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Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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{At top of page in the margin, upside down-
P. S. There is a man here from Costa Rica with the worst
lot of rubbish you ever saw, Lucas & True would not take </u any >
of his skeletons. Beware]
</p>
<pre></em Society of AmericanTaxidermists >
</pre>
<p>FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.
Office of Executive Committee
U, S. NATIONAL MUSEUM </em Washington, D.C., > June 10th 1883.
My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Yours from the land of James (June),
</pre>
<p>came yesterday and I hope you have sold a </u large >
collection. Of course you will see Pres't Welch & Prof Bersey.
for the I.S.A.C. is in full blast now. I hope you
will have given them a special complementary message
from me. But for Prof. B. I might have been two or three
years longer in finding out Ward's Nat Science Estab!
</p>
<pre> Really. I am more than willing to write </u anything >
</pre>
<p>for the July </u Bulletin >, but I hope to die if I know
of any subject ! I would be ashamed to offer you
anything on my old hobby - taxidermy - and for
months I have not even </u thought > of anything else.
No, I am not particular </s to > about being paid, for the
</u Bulletin > is not a </u Youth's Companion > with 305,000
subscribers. If I can scare up a subject and one
or two articles I will however be willing to have you
give me one of those two remaining elephant feet
which wife has been importuning me to buy and
mount for her ever since we sold ours in Boston.
Neither of them are good enough to mount, but she
insists on having it </u anyhow >, and I suppose I will
have to mount it.
</p>
<pre> Well, I will think </u hard > from now on, and all
</pre>
<p>I can scare up for the Bulletin you shall have in
good time.
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> I persuaded Lucas to write up the S. A. T. meeting
</pre>
<p>& Ex. because it fairly made me </u sick > </s of > to think
of writing another page for the Society. I simply
</u could not do it , > I am </u tired > of the Society, and must
have rest from it. I will give anybody $15. who
will take my papers and from them write my Secre-
tary's Report for last year.
</p>
<pre> I gave the </u Century > article into Lucas hands
</pre>
<p>(price $50.) in cold blood, because I felt that
he had worked hard for the Society and got very
small returns and I felt that it was his due. I
think it was wisely done. At the same time Mr
Harroun, publisher of </u Mastery >, was at me to write
a series of 4 </u short > articles on Stuffing a Bird, for
his little paper. I told him "No" three times and he
gave me a week after getting home to reconsider and
name my price. Needing the money I undertook it
and an hour ago finished Article No. 4 and last.
price for the series $40.
</p>
<pre> When I was in bed last week with a carbuncle
</pre>
<p>the Editor of the </u Companion > wrote for two articles about
Odd Pets, to be done immediately. I wrote one as I
lay on my back., and when I was able to stand I
drew the sketch for it </u on the mantle piece ! > I leave
you to refer where my carbuncle was.
</p>
<pre> Lucas has taken hold of the Secretaryship. in fine
</pre>
<p>style & tip-top spirits, which is a continual source
of comfort to me. He has taken the whole thing
right off my hands, & is running it well.
</p>
<pre> I </u hope > to get my book done in time for the
</pre>
<p>holidays , & am working to that end. As soon as
it goes </s off > out of my hands I will take hold of
</p>
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</pre>
<p>your </u Manual. > although I cannot for the life of
me see how I can do anything for it without
sacrificing my treatise. I don't like to do anything
by halves </u for a friend >, and if I do for your book
what my conscience would dictate I </s would > ^will^ lay my
work out a cold corpse for the next ten years. However,
if the book will be </u your personal enterprise. >, and
not an affair of "the office" I will help you with
it right along, and </u all I can >. But if it is to benefit
</u anyone > else than H. A. W. I will not touch it, not
for for $500. If the thing is to make money for
</u</u you > and </u yours> , I will help you with it willingly &
vigorously, and what I do shall be a </u free gift. >
</p>
<pre> </u Why don't you > write that zoology for the
</pre>
<p>Appletons ? With you to write it and J. C. Beard to
illustrate it, </s it > could Appleton's to bring it out </u in
their series > it would certainly bring you in a snug
justice to </u yourself > you ought to do it. You have buried
your mind long enough in </u commercial > natural history.
</p>
<pre> Yes you might sell 1000 copies of your Manual
</pre>
<p>the first year, </u but not 500 a year after that ! > The
denied for such a work will always be limited in
this country.
</p>
<pre> Many thanks for your opinion of my elephant.
</pre>
<p>Such an expression from </u you > is worth more than whole
columns of ordinary newspaper puffing. I have been
thinking very seriously about not competing again with
my work, and while I have no further desire to
compete I don't see how I can avoid it,
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> If </u everybody > could know that I do not enter in
</pre>
<p>competition, then my work would not be considered
second class when others took the grand prize. But
only a hundred people would know it and the thousands
would ^know^ I did </u not > win the first prize. You see I have
not Verreaux's reputation yet. I thought of not
competing this year, but when I came here and saw
how pleased all were that Mungo took the prize I
saw I would have made a great mistake by not entering.
</p>
<pre> Yes I have much to lose, but I also have something
</pre>
<p>to gain - a world-wide reputation. Until my work
is like Shakespear's, </u known > to bo above criticism, I
must keep in the arena.
</p>
<pre> Next year I hope to show you an animal that in
</pre>
<p></s point > ^ degree^ of difficulty shall surpass the elephant, and if
I have no bad luck </u and make no mistakes > I will
</s show you > be able to enter it without much fear for
the result.
</p>
<pre> I will take my vacation in July, at Battle
</pre>
<p>Creek, Camping out. Am </u glad > you found your
lost box. J. T. Tennent implores me to ask you to take
him on trial & pay his expenses for his work. He certainly is
a </u hard working > fellow & has taxidermy on the brain, which
leads me to think there is something good in him. He bore
his disappointment </u bravely >, about our not exhibiting his
specimens & selling none, which shows that he is not any
of the faint hearted kind. I don't see why he would not make
as good a stuffer as his brother. Yours forever the same, W. T. Hornaday.
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404 Spruce St. Washington.
Aug 30th 1883.
</p>
<pre>Oct 28
</pre>
<p>My dear Professor: -
</p>
<pre> Yours of the 26th is just here.
</pre>
<p>Many thanks for the promised orang
hair & Aptenyx cut. I don't know
when Professor Baird is expected here.
Mr True says Prof. Goode is expected
to return about the middle of Sept. I
daresay no one knows ^more^ definitely when he
will be here,
</p>
<pre> Now, I await </u your > instructions in
</pre>
<p>regard to the case of birds. If you
think of anything we have which is
available for exchange, which you would
take in exchange, name it, and I will
set to work </u at once > to get it. If you
can think of nothing, and want the
case back, then back it shall go. I am
truly </u sorry > we are so poor in specimens
fit for exchange. I hope it will not
always be so.
</p>
<pre> Well, the book. What I meant
</pre>
<p>was this: You know you have projected
a small manual (of say 150 pages), and
I an elaborate, </u unabridged > treatise (!) on
the subject, </s of > the pages of which
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for the press." Well, I have a good
deal done toward already.
</p>
<pre> Now you see how it is. If you wish
</pre>
<p>to publish a book to make money for
</u H. A. W. > and Alice W., please do it
soon, and I will honestly and truly
help you with it, </u all I can >. I will
write a good share of it, and others can
write the rest. What I do will be a
free gift, "in memoriam" if you please.
</s which > I could not be </u hired > to help
with it, for several reasons, and I
would not take anything for it but
good will. I will even make Lucas
write his share on the same terms !
Confound him, he ought to do it, & so
ought </s it >. If its to benefit </u you >, here's
with you, with a will. If it is to
advertise the Establishment - </u that is
L. F. & F. A. Ward, > more now than ever
before, and dang me if I do the first
hand's turn for </u them> at </u any > price.
I think, moreover, that when mine
does come out it will advertise the
Establishment, willy nilly, quite as much
as yours, and perhaps even more effectively.
You know "I'm not ashamed to own my
lord." nor my bringing up, either..
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>shall be as the sand of sea for
multitude, figuratively speaking.
Well, you know I told you at first
to go ahead with </u your > book, get it
out as soon as may be, and I would
wait about mine until yours has had
its run. You know I am on principle
opposed to </u small > works on taxidermy.
There are so many now and they are
all so poor, so "weary, stale, </u flat >
and unprofitable." There are now </u on
the market > the following:- </u 2 > by
Maynard, 1 by Manton ( whom may
Shaitan accurse ! ), 1 by Brown, 1 by
Haney, 1 by Oliver Davie, 1 by Cones,
1 by Rowland Ward, 1 by Batty, and
I think one or two more.
</p>
<pre> Well, lately I promised to write
</pre>
<p>part of yours, as a token of respect for
and in grateful remembrance of the
formuller of Ward's Nat. Science Estab-
lishment. In consideration of the
fact that </s the > it is to be your personal
"racket", I am willing to aid and
abet </u your > small manual, give com-
fort to the enemy in fact. But at the
same time I will keep my grand
work ever in my mind's eye, and
</p>
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its day. My object in writing it
is to give to the world the best book
ever written on taxidermy in any language,
to have the honor of the authorship,
and make all the money out of it
I can. I have </s since > risen in my
restricted profession as high as I can
go until I write a book that will
make me </u generally > known. I have
but one little string to my bow, - it
begins with a </u t > - and if I am to be
heard I must play loudly on it !
</p>
<pre> Another thing that makes me want
</pre>
<p>to hasten things. Both ^Prof^ Goode and
Mr True have already spoken to me
about writing up a manual on collecting
to be published as a Bulletin of the
U. S. N. M. Many, heaven forbid, un-
less they will give me $1000. to do it.
which they would not. "Correspondents"
are bothering us continually for "instruc-
tions" and "directions ". & I know what
is bound to come. Well, when they
crowd me to the wall I will have to
tell them that "I am already engaged
upon a </u "complete hand-book" > of the
</p>
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</pre>
<p>Honestly and seriously - and you may
smile as broadly aa you wish at this -
I </s examine > ^ have, three days ago, ^ examined the Bulletin illus-
tration of the "Taxidermists at work"
to see if it was good enough for my book,
and also thé general view of the Estab,
to see whether it could be successfully
reduced. Hang it all, I'm going to
write such a book as no other taxidermist
ever even </u dreamed > of. The subject is
worth it, and ^was not^ the Establishment was the
cradle of the </u Reinnersance > in this
country.-(Provided it is spelt right) ?
If I don't give the place the best
advertisement it ever had - in spite
of my firm resolve to benefit no one
there but my friends - you my sue the
printer for damages.
</p>
<pre> Why can't </u you > become my publisher
</pre>
<p>and help me to scoop all these small
manuals right in? But then, I </s be > remem-
ber now you think there is no profit
in a large book, but something in a
small one. Well, perhaps you are right.
Well, if the profits of the small work
are to be </u yours > , let us go ahead with it
</u at once >.
Yours faithfully & truly,
W. T. Hornaday.
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Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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Washington. Aug 22nd 1883
</p>
<pre> " 26
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor: -
</p>
<pre> We cannot finish our Orang group
</pre>
<p>without some orang hair to patch up. We don't
need very much, but what we do need, we need
'mighty bad! Can't you help me out? If
you never mount that big spoiled skin, which
I think you never will, (for if you do </u all > the
hair will come off), cannot you send it to me
to cut hair from and allow me to return it
when my patching is done for similar purposes
at your shops ? I think we would not cut it
very closely. . The two big orange are the ones
that need the repairs. In some places their plumage
got very much rumpled in their preignuations,
& the trees are a total wreck. Never mind. I have
a baby orang at last, - got the skin of
Sr Wilder's specimen by exchange, & it mounted
beautifully.
</p>
<pre> If you can conscientiously do anything for
</pre>
<p>us in the way of hair, I will be under personal
obligations. I have not the cheek to ask any
favors of you in the name of the Institution at
present ! Please let me hear soon. I want to finish
the group entirely by </u Sept 1st >.
Yours very truly,
W. T. Hornaday.
</p>
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Howell & write him that
Prof is at Minaukea
his address there.
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<p>Iowa State Agricultural College Ames, Iowa, Aug 15th 1873</p>
<p>Prof Henry A. Ward Dear Sir: Your favor of the 10th has just been received. I must confess I hardly know what to say in reply, for the matter is of vital importance to me. I am now in the last half of the Soph. year, and I would sacrifice a good deal in quitting now. Pres. Welch favored me with his advice, and on the strentgh of that mainly I will tell you frankly what I will do. I would rather wait until next Spring if I can be certain of the place at that time; if not I will leave everything and go before you go to Europe. By not going until Spring I could finish the year here and get my standing upon the Record and so leave nothing undone. The Winter could be spent in teaching which would give one more funds to go on. I could be ready any time after March 1st. But if the position in your Cabinet would not be absolutely certain, if there would be any possibility of my losing it I will go inside of twenty days. In either case I would stay with</p>
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<p>you until March 1875 for it is my desire and intention to learn everything about the art that one can know. The Pres. advised me as I have written and so the decision of the matter is with you after all. In case something should prevent your going to Europe then we would both be agreed upon my going after Nov 13th. If I should consult my own wishes only, I would be in Rochester next week but from your experience, and the judgment of others I think that it would not be best for me, if next Spring will do as well. Perhaps it be proper here for me to ask what wages you give good workmen, and how long it would be before I could be of use to you? Enclosed I send a photograph of myself which I think good. Please let me know soon what I am to do. If you want me to come immediately, I will. If not name the time next Spring if possible, and I will shape my plans accordingly. Very respectfully, W.T. Hornaday</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
Miami Florida
January 14th 1874.
Dear Prof Ward :
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<pre> The mail goes tomorrow, so
</pre>
<p>I will take the time to write you be-
forehand. I have visited a number of
places in the last week, and have
got as many specimens as could be
expected in the first week. Sunday
I went up to Arch Creek ten miles
up the bay to see Mr Rhodes. Before
telling who I was I talked to him so
that he mentioned his correspond-
once with you, and said you wanted
him to get trunk-backed and leather-
backed turtle, but did not offer enough
to pay him for the trouble of getting
them. Said he wrote you several letters
about alligator hides, and also a small
crocodile he had, but could get no
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>satisfaction. Well, I mended matters all
I could before telling him I was in
anyway connected with you. I got of him
a small crocodile skull, perfect and
very good as far as it goes. He had
nothing more in that line.
I made one trip to the sea-shore, out-
side the bay, and got a splendid
lot of sea-eggs, sponges, and shells.
Struck a </u lead > and got 44 fine
sea-eggs, where other people had often
looked and found one or two, or none
atall. Have cleaned them and they
are now out bleaching nicely. The
</s shell > sea- eggs are of nearly the same
form as those large ones from Nassaw,
but are much smaller and not so
fragile. This is about how they look:
</p>
<pre> I think it is quite a
good lot, and will not
get any more unless they
upper side under. are extra nice.
</pre>
<p>The sponges please me quite well
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>also. Have a good many fine trumpet
sponges, and others that it would be
hard for me to describe intellegibly.
Am collecting a number of every species.
The shells were all small and are about
like the general run of little sea-shells.
</p>
<pre> Yesterday I went six miles down
</pre>
<p>the bay, (rowing every step of the way)
to where a Manatee was wrecked some
time ago. Found a number of bones
on the beach, and at low tide got
every one. Took an iron rake, and
raked the beach both in and out
of water for rods around. You will
find a list of the bones in another place.
Altogether the bones numbered 43.
The skeleton has lain there in the
water for some time, and the softer
parts have rotted badly. The </u solid >
bones are all right. i.e. the ribs &e.
The </u ends > of the processes on the vertebrae
(some of them) have rotted away, and
a good many of them are not perfect.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>The skull is in a pretty bad fix,
being in six pieces, and part of it gone
at that. The general form of the skull
is preserved, the occipital bones, frontal, and
vomer being in their places. The under-
jaw is very well preserved. I intend
to visit the place again where these were
found, and perhaps I will find some
more.
</p>
<pre> Went out in the clearing the other
</pre>
<p>day, and got ten scorpions, which I
put in alcohol. They are from 2 to 4
inches long, black, long jointed tail and
sting venomously.
</p>
<pre> Got a splendid big leather-backed
</pre>
<p>or soft-shelled turtle of an Indian.
Is the largest I ever saw. Have put
it entire in Alcohol, good for either
skin or skeleton. In case I get crowded
for room I will skeletonize it. She is
an old female. Will get more as I
am able, Have seen no alligators
yet, but will before I write you again
for I am going after them in a day
or two.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Went to see Mike Sayers. -the man
whom Dr Mitchell advised me to go to
for a boat - and after a good deal of soft
soaping he let me have the best dingee
he had, at $1. per week. Cheap as dirt.
It is a good boat, furnished with both
oars & sails, and suits our purpose ex-
actly.
I am still in with Mr Jackson, and
like him very well indeed. We sleep snug
in our little tent, independent as can
be. Like my boarding-place first- rate
and will stick to it while I stay in this
vicinity. The weather is lovely. and
people kind.
</p>
<pre> Write and tell me about you situa-
</pre>
<p>tion, and whether it will do for me to
come home in a month. I expected a
letter from you in yesterdays mail, but
was disappointed. If you are at home
give my kindest regards to the "folks",
Mr Lucas, Fred, the shops, &e &e.
Please write soon.
Yours very truly
Wm T. Hornaday.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></u List of Specimens collected
from Jan 7th to Jan 14th >
</p><p></u Part of Manatee skeleton >.
Part of skull, 6 pieces
1 Under jaw. (4 teeth.)
21 Vertebrae.
2 Scapula, well preserved
1 Humerus
2 Radius and ulna, connected.
9 Ribs, well preserved.
______
44 bones.
</p><p>44 Sea-eggs, largest 5 3/4 in long. 4 1/2 wide.
</p>
<pre> 1 Horse-shoe crab. 16 in " .
(alcohol,
8 Hermit crabs, in shells, large and small
</pre>
<p>10 Scorpions. 2 to 4 in more or less.
</p>
<pre>1 Soft-shelled turtle, in alcohol.
</pre>
<p>19 Sponges, 9 species.
</p>
<pre> a lot of small shells.
1 Crocodile skull. 8 1/2 in long, </u I think >.
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Robert Minckley
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Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
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horseshoe crab
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Iowa State Agricultural College
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<p>Iowa Agl. College. Oct. 18th 1873.</p>
<p>Prof Henry A. Ward,</p>
<pre> Dear Sir:
Yours of the 12th
</pre>
<p>has just been recd. and pleases me well. I have arranged my plans for leaving for Rochester the same night the term closes, in order that I may reach your place against the 18th of Nov. Of course I will be ready to begin immediately and stick to it. I should be willing to bind myself in the two particulars you mention, as it is very reasonable that I should. As far as the <u>time</u> is concerned I would not be willing to bind myself to stay over two years, but if I like the place it will be quite likely I should want to stay longer. Now</p>
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<p>you may think me egotistical, but I believe you underrate me in thinking that it will be a year or so before I can render you valuable service. But I suppose that if such was the case with your other workmen <u>I</u> would hardly be an exception; at all events trial will decide it.</p>
<pre> This is a young Institution, and its friends are not liberal, and do not know what it is to build up a museum, and I seriously doubt if anyone could be found in state willing to give $1000. to the Museum. If I had that much available means nothing would suit me <u>better</u> than to invest it in such an enterprise as you propose. I thought that perhaps you made up a sort of party, like some I have known, and took some help with you. I suppose I shall have to be patient, although
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<p>it may not be with very good grace. If it should happen that you need or want any <u>help</u> <u>without</u> <u>capital</u> in your probable expedition, please remember me as the <u>lowest</u> <u>bidder</u>. If I am not in Rochester by Saturday night, Nov. 15th it will be because the trains have not made good time, and you may know that I am somewhere within a days travel of your city. If you come Westward before that time, I shall be most happy to have you call. I am also certain that Pres. Welch would be glad to have you visit us. I should be able to show you some specimens that I have prepared.</p>
<pre> We have Cranes here in the Spring and also Oct & Nov. The Sandhill Crane is shot quite frequently, and the Whooping Crane once in a good while. I am expecting
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<p>a party of sportsmen to bring me a Sandhill tonight. Wild Turkeys are not seen just at this time of year, but in the Winter, and late in the Fall, they come into the market occasionally. Think specimens could be obtained by advertising a little. Our sportsmen have not brought in any from the fact that they are not found in this immediate vicinity. Fifteen miles away I am told they are to be found, and I think I could obtain specimens. We have no Prairie Dogs, no do <u>Elk</u> ever come into our markets. Rattlesnakes are common in <u>Summer</u>. I will try my best to secure skeletons & skins of Cranes & Turkeys for you.</p>
<pre> Yours very truly,
W. T. Hornaday.
</pre>
<p>[sketch of pointed finger] I would be exceedingly glad if you could give me till Thursday, Nov 20 to get to Roch. i.e. if you are there longer than you now expect. If not, certainly I will be there before you go.</p>
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Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
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<p>Society of American Taxidermists,<br />FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.</p>
<p>Office of the Executive Committee Washington, D.C., Feb. 17th 1883<br />U.S. National Museum.</p>
<p>Dear Professor:<br />Many thanks for yours of last Monday.<br />But, my dear Professor, you surely forget in your anger<br />at "Webster and I" for our audacity that <u>I</u> at least was<br />not the first to propose the advance of funds. If I did<br />I cannot recall it. I think it was not until after<br />you offered to join [Studer?] in the affair that I began to<br />regard such a thing as possible. And besides, I expected<br />of course the <u>Establishment</u>, which would derive the<br />benefit from the Ex. would take the risk & <u>not</u> you<br /><u>personally</u>. But I hope we will not need any<br />great amt. advanced. The shipment of specimens to<br />Central Park museum at that time will help us<br /><u>immensely</u> economically, for of course the Museum<br />must pay <u>that</u> freight and boxing.<br />Now, Prof Bickmore is going to help us get what<br />specimens we want from the C.P. Museum. I asked for<br />the gorilla, for one thing, & they said they had no<br />gorilla yet! Now please let me know exactly whether<br />you propose to <u>ask</u> for the loan of your specimens which<br />you have <u>not</u> <u>delivered</u> yet to them! I earnestly hope<br /><u>not</u>, & see no necessity for it. The gorilla evidently comes<br />in that category. [Critchley?] wants the specimens named<br />on the enclosed list, & Webster wants what are on the<br />other list. Please check off the ones it is <u>not</u></p>
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<p><u>necessary</u> for me to ask for, of which the gorilla<br /><u>must</u> must be one. In other words I want to know<br />which of these the Museum <u>has</u> already.<br />Please let me know at once, so that I<br />can make ^out^ the necessary application.</p>
<pre> Yours hastily,<br />
W.T. Hornaday.<br />
</pre>
<p>P.S. I think we will get the hall we want in<br />N.Y. -- Masonic 10 days for $250, with the<br />chairs all up. [Studer?] <u>made</u> <u>us</u> <u>believe</u><br />they asked $400 for <u>one</u> <u>week</u>! All they<br />asked him for one week was ----$150! He<br />evidently intended to charge the S.A.T. $400, &<br />pocket the difference. How does it look to<br />you?</p>
<pre> W.T.
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<p><em> Society of American Taxidermists, FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART Office of the Executive Committee, U. S. Museum. <s> Washington, D. C., </s> </em> ^New York^ Feb 13th <em> 188</em> 3 My dear Professor:</p>
<pre> At last out of the "hurly-burly" I
</pre>
<p>find time for a little quiet chat with you. I feel quite done up with doing nine days business in three. & it will rest me to write you a line, Yes, the S. A. T. <u> is </u> at last able to sing "How firm a foundation etc," and we can face the future without a doubt or dread. All thanks to Mr Carnegie who so generously cast the die <u> for </u> us. I immediately <s> can </s> saw Dr Holden and Prof Bickmore and we had a pow- wow. As soon as the latter learned that Studer is nor to have <u> anything </u> more to do with us, he came around handsomely, and took ho;d of our enterprize with earnest interest. He fully approved my suggestion of writing Mr Colgate to add a little to our fund, & gave me a good letter to him. He is also going to work in earnest to secure for Critchley & Webster the loan of specimens from the Museum, and I have his assurance that to a reasonable extent it shall be done if <u> he </u> can bring it about. Dr Holder is going to arrange for the opening ceremony - an address by somebody. I tried hard to persuade him to deliver the address and he said "My God. <u> I only wish I could!" </u> He has no confidence in himself, says he suffers from <u> stage fright </u>, etc. But I shall</p>
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<p>page 2 continue to persuade him, and think he will finally screw his courage to the sticking point. He is going to help us out in the matter of getting out the invitations to the Reception. Thinks the Reception a good idea. The Dr. says that as long as your establishment exists they will never have any work done elsewhere. I praised your shipment of mammals <u> and</u> very highly, & they were duly pleased.</p>
<pre> I saw Mr Colgate this morning. The S. A. T. was a new thing to him, and he expressed a desire to look
</pre>
<p>carefully into the subject before <s> it </s> giving an answer to my invitation to contribute. Said he would go up to the museum and see Dr Holder & Prof. Bickmore. I think it likely he will give us something. I hope he will so that ^it^ you nor I nor any of the rest of us need advance a cent. We are all to closely pressed.</p>
<pre> But Professor we <u> will </u> need you <u> terribly </u> at the
</pre>
<p>crisis to help plan our preparations. I think we will have plenty of willing help, but it must be directed. Mr Lucas is a hard worker, and skillful, but he is not a good organizer. The worst drudgery of all is looking after the press, and if we have help enough I will devote a good portion of my time to working up the papers. I have the campaign all mapped out, and several good men enlisted.</p>
<pre> Tomorrow I will know whether we are to have the Masonic
</pre>
<p>Hall for a six days show. There was no one present but <u> Studer </u> at his meeting of the Board. & he went off mad, as Dr Holder discovered later in the day. <u> Just </u> as I thought. Studer would <u> never </u> have made that Ex. a success. The other members of the Board scarcely have any respect for him. My head aches, & I must stop. Yours hastily. W. T. Hornaday I will know by Thursday sure. Wallace is going to make a stunning show, He will surprise his friends ans silence his enemies! I got him to give the society a peacock and</p>
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Washington, Feb 6th 1883
Dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> I enclose a copy of
</pre>
<p>my late letter to Studer. Please
let the boys know its contents
to preserve it with <u> special care </u>. as
I have no other copy. No answer
thus far. I have not fired all
my ammunition yet by any
means, and if Sruder is not
satisfied with this I am prepared
to prove him destitute of common
honesty and a forger.
