MY DEAR PARTINGTON,

If you are undertaking to teach my kid (which, unless it is entirely

agreeable to you, you must not do) I hope you will regard him as a

pupil whose tuition is to be paid for like any other pupil. And you

should, I think, name the price. Will you kindly do so?

Another thing. Leigh tells me you paid him for something he did for

the _Wave_. That is not right. While you let him work with you, and

under you, his work belongs to you--is a part of yours. I mean the

work that he does in your shop for the _Wave_.

I don't wish to feel that you are bothering with him for nothing--will

you not tell me your notion of what I should pay you?

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