San Francisco Oct 21 1942

Prof. O. E. Marshall
Tale College, N. J.
Dr. Sir.

Four of Oct. 8th. Received a few
days ago, in it, you say that, since you sent the
telegram, that you had sent me a previous letter. If so
I have not received it, And I have been waiting a few
days before answering this, to see if it would turn up, but
it has not. So I cannot say what its contents. In your last
you say that you have learned that there is a fair
prospect of my cabinet being purchased for Tale, In
the May first suggested, and you think it will be all right
Saying from this, I suppose you must mean, what but
Bame do you to you when you were here last Dec. And if
you are dependent upon this. I could not keep it for 24
hours, on what he says. As he has been footing you and
me for the last nine months, and I do not think his word,
is more than a bit, in regards to this matter. You may
think this rather serre in me saying so, But I think
when you have read this through, You may think as
I do. And I think, but few would of kept it a long way
under such promises as he has made to me but then I
thought perhaps it might come out all right, so I kept
waiting. I will now explain why I think his word in
this respect, is of no account, In the first place, when
you left here last Dec, You said you had left the
whole arrangement with both Bams, and that he was
going to raise the money for my cabinet, So that

it could be presented to Sale from this boost. But
you told me not to see him for about a month, so I
waited that time then I called to see him, He said
call in a few days, I am sure so, then he made some excuse
that he had not seen any thing yet, but said call
aydin and so it's been month after month with always
some poor excuse. I then after waiting three or four months
told him I had a good offer for my cabinet and was going
to sell it elsewhere. He say Oh no don't do any such thing
I will have the money for you next week, so I waited and waited
but no money come. And had I sold it then it would of made
more then a thousand dollars difference to me. But no,
told the parties I had sold it to Sale, and I could not sell
it to them, do you see I lost the sale of it here. As I was
so sure, so I supposed, that Burns, into going to do as he
promised. The reason I never written to you, to that
he has been telling me every week that he will be sure to have
the money next week and so it been so, I have been keeping all
this time just so. Then to show that I think he never
ment to do any thing, but put me off. About a week
before I sent you that telegraph I went to him, and
asked him, if he had done any thing yet he said
no but that I would have to write a little mile yet. I told
him that I had a note which misured, and that
I lacked about Six hundred dollars, on it. And
if he would let me have such much towards the
collection I would write until such times as he could
get the balance. Otherwise I should sell the collection
elsewhere, well he said he could not help it if I did.
now this note had to be paid, and he would doomer
let me tell my collection then help me. This
this shows plain enough to me that he never

ment to do any thing, Then I Telegraph to you
Asking if I Should Tell it, And you said Don't
Tell it: at present it would be all right, on the strength
of this I said not a word, But got the loan, of what I.
Minted, from friends of mine. Now your letter comes
and if I can judge by the contents you seem to
relie on what Burns says, If so I do not. Then
again I would state, after I called to see him the first
he was so positive of getting the money, week that I,
got a man to help me pack up all my collection in good
shape in strong Boxes and I numbered them so as
to be ready to ship at any time and thus they future
been Boxed up over since. After I had got my folio
Plants, packed up, Prof Whitney, sent now as above
going to send all your balанс, to Dale, let me have
them to send on it once, to Prof Lespereux, for du-
scription and they will be so much more valuable with
the names on them so of course I let him send them
where they are now, that is seven large Boxes of the
Choice ones, over four hundred Specimens, the
balance I have here yet Then since apourwhere
here I have spent over four hundred dollars in travel
and
in Preparing Antiquities, I ask you, I think also a
large box of folio Plants from Oregon. I am now
writing up a description of all the Stone Relics.
Which have been found in this state (or the Stone Age)
as near as I can from observation and travel and
I hope to some day to have it ready for publication
with fine Photographs, most of which will be from