</p>
<pre> I wrote last Thursday to
</pre>
<p>Carnegie. No answer yet, which
means he is not in New York.
You may rest assured I will
go to him the moment I learn
his whereabouts if he is in
reaching distance. Otherwise I
will make a new move <u> promply </u>.
Yours hastily,
W. T. Hornaday.
</p><p>[nwhh]
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<u> Hornaday </u>
Feb. '83
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Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
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Washington. Feb 2nd 1883
Hand change
<u> Hornaday </u>
Feb. '83
My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Your two valuable letters
</pre>
<p>of June 30 & 31 are at hand. Thanks
for both, and the enclosure. I wrote
yesterday to ascertain if Mr Carnegie
is in N. Y. and if I find that he
is and can be seen for a half hour
on Sunday or Monday I will go down
tomorrow night and see what can
be done. I am sorry you do not
say in your letter that you will positively
be in N. Y. to help us engineer the
affair to a successful issue. This
would give Mr C. confidence, and I
think I shall be <u> obliged </u> to assure
him you will do this in case he
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will advance $ <u> 500 </u> instead of the
$250 your letter seems to call for
of <u> save one </u>. The doubtful
snrance I will change to "hope
that the returns from all sources would
come to quite that amount
if not more," in order to save you
the trouble of writing it all. There
surely can be no harm i such a "hope".
</p>
<pre> Unless <u> luck </u> is against me &
</pre>
<p>I find my friend in an unpleasant
frame of mind I feel <u> sure </u> that
hook or by crook he will help us
out. But of course we must prepare
for the worst while we hope for
the best. If I am successful I
will stay a day or two longer to
look at halls and see what I can
do.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Studer has written to Lucas in
high dudgeon enclosing copies of
his ^late^ correspondence with you. I am
glad you have pricked the gas-bag
at last. Let us all stand by and
witness the collapse. He blames you
roundly for the new deal, which gives
me a first class excuse to write
him now, vindicate you, free my
mind,and give him to understand
that the now <s>is</s> must be between
he and I, (with the Society to back
me,) and not with you. I will
send you a copy of my letter.
</p>
<pre> Every man who is a man of good
</pre>
<p>character,- a gentleman - and a taxider-
mist or even a learner of the art,
who will pay his fees and dues if
elected, will make a desirable
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member of the S. A. T. Please
run in all such men you can.
I have Mr Stork's name on my list
of candidates (11 in all now) to be
elected at our next business session
which must come now in about <u>2
weeks</u>.
</p>
<pre> As heretofore I will do <u>all I can </u>
</pre>
<p>for the <u>Bulletin</u>. If it were only putting
money in <u>your</u> pocket I would go at
it with real zeal. Why don't you start
some financial scheme which would be
for your sole & exclusive benefit? You
have no idea how I would pitch in to
work up a ? of <u>that</u> kind.
</p>
<pre> I don't know what to write about,
</pre>
<p>but may be will think of something in
time. <u>Thanks</u> for the copies of N. 2, 4 &
the last. Will news from here be
servicable? Is there anything in par-
ticular you would like to have me write
up?
</p>
<pre> I think I shall be able to advance
</pre>
<p>$100. to the S. A. T., but I must pay
my expenses out of it.
Yours very truly
W. T. Hornaday.
</p><p>[nwh]
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Lucas, Frederic Augustus
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M. S. M. M.
Washington, Jan 24th 1883.
</p>
<pre> " 29th
</pre>
<p>My dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> Yours of three days ago with
</pre>
<p>one from Mr Webster came yesterday. I showed
both to Mr Lucas today, & I think he intends to
write yoou tonight, although his opinions and mine
are practically the same. The more I think of it
the more certain I am that Mr Carnegie can be
induced without <u>any</u> pressure whatever, to advance
us $500. and not care for any interest in the
profits. I am <u>certain</u> he will do it if you will
go to line with me and say that you propose to
furnish a like sum and manage the finances
of the affair. He might hesitate to advance so
large a sum to <u>boys</u> alone., especially after they
had made one financial failure! I am sure
you will see the force, the necessity, of our having
you at our backs. Now I am ready to go to New
York any day, provided he is there, to settle the
question. I think I know how to lay the
matter before him in acceptable shape. If you
will write me a letter that I can show to him,
declaring that you will furnish $500. if we can
raise $500. more and will be on hand to
help make the thing a <u< financial</u> success so
that all this money can be <u>returned</u>. I will get
another letter, from Professor Baird if he will
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give it me, which I feel sure he will, ------
and, armed with these I will go with
confidence. I will ask Mr Carnegie to place
<s> his</s> the fund he advances in your hands, &
will have a written memorandum all ready
& signed stating the money advanced
shall be repaid at the close of the Ex. from the
receipts, or as much of it as the receipts will
cover, pro rate to both parties.
</p>
<pre> As you know <u>well</u> by this time I am sick
</pre>
<p>and tired of Studer, and <u>nothing</u> would give me
greater pleasure than to give him the grand
bounce. Let him resign and -----, <u>now</u>. Since
any where. If we get the money from Mr C.
I would not have Studer have a finger in the
pie for the world. If we <u>can't</u> get it, well, I
doubt if Studer would pay a <u>dollar</u> out for
freights, especially <u>return</u> freights! Suppose you
let Studer sweat now for awhile. He wrote
Lucas that unless he was "vested with full
powers of the 1st <u>prox.</u>" he would publicly
resign (or withdraw, whichever it was) and
the contemptible polt? compared the
society to a bursted bank in that it had
failed to meet its agreements with him. Think
of that after the Astor House meeting. I
think Studer dishonest, and therefore I would
only conset to his continuance at the head of
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affairs <u>as a last result</u>. I would then sub-
mit to it with as good grace as possible for the
good of the cause. But with<s>out</s> !000 and <u>without</u>
Stude3r, yours truly would flap his wings joyously
and sail in. I believe I could do just as
good planning as Studer, now, <s>& execute it all too</s>.
</p>
<pre> Mr Webster asks how many books the S. A. T.
</pre>
<p>owes Studer for. So far as I know <u>one</u> only,
which you have <u>more</u> than paid him for in that
column book notice. The one I have I have
<u>fully</u> paid for by doing chores for Studer at
the Institution, & writing up his book notice.
He can just bet his sweet life he will never
see this book again, nor any further returns for it.
</p>
<pre> Now Professor, I do hope you won't let
</pre>
<p>any thousand miles on this continent keep you
from helping us through that N. Y. affair by
your presence, your advice and your influence.
We ,u>must</u> have you for President of that Board
of Ex. Commissioners. Dr Holder, Dr Prince & Mr
Beard are <u>willing </u> to help, but they won't feel
like being directed by <u>boys</u>. I don't see how
the Ex. can be made a financial success
without you to plan for <u>drawing the crowd</u>.
</p>
<pre> This may have a <u>very</u> great influence on
</pre>
<p>your further sales of stuffed animals in N. Y. and
it seems to me <u>now</u> is your time to work up the
necessary interest in the subject. Make your
trip wait for the Exhibition. Next year you
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will be surprised to see what a deep interest
Prof's Baird, ?, Dr Cones, Dr Gill & other
great guns take in our poor little poverty -
stricken society. Prof Goode says he proposes
to prepare & read at our Gen'l meeting (1884) an
essay, on the Importance to Museums of the
work of the Society, & the necessity & duty
devolving upon all museum men to help support
it. Stay & see us through in N.Y. We want
to have everything planned out so that things
will move off like clock work, & so that we
cannot fail, financially. With you on the ground
we will fear nothing. There will be a good
corps of workers there, and we will make a sensa-
tion. We need you to advise us generally, & to take
care of <u>the press in particular</u>.
</p>
<pre> Please let Mr Webster see this,for I have not
</pre>
<p>time to write him separately. Tell him we would
rather have him increase & glorify his exhibit
than to lend the Society $50. <u>by far</u>.
</p>
<pre> I send you a Report. Please send me a
</pre>
<p>copy of the <u>Bulletin</u> if you have one you
can spare, also 2 copies of Bulletin <u>No 2</u> and
2 of <u>No. 4.</u> _ <u>very urgent</u>
Yours most truly
W. T. Hornaday
Hand change Right margin
<u>Hornaday</u>
Jan. '83
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Goguae Lake Battle Creek, Mich.
July 5th 1883
.Dear Professor Ward:-
</p>
<pre> Up the last moment f leaving
</pre>
<p>Washington I tried for an opportunity to write
ou as requested, but we were so driven that we
caught the train with only </u one minute > to spare.
We arrived here Monday night, Yesterday we
moved out here & had a regular time of it
getting settled. Now I am ready for business.
</p>
<pre> I saw Ridgeway & told him you wanted all
</pre>
<p>the birds obtainable, few or many. He promised
to see how many were really available and
forward them without delay. It was not in my
power to get the birds & send them or I would have
done it. I asked Palmer </u immediately > what you
requested & he promised an answer the next
day.- Saturday. He failed to give either the name
of the porpoise , which is in considerable doubt, or
a list of what he could furnish you with prices
He </u says > that Prof Baird has given him per-
mission to make as many casts of porpoises as
he wants to and sell them on his own a/c - from
the moulds belonging to the Institution. I told Mr
P. that </s if > he must send you the list at once.
</p>
<pre> Your white whale is done at last, all except
</pre>
<p>the pedestal, ^I think^ and it makes a fine, showy specimen.
Mr Lourie feels the shortcomings of the Institution
regarding your casts, & is of the opinion that it would
be hardly worth while to offer you any more casts
in exchange. But I should think you might turn a
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>cast of our little 5 1/2 ft manatee to good account.
for it </s is > was a perfect "daisy" in the flesh.
</p>
<pre> I have found it an utter </u impossibility > to get
</pre>
<p>the Extermination of Mammals. With time enough I can
get an interesting article out of it, but it cannot be
done by main strength! I collected all the statistics I
could - got just enough to see what a pity it would be
to botch such a subject,
</p>
<pre> As to the Guacharo Bird I am in doubt. I have
</pre>
<p>the whole thing, written out for the A. A. A. S. in 1876.
but if it is published in the Bulletin I can't have
it for the Companion, which will lose me $25!
</p>
<pre> I enclose however in lieu of the above "Capybara
</pre>
<p>Hunting in the Orinoco" which may be useful, & again
very not? If so take it with my blessing. My
head is full of my serial story &</u the book > to such an
extent I cannot </u think > on any subject the least bit
scientific or connected with natural history. But I will
not forget you & will send whatever else I can grind out
fir to print.
</p>
<pre> The elephant's foot may may go to Washington, but
</pre>
<p>you had better not send it until I first send you
something for the Bulletin. I will try my best
to do </u something > more, but just now I feel unusually
barren & unfruitful of printable ideas.
Yours faithfully as ever,
W. L. Hornaday
Address me care of
Box 513, B. Creek.
[ybg]
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Marcy Strong
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></u To be read when there is nothing else to do . >
Society of American Taxidermists,
Rochester, New York, Sept 18 1881.
</p>
<pre> Nov. 27 "
</pre>
<p>My dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> Your kindly letter of Aug 7th has just
</pre>
<p>reached me and its contents greedily absorbed. Am
very glad you were not too seriously disappointed in the
"Bulletin", and I am really pleased also to find that
your estimate of its contents was so much like my own.
I too think it lacks "meat" and I beg to inform you
that Mr. Howell pigeon-holed the following short articles
written ^by^ the undersigned; "Man-eating Crocodiles", "Loss of
Life in India by Wild Beasts", "A Great Ornithological Work",
(Hume's Survey of </s the > British India) and a notice of
Davidson's new method of mounting fish. The Latter
was sat upon by Howell, Lucas & Baker because in it
I said " -Still we cannot help thinking it a pity
that so good an idea should be hedged in by patent
laws." Mr Howell was </u very > firm in saying "that ought
</s go > not go in!" for fear Mr Davidson might not like
it, and I was disgusted at his lack of spirit. (N.B.
Mr Davidson was here a month ago, and in the course of a
</u very > pleasant conversation I said to him what is above.
Instead of being offended he said "Well, I really didn't
think myself it was quite the thing to do to get that
patented, by my friends urged it to strongly I finally
consented to do it.")
</p>
<pre> Now I am in favor of making that paper lively,
</pre>
<p></u spicy >, and even audacious at times perhaps to stir
people up and </u compel > an interest in it. I claim
that it has a right to speak his mind, to take a
position, and pitch into anything which is wrong.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>It needs an individuality of its own, and a level
independence which will command respect. It is
going to wield a great influence if properly handled,
and to do this it is necessary to make it something
else than an advertising sheet filled out with
state clippings. I am </u confident > the Bulletin can
be made to pay for itself, and if Mr H. will let
me alone I will undertake to prove it with the
Novwmber issue. I consider it quite to possible
to secure for that paper, during the first year, 1000
subscribers at 50 cents per year, for the bimonthly. But
to do this it will need to be a different paper from No. 1.
As I said before, I want you to write off at
least twenty little items of </s fee > from three lines
(print) up to ten, of news and gossip about
the Museums, Naturalists, recent discoveries, and other
scientific gossip from Australia & New Zealand. For
one thing I shall record the fact of the existence of
a school of Taxidermy in Australia, the first we
have ever heard of.
</p>
<pre> Mr Howell has just gone to Cincinnatti. If the
</pre>
<p>collection there is sold I shall be surprised, and
if you were here I should be surprised if it were
</u not > sold. Even Mr H. admits that you are </u the >
man to work up a case of that kind, and he seems
to have very little confidence in his own ability to
bring matters to a successful issue. The few stuffed
mammals (Bailey's orang, a civet cat, kangaroo? &e
&e) were the best which has yet been sent to an
exhibition. It is a crying shame that this estab-
blishment which acknowledges no rivals in work in
osteology & taxidermy (at least in </u this > country) should
send to the great exhibitions its </u worst > stuffed
mammals. It is injustice to the Establishment.
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<p>Society of American Taxidermists,
Rochester, New York, Sept 18 1881
Now if you will sometime, </u just once >, allow me to
plan and make up the collection of stuffed animals
to send to an exhibition, I will guarantee that no
other feature of your display shall be so striking and
attractive, and no other more desirable to </u any > museum.
I have lately developed a new method in mounting
fishes which I think you will like when you see its
results, and which I think you will like when you see its
results, and which I intend shall cause an entirely
new departure in this kind of work. </s and > I have just
mounted one of my large Ceylon </u Trygous >, and when
it was 3/4 done Mr Lucas declared he would sell it to
Garman for $45.- and all on account of its being
flat enough! </uClay > did it!
</p>
<pre> I hear on good authority that Knowlton has a
</pre>
<p>French taxidermist who is a fine workman, "the
best in New England." but we hope to hold our own
with him in the Exhibition. If anybody beats my
setter dog - surpasses it I mean - I will hire him
to teach me without delay. By-the-bye, this re-
minds me just in time. There is likely to be a
dearth of good sized mammals (larger than a dog) in
the Ex. and this must not be. Now Martens will not
send anything, & we shall certainly send nothing for him,
because he acted </u so > small last year. I fear Wallace
will not .send much. Now some of us </u must > send </u some >
large mammals. Wm Critchley & Webster have each
mounted a Mountain Goat (for Bierstaitt) which will
be sent. I shall ask Prof. Baird to lend me the
Antelope I recently mounted for him, & think he will
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>let me have it. I have mounted the baby elephant
for Cambridge, and it is a very nice little fellow.
Said to be a better elephant than the large one.
Visitors are invariably quite taken with its grave.
demure appearance. May I have this to put into
the exhibition as "Loaned by Prof. Henry A. Ward" before
it is delivered to Cambridge? If it is delivered to
them now, they will not lend it, for they refused last
year, & say their rule is to never lend anything to be
exhibited. It is very important to the Exhibition &
the Advertisements that we have the baby elephant,
(It is about 3 ft. high) and I hope you will
be able to let me exhibit it.
</p>
<pre> We have five </u good > men to elect members at
</pre>
<p>the next meeting, and the prospects of the Society
were never so bright as now. The </u Bulletin > is doing
a great deal for us.
</p>
<pre> My dissatisfaction with my salary here, so far
</pre>
<p>as the Establishment is concerned, I assure you was
only momentary, nothing more than an incidental
remark in comparison with Mr Bailly & myself. As I
have often said to you, I do not see how the Est. could
afford to pay any taxidermist more than I now receive.
I do not see how it is ever likely to do so, and that is
just what worries me. Were I in your place I should
pay no more than you do, as conditions are at present.
I have </u never > claimed that the Establishment ever had
any service, direct or indirect, from me which it
did not pay for promptly. I do not consider that
I have </u any > claim upon the Establishment for
special favors, and, in my opinion, both Messrs
Bailly & Lucas, </s et al. > have always been paid full
value for everything they have ever done for you.
I utterly refuse to entertain the idea that either
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<p>Society of American Taxidermists,
Rochester, New York Sept. 18 1881
Bailly, Lucas or I have the </u slightest > claim upon either
you or the Establishment. Heavens! The reverse is the
case. Bailly brought much to the shops but he was </u well >
paid for it. Lucas brought </u nothing >, but he has acquired
a magnificent knowledge of Nat'l History (at whose
expense?) and he has earned </u lots of money >. I
brought nothing to the shops, have developed but
little that is new, and have always been paid as
much as my conscience would allow me to accept.
I consider that if I make a success of life by
means of my present profession, I will owe it very
largely to the opportunities I have enjoyed here.
</p>
<pre> No indeed, the Establishment owes me nothing,
</pre>
<p>in the present state of things I do not see how I can
possibly earn more ^here^ than I now receive, for I know
you </u must > make a good profit on my work or else
as a workman I am of no account to you, and
this is all that makes me unsettled. If I could see
a </u chance > to make $5. per day in your shops, you
may depend I would bend every effort in that direction
& not stop short of success. I have always felt a
great pride in the concern, I like to work for its
proprietor better than any other man I can find I
think, I like Rochester extremely well. I like my
fine, roomy, well-lighted work-room, I like my
fellow workmen, and all that, and could I </u earn >
(I don't mean </u receive > $1200 to $1500 per year, which
would enable me to live comfortably & lay by a little,
I would be glad to settle down here to stay as long
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>as the Establishment has as existence. But I don't
see how it can be done. The highest salary is $3.50
which is fully as high as it ought to be, and even if
Mr Lucas" position were vacant I could not fill it
properly without </u years > of training.
</p>
<pre> Looking at it from every side the conclusion is
</pre>
<p>always the same, viz. that I must find a position
elsewhere at $1200 to $1500 per year, - or quit
this business & go into some other. Before I stop I
intern to stand at the head of my profession, and
</u then > if it will not give me a decent living I will
leave it instantly. I believe that in a place like
the U.S. National Museum I can earn $1500 per year.
I can take entire charge of caring for skins, of mounting
the collections & caring for them afterwards. I have
had quite a correspondence with Prof Baird who
says they have "hundreds of skins of mammals and
thousands of skins of birds to be mounted </s at > soon"
That they "want a specialist on mammals" and that
if I "meet the requirements they will engage me". He
said he would "engage no one to fill the position of
chief taxidermist until my claims have been
fairly considered". He invited me to mount some
specimens to show him as samples of my work, and
also said that when the time came to decide the
matter he would probably visit some large museum
to see some of my more important pieces. He has
promised to decide this matter this Fall, and I shall
probably go to Washington late in Oct. to attend to it.
</p>
<pre> If you were here to go with me, or even write a
</pre>
<p>letter, I would be certain of success I think.
</p>
<pre> If I get that place it will be my salvation.
</pre>
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</pre>
<p>Society of American Taxidermists,
Rochester, New York Sept 18 1881
and for the next ten years I shall ask for nothing
more. Now that Webster is going to marry Mrs Gilbert
and settle down here & & Wm Critchley is improving so
rapidly in his work, my going away would affect the
necessary working force but slightly. Mrs Lucas has sold
her house & is to coming here this Fall to set up house
keeping, which would imply that Fred expects to stay
here some time. On the whole I think it is my
duty to get to Washington if I can, and^ remembering^ </s knowing >
that you first suggested it I have pushed the
matter vigorously. Baird asked what salary I would
expect. I said $1500 per year, which he said he did
not consider too much provided I met the requirements of the
position.
</p>
<pre> So I shall go on late in Oct. taking with me
</pre>
<p>the specimens I have prepared to summit to him,
and I think I will so far presume upon your
good will as to take the two or three small specimens I
have done for you, which of course will be brought
back with me. I believe that were you here you might
be willing to go to Washington for me, or with me,
& seeing that that great advantage is lost to me
I will have to content myself with borrowing one
or two specimens, without asking Mr Lucas or telling
him what I want them for. Right here let me </u beg >
of you to not let any one here know that I
am trying to get into the U.S.N.M. for so far
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>no one except my wife knows it. If I fail I
do not want anyone save you & I to know it, and
if I </s kne > succeed it will be known plenty soon
enough. If I make an engagement I will finish
my book before leaving here. I have very little
work ahead now, no elephants, nor bad chimpanzees
nor orangs, nor mountain sheep without a head, nor
anything but what the others can just as well do,
</p>
<pre> I can write for the Bulletin just as well in
</pre>
<p>Washington as here, and in any case I would
stand by that enterprise to the extent of my
ability. Were I in W. it would be strange if I
could not suceed in inducing </s p > Prof. Baird to
buy the "Fight in the Tree-Tops", and lots of
other things.
</p>
<pre> There, this is more than I intended, and
</pre>
<p>will perhaps be the last until I write you to San F.
Our little stranger is daily expected, & we are all
anxiety. Mrs Chamberlain is here. Mrs Ward has
been most kind to us all along in many ways.
We are in the best neighborhood the Lord ever
put together, certainly. Once more let me
ask you to let </u no one >know ^of^ my Washington plans.
</p>
<pre> Mr Preston is </u very > anxious for your return. He is a
</pre>
<p>highly valuable acquisition. I consider, and bids fair
to play a leading part in our little community. We
will get the next Bulletin out on Nov 1st 15th if we
are not prevented, as we were before.
