RK-574

Chicago. Aug 19/58

Dear Bob.

Here is $5 from Dr Parker. All I have been able to get. I had to wait for this on account of the Dr being out of the city.

Old Evans wanted to know if I could take care of the University museum in your absence. I told him I could not afford to leave my business often enough, to do it for any consideration whatever. He now wants to have me ride up once a month or & see if anything is going

[page turned, stamped] J. Kennicott Brenton Collections

to wreck for want of care. I dont know what to say about that, I told him I thought such little care as that they had better manage among themselves. If he bores me much I think I will go up once or twice to avoid displeasing him until after I get the balance of his subscription collected, & then I will continue to slide out of it on some excuse. It wont do for me as a physician to accept outside trusts, because it will hurt my practice. I must establish my business first at all risks, & I dont want

any connection with that institution in any event

I hope this $5 wont be too late

Yours in haste E Andrews.

P. S. Look for Unio pearls among the rocky streams. Good luck to you. I wish I was with you. Sometimes our intense longing to get out of the city, seizes me & I am ready to swear that men & money, & brick & mortar, & hewed stone, & pavement, & cast iron, & artificial society are a compounded humbug

EA.