR. Shuf 45 class,

Mail me receipt. Nov

Governor Paid.

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It is impossible to decide on the exact value of a Cycad without seeing it, but you may send me at once the one described in your letter, and on its arrival I will send you the price you named ($15.00). This Cycad you may call No. 2, - No. 1 being the one you sent from Sterling. If you have now or can get later any fragments, however small, that came off from either of these two specimens, I should like to have them very much. If in the meantime you get one or two more good Cycads, you may send them on in the same shipment with No. 2, calling these No. 3, 4, &c., and letting them come under the new arrangement I now propose.

Besides the specimens which may be called complete or nearly complete, you will doubtless get a great quantity of second-rate weathered or broken up Cycads, which are all worth saving, although of comparative little value financially. Such specimens may be worth but little more than the freight to New Haven ( fourth class ), but as there are always in such a lot some that we can make use of, they are worth saving and boxing. The established price for such material is five cents per lb., boxed and delivered at the station. This you may ship me when convenient, keeping a list of the boxes, and a general statement of the contents of each, which you may send me by mail. The locality of the specimens in each box should be carefully noted, and the specimens from each locality kept by themselves.

Yours, very truly,

( Signed )

P.S. ( Over )

P. S. - I think the B. & M. will send all the Cycad freight fourth class ( rough stone ), and it will hardly pay to ship large amounts at any higher rate. The boxes lately shipped by Wells, from Minnekahta, the B. & M. agreed to bring through as fourth class. I think the C. & N. W. will also do the same if you ship that way. Write or telegraph me if you have any difficulty on this point. Boxes should all be numbered 1, 2, 3, &c., and directed to Yale Museum, New Haven, Conn., via Lake Shore R. R.

You may count the Sterling box as No. 1, and the next you ship
2, 3, &c. All boxes should be carefully packed and hooped, and the
Cycads themselves wrapped in gunny sacks, or something that will
prevent them from rubbing against each other or the sides of the box.
It is also well to put a card in each box under the cover, stating
number of box, name of shipper, and locality of specimen.

M.

( Copy )

Yale University Museum,

New Haven, Conn., March 1, 1899.

Homer Moore, Esq.,

Dear Sir; -

Your letter dated February 7th, but post-marked February 22nd, reached me a few days since.

I am glad to learn that you have already shipped Cycad No. 2, and will write as soon as I have received it. There is no hurry about sending any others, unless they are already collected and dry enough to ship safely. If wet or frozen, there would be more danger in shipping them, unless extra precautions were taken in packing.

There would be little use in trying to collect Cycads in the field until the frost is out of the ground, as they are easily injured in digging out in the winter or early spring, and it would be impossible to save the small pieces which are always important.

When you have enough for a shipment, better let me know in advance, as it may be necessary for me to make arrangements with the R. R. to insure the lowest rates. All such specimens should come fourth class.

In my previous letter to you, in speaking of prices, I mentioned five dollars ($5.00) per hundred pounds for fragments of Cycads, and by this meant, the actual weight of the specimens themselves, and not including the boxes.

I will send you later some of my publications about western fossils, which may interest you, and be of service in your future work.

Please say nothing about your plans of collecting for Yale, or what you send here, as this might interfere with my own plans for the future.