Yours faithfully
Wm T. Hornaday
[ybg]
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Marcy Strong
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Washington, Tuesday night
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Pennilyn Higgins
Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
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2015
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<p>ybg </u No 28! Three letters in one. > Hornaday Singapore. Dec 22nd 1878. Hornaday Jan 29 '79 Dear Professor Ward:</p>
<pre> It is nearly two months since my last letter
</pre>
<p>to you, and I must rise to explain how it is. I was all the time from Oct 30 to Nov 30th at the head of the Sibuyau River out of all reach of the Post Office unable to either send or receive a letter. Then when I finished my quarantine there I went straight to Sarawak bag & baggage. We entered the mouth of the river Just as the steamer went out on her way to Singapore & so I had to wait. 12 days before I could come or send a letter. In that time nI went up the Sarawak River to see Everett & visited the antimony & crinibar mines. The Govt officer at Sarawak who wrote me the disagreiable letter about mias. came down & apologized handsomely. & besides giving a little dinner party on our account gave me the Gov't steam launch for my trip up the river. Of course we got to be good friends. I have so much to write you now that I scarcely know how to bregin. But we may as well begin with</p>
<pre> </u Mr A. H. Everett >. He is a thorough naturalist in his line, and
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<p>in spirits either ^as^ skins or entire specimens. He </s has > </u loses a good > many, but he is very careful not to try & palm off on a fellow a bad skin. even if only bad in a single spot. I bought $27. worth of mammals of him. also a </u huge> skull of </u Gavialis Schlegelli > (without teeth) for $5. Everett only asked $2. as he claimed not to know the value of such things, but I insisted on giving him $5. because the skull was really worth double that (to buy) & to show him also that we do not care to take unfair and un- justifiable advantage of a man's ignorance. In fact Everett don't know how to charge for mammals. Now if you want anything from these parts. Just give him an order at once at the prices noted in the enclosed memo. We talked up prices thoroughly and I guaranteed that you would in ordering anything of him give the prices & notes noted in the menus. You wanted me to get 150 Galiopithecus ? skins, abd 50 skels. Everett can do it, for he knows of an island in the Phillipines where they are </u thick > and also an- other place in N. E. Borneo. You can order 100 skins and skels for $100. or 30 @ $1.25 each, fewer at a little higher figure. Mind </u all > his skins are in alcohol, with skull and leg bones, very well preserved. He gets $5. each for </u entire > Galiopithecus in London. I told him we didn't want any entire. He speaks of </u fossils > and inquired how we could arrange about pieces. I advised him to send all such things of such </u wholly > uncertain value to you to be sold on commission & gave him instances of what a rare hand you are for selling such things at big prices in England right under the </u noses> of all those dealers. Everatt says his birds </s all > are always accepted by the B. M. in prefer- ence to those of other collectors on account of his careful and laborious system of labeling. He is a thorough ornithologist & can </u afford > to do it. I can't as you well know. His bird skins are not so particularly nice, but they are yet 1st class. He can send you collections of all the rocks & minerals of Sarawak at low prices. say $3. to $6. for set of each, 30 specimens or so in each set. I will send you by this mail his paper on Sarawak Minerals lately published in the Proc. of the Straits Asiatic Soc. here. Mind now that I have ordered </u nothing > of Everett except one or 2 things and it all rests with you. There is time enough to wait for an answer from you, & thus I avoid the responsibility. I have however made him a standing offer of $50. for a crocodile skin from 18 to 20 ft long, or $75. for one over 20 ft. If you do not choose to accept of such a specimen at the price I will of course take it myself. I have also given a standing order for the 1 skin & 1 skel. of eus barbatus </u over ></p>
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<p>8 ft. in height at the shoulders. @ $15. each. I will also take the responsibility of that if necessary. Everett gets bigger prices for Bornean Rhinocerous in London than we can give. He got 3 pounds for a skull of a </u half-grown > specimen & 8 pounds for an adult skull. The </u locality > gives the value. I have ordered all the mias skulls he can get (adult) at prices noted. $1. and $2. for a number. Now if you want anything of E. do not fail to order definitely and at once. for he is now in the field. & during there ^next^ 18 months he will no doubt be able to fill any order you can give him. He will deliver specimens </u in N. Y. > freight paid, at prices noted, if you make it worth his while to send anything. Now where will we ever strike another such a man! You have said "</u Do not get me any more > (corres= pondents), but I have again raked up a man, and this time one who does not require </u any > pay in advance. If you delay about writing him he will `lose faith in us! I believe you can make him develop into a regular Bonanza </s if > for years to come if you are amind. I see visions of Cassawary eggs by the thous- and. Babimissa skins & skels in plenty & invertebrates until you can't rest. By my advise Everett has written you about birds. &e. He is an Englishman. 29 yrs old single, and has given up a </u fine > Gov't position </s to > for the sake of Natural History. He will presently write some good scientific works. Try him </s wt > with an order for $150. worth and if he turns out a losing investment I will make good the loss! Next is </u Dr. E. P. Haughton >. Sarawak Borneo in charge of the Gov't hospital. who is able & willing to furnish you with perfect adult skulls & skeletons of Dyaks & Chinamen at 2. pounds each for skulls & 5. pounds each for skels. Malay skulls & skels at double the price as being twice as difficult and dangerous to obtain. I </u think > that if you offered the same price for Malays as noted above for the other two races he would accept it. I told him you would hardly be able to invest in Malays at 4. pounds and 10. pounds though you might in the other two. He & his assistants would procure the specimens from unclaimed hospital patients. though at a good deal of risk for all that . All night work & high-priced of course. If you write to him & say so the Dr. will go to work at once for you & keep on until you get enough. Of course he could not get a number right off. He & Everett would send their col- lections together to save expense & commission. The Dr. is a</p>
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<p>scientific man, has often sent skulls & skels to England, & I have no doubt his specimens would be up to the mark. They would of course be </u fresh >, Please write to the Dr. as soon as convenient & tell him something, as I told him you would seeing that I will never meet him again. Your Establishment has established quite a reputation for you & itself in Borneo, I can tell you. Oh yes, about</p>
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<p>Sarawak Gazette which has set the Gov't offices all agog., and </u may> be the means of developing great things by and by. The Rajah is now in England & I did not get to see him at all, </u darn > the luck . But his presiding officer talked for him (</u not > at my solicitation atall), said the Rajah wants a Museum </u badly >, but does not know at all how to go to work to get it. They wanted advice from me and I gave it as carefully as I could. They caught my ideas at once, & are going to talk the matter up with the Rajah as soon as possible. I advised them to get a good man from England ( </u or America >, a hard working. capable fellow, & set the thing going. told them they would have to have to give $2000. per year for such a man that Prof. Ward could furnish the man if necessary, a man capable every way, almost. and far better trained as a Museum builder than </u any > thing they could get in England. I put it in such a way that they did not in the least look upon it as though I were trying to put up a job on them. Mind now they might </u never > buy a single specimen of you because the Gov't is too poor for that. Their museum would be purely Bornean. I confess that I really don't see how you would be greatly benefitted (directly) in the matter but I leave you to find that out for yourself. On general principles I agitate for a museum. connect you with it as closely as possible & leave the rest with you. It may prove an anchor to windward for some of us boys sometime. I advised the President to advise H H's the Rajah write to you on the subject as you knew better how to build a great museum out of nothing than any living man. (If the Rajah ever writes you, address him always as </u Your Highness > , and "Rajah" simply at the beginning of a letter. I will get his address for you without delay for you may see some reason for taking the initiative.) The officers told me nothing in particular can be done until His Highness returns in March. The Sarawak gov't did me a good many favors & saved me a good</p>
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<p>deal of precious money at a critical time, and on learning I of course expressed my willingness to do anything in my power for them and also offered the benefit of any advise Prof Ward could give them about their Museum. They allowed me the use of the Gov't House at Salling 3 months. free gratis: & on leaving Sarawak I said I wished to show my gratitude in some substantial way & asked which they would prefer I should do: deposit $25. in cash for the benefit of the Museum, or send to the Museum a complete collection of the corals of Singapore, 20 or 25 varieties, carefully selected. They jumped at the latter, of course, and so that is one bit of work I have to do before I leave here. The corals will cost all told, perhaps $10 to $15. Shall put in a Nep- tunes cup also if possible. They treated me </u very > kindly indeed from first to last, and I must make them some return. </u The Hon'ble Wm M. Crocker. >Resident of Sarawak Proper, is vigorously collecting mias skins & skeletons & sending to Jam- rach, & occasionally (?) to Gerrard also. So far he has sent about 15 I believe, all during the present year. He kept it well secret from me, but the facts came to me. Couldn't find out what he gets. Each skel & skin ( i.e. both together) cost Croker $8. to $10. on the ground. All come from Salling & are prepared by a Malay man who used to come & watch me on the sly, for hours at a time. Before I went there he did </u horrible > work. When I left he had got preservatives from Crocker, and did his specimens up exactly like your own collector. </u Darn his eyes! > I could scarcely keep from pitching him into the river. In spite of all I could do he found out all about it, for a fellow can't skin mias in his bed room, not hide 40 skins & 40 skels under a bushel. No use it couldn't be helped. Since I went to Sarawak everybody has begun to collect mias & now Lou, Dick, Harry & the Dr. are all at it. all going to send them to London. </u Cuss > the luck! But they will soon get sick of it for none of them but Cocker will ever realize a </u cent > by it., and I fancy you will hereafter find many medium & small mias skels & skins in London to be had for the asking . Jawrael is </u sure > to have a lot. Everett says none but the very </u largest > specimens are saleable at </u any > price in London, which is a crumb of comfort.</p>
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<p>Everett </s so > suggested that you might find it profitable to get Ceram & Macassar things from him. There is in Celebes a rare & valuable ruminant call the "Sapi utan" in Malay. </u Anva depressicomis > in Science, which is the connecting link between the antelopes & buffaloes, large as a small ox. . It is very rare, very fierce & found only in the mountains. There is also a black ape in Celebes. </u cynopithecus nigresceus >.. Forbes might get both these profitably. Everett says he could not afford to go to Celebes for them, as there is nothing else of value there. If </u he > could not afford it, with his bird collecting, how much less could </u I? > There are no Babinoursa in Bauca. Everett says.</p>
<pre> </u Bornean Freshwater Fishes > Sold last month to British Museum.
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<p>True you did not tell me to get any. According to your directions there are </u no > fishes to be had in Singapore. You were sorry I got so many in Ceylon. Now, I beg your pardon, but I </u do > let me remind you how I protested as strongly as I dared against sending so much spirits to Singapore when we were in London. You sent 72 gallons here. 88 degrees above proof, equal to 144 gals at 20 degrees above proof. Now, what on earth was I to do with it? Sell it at auction (part of it) for less than it cost? No, I said I must </u use > it somehow now that I have it. So I collected a few Bornean fishes. small ones entire, larger one in skin, in all about 5 gallons of spec- imens I suppose. Luckily one 12 - gallon (iron) drum was packed </u empty > in London. Such </u d-rum packing > i never saw before. 36 gallons I have used. 12 gallons I shall trade to Everett on his specimens @ the rate of $1.00 per gallon. & 24 gallons I shall take to Australia or elsewhere. The fishes from Borneo I shall keep, because they are long since packed & soldeered up ready to send. If you make a practice of leaving all brine & alcoholic specimens 2 or 3 months ^unopened^ at the Establishment don't be surprised if some come to grief.</p>
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<p>'big" strictly speaking. I </u knew > to a dead certainty that before the week was out I would have </u more > than the "big" ones in the truest sense of the word. And I certainly did. While I wished to give you the number I had at that date I also wished to indicate the fact that I was getting </u "full-grown" > Orangs you so much wanted. Was there not method in my madness after all?</p>
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<p>course I am keeping strict account of my time and altho I have some days to cut off from Borneo I will let it go until the end to save disarranging the dates we have now in mind & on the books. Am very much pleased with your report on the Battle Creek folks. You really seem to think I know a good specimen (of the kind) when I see it. I entirely agree with you in all the opinions you expressed of Miss C. But I go even beyond that! Why do ^you^ not write me whether or not you want Mr Lucas to come here so that I could on the one hand go deeper into the situation, or on the other let it alone entirely! You do not even limit your wishes.</p>
<pre> I arrived here on the 20th day before yesterday. Just
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<p>a few hours after the mail steamer had left for Europe. I read your letters of Sept 10th 15th 20th & 29th and by yesterdays mail two letters of Oct 24th & Nov 1st No others since my previous letter </s one between > Yes, yes, one from Battle Creek, but none from that to Oct 24th Many thanks for the 2 fine photographs of Duncan Jones & Co. The Sarawak people were delighted with a view of them.</p>
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<p>I have started to collect botanical specimens for the Brooks cabinet. I got some fine specimens of </u bark cloth > of the Dyaks, some crude gutta percha, specimens of the more celebrated & valuable woods of Borneo, and various other things. I shall try at once to find out some good botanist who can furnish me with the 1000 Asiatic plants you require , and will of course turn up the right man with the desired specimens before very long . Oh yes. I have a lot of pitchers of a big </u Nepenthes > which I managed to prepare </s pretty > rather nicely, and are very curious.</p>
<pre> Before I leave Singapore I will (unless I am </u too >
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<p>much pushed for time) send you another little information book about this part of the world, but it is all to be written yet. & I have a </u sea > of work ahead. I </u dread > the Job of going over Borneo notes on shells & trying to supply the wants mentioned therein. Were there not a few more men</p>
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<p>about the Establishment (men or boys) who could as well as not have written a little something on the sub- ject of dead shells & broken corals from Ceylon? So far I have had only 7 reports from 4 of you on that subject but I </s and > hope to hear from all the rest in due course of time. I am perfectly willing to admit that the more I collect of shells & corals the less I know about it and I think the sooner I stop the better it will be for us all. What do </u you > think about it? I will admit that the Ceylon corals were horribly packed. since they all smashed, though at the time I would have sworn that I never in my life took so much pains in packing anything. Now I want to see </u some one else > </s th > try their hand at packing those infernal branching corals to go half way round the world. I throw up the sponges after the Ceylon lot. I have not heard a word about my Singapore Corals & suppose they must have gone through passably well, or some few of them at least, or else the reports would by this time be coming in.</p>
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<p>one on the Almighty dollar, & do not know yet what old Malacca Fronaudis has sent down for me. </u Nothing >. I fervently hope, for I have no money to spare for anything not absolutely new. Martin Dyer & Co. sent me a third hundred dollars to Borneo in Nov. else I should even now be languishing in a hotel over there. I brought over a bid for my passage & freight (about $45.), all of which helps along (?) Sorry the Ossen specimens turn out to disappoint you. I thought they were a fine lot. Depend upon it I won't try again for I was very, very loth to try that time But I see I must close. It seems my telegram about the Orangs was money thrown away after all. Too bad, for I need it now so much- $23. Have received 5 or 6 batches of </u primers > & 2 gold pens, labels &e Hold on! hold on! I didn't skin that blessed Binturong atall. Of course not or it would have been badly done. I got it stuffed. I wish you had written me more about those Salaugone </u rocks >. I asked you to particularly. Of course I will write by every mail now, as I </u always have > in fact. Yours very sincerely Wm T. Hornaday Theobald writes he has killed </u 2 tigers > & is jealously keeping the skins for you Was offered Rs 100. for one Expect "20 or 30 pound for the two. I haven't written him yet about them. Good luck. don't it? Have not seen Birdie since Dewey return.</p>
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<p></u Private P. S. > your two letters received yesterday tell me unequivocally to go to the Moluccas. What a state of mind I was in for a time until I found out you had sent a telegram. I was wrestling with the ideal, & will even yet tell you my conclusion. As I have before told you, I feel as- sured that a flying visit to Macassar & Amboyna such as I would have to make & then to return here. would be a fatal mis- take. Everett is fully of my mind also, only stronger. We voted it would result in a considerable loss, and I have become dead set against going. But your letter said "</u go. > And the outlook for funds was simply black as night. I decided that I must not do it, especially after my Malacca & Klary experience. I knew that if I went & according to your orders & against my judgement & </u failed >. it would be a bad day for us both. And if I went against your orders and declined to go, it would also be a bad day for me when you came to learn what I had done. I determined to spend in my in preparing a careful estimate of what I would spend time & money set off by the number of cassowary eggs I </u must get > to get back expenses. Then by estimating the num- ber might reasonably </u hope > to get in 2 months </u or less > it would give a pretty clear idea of the result. Such a trip could not cost a </u cent > less than $450. besides my time. And yet you actually said. "You must go to Cerum if for Cas- so wary </s eggs > alone "! I was astonished at such a proposition. and I think that on second thoughts you will think differently of it too. Well I simply determined to choose the lesser evil of the two & </u not > go.. Then came your telegram (it has been waiting for me at M. D. & Co.) saying "Hun- dred pounds sent. </u Await advices for Australia >: Hurrah! I felt a moment after, as though I had just come off the wheel. Now my way is more clear, for it seems you have decided to leave out Macassar & Amboyna, and that I am to go direct to Australia perhaps. I'm </u sure > that is best. Now as to funds. I owe M. D. & Co. </u about > $350. (They have received from you 50 pounds & 40 pounds. (or was it [30 last time? anyhow they have it.) You say Hundred pounds [sent. This I think means a hundred pounds without [counting either of the remittances sent M. D. & Co. heretofore [You would not, I think, telegraph on Dec 10th and include</p>
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<p>[ in your "Hundred: </s sun > a sum which you knew must [ have reached us by that date. You said you would send [ a 3rd remittance of 30 or 40 pounds. I take it you have [ on account off </s the > Australia made it 100.pounds instead, and [ now that is on the way. If sent Dec 6th for instance [ it will arrive here about Jan 15th by which time I [ will be all ready to send you a big shipment insured [ for $4000. pull up stakes & "lite out" for Maryborough [ Queensland. Will tell you all about steamer dates in my [ next. It will take </u every cent > of the money I can now [ command to get me away from here, and I fear, I </u greatly > [ fear it will take $150. to $200. out of the hundred [ pounds coming to in addition. In fact I doubt if I have more than enough here now to square up with M. D. & Co. I have bargained for at least $50. worth of specimens from Malacca & Keany, but I hope to goodness I will be disappointed of them. I'm going to give Mr. Campbell a fine Mias skull. and in case he refuses to charge me interest on the $300. he advanced me I shall feel in duty bound to give him a fair-sized mias skin or skeleton. But for his kindness I should have been utterly busted months ago & the Estab. would have cut a </u very > bad figure in this part of the world. I tell you I </u must > not try to run a day longer by trusting to luck & borrowed capital. We </s will > may do it once too often. Now it is </u certain > that I shall land in Australia with a very little money, perhaps not even $100. (the passage will cost $128. second class & </u there is no third! >) We are now fairly starting up the home stretch and so far we have led everything! One more good pull, a little more whip to both of us and we will come sweeping up to the grand Stand making such time and winning such a race as has never before been made </s in > on the scientific turf! (No extra charge, although "Entered according to Act of Congress.) Now if you can only coax another thousand out of somebody, even tho' it be 200 at a time we will be successful in Aus- tralia for 3 or 4 months and come home prepared to rake in the dollars for years to come. </u Don't forget > that I will land in Australia amongst total strangers with very little money indeed. I am </u very > sorry to be always</p>
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<p>holding up my past, present & future necessities to your gaze. Always talking about the amount of money I need when you are always struggling to send me more. But what else can a fellow do? I have scratched along on credit pretty well so far, & have had my share of an- noyances & mortifications I assure you. I have borrowed money of strangers 4 times within the last 4 months. But in Australia </u it will be different >, for I will be wholly un- known. And you ^know^ when I have worked up an excitement for any particular thing & get down to my last 20 pounds, I </u can't > stop and simply eat & sleep until money comes. So </u do> send something more </u if you can > to wherever you have directed me to go. Maryborough I suppose. I hope I won't have to go a-cha- sing after the </u Ceratodus > unless I can be </u sure > of getting a good number, and I fear trouble on account of Platypus too. And what if I should get there & find the dugong fishery all gone to pot. & no more dugongs being caught anywhere. or perhaps find I had arrived at </u just > the wrong season for them. What a sell it would be! But we will hope for the best anyhow. P..P.S. Dec 27th I have settled with Martin Dyer & Co. & the items were as follows: </u les > Dr. Cash paid me for Borneo $300. By 50 pounds draft. @ Ex 3/7 1/4 = $ 277.48</p>
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<p>So you see after all my debts are paid, my hunter discharged & board paid to date I have about $50. in pocket this mo- ment. I have yet to settle with Everett and my China boy when I go away, You see Mr. Campbell (who owns the house of M.D. & Co. here value at 10,000+ pounds) utterly refused to charge me any interest on commission or anything although I rather pressed him to do so. Then I found he wanted a Mias skull, and I forthwith offered him a fine skeleton, & insisted on his re- ceiving it. But he good humoredly declined the skeleton saying that really he did not care for it, but would be glad of a good skull. So I shall today take him the finest </u odd > skull</p>
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<p>I have which I am glad to say is really a splendid use. Mr C. advised me not to get into such a financial corner again in Australia.</p>
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<p>is Jan 7th and the next a whole month later. There is a Dutch mail steamer going somewhere between the two, but it </s was > does not touch between Port Darwin & Sydney. It does touch at P. D. The Australian Str does not touch at Port Darwin in Maryborough. To get to latter you know I would have to go to Bris- bane. Now there is </u one > European mail to arrive (Jan 2nd) between this & the departure of the Australian Str. If I receive not both money & advices that I will be booked to wait until some time about Feb. 7th </u "which God forbid". > But I would manage to put in the time here to good advantage </u somehow >. My board costs me $2. per day is $50. per month. Nothing atall decent is in the least respectable can be had for less than that now. Am going to trade a 4 ft. Mias skeleton to Dr </s Putie > Dennys for a live Python 21-22 feet in length, which I will kill & both skin & skeletonize. It may seem to you at first glance to be a dear bar- gain for us. My reasons for believing it will pay </s and > are these: We have </u many > mias skeletons, </u large > ones too, & caught any number of others @ $25 each whenever we want them. By getting the snake we can put </u both > skin & skel. in the H. Collection at once at a good figure I think, & thus realizing on an extra mias skeleton at once. Besides the big snake will give </u weight > to the H. Coll. won't it. Am I right? Dr. D. was once offered $100. in cash for his snake (alive), but that is neither here nor there. It is a </u fine > one & no mistake.</p>
<pre> Don't keep me too long in Australia (My time will be up in
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<p>April) for I can tell you I am getting somewhat tired of knock- ing about from pillar to post, and living for months on </u half rations > because I can't afford more. Thats </u exactly > what I did in Borneo, now that I look back upon it. I arrived here nearly bare- footed & otherwise dilapidated & seedy. Wore out 2 new pairs of boots ($13.00) in the Borneo swamps in 4 months. I am today going to spend about $8. of my precious $50. in having fine photograph taken of my wonderful baby orang to </s fo > furnish a striking & unique </s fine > illustration for our Book. The little mias is simple the wonder of all beholders, & even the natives all say he is the handsomest & </u cutest > of all they ever saw. Can't take him home & am going to send him at once as a present to Theobald who wants a baby mias very much. Of course all expenses with the "Old Man" (mias) go down in my private account, not much all total. W. T. H.</p>
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<p>P. S. I had the Borneo Collection insured for $3000. which costs me $38. I sent them all by one ship too. I have here 2 skeletons & 1 skin of Orangutan, full grown, which I shall carry with me either home or to Australia. My idea in keeping them was to sell them in A. I will have them insured when they travel, perhaps. Wm T. Hornaday. [ybg]</p>
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<p>ybg </u No 28. > Sadong River N, Borneo. Oct 27th 1878.</p>
<pre>Jan 10 '79
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof. Ward:</p>
<pre> I beg to enclose herewith
</pre>
<p>my list of Specimens for Sept & Oct and also Expense Accounts for the same month. Bal. in treasury about $40. As usual there was no letter from you by last mail. and it ^will^ be a month now before I have a chance to hear from the P. O. again. Tomorrow we make a grand move for the River Batang Lupur where we will hunt up a good field, build a hut and hang out for a month. My collection I must have leave here in the police station, well housed, and looked after constantly (for backshish) and there is nothing to fear unless the house catches fire, which is not likely to oc- cur as it is a very valuable house.</p>
<pre> I have just met a Collecting Nat-
</pre>
<p>uralist & Cave Explorer here, who wants to collect for you. A. H. Everett, Esq. Sarawak, Borneo. He offers to collect very cheaply, and to deliver collections in San Francisco, freight & Ins. paid. I will send you a copy of his list of prices, & he claims that his specimens are always A1. He has sent a good deal to London. I think you had better give him an order for all the Birds in the Cambridge Order which are found in Borneo. He says he can - the</p>
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<p>supply </s the > specimens of the Genera </s rep > numbered as follows in the printed list: 1122 (2) 1233(4) 1311(1) I will enclose a 1128(2) 1234(3) 1313 late letter from 1129 1236 1314(1) Mr Everett and 1135 1244(3) 1315(4) also a copy of the 1142 1245(1) 1316 last of mammals 1143 1248(1) 1317(1) he refers to. He 1145(1) 1255 1325(2) offers to collect 1154(2) 1259(2) 1326 small birds for 1156(2) 1260 1327 $3. per day. which 1157(2) 1261 1331(2) is much less than 1160 1262(3) 1332 I can do it for. 1161 1266 1339 for several reasons. 1166(1) 1267(2) 1342 I do not know 1174 1268(2) 1343 anything about Mr 1188(3) 1271 1348 Everett (except that 1189 1272 1351 he has lately been 1190 1274 1353 collecting birds in 1192(4) 1275 1354 the Phillipine Is. 1194(1) 1276 1356 for some English 1195(2) 1277(4) 1357 1196 1279 1358 1197 1282 (gentleman) but he talks 1198 1283(2) very fairly, and his prices 1200(1) 1585(sic) are in the main, certainly 1201 1286 very reasonable. Our 1204(3) 1289 future Orangs must come 1206 1292 from another party with 1211(2) 1293 whom I have solemnly 1214 1294(3) covenanted to that effect. 1216 1295(2) viz. A.R. Haughton, Esq. 1217(2) 1296 the man who put me 1221 1297(2) up to coming here. We 1228 1298 will get them cheaper & 1229(2) `1301(1) better of him than of anyone 1230(4) 1304(2) else, & one of my present 1231(2) 1305(2) assistants will prepare 1232 1306 them </u a la Hornaday. ></p>
<pre> 1307 But as I before remarked
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<p>I think it would be the best thing to order the small birds for the Cambridge Order of Mr Everett. He will get them to you, with less trouble & expense to you. </u will not require pay in advance >, and will furnish them within a reasonable time. He </u talks very fairly, and I shouldn't wonder if he should prove to be just our man. The enclosed list of Manuals ^&e^ is "not a hard and fast one". as he says, but I send it now to save time. When we meet we will make out another & reduce the prices all we can. You must write to Mr Everett, for your return letter to me will find me far away from him. </u Do > for </u my > sake write to him </u at once > and tell him that you either do or do not want him to collect for you. He is not going to remain always in Borneo - not more than 2 years I believe.</p>
<pre> The health of the Expedition continues
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<p>good. Yours very sincerely, Wm. T. Hornaday P. S. I will regard it as a personal favor if you </s would > can write to me once a month - or else send me money to enable me to do as I please.</p>
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<p>Mr A. H. Everett's price list for Bornean Mammals & Birds. (copied verbatim) ___________________________________ Simia Satyrus, skins or skels. Each perfect adult. - male $50</p>
<pre> female $35.
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<p>Simia Morio ditto ditto ditto Skulls of either the above, - - - - - " - male $8.</p>
<pre> female $6.
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<pre> female $3.
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<pre> " " skulls - - " $1.75
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<p>Felis macrocelis, skin or skel. - - " - $15.</p>
<pre> " " skulls - - " - $1.25
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<pre> each $1.00
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<pre> " female $7.
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<p>Cervus Muntjae. " " " - - - - - - " - $2.50 Tragulus. - - " " " - - - - - - " - $1.50 Skulls of large Deer. - - - - - - - - " $2.00 Stenops tardigradus. (Entire in Spirits $3.)</p>
<pre> Skins or skels. each $2.00
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<p>Tarsius - Spectrum, entire in spirits - - - - " $2.50 Gymnura (entire in sp. $5.) skels - - - - " $3. Galiopithecus (" " " $5.) skins or skels - - - " $2. Hystrix - - - - - skeletons. - - - - " $4. Atherura. - - - - skins or skels - - - - " $2. Lutra, - - - - " " " - - - - " $2. Smaller carnivora. " " " - - - - " $1.50 Ptiloarcus Louri. - - entire in spirits. - - - " $4. Manis.(small in sp. $5.) skeletons, - - " $2. !!</p>
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good condition. male $8
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<p>Argusianus Grayi, each adult specimen, in^ female $4. Euplocamus nobilis. - - - - - - - - $2.</p>
<pre> " pyrrhonotus. - - - - - - $2.
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<pre> The remaining birds, if at least </u one X
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<p>pair > of every species required, each .40 Every skin to have locality, sex & color of soft parts marked in its label.</p>
<pre> X
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<p>[ The above reduced to $3. pr doz. N. B. All prices in this list subject & reduction & revision hereafter.</p>
<pre> W. J. H.]
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<p>[ybg]</p>
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<p>ybg Hornaday.</p>
<pre>No. 26 Sadong River. K. Borneo
</pre>
<p>Oct.'78. Oct 21st 1878. Dear Professor Ward: Jan 10 '79</p>
<pre> I have just returned from a fortnights stay
</pre>
<p>up at the head of the river, and find here yours of Aug 14. from St Louis. As it seems clear that I must vegetate in the Jungles until friends arrive in December. tomorrow I am going to Sarawak for a fresh supply of provisions, ingredients for a batch of arsenical soap, and so fourth. I could leave the island now without much regret and would prob- ably do so if funds were at hand. </u Perhaps > I can hold out with what money I have until more comes and I </u hope > that my telegram of Sept. 20th will have caused you to send me more funds earlier than you otherwise would leave done. - i.e. always providing it were possible. Borneo is proving to be a regular bonanza to us and there is not the slightest doubt that bread cast upon these waters will return 40, 60, or 600 fold. I always had great hopes for this place. In fact </u "I told you so !" although I must say that our success with Mias has far, far exceeding anything I ever dreamed of. Owing to that letter from Sarawak requesting me to "desist" from killing or buying mias I stopped a month ago, but the writer of the letter has written (in answer to my reply) apologizing very handsomely for his former letter. I thought I would fetch him to his senses. Now the road is clear again, but I am going elsewhere for Mias for all that.</p>
<pre> I have not time to overhaul my collection now to make
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<p>out a list of specimens, as I must hurry off to Sarawak, but by next mail (i.e. about two days hence) I will send list for Sept & Oct, and Expense a/c. I might mention the fact that I now have 38 Orangs, 4 </u fine > rhinoceros, hornbills (skins), a skin of </u Hylobates lav > or maybe it is </u hoolock.); Suo barbotus, skin: about 10 skins & 4 skels. of Proboscus monkey, all of the largest size; a new variety (if not </u species ) of </u Lemur > (stenops)! several tiger & civet cats, a number of bird skins &c &e I am making an exhaustive collection of the reptiles & ^fresh water^ fishes in the hope that many of them are undescribed as yet. I am told no one has ever done anything with either the</p>
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<p>reptiles or fresh water fishes of Borneo. Am taking only skins & dry skeletons of the larger fishes, as that the collection will not be bulky & expensive. There is a </u fine > variety of snakes here, mostly very handsome species with many venomous.</p>
<pre> After I return to this place six days hence I will collect
</pre>
<p>my forces and the expedition will set off for the River Batang Lupur. farther east & will visit several places during the next month. Am going to a certain locality famous for argus pheasants & Mias. & hope for specimens of both. I have now a Chinese cook, a Portuguese hunter & a little Malay man- of-all-work who mighs out skeletons very well. These three cost me $37. per month-, dear enough, but they all work well and stop at nothing, so I am satisfied to pay them well. Besides these I have two Dyak men hunting constantly for me., for <?u Hylobates >, wild hog & & ^big ^ Proboscis monkeys. And whenever my hunter or I go into the jungles we are obliged to have a Dyak or Malay guide, & a man to carry the game. I tell you it is far, far from gay to hunt in this country. A fellow often wades through mud & ooze a foot deep half a day & climbs up & down mountains the other half without getting a single thing. Hunting is simply awful the hardest work a man can find to do. I forgot to mention my fine large, soft-shelled turtle. (skin & bones) & also a big fresh- water turtle with a very thick shell. name unknown to me.</p>
<pre> So to the baby-russians which you want from Banca
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<p>and a number of other placesI can only insinuate that I don't like the idea of getting them, and for this reason: it would involve a good deal of traveling to find them out in the first instance, a considerable stay in order to get enough to make it anything short of a dead loss, and an ex- penditure of money for </u one > thing alone, and that not so particularly valuable either. The country of the babinussa offers almost </u nothing > else (unless it is the rhinoceros) which would be worth the expense of getting, or which we have not got already. The </u tin > we already have, the tigers of Java we would not be able to get, and the Javanese peacock in not much one way or another . I am decidedly</p>
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<p>were to spend any time & money on Java. Macas- ian or Amboyua now that matters have taken the shape they have. Java I am decidedly set against. If you do </u not > care for a large collection of fishes & invertebrates -- and you say "get all showy kinds of crustaceans & fishes but </u not > others - then it is no use going to Amboyna. I had thought you wanted a big collection of those from Amboyna & so I have up to now been looking upon that as a good place. I might find Bird of Paradise skins in Macassar for sale - and I might not. I could get you a few Cassowary by spending 2 to 3 months in the mountains of Ceram. & </u Megapodius >by going to Lombock for a time. There are the main things the Moluccas could give us, for you know their mammals amount to almost nothing. I should like to visit the Arn Is. for kinds of paradise - and to see the place but they are beyond our reach. It is little use for a collector to go to the Moluccas unless he has unlimited time at his disposal. I think that while a flying visit to Macassar & Amboyna might result in establishing a correspondence with those places & in tying up loose things, which in the end might pay. I do not think a protracted visit would be advisable - unless you want </u lots > of Amboyna things. Now let us get down to figures. I believe Australia would pay well, but it would take </u at least > $2000. ^ more ^ to finish Singapore. do Australia & get home.# If left to myself, after reaching Singapore I would either strike for Australia or home, & yet it would be an awful calamity to get home in the dead of winter.</p>
<pre> You need not take any further trouble about primers,
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<p>sides for a year or so. H. A. W. Yours very sincerely Wm T. Hornaday P. S. Dr. Dennys of the Singapore museum wants to trade for me of my Orang skeletons. We will see what he can give us. I must shoot an extra one for him, and thus increase the variety of the collection provided he</p>
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<p>has lots of new & good things. But I can tell you I won't let a good Orang skeleton go for nothing, nor the largest ones either.</p>
<pre></s Pencil writing wre >
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<p>Pencilled writing reaches me in good condition. [ybg]</p>
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Sadong River, Borneo.
28th Sept 1878.
Dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> </u At last > there is a letter from
</pre>
<p>you, after an interval of 8 weeks or more.
I think the trouble is that I write you too
often and too much, and hereafter I will
try to be less lavish in my correspondence.
This is a very critical time and a letter from
you makes a good deal of difference. I
plainly see that I must go up farther
into the interior and rusticate quietly
for at least a month, or I shall be
totally bankrupt. I have just received
a very interesting note from one of the
Rajah's officers in Sarawak politely request-
ing me to "desist from collecting mias, &
turn my attention to other animals of which
I am at liberty to collect to my heart's
content." This officer is collecting mias
also for some one in London (shouldn't won-
der if it's Jamrach.) and he looks upon this
part of the country </s of > as his "preserves." I
shall write and make him ashamed of
himself, and if he does not apologize - we
shall say,"Verguainsi !"
</p>
<pre> I have not heard whether Martin,
</pre>
<p>Dyce & Co </s se > forwarded my telegram to you
or not, but </u of course > they did, so there is no
need to worry about it. At the present moment
I am awaiting the arrival of a lot of
alum from Sarawak to take with me
up the river. Mr Kelley (of Madras) writes
that he will not forward Theobald's
elephant by </s up> ^any^ of the ice ships without
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Tudor Co. as his present orders are to re-
ceive no freight under any considerations.
If you write the Tudor Co it might be easily
arranged. I hope you have written Dr.
Bidie instructions about the books. It
would have been much better if they
had been forwarded to Sykes & Co. Calcutta.
Thobald is now at his old post on
the Annimallays again. Says he can
wait until it suits your convenience about
paying for the elephant & leopard skin.
The el. skin is in 5 pieces - the </s livid > head
cut off and the body quartered.
</p>
<pre> I enclose a letter which may do for
</pre>
<p>publication. Shall have to stay in
Borneo until some money arrives either
to me, or to M. D. & Co. The present outlook
is blue enough, and </u economy > must be
the word.
</p>
<pre> Oh yes ! I am just sending a letter to the
</pre>
<p></u N. Y. Tribune >, saying "that if they will give
me their </u Weekly > for 5 years and a
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for ten
dollars - as they offered in July - to send a
reply to that effect to you. That you
would then forward the $10. and upon
its receipt they could forward the Dictionary
and Weekly Tribune to you for me." Their
offer holds good only until Sept 1st but
I hope they will make it good to me
even now. If they accept, please do the
needful, for I want the Dictionary very
much. Tell them to forward the
</u Tribune > in my name, and please to
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to file them.
</p>
<pre> Would you not like to furnish a
</pre>
<p>$5,000 or $10,000 Collection to the
S. D. A, College at Battle Creek, Mich ?
I am trying to educate them up to the
idea, and believe that if the thing is
properly taken hold of it can be done.
They want me to give them something and
in order to get a hold upon their affections
I have promised to do so. But ^we^ will </s will >
talk that matter over when I get
home.
</p>
<pre> We have 36 Orangs now.
</pre>
<p>Yours faithfully,
Wm T. Hornaday.
P. S. Where is the A. A. A. S. going to
meet next year, and when ? And tell
me why we should not have a hand in
that performance ? I have so many
places to work out without loss of time
that I </u can > am getting impatient to get
home. I am at present laboring under
the hallucination that if we lay our
heads properly together we can make
things hum, at least for a few minutes.
</p>
<pre> But you are always skeptical about my
</pre>
<p>projects for some reason I could never
understand. One thing is </u sure. > If that
"H. Collection " business is well washed
it will pan out in due season. We will
simply </u make > it pan out.
W. T. H.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></u Private P. S. > Strictly private.
</p>
<pre> Professor it occurs to me that if we work
</pre>
<p>things right from now on, we can
easily get up a big sensation over our
big Orangs, and thereby "put money in
thy purse" - and mine too mabe. My
idea is this: Let folks know we are getting
Orangs now. To this end I will sit right
down to write you by next mail a careful
& elaborate private letter about these
two "giant Orangs" in particular, making
it a trifle sensational perhaps, which
will do for the "Democrat". I will mention
the large number we are getting, in
such a way that you can easily strike it
out if you choose, as I daresay it will be
best to keep the fact of our large number
of Orangs as quiet as possible. Then
when you receive the Borneo collection
(of </u 50 Orangs) keep them snug & quiet
until I return, when they can be
brought out with a grand flourish of
trumpets as though I had brought them
with me , you know which will add
to the effect. Then we can set right
to work & mount. a very striking group
(of two, or three, of the largest & longest
haired fellows) getting it up very ar-
tistically & exactly from ^my^ sketches and
measurements & notes, exhibit it in
New York, get it pictured in Harpers
Weekly & generally talked about. I
tell you we can get up a very striking
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>group if done properly. This group
should be sold at once, and would
advertise your stock of Orangs far and
wide. It seems to me such a group
would fetch a fancy price. And all this
would also help the Book along to glory
i.e. a tenth edition. Now is our time
to make a regular stir, or it will be
when I get home, and if we lose the
opportunity we </s with > ^will^ both lose money,
that's all ! I long to see you shake the
skeletons of the </u Rajah > & the </u Maharajah >
at all Europe & telling them they're both
bigger than anything they've got.
</p>
<pre> I do think it would be wise to quit
</pre>
<p>pretty soon now, while the Expedition is
as well off as it is. As yet luck has
been only </u for > us, and if we go </u too > far
we must strike some bad luck and
lose money. I offer this as my private
Judgment, but at the same time stand
ready for anything. If this is the success
we have hoped for, we can scarcely hope
to go farther & fare better. But judging
from your previous letters I fully expect
to have to return home from Singapore.
Yours very sincerely.
W. T. H.
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<p>ybg Sarawak, Borneo Sept. 20th 1878. Editor </u Tribune >. Sent Twelve /$12 Dec 11 Dear Sir:</p>
<pre> The </u Semi-Weekly > of
</pre>
<p>July 2nd containing your offer to sub- scribers has just come to hand. I should be glad to give $10. for a 5 - years subscription to the </u Weekly Tribune > and a copy of the Dictionary you mention if it would be acceptable at this late date. I note that your offer holds good until Sept 1st only: but perhaps you may be willing to make an exception in my favor owing to the great distance I am from home, and this is the best I can do toward taking advantage of your very liberal offer.</p>
<pre> If you feel inclined to accept my
</pre>
<p>Ten Dollars for five years of the </u Weekly > and the Dictionary, please enclose a reply to that effect to Prof. Henry A. Ward. Rochester, N. Y. who will at once forward you the amt; - in which case please forward the Dictionary and the </u Weekly Tribune > to</p>
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<pre> I can tell you you have no
</pre>
<p>idea how the </u Tribune > is appreciated, or mentally </u devoured > I may say, here in the Jungles amongst the Orangutans and Long-nosed monkeys. It has followed me up and down for the last two years through many a "howling wilderness" and at times seems to be my last hold upon civilization. Yours very respectfully. Wm T. Hornaday.</p>
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Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
</u No.25 >
[Headquarters of this "Horn-
[aday Expeditio, Sadong River
[N. Borneo, Sept 14th 1878.
Dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> The work goes bravely on, and 'The
</pre>
<p>cry is, </u still> they come!" I arrived here , in the mias country
just a month ago today, and whether you believe it or not we
have got 31 Orangs, not counting babies! An average of one
Orang every day for a month, and ^yet^ they tell me it is not the
proper season for orangs. But I don't believe we can make as
good a showing at the end of the next 30 days, for I don't ^think^
the Orangs will hold out forever. We shall not stop
short of a good round 50 at all events. We are religiously
taking both skin & skeleton of every individual except babies, of
which we have two or three, As a rule very few bones are broken
and the majority of the large skeletons are almost absolutely
perfect. The skins cure beautifully, and the skeleton also for
that matter.
</p>
<pre> We made another trip up the Simujan since my pre-
</pre>
<p>vious letter, and on the way up we shot two fine </u ones > mias.
We me <./s a > t a Malay man who was also hunting mias, for a
gentleman in Sarawak & Just a half mile beyond where we
met him we shot a perfect giant Orang. It was our </.u luck >
to do it, the man said. I killed him in 3 shots. The man at
once declared he was the "Rajah mias" of all that country, &
they called him "Rajah Padang" then & ever after. by which
name he will go down to posterity - and Ward's Museum.
The above caricature is intended to represent him. He meas-
ured as follows. Height, head to heel, 4 ft 5 1/2 in. Spread of
arms 7 ft 10 3/4 in. Length of arm, from armpit to finger tips 3 ft 3 in.
circumference of neck 2 ft 3 3/4, ditto chest 3 ft 5 1/2, &e, &e. People
who saw him (natives) said he was the largest ever killed in
this country (i.e. Sadong valley). Two days after that I shot.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>another Orang & the day we came down I killed 4,
all small however. On the way down we overtook an old
Chinaman, one of my mias hunters, who had two dead
ones in his boat for me. On getting home we measured our
six Orangs amd con-found the luck! One of the old
Chinaman's orangs was </u 4 ft 6 inches > high, a good half inch
taller than our Rajah Padang. This cast quite a gloom over
us all, and I did not go out again after Orangs for some
days. It was really too disgusting, too bad altogether. But there
was no help for it, tape lines & figures don't lie, so we had to
name him the "Maharajah of Simujan", which is of course
greater than a plain Rajah. But his body was not so huge
nor his face so broad as the Rajah's were, after all. You know
Wallace argues that Borneo Orangs never exceed 4 ft 2 in, in
height. Judging from his own specimens & all others collected
by other naturalists up to the time he wrote his book. Now
give us room according to the size of our mias. And I
am more & more convinced as I go along that there is no
small species of Orang, no Simia morio. But on that point
we must go slow until the returns are all in.
</p>
<pre> I got one foetus, but alas! it had been shot through &
</pre>
<p>through & was so mutilated I threw it away. </u Hope > to get another.
Have put one nice little baby mias entire in spirits, and I
will before I quit preserve two or three large brains on the
chance of someone wanting them.
</p>
<pre> Have had no time to spare hunting monkeys and small
</pre>
<p>fry, but still we have taken in a few good things since I
sent off my list. Notably: 1 </u fine > Nasalis larvatus skin, 1
Faliopithecus ^variegatua^, skin very beautiful, 1 Pteromys skin, 1 Hylobates con-
color, skin & skel, 1 Lemur (Stenops) tardigradus , skin (& skel), 1
Presbytes, skin, 2 Argus giganteus, male 1 skin, 1 skel. 2 vivema, skels.
1 Felis (!) (small tiger.cat) skin. 1 Skull of 12 foot Crocodilus
porosus, & the usual complement of snakes, &e Have also
6 Orang skulls brought in by natives @ 50 cts each for
large perfect ones. I buy </u all > I can get hold of, good & bad,
the bad ones to put in skins when stuffed. I will give you
the height of the orangs, one by one, got since my last
letter taken in regular order from No 11 to No 31
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>No. 12. 3 ft 10 3/4 in. I think you must have received my
No. 13. 4 " 5 1/2 " telegram </s about > yesterday, or perhaps before.
No. 14. 3 " 8 " I believe it </s has been > ^is^ just six weeks since
No. 15. 3 " 9 " I recd a letter from you, one coming from
No. 16. 2 " 6 3/4 " Fred meanwhile in which he me^n^tions the receipt
No. 17. 3 " 2 1/8 " of my Ceylon list two weeks previous. Are you
No. 18. 4 " 6 " </u never > going to send me any percussion primers?
No. 19. 2 " 11 1/2 " The first lot was sent clear ahead of me, tho
No. 20. 3 " 8 1/4 " authorities doubtless found out the contents
No. 21. 4 " 2 3/4 " of your black-walnut package - and de-
No. 22. 3 " 1 3/4 " stroyed the lot, of course. If you had taken
No. 23. 3 " 5 1/4 " the caps out of the boxes. rolled them up in
No. 24. Baby. cotton & put them in the inside of newspapers,
No. 25. 4 fr 3 " as I suggested. I feel sure I would have
No. 26. 4 " 1 1/2 " them now. Now my fine old monkey killer,
No. 27. 3 " 6 " the No 10 double-barrel is quietly laid aside
No. 28. 3 " 8 3/4 " because I have only 70 percussion primers
No. 29. 4 " 0 " left, and I must treasure them up for the
No. 30 4 " 1/4
No 31 3 " 5 1/2
rifle cartridges & Orangs. When they are gone -, well I will have the
pleasure of shooting slugs out of an old musket, or else not
shoot atall. If you had only been persevering enough to have sent
three or four different lots of primers as that </u one > at least would
surely have reached me what a difference it would make now!
On our last trip up the river we actually passed by scores of
Proboscis monkeys, Macaques & Presbytes, passed within gunshot
and simply could not afford to fire at them. And I can tell
you that a common gun, such as my hunter has, won't kill at
more than </u half > the distance my big gun does.
more than </u half > the distance my big gun does.
</p>
<pre> I have $184. left, about enough for another month.
</pre>
<p>By the end of that time I daresay my future will be
known, or suspected at any rate? Wouldn't it be best to
jump Java, Macassa, & Amboyna altogether, and quit with the
Archipelago while our credit is good? And how about Aus-
tralia? For my part I should be quite willing - nay more
than willing; </u anxious > to go almost directly to Australia from
Singapore. And if it were not for the awful idea of reaching
home in the dead of winter & thereby literally freezing to death
some fine morning, I wouldn't object to going home as soon as
we are done with Borneo. Perhaps that will be the programme
anyhow. But at all events, remember that I am "game"
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>for anything you want done on this side of the world, whether
it be Java, Amboyna, the Aru Islands, Australia or even
New Zealand. Excuse me for talking so much about what
we are likely to do in the future, for a am a trifle interested
in that subject you know. I wonder how many Orangs you
are going to want to supply the present generation, and also the
succeeding one. If Orangs were only legal tender, now !
</p>
<pre> I'm a little afraid this swamp-wading and vegetating
</pre>
<p>in mud will give me the fever by and by. For instance, I
have been feeling a little seedy since getting in this morning
from killing No 31, so I've given it to the boys to skin,
along with No 30, brought in by a Malay. I don't like the
young ones, but take them on principle, and besides you know
Owen's Sinia Morio is supposed to be only a little over 3 feet
high. But if I am not mistaken we will in due time pro-
ceed to knock the bottom out of the Sinia Morio, in which
performance Orangs of all sizes will come handy. At present
mu motto is - "All's fish that come to my net."
</p>
<pre> I hope to hear from you by next mail.
Yours very sincerely
</pre>
<p>Wm T. Hornaday.
P. S. Sept 16th A mail just received, and nothing yet
from you. The next mail is a fortnight hence.
</u Hornaday >
Sept. '78
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</u No 24. ? Simujan River. N. Borneo.
August </u 20th > 1878.
Dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> I've been having grand success in
</pre>
<p>hunting Orangs lately, and am tempted to go a little
into particulars about it, as I feel sure anything about the
Orang utan will be of interest to you. Before I had been here
a week I met an old Dyak who had just come down from
the interior, and among other things he told me that orangs
were plentiful near his village away up the river and that
by going up I would be sure to get two or three ^orangs^ in as many
days. I decided to make a little expedition at once up to
the place he mentioned and set out last Sunday week.
We took two boats, both of them small & light. One was a
broad steady boat, with no load, three men to paddle and
with the decks cleared for action. </s At the tow > I sat in the
middle of the boat with my rifle, fowling -piece, cartridges &
field glass handy, and our business was to lead the way &
kill whatever we came to. The other boat coming behind us
was provided with a roof & contained all the luggage and my
faithful </s Chine > Heathen Chinese cook & right hand man besides
two men to paddle.
</p>
<pre> We kept on up the river until we began to see Orang
</pre>
<p>nests, and then we kept a very bright lookout. I must tell
you that an Orang builds a big shambling nest nearly every
night unless he returns to an old one. They are very rude
affairs, nothing but piles of small leafy branches, about 2 to
3 ft in diameter, Often they are placed within 20 ft of
the ground, in the top of small saplings. We passed a great
many of these nests, mostly old, and every object was,
closely scrutinized to see if we couldn't turn out an Orang.
At last about 10 o'clock in the day we saw one on a tree
a hundred yards ahead of us, a real live Orang utan. How
my heart throbbed! But he twigged us as quickly as we
did him & hid himself in the thick leaves of a huge
creeper that encircled the trunk of the tree. We paddled
up as fast as possible but couldn't see a thing until we
got right opposite the tree, when we saw a huge, red,
hairy arm encircling the trunk. As I could do no better
I drew up & sent a bullet through the arm, and then
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>the old fellow discovered himself & began to make off.
I quickly reloaded & fired again and then the men
put on all steam & drove the boat as fast as possible
into the water palms that grew thickly in the water all
along the margin of the river on both sides. I should have
told you that the river had become very narrow, the current
was swift and the land on all sides completely submerged.
</s Any > Along either margin grew a deep fringe of water
palms (don't know the name of it year), with stems as thick
as a man's arm & continues growing in 20 feet of water.
Their stems were thickly set with spines, and altogether they
were very much of a nuisance.
</p>
<pre> But we rammed the boat into them which cleared a
</pre>
<p>way like a wedge & grasping the yielding stems we tug-
ged frantically pushed them aside & pulled the boat along
as far as possible. I am bound to say all hands were greatly
excited, in a regular fever in fact to get on land before the
"mias" (</s native > common name here for Orang utan) could get
clean away. At last we came to a dead stop, the boat was
jammed fast. Directly I grabbed my rifle and went into
the water. There was not a speck of land in sight anywhere,
but after swimming a few strokes I touched bottom and
waded along toward where the big trees grew. Two of the
Malays were close beside me & we waded along up to our
necks in water toward the tree on which we had last seen
the Orang. (N. B. It is a mighty thing when hunting
orangs to have a rifle, brass cartridges and a big Waltham
</s wad > watch that will stand any amount of water. My
cartridges never miss fire no matter how deep the water is).
</p>
<pre> We surged along, going miserably slow of course, until the
</pre>
<p>Malays pointed upward, and there sure enough was the Orang.
He was swinging himself slowly from one tree to another.
& I instantly fired. He seemed to wake up wonderfully at
that shot, & directly he swung himself along underneath
a long bare branch as a man swings himself along a
tight rope. We had a good view of him, and I am sure
he reached 6 feet every reach. His front was toward us,
& I fired again, & sent a bullet very near his heart.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Then he stopped short and let go with his left hand
which fell down at his side & reached fully to his knee.
And there he hung by his right hand, almost motionless,
& with his face toward us, while we stood waist deep in
water & looked up at him. He was about 50 feet above us.
Presently his hold gave way, </s and > he came crashing and
tearing down through the branches & fell in the water with
a tremendous splash. He was still alive, the Malays rushed
at him yelling & hacking at him with their stout parongs
& before I could stop them one had </s and > made an ugly slash
across the orang's breast. The old fellow flung his long
arms wildly about, struggled in the water & gnashed his huge
black teeth at us, growling hoarsely in his throat, But he was
done for, after a moment or two he settled down quietly in
the water. & </u my first Orang > was dead.
</p>
<pre> He was a large one - not the largest however - but still
</pre>
<p>a fine large specimen. His height was 4 feet, and it was 7 feet 3
inches between the tips of the fingers. What an ever-lasting, double-
geared hug he could have given a fellow with those tremen-
dous long arms! But we took him in tow and waded
& swam back to the boat, tumbled him into ^the^ luggage
boat, hurrahed a time or two and went on. </s Before night >
we went on up the river & before night had bagged </u two
more > orangs in just about the same way, only we didn't
have to swim for them. We pursued the same tactics pre-
cisely, firing at first sight & disabling them so they couldn't
run away, & then wading painfully to them. For the third one
we had to wade nearly 50 yards neck-deep in water through
a </s g > dense growth of those water palms, which was worse
than swimming would have been. They are good for nothing
towards helping a fellow along; and when one is wading
up to his shoulders & gets his feet tangled in creepers and
comes against stems fallen </s in > crosswise in the water it
isn't pleasant. But what does that amount to when we
get </u 3 orange in one day! > Such a thing had never been
done before by native or white man, and it astonished even
the natives. Long live the Hornaday Expedition! and Ward's
Museum forever, don't you say so?
</p>
<pre> Well, the next day was spent at a Dyak house skin-
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ning & skeletonizing orangs. Of course we finished the
three nicely, & the day following we started to return. </u Will >
you believe when I tell you that we killed three more
orangs that day, besides catching a young one alive? We
did just that, and very easily too. The first one I shot
dead without getting out of the boat. Then we found two
old ones & a young one feeding together, the old ones died to
quick music & the young one fell into the water with its
mother, so that we secured it. Then we started for home
& putting on all steam we came down with the current fair-
ly flying. We wanted to get home & to a good comfortable
skinning place. We reached home before daylight of the
day following, and after a little </s ? & > gin & suooze all
round got up with the crows & went to work on the three
dead orangs. The little one was out of sorts & seemed de-
termined to bite as ^many^ pieces out of me as possible; It left one scar
pn my arm which I </us said I > ^determined^ would carry with me to its
grave (And I did.)
</p>
<pre> We were working away as gaily as possible when about
</pre>
<p>9 A. M. there was a shout from my men at work under the
house, and the Chinamen turned the corner with a fine
dead orang slung on a pole between them. I said, "There's
luck!" paid the money and joyfully nipped up the orang.
At 10 A. M. there was another shout, and louder, and a
party of Dyaks came panting up with </u another > orang, and
a little bigger! I said "Glorious! Five Orangs to skin in one
day. Was there </u ever > such luck!" And I paid more money
& measured the orang. About noon there was a perfect
yell, a regular war-whoop & shouting & laughing by the
men under the house & all about & may I never see Ward's
Museum again if a party of Malays didn't stagger up with
the biggest orang of all! It fairly rained orangs and we
could scarcely believe our senses. Six dead orangs in one day!
Just then the little one became so carried away with the
excitement that </u it died >, which made - </u seven orangs to
skin & skeletonize in one day !! >
</p>
<pre> "Seven in all." she said.
And wondering lookt at me"
</pre>
<p>Yes, we </u were > seven for a fact. The oldest inhabitant had
never </u dreamed > of such a thing before, and the villagers
came & stared with open mouths. Didn't I tell you
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>we could depend on my infallible </u luck >? And this isn't the
first season, the natives say, or I might have had a great many
more!
</p>
<pre> Well, that day </u we worked. >I bribed some natives to help
</pre>
<p>us clean bones & carry away meat, & for two days we were in a
perfect chaos of skins, bones, flesh, blood & viscera. It was the
most fun I have had since we took the skin & skeleton of an
elephant. At the end of the second day nine skins & nine skeletons
wave triumphantly in the breeze, & the skin of the little 'un
reposed calmly in the spirit can. </s Th > Ten Orangs in five
days is what I call good luck, and if anybody can see that
& go one better let them try, that's all. Yesterday we were so
fortunate as to get another fine one. Specimens of all kinds
are coming in, and as the folks say in meetin', "I feel that
it is good for me to be here."
</p>
<pre> It rains here, misery on us how it rains! Every Jungle
</pre>
<p>with orange in it is under water and if we don't all get
the fever with this continual slopping about in water & much
it will be a mercy, that's all. The natives declare the orangs get
fever regularly, & I am half inclined to think there may
be something in it. I am comfortably housed every way
have 2 good boys. The natives are kind. The weather is cool, &
the musquitos are not </u too > bad, and I'm making a big &
valuable collection. You will be surprised when you see it,
cool as you are mostly. Day after tomorrow we start on
another trip up the river & will visit some new localities
& get 6 or 7 more orangs. I shall not leave here with less
than 25 good Orangs, and I expect to have even more
than that. Sen Piceari got 24, and have I not vowed to
snow every previous naturalist completely under? Verily. I'll
do it
</p>
<pre> Now I must close & make out a list of specimens for
</pre>
<p>this month, which you will find enclosed. I am in excellent
health & fine spirits & </u hard at work >. Kindest regards to all
the family & friends & believe me
Yours as sincerely as ever,
Wm T. Hornaday
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>P. S. I have made up my mind to write Messrs
Martin, Dyce & Co. by this mail and have them send
you a telegram at once saying "Ten big Orangs. Getting
more." I think the news will be worth to you all it
will cost, as it may help you a great deal in planning
for our immediate future. I add the two words "getting
more" to save you all anxiety about my further proceedings
and to show you that I have no fears of getting too many
orangs. I shall stay here as long as my money lasts.,
and if you want me to stay longer you will have to
send some more funds. If at any time you want me to
go direct to Australia or any other place before a letter
could reach me you need only telegraph the name of the
place. And if you say "home" I will understand that too.
</p>
<pre> I enclose Expense Account for August. W. T. H.
</pre>
<p>I told you in my previous note that I had a </u Sunia
morio.. > It was a mistake. The one I have (we have two
now) are what Owen calls </u Sinia Wurmbii, > I had
thought he gave the name </u Morio > to this big one, but
I find I was mistaken. I do not believe there is any
third species, or </u Simia Morio. > I believe the </u morio > is
nothing but either young or dwarfed S. Satyrus, In
fact the classification of the orangs seems to be very
much mixed up, and I shall </u try > to get to the bottom
of it on my own book before I get through. You see I
have no </u books > on the subject. W. T. H.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> </u List of Specimens >
</pre>
<p>Collected in Borneo for Ward's Natural Science Estab-
</p>
<pre> lishment, by the Hornaday Expedition. Aug. 1878.
</pre>
<p>____________________________________________________________
No Height. Skins Skels Skulls
</p>
<hr /> ------------ ------------------------------
<p>1 Simia Satyrus (Mias rombi) : 4 ft 4 1/4 in male 1 1
1 Simia Weirmibu "Mias diappau"): 4 " 2 1/2 " male 1 1
1 Simia Satyrus ("Mias rhombi"): 4 " 0 " female 1 1
1 Simia Wierudid ('Mias diappau"): 3 " 10 1/4" male 1 1
1 Simia Satyrus ('Mias rombi"): 3 " 10 " male 1 1
1 Simia Satyrus ('Mias rombi"): 3 " 8 " female 1 1
1 Simia Satyrus " " 3 ' 7 1/2 female 1 1 skeleton damaged
1 Simia Satyrus " " 3 " 4 1/2 female 1 1
1 Simia Satyrus " " 3 " 4 female 1 1 skel. badly damaged
1 Simia Satyrus " " 3 " 3 1/2 female 1 1 ditto
1 Simia Satyrus " " baby 4 months old 1 in spirits
2 Simia Satyrus " " 2
1 Nasalis larratus (Proboscis Monkey:"Blanda"): - - - - 1
1 Macacus nemestrinus. ("Broque") - - - - - - - 1
1 Macacus sp ("Crab") - - - - - - - 2 1
1 Presbytes sp ("Bijit"): - - - - - - - 1
1 Lutra simang (Otter): - - - - - - - 1
5 Tragulus Jarauicus . (Mouse Deer: "Plandah"): - - - 2 3
1 Rusa Aristolelis (?) ("Rusa"): male - - - - - 1
2 Manis Javauica (Scaly Ant eater): one young in spirits & 1
3 Sciurus - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
1 Sus barbatus. (Wild hog): male - - - - - - - - 1
1 Pteropus funereus - - - - - - - - - - - 1
1 Cistudo (?) sp Box Turtle - - - - - - - 1
4 Testudo sp. - - - - - - - - - - - 2 2
1 Aspiddonectes (?) sp. (Soft-shelled turtle): In spirits
4 - - - - spring turtles. new & very fine, " "
3 - - - - Box turtles - - - - - - - 1 2
2 - - - - (Like >/u Podocnemis > ); 2 all bones present
1 Crocodiles porosus 11 ft. - - - - - - - - 1
1 Hydrosaurus 3 ft 4 in. 1 in spirits
1 Boa Constrictor 12 ft - - - - - - - - 1
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>1 Buceros rhinoceros > skull (to complete Salangore skeleton)
1 Buceros sp. skin.
10 gallons of fresh-water fishes, snakes, turtles, small
</p>
<pre> bats, beetles, rats, slugs, toads, frogs, long-armed prawns,
eels, scorpions, centipedes and other abominations in
spirits.
</pre>
<p></u Hornaday >
Aug. '78
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> CORRESPONDENCE.
</pre>
<hr />
<p>THE SARAWAK MUSEUM.
</em To the Editor of the Sarawak Gazette. >
</p><p>Sir, - I note with pleasure the fact that it
is already proposed to have a "Sarawak
Museum," and we must set it down to the
credit of the Government that the desirabi-
pity of having a Museum is acknowledged at
this early date. Singapore is in this respect
many years "behind the times," inasmuch as
she is only now beginning her Museum. In
these days of International Exhibitions, Ex-
hibitions of Art and Industry, Exhibitions
great and Exhibitions small, it behoves every
country to </em exhibit > her resources and industries
or be left behind in the race.
</p>
<pre> Australia is attracting thousands of emigrants
</pre>
<p>and scores of capitalists simply by vigor-
ous and judicious displaying of her minerals,
soils and agricultural products at Inter-
national Exhibitions. At Philadelphia she
had a vast collection of good water-color
drawings, showing her plains, forest and mines
so beautifully that one could not help wishing
to go there and settle. Indeed it is unneces-
sary to urge the benefits which a new country,
possessing such undeveloped riches as Borneo.
can secure by means of well-selected exhibits
at the places where nations meet to compare
notes.
</p>
<pre> Sarawak should have a Museum, and a large
</pre>
<p>one. It should be so complete an index to all
Borneo that the traveller or capitalist could
take in its vast resources at a glance. A com-
plete display of all the Bornean minerals, all
the soils, the rocks, the valuable woods and
plants, the agricultural products and native
manufactures would so attract the intelligent
capitalist and the needy emigrant and so
facilitate the work of investigation that Bor-
neo would, I firmly believe, presently become
a second Ceylon.
</p>
<pre> In every new country a Museum is </em the > load-
</pre>
<p>stone to which every inquiring visitor is ir-
resistibly drawn, and when he finds there good
specimens of just what he wishes most to see,
he is ten times more interested in the country
than if he were obliged to hunt up and down
for its resources and probably never see more
than the half of them.
[vertically in the left margin
"prepared by request."]
</p>
<pre> I wish to urge upon every Officer of the
</pre>
<p>Sarawak Government the great desirability
of establishing forthwith and continually add-
ing to the "Sarawak Museum." I will even
presume as far, in the interest of Museums
generally, as to suggest that every Officer from
the greatest to the least, be put under constant
contribution to this end. That it might be a
Museum of of Science and Industries, or in other
words, of Natural History, and Agriculture
Manufactures and Ethnology. The depart-
ment of Natural History if complete would I
think astonished even the natives. It might
easily contain the finest collection of Orang
Utans in the world, showing the mounted skin,
skeleton, and skull, male and female, of each
species, a collection which would be worth a
trip to Borneo to see, It should contain, in
course of time, specimens of every species of
Mammal, Bird, Reptile and Fish found in Bor-
neo, </s and > ^to^ say nothing here of Invertebrates.
It should contain a complete series of the rocks,
minerals and fossils, and the more insects and
plants the better.
</p>
<pre> The Industrial Department should contain
</pre>
<p>specimens of the grains, fruits, fibres and
manufactures,</em particularly all the sources of
revenue >, and specimens of the arms, ornaments
and household utensils of each of the Dyaks
tribes. A series of </em skulls > from all the differ-
ent tribes ought to draw Prof. Owen all the
way from London to Kuching.
</p>
<pre> If the Sarawak Government should enter
</pre>
<p>heart and soul into the work of building up
such a Museum, a grand collection could be
got^ten^ up at the minimum of expenses. One ener-
getic and well trained scientist as Director or
Curator, with native assistants could do all
the work in the Museum, and the Government
Officers, as so many collecting naturalists,
could do the rest. The Director would be the
man to get up exhibits for foreign display.
We honestly believe that bread cast upon </s the > ^such^
waters would return before many days. "some
forty, some sixty, and some a hundred fold;"
that the result would be a great stride towards
developing the riches of Sarawak by attract-
ting the attention of the capitalist, the emigrant
and the traveller.
</p>
<pre> All of which is respectfully submitted.
Wm. T. HORNADAY.
--------------------------
CROCODILES IN AMERICA.
</pre>
<p></em To the Editor of the Sarawak Gazette. >
</p><p>SIR,--I notice in your issue of October 7th
a letter copied from the </em Straits Times > on the
subject of Crocodiles and Alligators. The
writer falls into such a broad error in refer-
ring to the geographical distribution of his
Saurions that I really must offer a correction.
We can easily forgive people for not knowing
the differences between crocodiles and alliga-
tors, but for their believing there're no crock-
diles in America -- no, never. The writer
sets forth the differences between the families
so clearly and carefully that his error on lo-
calities deserves careful correction. He says;
</p>
<pre> "Next I must explain the difference be-
</pre>
<p>tween the crocodiles, which are found in
Africa and Asia only, and the alligators, which
are only found in America. * * * * No
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are found only in the old, and alligators in
the new world."
</p>
<pre> There are at </s last > ^least^ three species, four accord-
</pre>
<p>ing to the classification of some naturalists, of
the true crocodile widely distributed through-
out the Northern part of south America, the
West </s of > Indies, Central America, and one gets
even so far north as Florida.. I have myself
taken many specimens of the </em Crocodilus Acu-
tus >, twelve feet long and under, in the Orino-
co River, S. A., a few of the </em Crocodilus Acu-
tus > , twelve feet long and under, in the Orino-
co River, S. A., a few of the </em Crocodilus
Rhorabifer > in Cuba, and the first specimens
ever taken of the new species Crocodilus
Floridanus lately discovered in Florida. U. S.
the largest of which was 14 feet </s s > in length, and
^is^ </s dale > now in the National Museum at Washing-
ton.
</p>
<pre> There is also a species of crocodile in ^Northern^ </s North >
</pre>
<p>^and North ^ </s and South >-Eastern Australia, of which indi-
viduals grow to an immense size, and we in-
tend to study them presently with the rifle
and skinning knife.
</p>
<pre> The writer of the </em Times' > letter says truly
</pre>
<p>that "Alligators are found in the new world
only," and if th<?s is > ^e^ public mind would only en-
deavour grasp that significant and simple little
fact we should be spared the torture of hearing
the largest crocodiles in the world called alli-
gators. True it is a compliment to the real
alligator, but it is a mistake for all that.
</p>
<pre> The Nile crocodile is not, as so many sup-
</pre>
<p>pose, the only one by any means, but is only
one out of about eleven or twelve species.
</p>
<pre> COLLECTING NATURALIST.
</pre>
<hr />
<p>[vertically on the left margin=
"a native printer"]
</p>
<pre> SARAWAK REGATTA.
1879.
_____:o:______
</pre>
<p>Kuching, Wednesday, 1st January.
</p>
<pre> _____:o:______
PROGRAMME
</pre>
<p>___________________________________
Names of boats. Flags. Owners.
__________________________________
</em Ayer Zem Zem. > Dark Blue. Mrs. Crocker
</em Bujang Bungkas. > Light Blue. Hon. Wm. Crocker.
</em Sapu Rantau. > St. Andrew's J. Hardie, Esq.
</p>
<pre> Cross.
</pre>
<p></em Bujang Kilat. > . . B.C.L.'s House Do.
</p>
<pre> flag.
</pre>
<p></em Api Naraka. > . . White Moon Mr. W. Sinclair
</p>
<pre> and Star, Red
ground.
</pre>
<p></em Ayer Angat. > . . Red and Blue. Mr. Usup
_____________________________________________
</p>
<pre> JUDGES
Mr. W. G. BRODIE
THE DATU BANDAR
________
STEWARDS
CAPT. RODWAY.
DR. E. P, HOUGHTON.
MR. O. C. St. JOHN
CAPT. KIRJ
THE DATU TUMANGGONG.
</pre>
<pre> </em Course > - - Start from Tanah Putih,
</pre>
<p>and up to Winning post at Astana.
</p>
<pre> 1st prize 8 drs [ 2nd prize 4 drs
_________
SECOND RACE
</em Boats any size.> -- Crew limited to 8
</pre>
<p>men.
</p>
<pre> </em Course.>--Start from Winning post,
</pre>
<p>round Buoy at Datu Bandar's, and
back to winning post.
</p>
<pre> 1st prize 6 drs. [ 2nd prize 4 drs.
_______________
</pre>
<pre> THIRD RACE
</em Boats any size. > --Crews limited to
</pre>
<p>3 men.
</p>
<pre> </em Course. > --Same as 2nd Race.
1st prize 3 drs. [ 2nd prize 1 dr.
__________
FOURTH RACE
</em Subscription Cup. > --Value $100. For
</pre>
<p>boats any size. Crews unlimited.
Owner of winning boat to get the Cup.
Entrance $2.
</p>
<pre> </em Course. > - Same as 1st Race.
1st prize (for crew) 30 drs.
2nd " " 15 "
________
</em An interval for breakfast ---Racing
will be resumed at 1 p.m. >
_______
FIFTH RACE
</em Canoes >.--One man in each.
</em Course > --Start from Astana round
H. H.'s Aline, and back to Winning
post.
1st prize 3 drs { 2nd price 1.50
3rd prize 50 cents.
++++++++++
SIXTH RACE.
</em The Rajah's Prize. > --Cup value 25 pounds.
Boats any size, crews unlimited. Win-
</pre>
<p>ner of the "Supbsciption Cup" han-
dicapped by the Stewards according
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></u No 23. > Simujan River, Borneo
</p>
<pre> Aug. 21st 1878.
Oct 24
</pre>
<p>My dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> Long live the Hornaday Ex-
</pre>
<p>pedition! ! and never say die! For we've
got </u ten orangs > in </u five days >, which
is only the beginning of hostilities. I
am too wretchedly tired to write you
all about it this time, but must at
all hazards get off a line to you with
the news by the boat that leaves early
tomorrow morning. It has been detained
12 hours on purpose to carry this letter
to catch this week's steamer. Since sun-
rise this morning my two boys & I, with
a little Malay assistance ^have^ taken the
complete skins & skeletons of 4 Orangs.
Last Sunday I shot 3 Orangs and
Monday we took the skins & skeletons
in spite of the rain. Tuesday (yester-
day) I shot 3 more Orangs & caught
a young one alive (which died today.)
And today 3 dead Orangs were
brought me, one by Chinamen, one by
Malays, one by Dyaks. So now we have
7 prepared nicely, and three more are
laying over until tomorrow. Four of
the lot are </u large > and two are larger
than any Wallace got, being over 4 ft 2
inches in height, </s Four > Five are medium,
and one is a baby. One of the largest ones
is </u Simia Morio > , the rest are </u S. Satyrus,>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>The whole country is up in arms
against the mias and if there is a
single one living in this country when
I go away it will be a wonder. You
see when I put on my war-paint &
take my little rifle & start out the
mias begin to look sick. No white
man or native has ever before been
known to kill three mias in one day.
& yet your illustrious "Western friend"
has done it on two occasions with a
live young one thrown in. My good
luck astonishes even the natives for the
oldest inhabitant cannot remember
of any ^other^ white man raking in ten
mias in four days as I have, nor
anything like it. I told the folks
when I came to Sarawak that I
proposed to completely snow under
ever other naturalist who had ever
been here.
</p>
<pre> You see I have made a little
</pre>
<p>expedition up to the head waters of
a certain branch of the Simujan
River and I happened to strike it
exactly right for mias. I told you
we might trust to my infalliable
</u luck > !
</p>
<pre> I have made up my mind to send
</pre>
<p>you a cable message about Orangs
as soon as I get a few more big
ones. Will have to write it to Sing-
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>apore & have it sent from there.
If you send any to me they will be
forwarded to me by mail.
</p>
<pre> This is a fine place for collecting
</pre>
<p>every way considered. Living is cheap,
help is cheap. specimens </u cheap > and
</u plentiful >. I pay $5.00 each for </u big >
Orngs freshly killed. smaller ones
in proportion. Will get a good lot
of Nasalis larvatus, Macacus nemes-
trinus, Hylobates ^concology^ </s her ? >, Many other
monkeys, Busceros, some </u large > Pteropus,
Pteromys, perhap a few five </u sue >
barbatus, </u very > interesting, besides tur-
tles (have 3 species, 12 specimens already)
fresh water fishes, & c. Look out for
the August list of Specimeus. perhaps
by next mail.
</p>
<pre> Now I must close, for I am too
</pre>
<p></s of > awfully tired to write more. By
next mail I will write you a letter
on Orang fit for a newspaper, </u per-
haps . >
</p>
<pre> Hadn't I better strike direct for
</pre>
<p>Australia & the Angongs as soon as I
get back to Singapore? I think is
would be best, provided there is money
provided. If Australia, telegraph
"Australia." I think we had better
give up Java & Aruboyna, & not
tempt Providence too far. If Bor-
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up in good style, with a grand flour-
isn of trumpets.
</p>
<pre> Have had no mail since leaving
</pre>
<p>Singapore, but expect a mail daily
now. Health tip-top, in spite of wading
up to my neck in water & even
swimming after Orangs.
Yours very sincerely,
Wm T. Hornaday.
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</u No 22. > </u At last > - SARAWAK, BORNEO.
</p>
<pre> August 5th 1878.
</pre>
<p>My dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> At last after much tribulation
</pre>
<p>the promised land is reached, and nat-
urally enough my first letter is to the man
who got me here. Once more, and for the
</u third > time, I have reached the "height of
my ambition." It would seem by this that
my ambition has never soared very high !
Well. I have tried to keep it within the
bounds of possibility, to let it soar no
higher than I could climb by hard work,
mainly of the </u muscular > kind. And yet I
take notice that but for my good luck
in falling in with you and casting my
lot with Ward's Natural Science Estab-
lishment I might at the present mo-
ment be a long, long ways from Borneo
after all, work or no work. A great many
people attribute all their success to their
own smartness and aled their failures to their
"bad </u luck >". I believe I am more honest than
that comes to, for I assert under all circum-
stances that my success of late years is
due as much to my </u good luck > as to my
own efforts, Whatever happens hereafter </u I >
shall always feel that the program of
this expedition has been fully carried out,
for we did enough </u more > in India to com-
pensate for the loss of Australia, don't you
think so? After Borneo I can go home with -
out a single sigh, for it would be sheer
ingratitude to sigh for anything more
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>after being allowed to do Borneo to my
hearts content. I tell you the farther I
go the brighter things look here, Instead
of valuable ^specimens^ </u decreasing > as I approach, the
way they used to in that miserable South
America, they keep </u increasing. > I hear
of new things, which will be of </u great > use
to us, things which are not down in the
books atall: - for instance, these wild hogs,
more like </u deer > than hogs, sometimes 30
inches to 3 ft. height at the shoulders. And
here are </u 12 > species of monkeys & apes, &
the </u biggest > crocodiles I ever heard of. Why
Wallace ought to have his head punched for
not telling about all these things. He ought
to be ashamed of himself. The </u Mecistops
Journeie" > is here - I knew it before, but I
was never made to realize it, and sixteen =
foot </u Crocodilus porosus > are common as
dirt apparently? at any rate the British
Resident has the skulls of two kicking
about his croquet ground. - too much dam-
aged to be of use to us. And I'm told
there is a </u Pristis > saw in the Chinese Joss
house here seven feet long or thereabouts !
I'm bound to have that if I have to
steal it. And I'm also bound to get a
16 - foot crocodile </u if possible > before I
leave here, and figure it in the book with
a man standing beside it just to show
what poor feeble worms of the dust we
are, compared with a </s t > really </u big > crock.
Just wait till I get over to the upper
Sadong where the big crocks are ! And
don't you want a lot of nests of the edible
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>swallow? I know you do. Just trust to
me, that's all. And don't you want about
20 </u Dyak heads >, taken from the head-takers?
I know you do. Well, its a job to get them,
and we may succeed in getting some, and
then again we may not. In your answer to
this, please tell me the highest price we can
afford to give "per head." They might cost
$5. or $10. apiece, as you know a Dyak head
prepared </u a la mode > is a mighty rare
thing even here. Did you ever see one in a
Museum? I never did. A man just arrived
from London tells me Jamrach offered him
2 pounds. apiece for some. Now, would you care
to invest $100. or $200. in Dyak heads, & if
so how many would you want for each
hindred dollars. I believe I could get some
if you wouldn't mind standing the expense.
But I tell you now that if I ever can get
any at not more than an average cost of
$5. each I shall get some </u sure >, depend
upon it.
</p>
<pre> I never felt surer of my wages on a
</pre>
<p>Saturday night than I now feel of
getting a lot of Orangs. They've just </u got
to come >, for they're in the Sadong country,
and all I've got to do is get them. I
feel it in my bones that its going to be
no fool of a job, no child's play by a
long chalk, for the first season is over in
the parts where the mias are commonly seen,
and they have very likely gone off to more
remote parts where more fruit is. I had
feared this all along, but there was no
help for it. I knew all along that March
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>and April </s was > ^were^ the months for fruit, but
just then I was in Ceylon. I was not atall,
surprised on being told when I arrived
here that the fruit season was over, that I
would have to find out where the mias had
gone & follow them up. All I ask is to
be told with certainty </u about > where they
are, and wherever they are I will go there.
But the Sadong Country is they place. Everybody
even to the smallest child says so.
</p>
<pre> Sarawak is </u quite > a pretentious town.
</pre>
<p>well built & well laid out. 30 miles up the
Sarawak River, and is the coolest place I
ever visited in the tropics. Singapore is much
cooler than Ceylon in winter, and Borneo is cooler than
Singapore. But it rains here awfully. No
such thing as a day without rain. All the
country below this is flat & swampy, covered
with nipa palms & mangroves and here the
high ground begins. I was surprised to
find Sarawak such a pretty town. There
are a goodly number of Europeans . All
young Englishmen without a single exception,
and very nice fellows they are too, all of
them. All are anxious to do a turn for ye
vagabond naturalist, and the British Resident,
Mr Crocker, has taken me in charge as
naturally as though he were American
Consul. Do you know Englishmen, as a class
improve </u wonderfully > on getting this side of
the Mediteranean ? Well it seems to me
that they do. In the Jungles out here (i.e.
in the </u Orient >) they are as good-hearted and
companionable a set of fellows as heart could wish.
</p>
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</pre>
<p>Hurrah for the W. N. S. E.! I am told
I am the first American Naturalist who has
ever visited Borneo, or at least within the
memory of the present generation. If any
</u have > ever visited Borneo before they kept it
so quiet that no one found it out. Well,
I shall give them cause to remember we
hereafter in one way or another, for contempt
is, to me, more acceptable than indifference.
Have not called upon His Highness the
Rajah as yet, but I saw him as he went
down the River this morning at half past zix
on his Gun boat, the "Aline." The Rajah likes
America I am told because our Gov't was the
first of all to recognize his father. Sir
James Brook as </u Rajah >.
</p>
<pre> On my arrival here the Rajah's arms
</pre>
<p>opened to receive me and I was received
therin ! Fact, as true as I live, and I am
still there. Board & lodging $2.00 per day.
and very comfortable at that. There are
Proboscis monkeys (in limited numbers)
within </u 3 miles > of Sarawak quite comata-
ble I am told, and I propose tot devote
about 4 days to them while waiting for a
schooner which is going round to Sadong.
Today I couldn't go after monkeys, be-
cause I couldn't find a man who knows
where they are. Tonight a man arrived who
had been sent for by the Resident, and I
shall hire him right along to act as guide.
Dyak interpreter & regular hunter & collector.
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naturalist named Xanthis, and will cer-
tainly be of much use to me. I brought over
a Portugese lad as a regular hunter, and
be</s en > ^tween^ us all it will be a great wonder if
we don't come out with a big collection.
My China boy is a perfect treasure, for
with a boy like him I can do just double
as much as I could with a bad one. Now
that I have more help I am going to collect
more abundantly of everything. My main
ideas are 1st to get a lot of Orangs, 2nd
to make a big collection of mammals, as
complete a series as possible. 3rd as complete a
series as possible of fishes & alcoholics of all
kinds, especially fresh waiter species. 4th to
</s make > collect a complete series of rocks & min-
erals. 5th to collect all the </u beetles > I can
conveniently. Birds I shall take only under
certain conditions, viz, when I can do no better,
& when it will not interfere with ^more^ important
work.
</p>
<pre> Good Lord ! How it do rain ! Now that
</pre>
<p>the day's business is over & everybody in his
own den it has settled down to a steady
pour to make up for an hour or two
lost this morning. And </u this > is the </u dry
season >, so they all tell me.
</p>
<pre> Gov't pays a reward of 1 Rupee pr. foot
</pre>
<p>on Crocodiles. Today one was brought down
the river for the reward, word was sent
me from the Office at once, so I went
down & quietly cut off the croc's head.
His length was 11 ft. Sixteen-footers are
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may have led you to believe, in fact such
big ones are rather rare: but the chances are
that I will get at least one "old settler" be-
fore I have to leave here.
</p>
<pre> After this my mail facilities will be very
</pre>
<p>poor indeed, & you may sometimes be three
weeks or more without a letter. Do not be
atall alarmed if the interval should be
four or five weeks, but still I hope to get
a letter to you every fortnight anyhow. If
you hear that I have been knocked on
the head, or am lost somewhere, don't you
believe a word of it except what </u I > tell
you. Remember that if I strike a good
lead after Oranga I shall follow it up
to the very end, and so long as I keep
well we are not going to stick at trifles.
However, let us not be </u too > sure of anything
in this world, even of a dinner that is
eaten for I have before now seen men cheated
out of even that.
</p>
<pre> It is more than likely that a prompt
</pre>
<p>answer to this will find me still here in
Borneo, but direct to Singapore all the
same. Remember if I get so many as </u ten >
orangs, or even 6 or 8 </u big > ones I shall
send you a little cable message. If you
reply, address simply "Hornaday, Singapore."
</p>
<pre> Am in glorious health & spirits. Write
</pre>
<p>often & fully. Now I take a header into the
jungles.
Yours faithfully
Wm T. Hornaday.
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>P. S. I enclose some Sarawak stamps for
Mr Lee Ward's boy.
4th Hurrah ! Have got 2 more </u Mauis
Javanica >, an old femwla, skeleton, and
a young one which I put entire in
spirits. Thus making Just such a specimen
as Mr Whyte of Randy asked me 2 pounds for.
I hope you won't order any Manis of
Mr Whyte, for I think I can get you
enough without. The chances are that I
will get some more before I leave Borneo.
</p>
<pre> Have just bought a strong light
</pre>
<p>& roomy hunting boat, for $5.00. It is
very fast and can go where there is even
a suspicion of water. Now I shall be
quite independent & can save money
with my own boat and my own boys &
myself for a crew. I broke an empty
beer bottle across the prow and
christened the craft </u "Henry A. Ward " >
</p>
<pre> It is of course too small to carry
</pre>
<p>all my traps, for if it were large
enough it would be too big for hunting
purposes. Now I must go and paint
the name in black letters on the bows
of our vessel. W. T. H.
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</u No 21. > Singapore.
</p>
<pre> August 1st 1878.
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor Ward: Sept 20
</p>
<pre> Well I am not off yet owing
</pre>
<p>to the irregularities of the Borneo Steamers
at all times. Since my last letter I have
made an important change in my plan.
</u At last > I have met a man from Borneo
who has given me much </s paototing > ^reliable^ information.
He is an Englishman, has lived 15 years in Borneo
& seems to tell the truth. He says I will be
</u sure > to get Orangs on the Sadong River, and
</u certain > to get as many Proboscis monkeys as
I want without fail and without too much
trouble on a branch of the Sadong River a
little higher up. He has shot between 15 &
20 orangs on the Sadong and is positive that
by my going for them & devoting myself to
their capture I can get a dozen or fifteen
within 2 or 3 months. He told me of places
where I can live, told me how to go, &
gave me a little sketch of the country which
I must copy & send to you. This lay
seemed so certain, so free from Governmental
obstacles such as I might have encountered
at Puntianae that after thoroughly canvassing
the matter & thinking over it I determined to
go to Sarawak forthwith, i.e. as soon as the
S. S." Rajah Brooke" goes, which will be about
tomorrow I think. Dr Horton, the Borneo man,
is also going over then & he promises to "put
me in the way" of many things.
</p>
<pre> I am going over prepared to make
</pre>
<p>a big haul of alcoholics and shall
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>collect every species of fresh water fish
I can get hold of. In fact the prospects
are </u very > good for a large & valuable col-
lection. I have invested largely in an
outfit of tinned provisions, ammunition
&e. I propose to </u live well > and </u work hard >
the former </s of > being necessary to the latter. I
have 50 lbs shot, mostly large sizes, 8 lbs
gunpowder, 20 lbs alum, 15 lbs arsenical
soap, with the knives all well ground and
everything in perfect order. But oh ! for
some more percussion primers ! Now that
I am going to Sarawak and can know how
I'm going to get about I am going to take
40 gallons of the methylated spirits, - two
drums full and the 2 small cans. I tell
you my outfit is something prodigious, &
this is an "Expedition" in the fullest sense of
the word. Altogether I will have 10 boxes big
& little - mostly little - to take over. I <./u cannot
fail > to do well there. If Sarawak does not
pan out to suit me I can get aboard a
native trading boat & go round the corner to
Puntianae, or I can do like Paul did, send
my luggage round by boat and cut across
country on foot from the head of the
Suncujon River to the head of the Kapunce R.
which runs down to Puntianae. But you
will know about it all along as I shall
try my best to get at least a few lines
to you by every steamer. There are two
steamers between this & Sarawak, the Royalist
& the Rajah Brooke, and I think there is
a steamer each way every week, only they
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>are somewhat irregular.
</p>
<pre> The shipping of the boxes is in abeyance
</pre>
<p>as the agts of the Glamis Castle say she is
full, but Mr Campbell is trying to get the
shipment squeezed in anyhow. If the G. C.
cannot take it, then M. D. & Co. will
alter the Consular Invoice and send the
goods in their next vessel which touches
here. At all events the boxes will go in a
few days, though not quite so promptly as I
wrote you in my last letter. M. D. & Co. have
my letter to Tice & Lynch open, and when
it is settled will enclose bill of lading, ins.
policy & the Consular Invoice in good
shape. We have insured the shipment for
$1000. against total loss of part or all.
</p>
<pre> Why old Malay man who hunts up
</pre>
<p>new corals, shells &e for me, brought me
yesterday a dozen </u big > chunks of red coral,
just arrived by boat, </s and > but it was all
so very imperfect, so dingy, broken and
ill shaped that I took none of it atall.
</p>
<pre> If you send any money, be sure to
</pre>
<p>send it either in care of Martin, Dyce, &
Co. or else in letters addressed to them.
Or if you like, you might as well make
out drafts in their favor. It was Prof
Steere, of Ann Arbor, Mich whom Mr
Campbell assisted when no one else in
Singapore would let him have a dollar, so
Maj. Studer says. The </s J > Major says Mr
Campbell is one of the noblest men in
Singapore, a fine man every way, and
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I'm very glad I gave Mr Campbell the
crocodile skin, only I wish I had given
him a bigger one, that's all.
</p>
<pre> Now I must close. May add a P. S.
</pre>
<p>before posting. Major Studer is going to
give me a good lift in Town, and he de-
flares that the State of Iowa </u must > buy
the H. Collection. He is thick with Clark-
son the editor of the Down State Register.,
and if you watch the files of that paper
after the receipt of this you may perhaps
see some mention of your illustrious collector
and agent, and Ward's Nat. Sci. Establishment.
</p>
<pre> Major S is going to work all the wires he
</pre>
<p>can to favor my designs on the state of
Iowa. When he was in Des Moines last winter
they proposed to run him for Congress, but
like Col. Sellers, he declined the honor. With
out my knowing </s this > ^it^, the Major wrote up to
Capt Douglas at Klang, thanking him for
his courtesy to me.He keeps a </s short > ^faithful^ record
of all the good and ill turns that are done
to Americans out here, and endeavors to
give measure for measure both ways. I
tell you Prof. the state of Iowa will by
the H. Collection. Will you wake it up?
</p>
<pre> I am reconciling myself to the idea of
</pre>
<p>going home after Borneo, but for the love of
heaven, let me go via San Francisco at
all events, if not by Australia as well.
Yours very Sincerely,
Wm. T. Hornaday.
Aug. '78
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Private P. S. Have drawn the Bal. on my
letter of credit, and on Mr Campbell advising
me to take more money with me than I had
left so as not to become embarrassed & harassed.
I gladly accepted of him a loan of $200.00
to be paid out of the first funds arriving
for me from you I am very glad of this, for
it renders all my movements </u safe. > I will now
land at Sarawak with </s al >$400. in my pocket.
and I shall </u try > to get along without spending
more than $200. I have such a complete stock
of everything that I may succeed in spending
2 or 3 months there with an outlay of only
$200. I shall </u strive > to do this, but of course will
spend the borrowed $200. if it becomes necessary.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>This letter is a sort of anchor to windward
you know, and besides, I may find it profitable
to invest it in orangs. If I telegraph you
"Plenty orangs " or "Grand success" then go on
and rob the Savings Bank and send me
the proceeds. I shall not telegraph you for
less than six </u big > orangs, or ten big and
little ones. Remember there is a </u small kind >
there. The proboscis monkeys we are </u sure > of
& you may depend I shall get a big lot, skins
skeletons & skulls. </u May > spend a </u month > after
them alone. So now lookout. More soon.
</p>
<pre>  ? W. T. H.
</pre>
<p>[upside down - </s suegorw Staudy Suebosoad >
</p>
<pre> Send money to Martin Dyce & Co. They expect
</pre>
<p>it to reach them while I am in Borneo.
</p>
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</pre>
<p><br />
</p>
<pre> Proboscis
Monkeys
Miliken River
</pre>
<pre> gadong.
native village
4 hours good for headers
by boat when after Proboscis
monkeys.
Cool Mias
Mias
Gov't house for travel-
lers. Headquarters
when after Mias
</pre>
<pre> X Sarawak
</pre>
<pre> Sadong River
12 hours by boat Sarawak R.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>P. S, I am taking a hunter after
all, a Portuguese chap, and pay him
$15. pr month only. If I can't get
that much per month out of him he
must be a bad one.
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Robert Minckley
Melissa S. Mead
Pennilyn Higgins
Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
Hornaday
March/ 76
Port of Spain, Trinidad
Monday March 6th 1876
Dear Prof Ward;
</p>
<pre> A mail left here on the 8th but
</pre>
<p>we were quite out of reach of it at the
time. A week ago today we went in a small
boat up to that chain of islands extending
part way between the N-W point of Trinidad
and the mainland of Venezuela. We took up
our headquarters in the E. side of the largest
island - Monua - and were there four days
cruising all around. Had very reasonable suc-
cess, as you will see by the list. The guachari
birds were in caves difficult and dangerous
of access, entered only from the sea amid sun-
ken rocks and jagged points on which we
were twice in peril of being dashed to pieces
and losing everything. We had a good guide
and two good oarsmen so were bound to
have the birds. The first cave we entered
was the largest and most dangerous but
contained the most birds. These caves are all
on the N. side of the islands where the cliffs
rise like so many walls, right out of the
sea, towering up two to three hundred feet.
The breakers there, and big swells roll
right into the caves, and entrance is im-
possible except at </u precisely > the right </u hour >.
The mouth of the first was a about 40 yards
long, ^so^ low we had to crouch down in the boat,
and so narrow we had to use just half the
length of the oars. Two big waves carried
us in without difficulty, we jumped in the
water up to our waists and dragged the boat
up in the middle of the cave. Knowing our
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>time was very short we proceeded to business
with all speed & collected eggs until our eyes
got used to the darkness so that we could see
to shoot. In an hour and a half we had
bagged 13 birds, 15 eggs and 3 nests. Then
the sea began rising outside and we had to
tumble into the boat and shove off. </s Be > Choosing
our time the men pulled for their life. Half
way out a huge wave met us that washed
clean over the boat, and filled us half full
of water. But we held on and got out safely.
</p>
<pre> We could not induce those men to enter
</pre>
<p>that cave again, and I have since been told
it is not entered with a boat more than
once in two years. We visited 2 other caves for
birds, but with indifferent success. Still I felt
satisfied with what we got, and I beg to in-
form you that those skins are good, for I made
them all myself.
</p>
<pre> We worked hard all day and half the
</pre>
<p>night while at the islands, and felt satisfied
to leave in four days. We hunted & killed
the two largest Iguanas ourselves and an old
darkey brought us the rest at 25 to 30 cts each.
We tried </u hard > to get some man-of-war birds
and I am ready to pronounce them the hardest
bird to get I ever hunted. We did not get a
single one.
</p>
<pre> We visited a cave on the island of Gaspere on
</pre>
<p>purpose to get stalactites and stalagmites for
</s Ward > Messers Ward & Howell. We found to our
disappointment that all the nice specimens
had been broken off and carried away, but
we got into a nook where no one had been
before us, and were fortunate enough to secure
three or four fine specimens. One a stalag-
mite - is as perfect a pine-apple as I ever
saw, almost, and if you will not take less
I will give you $5 for one of the others that
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>we all voted the handsomest. They are all
white, quartz inside apparently with a sort of
soft lime crust on the outside, not </u very >
large, will average about 6 or 8 lbs each..
</p>
<pre> While circumnavigating Monus one
</pre>
<p>morning we entered a rocky amplutheatre
called Bay of Biscay, where I got about a ^quart^
of sand and some rocks for W. & H. also. The
sand is black as tar, and will be used
some </s th > day to adulterate gunpowder. It
would sell for gunpowder as it is. The rooks
attracted my attention very decidedly , and if I
were a geologist would consider them valuable
to a cabinet. Of course I am fearful all
along that what geological specimens I am
getting will not prove valuable to you, but
I know you will kindly make allowances for
my mistakes in that direction, so I go on
doing as well as I know how.
</p>
<pre> The rocks I took are flattish pieces, smooth
</pre>
<p>& symmetrical, of a sort of blue slate having
a very peculiar network of quartz running
all through with something like regularity as
to distribution, and the pure white veins of
quartz in the blue stone makes them quite
attractive to my eye. The pieces are all
between 2 & 3 inches thick, and I have four
or five of them, about 8 x 12 in. average.
</p>
<pre> A 40 foot, black-backed whale was
</pre>
<p>caught four miles from where we were
stopping the last day we were at the islands.
We went to see it, and I could scarcely give
up the idea of taking the skeleton. At first
I determined we would, it was such a capital
opportunity, but I got to reasoning the thing
out when it came to the pinch, and conclu-
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>red that if you wanted a whale skeleton
you would have sent and obtained it from
the Atlantic seaboard long ago. Prof Baird
got 3, and you can get whatever he can,
so I reason that it would not be advisable
to get a whale skeleton away down here and
ship it nearly 3000 miles, when we are but
just commencing our expedition and our means
are limited. But if you </u do > want us to get a
whale skeleton, telegraph as soon as you receive
this, and we will get it before the season
closes. I must tell you there is a regular
whale fishery at those islands, and from
two to fifteen are caught every season. Some
are sixty ft. long. The season is from the
middle of Jan. to the middle of April. Two
have been caught this season, just a week apart.
</p>
<pre> We left the islands at 1 A. M. Saturday.
</pre>
<p></s you'd > arrived at Port of Spain - 16 miles
at 6 o'clock and at 7, took the steamer
"Alice" to the pitch lake, 30 miles down the
coast. Fare each way 3s 3d. steerage, which
we took of course. Arrived at 11 A. M. and
walked to the lake - a mile inland. Had just
3 1/2 hours to stay. Took a gun, but saw not a
single specimen. Set to work and cut out a
big block of pitch with a pick and hatchet.
as near as we could guess at a cwt. But it
has grown heavier since and will now weigh
about 120 lbs. The chunk is about 2 ft
long, and a foot square on the end. We had
a 1 dead certainty on that and knew we did
not make a mistake in getting it. By dint
of sharp practise we smuggled it aboard the
steamer just in the nick of time, at a cost
of only 5 s, which was paid for hauling it
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> 5 Mar. 6, 1876
</pre>
<p>against time. The boss at the landing
wanted 10s for a cwt of pitch from the
huge pile on the dock, and said it never left
the island for less, but all I can say is,
that we didn't pay any 10s for our 120 lbs.
The rest is silence! We started home on
the same boat at half past two o'clock, and
it turned out that the trip is going to pay
big for I made the acquaintance of a man
who got on at San Fernando that has been
a surveyor and engineer </s and surveyor > in
British Guiana, and he told me, as soon
as I informed him of my business and our
intention to go to Demerara, right where he
had seen three Manatee in a creek down
there, and that too before I even mentioned
that animal to him. He put us on a good
track, gave much valuable information, and
told us where, how, and to </u whom > to go to be
successful. He lent me a book on British
Guiana that is very interesting.
</p>
<pre> I also found where we can obtain armadillos
</pre>
<p>on this island, and will get some if we do
not get all we want easier up the Orinoco.
</p>
<pre> We leave settled on our plan of operations
</pre>
<p>up the Orinoco, and leave here for Crandad
Bolivar next Friday night, the 10th, on the
steamer "Nutris", taking deck passage at $12.
each. We are obliged to go to Bolivar for no
place below that is a port of entry. We cannot
take our own boat from here and go on our
own hook unless we go to Bolivar. We <,/u could >
cruise around in the delta without, but
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Mr Gallie says it would be at a considerable
risk on account of the war in Venezuela now.
And even if we could take a boat from
here i would prefer the plan we have de-
cided upon, which is as follows: We will go
up to Bolivar, hire a bungalow there and in
14 or 16 hours with a fair wind will sail
up to where Mr Gallie says the manatees are.
Stone village is the spot, and he allows us
three days to get what manatee we want.
Then we will come down again in two days,
and either go on the steamer or in a small
boat down the </u Banancas, where we will
stop, collect in the country around, use a
letter of introduction that Mr. G will give
us whereby we will be able to hire any kind of
a boat and man or men we want, and go
on down, collecting on the shore as we please
and finally into the delta, There we will
cruise around and collect as best we can,
and when we are done land at the wood-
yard and let the steamer pick us up ^there^ on
her way down the river, sending the boat
back up to Bonaueas. Or if we see fit we
can go back up to the latter place, and get
on the steamed there. Although it is not a
port of entry Mr Gallie will make arrange=
ments with their agent, and the government
officers so that we will be allowed to leave
from that point. A great deal depends on
circumstances, of course. We will take </u all >
our supplies from here, a barrel of salt, a
barrel of hard bread, a label, for manatee skins,
a barrrel & alcohol </s of > for alcoholics, and in
short </u every thing > we will require save a boat.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> We expect to be gone 4 or six weeks, prob-
</pre>
<p>ably the latter. Longer if we are not sooner
satisfied. My hopes centre on the Orinoco,
and we must make our ten strike there.
I am well satisfied with the place we have
decided upon, which is the result of very
careful inquiry and consideration. This
letter </s goes > ^starts^ to you next Friday - the day we
start for the Orinoco. We </s had > ^have^ decided that
is best to leave our specimens here that we
have collected thus far, well cared for, well
make a clean sweep when we get back and
send everything home before starting to
Guiana. Our letters will not be forwarded
as yet, but we will find them all here
in about six weeks. Have had only one
mail since leaving home & the next does
not get here until the 23rd of this month.
</p>
<pre> You told me in your letter, to get some
</pre>
<p>fossil Infusonial Earth. I do not know
what it is, having never seen any, and
don't know what to look for, But if you
will be kind enough to write me a few
words telling what it is like I will try to
get it.
</p>
<pre> Our letters of credit are still good for
</pre>
<p>$430. each, but we must draw on them
now immediately. Have spent about
$10. for Ward & Howell so far,- have the
exact account in my book. We are busy
now getting ready to leave, & will be until
we start. If Mr Lucas does not get a letter
from me when you receive this it will be
because I have not had time to write.
Our specimens we will leave boxed up </u tem-
porarily > only, in a back room of the
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></u Enterprize Hotel >, Kept by Mr G.A.
Fuller. The office of the U. S. Consul, -
Mr Fulton Paul, as well as Mr Gallie's
are in the same building, ground floor.
</p>
<pre> We are living on about $1.25 per day
</pre>
<p>each, including rooms. Are both in splen-
did health, and feel equal to the under-
taking before us. I have not felt to well
for six months as I have since getting
to Trinidad. Do you want us to get any
ore of the Caiman ( </u not > mississippi or
Florida alligators) before we go home?
</p>
<pre> The advantages of two hunting and
</pre>
<p>working together is beginning to tell now.
</p>
<pre> I should perhaps tell you that it
</pre>
<p>is against the law to kill any bird in
Trinidad or adjacent islands and will be
for the next 3 years. We have to keep very
shully about our doings up at Monus.
\I will send you a little outline map
with our routes on this island & around
it marked out. We have been here just
2 weeks today.
</p>
<pre> I will write you by the "Nutris" as it
</pre>
<p>returns from Bolivar, and then there
is no telling when you will hear from us again.
but of course will write by every chance. I hope
you will not think this too long, but I couldn't
shorten it a bit. Am sorry we cannot have
letters from home for six weeks more. Please
remember me to all the family.
Yours very truly
Wm T. Hornaday.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Enclosed in March 6, 1876 Friday. March 10th
We are just starting. Salt is not allowed
to enter Venezuela, as it is made on the N.coast.
So we </u must > by it in Bolivvar. The government
is </u very > particular about every foolish little thing.
that is taken in, but fortunately there is a law
providing for naturalists, their chemicals, outfit, &e,
We take 3 letters of introduction, and $180. gold,
and our fare is paid besides. Take all our provisions,
alcohol, barrels, casks, &e, &r from here, </u very cheaply >.
We have to be very careful, or we will get
into some awkward scrape or other with the
government, that is very testy just now, and
makes trouble on very slight grounds.
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A.W23
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Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved
in the transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded.
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<p>On the Delta of the Orinoco Sixty miles from the north. Apr 19th 1876 Dear Prof Ward:</p>
<pre> The "Anita", Capt Lecraw,is just going
</pre>
<p>by our shanty, on her way to N.Y. so in her cabin I hurriedly scratch you a line. We are well. hard at work, and doing very well in hunting. Are getting howling monkeys, capybara, blue & yellow and red & blue macaws, turkeys, ibis, & c. & e. Are now in the very best ground, where we arrived today. Have men, dogs, and boats, and are doing things to very good advantage, and it costs us almost nothing at all just now. We will be very likely to be kept here until the steamer that goes down May 19, for it now seems impossible for us to get our work done here by the 2nd of May as first intended: We are in </u splendid > health. Today Jackson & T paddled a canoe 18 or 20 miles & felt well over it. No time for a word more, as it is night, and we are far below the shanty now. Will have much to write you</p>
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<p>when we get to Trinidad. I should say that we are in the main river, i. e. the branch </u farthest South >. Very truly yours Wm T. Hornaday. [another hand vertically on right side- </u Hornaday > April /76.] [ybg]</p>
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Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies
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Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937
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1876-02-25
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Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1876-02-25)
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Port of Spain, Trinidad, W. I.
Friday. Feb 25th 1876
Dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> We have just got in from a long
</pre>
<p>pull up the Caroni River - went 13 miles - and
I find I have time to write you for the mail that
closes tomorrow for St Thomas. I have written
you by </u every > mail so far - this is the third letter.
</p>
<pre> We arrived here from Barbadus last Monday
</pre>
<p>afternoon, having left on Saturday night pre-
vious - the 79th Came on the schooner "Ocean
Traveller", Cabin passage cost $10. so we took
deck passage at 10. </u shillings > and buying our
own provisions for the trip cost just 11s. more.
It was the most uncomfortable and thoroughly
disagreeable passage I ever experienced, considering
there were 25 other negras on deck also. We
did not waste any time in Barbados, I can
assure you. I came away without visiting
several places I wished to, but failed for lack
of time. We called on the U. S. Consul as soon
as we landed & found him out. Then for the
next week we were too busy to go, and when we
did go, we were told he had gone to Tobago, and
would not return until Sunday, at which time
we were on our way here. So have failed to
see him at all, I'm sorry to say. But we did
not require any assistance from him atall.
I left our card at the first.
</p>
<pre> Your letter arrived on the Liverpool Steamer
</pre>
<p>last Tuesday - the day after we arrived. I
remember distinctly all that Mr Taggart,-
Leggetts clerk said to me about what has
since proved to be the copper cans. He sim-
ply showed me a little slip of paper on
which was a street and number - nothing
more and said " a package has been re-
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ceived there for Prof. Ward but we do not
know anything about it, and have not
tried to get it ,came yesterday." </u Friday >,
</p>
<pre> W.ell, I looked for the cans to come to
</pre>
<p></u my > address by all means, if they came atall.
and to the hotel; for they might come a
dozen times to you, and I would not be
able to get them, </u especially > in New York.
</p>
<pre> I am very sorry we missed getting them,
</pre>
<p>and cannot help thinking it very unbusiness-
like in who ever sent them to not send a
single line of advice concerning them. Regular
Hamburg style! I see very clearly that
I made a big mistake in not following
up even the faint trace I had of "a package"
for you. But we are getting along very well
without them, as we had a large round
tin can with a cover made in Bridgetown,
(for $2), and we have bought 3 square 5 -
gallon tin kerosene cans @ 6d each, and
are using them to good advantage.
</p>
<pre> We brought our Barbados specimens along
</pre>
<p>with us, all boxed for shipping home, and
will keep them here until we have two or three
more boxes to send home.
</p>
<pre> </u Well, > this island bids fair to turn out
</pre>
<p>well. We have got but little in the 4 1/2 days
we have been here, as we have been
busy hunting up men about the Orinoco,
and endeavoring to get all </u possible > infor-
mation on the Manatee question before
making a start. I must say that I
feel more hopeful of getting at least one,
</s towo > two or three specimens than I ever did
before, - in fair I feel confident now that
we will be successful in that particular.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>First came Mr Wm h. Gallie, Alas! I have
my misgivings that he is a second Capt.
Belt. He too has changed his base since
corresponding with you, and now informs
us positively that " the real home of the
Manatee is much higher up the river
than the delta, in fact some distance
above Bolivar There you cannot fail to find
them in great numbers. There are </u millions >
of them there, and you can get all you
want." Those were his very words to Mr
Jackson & I, and my heart sank within
me at the words "millions of them". Heaven
forgive me if I do him injustice. He strongly
advises us to take the steamer to Bolivar, and
hire ^a^ boat or boats there & go on up the river.
He offers us all the assistance in his power.
</p>
<pre> We have seen the Capt. of the "Hero", also
</pre>
<p>his brother who lately made a trip up to Bolivar..
The latter gentleman I believe to be </u thoroughly >
reliable in everything he says. He said
that as they were coming down the river,
and were about 100 miles below Barrancas,
just a month ago, he saw a native on the
river bank skinning a manatee, which
his brother, the Capt., looked at with the
glass & pronounced a large one.
</p>
<pre> Tomorrow, an old wood-cutter who
</pre>
<p>lives in the Delta, and furnishes wood for
the steamer the year round, is coming to
see us, - he is away now, and will tell us
all he knows about the manatee in the
delta, the natives, &c, &e, If he comes in
time, I will give you the result of our in-
terview.
</p>
<pre> Mr Gullie has in his office a large, dry
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>manatee skin that came from the lo-
cality he recommends, - above Bolivar. It
belongs to his brother, and is to be shipped
to England, but it has rested here very qui-
etly for some time.
</p>
<pre> Mr Jackson & I have about determined
</pre>
<p>on this plan of operations: Take deck passage
(about $8 0r $10) on the Steamer that goes to
Bolivar just two weeks from today, and
at Barrancus and Bolivar we can find
out to a certainty whether the best chance
for Manatees </u above > or in the Delta. In
</u either > case, we will then hire or buy a
"bungalow", with two or three coolies or other
cheap men & proceed. All the sailors here
think it will be difficult and very expen-
sive to take a boat from here to the Delta.
Mr Gallie thinks the same very strongly,
and approves of the former plan. </u We will see, >
and I will write you fully the results, and
what we finally think best to do.
</p>
<pre> I could weary you with a thousand
</pre>
<p>other details that we have learned in connec-
tion with the Manatee, & the Orinoco, but I will
not, trusting that we may satisfy you
with specimens instead.
</p>
<pre> A few - words about this island; If you
</pre>
<p>think me too voluminous and verbose, a very
gentle hint will be sufficient. There are a
great many birds here, and we will try
to get some of the more unique kinds and
run the risk of their being valuable. We
can get any quantity of Brown Pelicans,
whit & blue herons, terns, &e. </u Zyganea Mal-
leus > comes into the market. I got on fine
little fellow yesterday for a skin, costing 4d.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> 5 Feb. 25, 1876
</pre>
<p>Plenty of </u bower Brownii >. Cat - fish, Bill-fish or
</u gar-fish > on Mr Wildeboer's list, and many
smaller species. Am told Hawks-bill turtles
come in often, but have seen none. Will try
to get some.
</p>
<pre> Mr Jackson, the young Trinidad gentleman
</pre>
<p>whom you talked with on the "Golden Fleece",
and myself went up the Caroni River today
in a small row boat on a general hunt. Found
plenty of small Caiman, but no large ones
whatever. We killed five, and took the skin of
one old, tough fellow, 5 ft long only, and
the skulls of two others, The other two were too
badly shot to be of use. As I remember you
do not want Cainran particularly. But this
is a species new to the Establishment, and I
think them well worth getting, i.e. one or two
skins & 1 or 2 skulls. I do not know the species -
never saw any specimens like these before. But
the genus is </u Caiman > anyhow. They are entirely
different from the Florida alligators. Saw no
crocodiles, nor any mammals. We rowed up
ten miles from the mouth. The Caroni is
the largest river on the Island.
</p>
<pre> I visit the markets every morning bright
</pre>
<p>and early, and am getting divers wires to
working for getting things, </s in > and in a few
days more the bread (and grog) we have
cast upon the waters will return to us in
some shape or other. We have not got enough
while here to make a list of, but will include
everything next time. We have lodgings in
the Enterprise Hotel @ .50.c per day each,
& take our meals at home, or where we please.
Our chief living is oranges, of which we bought
27 today up the river, for ten cents,
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Hornaday
Feb/ 76.
Mr Jackson is a good hand at driving
bargains, and the way he gets ahead of these
darkies is delightful to see. Between us both
the natives stand a </u miserably > poor show of
skinning us poor pilgrims but of money.
</p>
<pre> We have not drawn any money here yet,
</pre>
<p>but will be obliged to soon. Our letters of
credit are each good for $430. gold yet, and
I believe Mr Jackson has quite a little besides.
</p>
<pre> Alcohol .25 proof (clear) cost $2. per
</pre>
<p>gallon here, and you see it will not admit
of </u any > diluting. Spirits are higher than in
Barbados. Now I can get plenty of </u fish > of
various species, but your words were - "don't
waste your alcohol on fish". But I feel that
we </u must > get some of the rarer and more
unique birds. We are fixed now so that we
can work to </u good > advantage, and are not
idling away a single hour. We are in
Splendid health & spirits, and feel like hard
work. Don't it look so, when between 3 of us
we row 28 miles in one day?
</p>
<pre> The U.S. Consul is a very nice </s little fellow > ^man^
</pre>
<p>but I fear there is not as much in him as
there is in Jackson.
</p>
<pre> If this letter is too long, please tell me
</pre>
<p>at once. Our address will remain the
same all the time we are away from home
I think. I hereby send my regards to Mrs
Ward & Miss Eunice, and I wish you all
to kiss Baby for me. I will write you by
</u every > chance, sailing vessel or otherwise. I have
written you all about Mr Wildeboer in my two
previous letters.
Very truly yours
Wm T. Hornaday.
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Melissa Mead
University of Rochester College of Arts, Sciences and Engineering and River Campus Librares
Ward Project Team Members
Robert Minckley
Melissa S. Mead
Pennilyn Higgins
Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2015
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Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Henry Augustus Ward Papers
A.W23
From 1862 to 1906, Ward’s Natural Science Establishment supplied specimens to natural science museums around the world. The goal of this project is to enable scientists, historians, and archivists to recreate Ward’s inventory by linking 19th century materials and documents at their institutions to the original catalogues, bulletins, and manuscripts.
Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved
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<pre> Bridgetown, Barbados, W.I.
</pre>
<p>Thursday. Feb 17th 1876 Dear Prof Ward:</p>
<pre> This is the 9th day since land-
</pre>
<p>ing here, and we are going to leave for Port of Spain day after tomorrow on the schr. <u>"Ocean Traveller".</u> I think we have done very fairly here, and I do not see how we could have done any more in so short a time. I enclose a list of our collections to date. and I beg to add that our specimens are <u> all</u> strictly first class. We have had a good supply to choose from, of such kinds as are here, and have taken especial pains in preparing.</p>
<pre> First on the list you will see a <u>Peutacrinus
</u></pre>
<p>Mullerei<u/>, which we purchased of Mr Wildebon for L5. It is a perfect specimen <u> dry fastened on a board, stem 20 in in length, and in my opinion a fine specimen. As Mr Jackson and I both remember, your price on the one you</p>
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<p>[page 3] have is $100. or over, which is not a perfect specimen. Now we reasoned that this must certainly worth buying at $24.00 and so we bought it. Mr Wildeboer's price was $6, on which he stuck a long time as his lowest, but he finally said to me privately "My lowest price is L6, and I will <u>sell</u> it to you for that, but I <u>L5</u>. This is a secret between us." mHe has sent one to the Cente? which is for sale, but he protested from the start that the price he had fixed on that was L10. I to;d him if he offered it for less we would not buy this, as we could not buy specimens from him and then com- pete with him in the U.S. He said he was aware of that, and that was why he put this specimen at L6. I felt sue you would buy this if you were here, so we took it. It goes to you in the box we send from here.</p>
<pre> Flying-fish came in by cart-loads,
</pre>
<p>and scarcely <u>any</u> other fish. Mr W. says we are in the very worst season for getting fish, as only that one kind is caught during this month. Three barracuda came in but we did not take them. We have a fine lot of crabs - 7 species, and a fine lot of sea-eggs -?-, also star-fish 3 species ???. The first are the same as you need, from Panama, or at least very similar, but ours are all</p>
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Ward Project Team Members
Robert Minckley
Melissa S. Mead
Pennilyn Higgins
Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2015
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in the transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded.
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Cuidad Bolivia, Ven. S. A.
Saturday, April 1st 1876
Dear Prof. Ward:
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<pre> Your kind letter of Feb 15th came on
</pre>
<p>the steamer last Wednesday, and we were very
glad to hear from you in particular. You must
have my Barbabos & Trinidad letters by this time
as I have written you by <u>every mail.</u> We have finished
here, and leave tomorrow, going on the steamer s far
as Barraneas - 140 miles below - where Mr Silver
and his his boat will be ready for us. I think I
may say we have been reasonably successful here,
we <u>certainly</u> have for the locality, and I am sure
</p>
<pre>we did well <s>to</s> in remaining here. But the people
</pre>
<p>here told the truth when they said there were no
mammals in this neighborhood, sorry to say. We
have spent several days hunting crocodiles, and
captured four large ones, i. e. over ten feet long.
But it was the hardest of work to kill them, they
are so very wary,
</p>
<pre> Have 2 large turtles s you will see by the
</pre>
<p>list. They are much like the "Terrakija", but
four or five times as large. They are apparently
big <u>Emys</u>, and will make fine looking skeletons.
These came from far up the river and are the
only ones that have ben brought here since we
cme. We have "ordered" manatee far and
wide up and down the river of fishermen , and
Indians, but none have been killed as yet. My
hope is the delta, and we will unite every effort to
raise them there inside the next month. I
hope for great things now. The delta <u>must </u>
pan out. We are going first to a place
that is merely a name almost called
Sacupaua, on the main river about
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>40 miles below Barrancas. This place is
noted for animals, and manatee are said
to be found in a River near it. Our plan
is to get in with all the Indians we possibly
can, and have them hunt the manatee also.
Salt <s>is</s> <u>cannot</u> imported so we could
not bring any from Port of Spain. And here
we were obliged to pay $8.00 for two sacks of
$1.50 lbs each, rock salt at that. This gov-
ernment is just worth its <u>salt</u> and not a
reale over. Poor as Lazarus. Depend upon
</p>
<pre>it that we shall <u>save</U. any skins of manatee
</pre>
<p>we may be fortunate to get. We
are taking 25 lbs of powdered alum, and
300 of <s>slo</s> salt. Barrels, boxes, and so on.
</p>
<pre> We have been living on $1.25 each per day
</pre>
<p>counting all expenses for rooms and food. Have
eaten just eight meals at the Hotel table.
</p>
<pre> We send all our specimens collected here
</pre>
<p>to Mr Gallie at Port of Spain to hold for
us until we return to that place. The
Geological Specimens are all in one <u>big</u> box,
and I have a small box of stones for Messrs
Ward & Howell. When we get to Trinidad
we will then ship everything home, and there
will be quite a lot of it. In fact there is already.
Everything we have collected here has been
prepared with the greatest care and success,
and are strictly first class.
</p>
<pre> I am happy to say that our health con-
</pre>
<p>tinues <u>excellent</u>, and we feel in good trim
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</em Society of American Taxidermists >
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.
Office of the Executive Committee. </em Washington, D, C., April 18 1883
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. " 23
My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Yours of yesterday and my dinner
</pre>
<p>came together half an hour ago. We began to pack
today, and everything must go off before tomorrow night.
And at 3:30 P. M. I am to dress up and tail in at
the end of the procession which unveils the statue of Prof.
Henry. I am deviled half to death by the Judge business,
and have been for a solid month. Even now I cannot
tell you who is to be our 3rd judge. Am anxious and
worried about those confounded </u plates > for catalogue.
Davie writes that he has written Cassius to send to you
that electro at once. Webster has the frog cut. The
Moss Co. are dilatory as usual with their plate for
frontispiece. I trouble le^a^st the catalogue be late.
I never was so tired in all my life, and never before
worked for such </u poor pay >. It is really </u curious > to me.
how both you and Studer agree in thinking I am
doing what I am for the S. A. T. for personal ends.
Good heavens. By what process of reasoning do </u you >
arrive at that conclusion ? It cannot add a cent
to my income, I get no thanks from anybody and
no credit even if the thing is a howling success for
the public has no way of knowing who does the
worrying for all hands. But if the thing is in
any way a failure, the blame will be most
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>generously laid at my door by everybody concerned.
I am obliged to neglect my work in the museum
in the most </u ruinous > way, and I am constantly
worried over that. The time will come when they
will call upon me to show up what I have done.
</p>
<pre> But for the Society I could spend my evenings &
</pre>
<p>Sundays in writing for </s chase > cash, or </u finishing my
book >. Now if some of you will only tell me how
it is that I am ^</u not >^ sacrificing myself right along ^it^.</s I> will
console me a good deal. Just </u how > is it all going to
help me ? I want to see it., for that would be a
real encouragement to me. But one thing is certain:
</u nothing > can induce me to be Secretary of the
S. A. T. any longer than May 1st. I would not
go through this another year for </u any > consideration..
The Society must now do without me or do
worse.
</p>
<pre> The Lagothrix has put me in a cleft stick so
</pre>
<p>that from one side or the other I am sure to be squeezed.
Prof Goode expressly forbade my putting in any
specimen as "Loaned by the U. S. N. M. "for the reason
that the Museum has no right to loan anything without
a special act of Congress. I </u wanted > to say "Loaned".
He told me I could get around th difficulty by saying
"Prepared (or Mounted) for the U. S. N. M." etc. The only
way I see out of the double-headed difficulty is to
make no remark about </u Lagothrix > or </.u Diana > at all, &
leave me to run the risk of their complaining here.
Darn the Lagothrix. Webster puts it in his list, and
does not ask for it of anybody, or say a word about it
to me. So I have to run my face for it, and get it
as best I can ^ & pack it ^ without thanks from anybody, and
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</pre>
<p>also be "personally responsible" for its safe return.
An instance of many, " a little less than kin and
more than kind."
</p>
<pre> I will send $50. at once for Printing. If proof
</pre>
<p>is delayed much longer you will have to read it there.
& correct. Of course put in additional pieces, as
94a. 94b, & instead of </u fractions >. I sent Webster
50 labels two days ago, for all the boxes that
came from the Establishment,- yours, his, Bailey's, Lucas',
Storcks', Critchley's, etc. I think they will surely be
enough. Send all messages to the Museum, and
also </u all letters >. There is always several hours delay
in letters sent to the house. They are delivered here at
9:30 A. M. & I don't see them till 6 or 7 P. M.
</p>
<pre> Studer is threatening heavily and </u may > print
</pre>
<p>something, but I doubt it. If he aims it at me
only it will be all I ask, for I hope he will not
try to drag others into it. Davie gives me the
unsolicited information (without my having even
mentioned Studer's name to him) that "he (Studer) is
a </u dead beat > of the </u first water ." > The underscoring
is his. Therefore I close.
Yours, a little nearer the end.
W. T. Hornaday
I send you some cards for you to
post at once for the opening
Reception.
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</em Society of American Taxidermists >
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.
Office of the Executive Committee
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM.
</EM Washington , D.C. >,. Apr 12th 1883.
</p>
<pre> " 17
</pre>
<p>My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> A week ago I settled myself to
</pre>
<p>write you, and wrote three lines, when I was suddenly
unsettled. Mow I will try again, in answer to yours of
the 8th. But first, last and all the time let me
say </u "Courage! Le diable est mort!" > I am so much
worked that I feel sick with fatigue about every night
but I'm not discouraged in the least. As usual I am
making sacrifices right and left of my time & my
\cherished plans not to mention money at all, and
while I am sometimes tempted to kick because it
can't possibly ever do me the slightest good my
sober second thought tells me that it is on;y men
of small minds and narrow views who are willing
to go through life wholly devoted to self, sacrificing
nothing for the good of their inferiors, and dying
finally without a friend. I would not live or die
like either John Jacob Astor or A. T.Stewart, with
all their millions. You & I will </s both > have better
epitaphs than they. In supporting the S. A. T.
as you and I and Lucas are doing
what ought to have been done fifty years ago,
which, had it been done then would have found us
on a much better footing with the world today.
</p>
<pre> I feel that in supporting the Society as we
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>are we are doing a philanthropic work which
will bear </u good fruit >, and in our day, too. You
are now experiencing just the anxiety and worry
over the Society which I have continually, almost,
ever since its organization. I regard what I have
done for it as the best work of my life, and only regret
that I am not able to do ten times as much.
I think the end justifies the means, and if we are
not </s able > willing to sacrifice something in a good
cause we ought to be. I am sorry it is bearing
so </u heavily > upon you just now, but I assure you
it is also a strain on all who are going to make
large exhibits. It will be years before we have
another so large an Exhibition, even if we ever do,
& therefore I feel like straining every nerve to make
this a telling success. I think that after this we
can afford to wait a few years for </u results >, don't
you?
</p>
<pre> Of course your specimens shall all be grouped
</pre>
<p>together in the Hall, and the finer show they make
the better I shall be pleased. We have entered
your bird skins all in the Honorary Class, and the
others are entered in their respective Sections as
"Exhibited by Ward's Nat. Sci. Est." & If this is not as
you wish, change it, but it was what we supposed
you would like.
</p>
<pre> Better not send the male moose if it requires a
</pre>
<p>flat car. We have left it out.
</p>
<pre> We have secured no more subscriptions, but I am
</pre>
<p>sure we will be able to get along </s without more
than > ^with about^ $100. more than Mr Ca's $500. We are determined to
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<p>do it if it lies in the power of man, and are
practicing the closest economy. We want to have
enough money left to pay </u every dollar > the Society
will be owing at the close. The catalogue bill can
surely wait until the funds come in. If necessary I
will send the Rochester boys $40, (or whatever is
required) out of the $500. to pay for their car in
advance. If the members </u make sales > to a reasonable
extent it will be their duty to pay return freights
themselves, and I warrant you they will do it most
willingly.
</p>
<pre> We send the MS. of our catalogue to you. The
</pre>
<p>whole thing must be done (2000 copies, with
cover) by April 22nd without fail. Have written
Oliver Davie of Columbus to send you electro. for
cut at head of "Catalogue". Will write and ask
John Wallace to send electro of his lion (lying
down) to go on back of cover, lengthwise, in the
centre. Webster has the frog cut to go at head
of "Grotesque groups." We will send electro. of
General View of First Ex." to be used as a
</u frontispiece >/
</p>
<pre> Prof Bickmore can have everything on May
</pre>
<p>7th and we will be glad to have them go, </u then. >
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</pre>
<p>must close now. If you have the pictures
yet from London </u Fun >, let us have the set
to echibit, - s. v. p.
Yours as always
To the end of all things
W. T. Hornaday.
P. S,
</p>
<pre> </u What think you? > Our old friend </u J. G. Bell >, has
</pre>
<p>written asking to join the S. A. T.. !!! Hw promises
to live up to our constitution & help us all he can,
Unfortunately (!) he can't be elected until May 1st
and this will be too late for him to exhibit in
</u New York >. "The mills of the gods grind slowly,
</u but >"_etc." Next !
</p>
<pre> Rowland Ward, F. Z. S."To the Royal Families," etc
</pre>
<p>has got out a second edition of his "Sportsman's
Handbook for Practical </s Colles > Collecting & Setting
Up," etc. I think I will review it in </u Science >
(if Scudder will take it) and give it what it
deserves. _____l.
[drawing of a finger pointing]
Haven't you a photo of the Cambridge Elephant
which we could have for our photo col-
lection? The Establishment shall have its
just dues if you can spare it.
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Pennilyn Higgins
Marcy Strong
Blair Tinker
Joe Easterly
Joshua Romphf
Lisa Wright
University of Rochester
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500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2015
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A.W23
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Original line breaks, punctuation, abbreviations and spelling have been preserved
in the transcriptions and underlining and strikethroughs have been encoded.
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</em Society of American Taxidermists >
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.
Office of the Executive Committee. </em Washington, D, C., > Mar 22nd 1883
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. " 29
My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> To save my soul I can't think of any
</pre>
<p>fertile subject for a Bulletin article. I have actually
racked my brains to find an answer to the question
"What </u can > I write about ?". I </u want > to help
you out with something. but hang me if I know
what it can be. If you can suggest a topic
that is within my range I will try to hammer
something out of it. I am completely stuck for
once, I confess !
</p>
<pre> I have to write an average of six letters per
</pre>
<p>evening on a/c of the S. A. T. besides devoting all day
Sunday to the same delightful recreation. I am getting
so that I think daily & dream nightly of the Exhibition, &
almost nothing else. I will be glad when the strain is
over. There will be 32 Exhibitors, and I think at least
400 entries. Everything is going well, and I think we
will have things so arranged that the affair will go off
very smoothly and comfortably, if we are not worked
</u quite > to death. I hope Wm Critchley will be there.
We will have only Saturday & Sunday in which to
unpack and get everything in order, and it will
take </u sharp work >. I also hope your boys will have
some fine large mammals ready. Cannot you
borrow those specimens of Bienstadt. - Mt. Sheep,
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>2 goats, antelope, & heads ? I would like to know
in </u a week > if possible so as to enter them in the
catalogue. The Catalogue must be made up by
April 15th at the latest.
</p>
<pre> Is our credit restored at the Democrat office ?
</pre>
<p>They print in far better style and for 2/3 th
money the printers do here.
</p>
<pre> I wish you would enter that cast of dead
</pre>
<p>Gorilla in the Hornaday Exhibit. You will know
that I do </u not > mean the modeled monstrosity, which
is not worth room in hades . May I enter the other
in the Catalogue, & ^at^ what price?
</p>
<pre> Also will you lend me ^to exhibit^ that antelope head I
</pre>
<p>mounted, if it was not sold to Bierstadt or
anyone else ? Webster will remember it. What is
its price ?
Yours very sincerely,
W. T. Hornaday.
P. S. I have not yet tendered you my best thanks
for the trouble you were at on a/c of our Hall in
N. Y. "Beggar that I am, I am even poor in
thanks: but I </u do > thank thee" nevertheless. It
saved me a trying trip to N. Y. & the S. A. T. $25.
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Washington, Mar. 1st 83.
</p>
<pre> " 3
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor Ward;
</p>
<pre> It is </u strange > you have not
</pre>
<p>sent even a line about the Hall. A letter comes
today from Mr. Dederick which shuts us off
from Masonic, unless you can move them by
being on the spot, which I cannot do </u by >
letter. Will you please visit Lyne Hall,
on Bway. (between 32 & 33 rd Sts ? ) get its
dimensions and </u plan >. & see whether it
is fit for our uses (in size, location &
</u accessibility > i.e. up not more than 1
flight of stairs.) and if it suits, its
price for six days show & 3 before &
3 after, </u Please > let </s he > me hear </u soon >.
for the hall question </u must > be settled
at once. We have only 3 weeks now !
Yours anxiously,
W. T. Hornaday.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
[upsde down at top of page-
Studer has resigned all.. Let us elect Mr. Holder
President of the Board of Commissions.</u Urge
it on him > : As I shall. He is </u the > man .]
Society of American Taxidermists,
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART
Office of the Executive Committee
U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM </em Washington, D.C., > Feb 23rd 1883
</p>
<pre> Mar 3
</pre>
<p>My dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Yours of the 21st is here. Really
</pre>
<p>I don't know how I can make the situation
any plainer. I said "Mr Carnegie </u presents > the
Society $500." and that's what he does. The
amt. is at my disposal whenever I choose
to call or send for it. The only condition he
made, which was no condition but merely an
expressed </u wish, > was that I should have the
principal management of affairs in place of
Studer, by reason of my furnishing the money.
There was no need for me to tell you of this
because I will </u have > to do the bulk of the
work whether I want to or not.. I would give
$100. to be relieved of all care in the matter.
</p>
<pre> The $500. is ours forever, and Mr. Carnegie
</pre>
<p>don't wat ir published that he gave it </u for our
sakes >. He says "people hate poverty ". He would
not even consent that we should make him the
"patron" of the exhibition He said we
would probably need still more money and to
go ahead and raise more in the same way if
possible. I expect about $100. or $200. from
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</pre>
<p>I went to see Mr Z Dedrick, 18 Maiden
Lane, who is Sec of the Board of Trustees, &
has the thing in charge. He asked $25. per
night for a six days show, seats down. I
offered $250. if they would take up the
seats. This, mind you, for six days, </u plus > 3
days before & 3 days after for work. Mr
Dederick regarded. my offer </u favourably >, &
after I left laid it before the Trustees. He
now writes the Trustees are not willing to
take up the seats ! and therefore cannot let
us have it.
</p>
<pre> Now, every man has his price, and the
</pre>
<p>Trustees have theirs. I have written to ask them
what it is. I have offered to guarantee that the
seats can be taken up & put back without
injury to anything. Look at them and you will
see it is a matter of men & money. In my
offer I allowed $100. extra for that, above the
$150. asked. The Sunday worshipers in the
Hall we propose to </u buy out > for 2 Sundays.
I learned from the Janitor of th Temple,
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Mr J. W. Kelsey (I think) that the Trustees
are paying off a debt on the building ! I
intimated to him that if we get the hall he
may expect "hard cash" from us, and he
is enlisted in our behalf. He says the seats
ought all be taken up & repainted and
upholstered before the Small Lodge meets
in June ! He thinks it would not be a very
</s I > difficult thing to take up the seats & replace
them.
</p>
<pre> Now, </u you > can bring these people to some
</pre>
<p>kind of terms. Get Mr Dederick - who is a
very pleasant man - to get the Trustees together
and do you meet them and talk to them as
</u you only > can. We can afford to spend
$400. </u if necessary > in securing that hall, and
I will give you "full powers" to act in
the matter. The only indispensable conditions
in the matter ae that we </u must > have the seats
up, have possession 2 Sundays, and have
it 3 days before & 3 days after the Ex. for work.
We want to hold the Opening Reception on
Wed. night April 4th, & keep open to the
public 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th & 11th. If you can
secure the Hall with these privileges you will
do us a </u great > service. We anxiously await
developments.
</p>
<pre> Yours hastily & </u openly > W. T. Hornaday.
</pre>
<p>[written vertically left margin-
If you need any money to pay down on the Hall
I will give you an order on Mr C. instantly.
-Across the bottom -
But we don't want to pay in advance if we can help it ! -
vertically up the right margin -
Will have something for the Bulletin </u in time. >
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Mr Colgate, and if you see him, </u please put in
a good word for us, > We will need it badly
before we get through, and I know you will see
the extreme desirability of our having it as a
gift. If you have to advance any funds I
promise that it shall be returned before any
other debts are paid. But if we get something
from Mr Colgate </u we > won't need to put up a
margin. </u I > for one am too poor to do it.
</p>
<pre> Now for an </u important > matter, I </u rejoice >
</pre>
<p>that you are in New York, for it will save me
another dreaded trip. We are in trouble about
our Hall. We </u must > have Masonic Temple Hall
because
</p>
<pre> 1st It is fire proof, & will greatly influence
our getting specimens from C. P.
2nd It is the right size, & in exactly the
right place. (23rd St. opp Booth's Theatre)
3rd Dr Holder & Prof B. say it will be an
</u immense > advantage to us to have that
as it will give an aristocratic </u tone > to
the Ex. which "Lyric Hall" could </u not > give.
4th Mr Colgate made a special note of.
the fact that it was the intention
to secure Masonic Hall if possible.
5th. The rent is low, </u if we can get them
to take the seats up. >
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Washington, Feb 8th, 83
</p>
<pre> " 11
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Thanks for Studer's card. There
</pre>
<p>will perhaps be one other member of
the Board present beside Studer.
Let Studer attack the S. A. T. if he
dares. I should be quite pleased
to have him, for it would give me
a good excuse to show him up in
print. But he is a coward, and
there is no fear of his doing it.
</p>
<pre> Am sorry my effort to save you
</pre>
<p>the trouble of writing another letter
is not approved. Of course I could
not have made any alteration without
telling you beforehand. I enclose it
herewith, and will get along. without
it. Unless it expresses the </u hope >
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>that the Exhibition can be made
to meet its expenses, it is worse
than useless on a factor in inducing
a man to invest in it, I wonder
that you and Mr Webster </s could > did
not see it.
</p>
<pre> Please do not say anything calculated
</pre>
<p>to dampen the ardor of Webster..
Critchley & rest., for if we cannot
keep up our </u courage > we are lost.
Webster felt a </u good deal > discouraged
after his talk with you. I intend
to see to it that the C. P,
Museum lends the boys </u some >
specimens, if it lies in my power
to bring it about. "Some things can
be done as well as others."
</p>
<pre> I am sorry you feel so dis-
</pre>
<p>couraged about "the business", but
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year. You do indeed work hard,
but no man living has </u half > the
fun in seeing the world that you
do ! Courage - and think of
Madagascar !
</p>
<pre> Keep up your courage about
</pre>
<p>our Ex. by all means. If the
burden of </u manual labor > can be
wholly taken off my shoulders
in N. Y. so that I can </u Devote >
myself to working up a newspaper
boom, I will beat Studer's proposed
methods and make the thing a
success - or die in the attempt.
</u Free me from boxes and tools. , and
you shall ^see^ a different result from
Boston !
Yours cordially. W. T. Hornaday
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Washington, Feb 7th 1883.
</p>
<pre> " 16
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor:
</p>
<pre> Here is Studer's answer
</pre>
<p>to my letter. He is not so de-
fiant and anxious for a </u fight >
as he used to be. On the contrary
is mild as a sucking dove. His
attitude is still more contemptible
and cowardly. I am not
through with him yet by any
means. Shall we not demand
his resignation as an Hon.
Member? Please return this
letter with the other.
</p>
<pre> Carnegie is in N. Y. will be
</pre>
<p>glad to see me at any time, &
I will go down Saturday night.
Tell Webster and all the
boys to hurry up with their
work for the Ex. only </u six
weeks more.> Everything must
move like </u greased lightning >
now !
Yours sincerely
Hornaday.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
{upside down in upper margin -
P. S. Will you be willing to recommend in writing Mr
Fred Sauter 199 Wm St. in case he wishes to become a member ?
If so I will write him and ask Lucas to join. There are
new men to be elected from this city & Boston. Do you
know of any more ? H.]
</em Society of American Taxidermists >
FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART.
Office of the Executive Committee. </em Washington, D, C., > Jan 14th 1883
U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM. " 23
My dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> Mr Webster has just sent yours of
</pre>
<p>Jan 6th I can scarcely even speak or write about
Studer's relations with the Society without getting into
a rage, but this time I will make a special effort.
But first of all I wish to assure you, for I have </u all >
the facts necessary to prove it, that Studer's whining
about not being invested with full powers is only
a miserable subterfuge intend to cover his recent
mis behavior. He would not have dare to take such
ground in my hearing. We never checked him in
but two things: one was when he proposed to
have Chickering Hall for 3 days ( ! ), @ $300. and
the other was when he said we must hold our Ex. on
top of the chairs in Masonic hall, and without any
large mammals. Both those </s th > propositions we
promptly sat down upon. Now I want to know
</u wherein > we limited his powers any further.
</p>
<pre> Now as to our (my) putting him in a ridiculous
</pre>
<p>light by speaking of things which had no foundation.
I suppose he refers to the press & ladies committees.
I have his letters wherein he says he has nearly
completed the organization of both those committees.
</p>
<pre> Who was it </u insisted > on our announcing in
</pre>
<p>the Associated Press despatches that we were to
have Armory hall ? </u Studer. > Who </u insisted > that
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>we print for him </u at once > a lot of letter paper
with a heading which announced, "Exhibition
to be held in Armory Hall. Dec 4 - 16th ". </u Studer>
I protested against that vigorously, but he simply
</u would have it >. Who said to me in answer to
my protestations against intimating what was
not true. "I tell you H. there is always ^got to be^ a
</u great deal of humbug > about anything of this
kind." I have two witnesses to prove that it was
</u Studer >. And more than that, he tried his level
best to persuade Lucas and I to meet in the
Museum, & then announce in the papers that a
</u meeting of the Society > </s of > had been held in Washing-
ton. &e. We compromised matters by saying the
Executive Committee met, but we knew it was
not the square thing exactly, & our only excuse
was the pressure for </u time.>. Never before meeting
Studer have I ever </u consented > that there should be
anything like humbug about the Society, and
had I stood out for </u my > principles there would
not have been this time. Studer knew </u all about >
the Armory Hall matter. I told him that you
had proposed to get Dr Holders assistance and
procure room for a free show. Then Studer declared
that we must assume it had been offered us, &
by that means we would be more certain of
getting it. We let him engineer </u the whole thing. >
except for one or two checks we put on.. and he
had everything his own way except </s not > in the
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> 2
</pre>
<p>two instances mentioned at the beginning of this
letter.The third matter in which he was checked
in the postponement, which you know he agreed to.
Now him to get on his high horse and assume
the role he does to you is exactly like a prostitute
preaching virtue and railing at her chambermaid
</s for > ^on^ the reputation of the house. It only shows
that Studer is a contemptible poltroon as well
as a pledge breaker. Why don't he stand up like
a man & say he is sick of his bargain, that </s it > he
has bitten off more than he can chew, and that
it isn't as much of a spontaneous love feast in N. Y.
as he expected ?
</p>
<pre> But really I must beg your pardon for this
</pre>
<p>railing to you at another man. It will be hard
work for me to keep from going to the other party
with what I have to say, but I will promise to
keep the peace until after the Exhibition. But it
will not do for Studer and I to have </u anything > to
do with each other, and above all I do not want
to see him as long as it is possible to avoid him.
Lucas can </s write > correspond with him and I with you
with you, by which means we can perfect all arrange-
ments
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>I predict however that Studer's back-down No 2
is only a question of a few weeks, and I look
for it to come whenever his cash is called for. I
have no idea that he will see you through the Ex.
I do not believe you will ever get him to sign any
kind of an agreement, or put up his $500.
</p>
<pre> I will be glad to </s see > have the Society invest
</pre>
<p>Messrs </u Ward > and Studer with the fullest powers,
but we shall waste no further words on </u Studer >
alone. At least it will not be done by my
advice or consent until he </u puts up his money >
He shall not have a chance to diddle the
Society a second time. I have no faith
whatever in either his honesty or his sincerity,
Were </u you > not going to have a hand in the game
and keep a check on him I should call for his
formal resignation at once, & proceed to raise funds
in other quarters. If Studer will </u now > enter into
an agreement with you, in writing, and put up his
$500. to pay exhibitor's freight, & express charges both
ways, hall expenses, cartage & storage , and advertising.
Lucas and I will be glad to have the society pass a
resolution investing </u you > and he with the fullest powers.
I know that </u you > would have sense enough to know,
^even if S does not^ yours
that Chickering Hall, nor any other, would do us any more
good for 3 days than would a hall in heaven for the
same time..
</p>
<pre> Please forward this to Webster, and it will save me
</pre>
<p>writing it all over for his benefit. If Studer gets on
his high horse again & gets "defiant" <'/u send him to h--l." as
M. Bailly would say, and </u I > will raise $500. in </u cash >, not promises.
I will guarantee that Carnegie will advance it. Take no more sass from
[up right hand margin] that man !
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
{Written upside down at top of page -
You are mistaken in thinking
I carried the idea in my
first letter that Webster was
</u indispensable > to you. I only claimed
that he would make a better foreman
than the other, & that I am still sure of. When I see you I can tell you
things I cannot write. No objection to </u Webster's > seeing </u that > letter at all.]
</p><p>Washington, D. C.
Sunday, May 27th 1882.
</p>
<pre> June 24
</pre>
<p>Dear Professor Ward;
</p>
<pre> I was very glad to get your good letter
</pre>
<p>of the 23rd which I had anxiously expected. Naturally I
feel a deep and abiding interest in the </s Per? of them >
Establishment, and I only regret that I am entirely
unable to show it. I shall always take pride in referring
to it as my real Alma Mater and you as my bringer - up.
I am glad to see by Prof. Baird's letter that he, too, fully
appreciates your kindness to your impecunious,- and sometimes
</u ungrateful > - "Boys". It would also have done you good to
have heard the encomiums of </s a > our Dr. White (C.A.) on
you and your peculiar and magnificent work as a scientific
educator of the masses. If you could </u only > live to read your
own obituary notices and your biography it would, I am
sure, partly compensate you for what you have endured from
"the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" in this life.
</p>
<pre> It certainly is cold-blooded. </u quite > reptilian in fact,
</pre>
<p>to ask a man who employs a large force, to give up his
best workman, whose services are so important. Prof.
Baird and I agree that you are "one man out of the
thousand" in your willingness to assist your assistants.,
for most men would cling to Webster - or one like him -
with a death grip. If </u any > of us could ever do anything to
benefit you in return it would not seem so much, but
the opportunity may not come until your children's day.
</p>
<pre> Had Webster been a less-unfortunate man in his day I
</pre>
<p>would not have asked any sacrifice in his behalf; but
in his circumstances and with his temprement it is almost
a matter of life and death. I am </u very > sorry that he
is complaining so much, but after all it is not much
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>wonder. It was a great blow to him that I should
get such good place with so little trouble, and
that he, who considers himself my equal on all points.
should "get left". It has completely upset him, wife tells
me, and he is not the same man he was before. She too,
had told me that he had got into the habit you mention. -
of complaining. But under the same circumstances you
or I would feel sour too ! Think how you would have
</s be > felt had you failed to sell anything in Frisco. and Foote
raked in the $16,000 instead of you ! You know you were
terribly blue and anxious even as it was during the 4 or 5
days previous to the fall of the manna - in the shape
of those two drafts. Therefore we must be charitable to
Webster. Lucus' coming here has only deepened his gloom.
</p>
<pre> Webster asked me for an opinion of his work to show
</pre>
<p>Prof. Baird, and snce learning from you that you were
really willing to make the sacrifice of letting him go. I have
given it. If he does not get in here it certainly will
not be your fault & I have told him so. As soon as he
finds he cannot, I think he will accept your offer &
enter heartily into your plans. At all events I shall strongly
urge him to do so. He can marry on $3.50 per day, surely.
Mrs Gilbert is doing her part nobly. In spite of her
anxiety she assumes a cheerfulness she does not feel and
comforts him every way, urging patience and </u courage.>
</p>
<pre> Your hypothetical case of W. L. H. resigning in behalf
</pre>
<p>of Webster, may yet have a closer reality than you ever
supposed. Not that I would ever change places with
him, but I have for some time thought seriously of
offering to give up, for 2 or 3 years, $200. annually from
my salary, bringing it down to $1300.in case it could
be added to other money and made sufficient to get
Webster here. Were I </s entirely > free from debt I would
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>be ready to talk it over with Wife, and if the worst
comes to the worst I won't say that it may not be
done even as things are now.
</p>
<pre> Of course you are joking when you allude to the
</pre>
<p>possible ruin of the Establishment by the loss of Webster.
It would be slanderous to consider the fate of that
vast institution as hanging by such a slender thread as the
presence of </u any one man > connected with it except the
Founder. Upon all occasions when short sighted people have
asserted that, "Professor </u couldn't get along > without Such a one."
my reply has been, "Nonsense ! </u No man > there is indispensable.
or ^incapable^</s could not be > of being replaced."True it is not
every one who could find good preparation, but I know </u you >
can always get as many as you want. </s and you know >
</p>
<pre> I do hope that Webster will not persist in his semi-political
</pre>
<p>document, for it certainly would do him more harm than
good. Politics are almost </uj never > spoken of in the Institution
and nothing seems to be farther from Prof Baird's mind
than "factions", "Stalwarts", "Half-Breeds and "campaigns. He
only takes care that Congress gives us what we want. The Geolog-
ical Survey and the National Museum are in high
favor with Congress, and there is little doubt but that
we will get a liberal appropriation. My presence here
before July is due to the fact that in Feb. last (or March)
the U.S.N.M. got a "deficiency appropriation" to the tune
of $30,000.
</p>
<pre> The Geological Survey starts out the first of July to
</pre>
<p>measure more Moqui pueblos and will return in the
Autumn to make models of them. They are now making
a model of the whole of Zuni, from which one set of casts
(there are seven big sections of it) will be made for the British
Museum, and a second for us. By-the-bye. I wonder
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p></s to > If you wouldn't like to have Zuni, and why they
couldn't make another </s mo > cast of it for you, or sell you
the moulds make. If you wanted it I think they would
willingly trade it to you for that tiger skin from Theobald.
Prof. Goode would be glad to get that if they have any -
thing which you would </u accept > in exchange for it. (If the
museum had the money to buy with I think they would
buy the "Fight in the Tree Tops".) It occurs to me that
if you had a cast of Zuni you might be able to sell it
at a good figure in Boston, for you know the Bostonians
tumbled to Cushing and his Zuni Indians and raised
a lot of money to pay the expense of bringing the Indians
on here. If you should want Zuni, or any of these pueblos,
now is the time to get them.
</p>
<pre> Now about Theobald's matter. Of course I will be glad
</pre>
<p>to send Theobald the $116. I have to send him a box
of things at once. In addition to this amt. you will owe
T. for a very large mountable skin of male tiger, in
excellent condition, but without bones. (The </u skull> must
accompany the skin if you trade it to us.) The skin was
made last year by Theobald for me to mount into a
prize piece for our Exhibition but came too late, and
owing to your absence I could do nothing to it or with it.
I suppose you will want to allow him $50. or so for it.
It is with the other skins up in the L. M. Attic. Look
at it. Theobald paid all freight on his boxes to N.Y. and
from there I paid $7.25 (or </u about > that in cents.)
</p>
<pre> The tiger and leopard skins we were to work up and
</pre>
<p>sell and divide the expenses and profits. I have just
sold one of these skins rec'd from you by Ex. for $35.00
I sold one to Webster for $50. but the hair all came
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</pre>
<p>off the head, and I told him </s I > we would throw
off $10. from the original price. He has paid $10. and
owes $30. which will make $75. to be divided. </s of >
I hardly know what tp allows </s for > Theobald for the
skins. There remains one ^tiger^ skin worth $35. and four
leopard skins. The fourth flat tiger skin I have here,
but it has a hole in one side large enough for a dog to
jump through, and is scarcely worth anything except as
a thing to spend money upon. The three good skins
therefore foot up $110. selling prices Shall we allow
Theobald $75. for the 4 flat tiger skins ? I think that
would be about right. I think we ought to call the
leopard skins (4) worth $25. which would make $100.
to remit. The latter ought to sell for $50. without any
trouble. I notice the best one of the lot was not
sent to me, therefore I judge it has been sold. I of -
fired it to Webster @ $20. and I suppose he has
taken it. Ask him about it., and if he has </u not >, had
the skin is still there - it is a </u fine, large > one, send it
to me and I think I can sell it here at a good figure.
I will leave you to appraise the stuffable tiger skin and
pay for it, as that does not, in strict accordance with
our agreement, belong to the partnership skins.
</p>
<pre> Theobald wants about $60. worth of stuff sent to him,
</pre>
<p>which I will get together and get off without delay. Send
me his volumes of the A. A. A. S. proceedings & I will
put them in. Have his last year's dues been paid yet ?
</p>
<pre> I don't think there is a solitary thing in the
</pre>
<p>Establishment belonging to me except a half interest
in those remaining 2 or 3 leopard skins. I intended to
leave </u nothing > of mine. </s Some > If you do find anything
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>of mine (which I have not thrown away !) send it.
on at my expense & oblige. Somehow or other my
beloved old black-walnut iron-bound outfit chest
which I took all around & which you afterwards gave
me in full, is missing. Was not sent with the rest of
my goods. </s If > It is incomprehensible now, but was in
my attic at 33 Prince St when </u I > left. If you hear of
it anywhere, ^please^ send by freight after I write again.
</p>
<pre> When I get my pay next week I will send you the
</pre>
<p>$50.00 which you were so good as to lend Josephine. Am
obliged to spend a good deal just now for some more
carpets & furniture, </s for > or I would have sent it before.
Wife tells me you gave her the embroidery ^$2.^ without money
& without price. I really expected to pay for it. </u Muchos gracias. >
It will hereafter be numbered with our household goods.
</u Come and visit us .>We are almost settled now.
Wife and baby are in excellent health. We expect
Lucas tomorrow. - wish we were expecting you also.
</p>
<pre> Thanks for the skin scraper. Enter the price on
</pre>
<p>the "requisition" which was sent you and return it
which will be all that is necessary. Do it at once
and it will be paid the first of June.
</p>
<pre> Item. The Bureau of Ethnology has gotten out an elegant
</pre>
<p>Report (for 1879 & 80) which you ought to have. If you
apply for it without letting all your "boys" know you may get
a copy. You know they forestalled you on Elliotts Monograph
of the Seal Islands. Those who had no use for it got it.
and ^I^ had hard work to get a copy even after I came here.
</p>
<pre> Kindest regards to Mr Ward, Mrs Ward, Henry & Alice,
</pre>
<p>and all others who care for us.
</p>
<pre> Yours, for better or for worse.
</pre>
<p>Wm. T. Hornaday.
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Hornaday, William T. (William Temple)
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1882-05-17
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U. S. National Museum.
Washington, D. C. May 17th 1882.
</p>
<pre> " 23
</pre>
<p>My dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> Welcome back, sound in wind and
</pre>
<p>limb, in mind and body I hope. I am most hap-
pily disappointed. I hope you have enjoyed the whole
trip - and that the next time you will go to India ! You
however, that before long you will stray down this way &
let me ask you 1001 questions about your travels and
my East Indian friends. (By-the-bye, Jackson (C.E.) has
just been placed on a salary of $1500 per year at Antigua,
with a prospect of $500 more in fees. His letter of an-
nouncement crossed with mine ! )
</p>
<pre> Wife & baby arrived safely Sunday, but the
</pre>
<p>mother was very weak and poorly. She is now resting
& recuperating nicely. She is most grateful to you
for the timely aid you rendered in the loan of
$50. at the last moment, and I also thank you </u very >
much. It shall be returned at the earliest possible
moment. I thought I had given her enough, but you
know how my calculations are always short ! I was
ever thus, in Florida, S. A. the East Indies & Rochester.
Good Lord, will be </u ever > thus, I want to know ?
</p>
<pre> I think I can sell one of our tiger skins in
</pre>
<p>the raw, for $35. or $40. Will you please have
the </u two > flat tiger skins & the </u best > ^& largest ^ leopard skin
forwarded by Express, to me at 327 Missouri Ave.
</u not > the Museum. Will not $40. be a good
price for the largest tiger skin ? How much for
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>the best leopard? Theobald wants me to send
him a rifle & some other things. Sew the skins
up in burlap to ship, to save Expressage on a </u box. >
</p>
<pre> Webster writes me in great trouble. He wants
</pre>
<p>to come here (at $1200 per year) to a life position
which will enablele him to marry & begin a new
life. He told me all about his interview with you. I
do not wonder that you do not want to let him go, for
in spite of all tabulated statements to the contrary he
is a rare man to have. I know that were I in your
place, I too should be disposed to hang to him. But
there is a higher side to the question. From what I
know I believe that were to </u you > to work in earnest
for Webster you could get him. in here within two
months, but without your co-operation all heaven &
earth could not get him in. When I look at
all a life position here implies to a man in Webster's
circumstances, it almost seems that other things should
give way. Poor Webster is the most unfortunate of
men. He works like a slave to get on & always has, but
it always rains porridge when his dish is bottom up.
I believe he was born under an unlucky star. He is the
finest bird taxidermist in the country - or any other for
that matter - he works continually, and yet at 36 he is
worth $200 less than nothing, and cannot marry the
woman of his choice. It is too bad. Now, </u you, > and
you alone hold his future in your hand. If you are
willing to make the sacrifice I am sure - I almost
</u know > you can settle him here for life, comfortably &
happily as a married man. At present he is dis-
appointed, sour, miserable, </u almost > desperate. He is a
man of disappointments. True, you are not his keeper
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>nor to blame for any of his life errors, but you have
it in your power to change the whole current of his
life. </u He > does not realize it, but you & I know it well.
If you have ever in your life sinned against human -
ity and have need to atone for it now is your chance !
You may never meet another equal to it. You can
make a number of fellow mortals very happy who
now are far from it. - and all by one sacrifice. To
a man of your resources </u no > man is indispensible,
and I think Walter Burton would be glad to fill
W's place with you. I had hoped that Webster would
be willing to settle down as your foreman, for if he
would I know he would make a good one, but it is
not to be wondered at that he prefers 7 hours work
per day @ $100. per month. In his place you or I
would be the same. With such a rare chance
to do good, to lift the cloud from a good man's life, is it not
worth while to think of making the sacrifice ? It is
not every day that one gets such a chance benefit
poor humanity occurs. Webster would choose Washington
quicker than heaven just now I think.
</p>
<pre> I know you have done scores of noble deeds in
</pre>
<p>your day, most unselfishly, and I ^ only^ hope I may have
as many to my credit when I am called upon to
shuffle. But this only makes me think you are good
for one more. Were it pious Deacon Hayward, or almost
any other common Christian I would not be so
foolish as to trouble myself to write the foregoing, but
men are different, thank heaven. I have already
dedicated my first-born (Book) to you as ever
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>expression of my gratitude for what you have done
for me, and were you to help poor Webser out of
his slough of Despond at this time it would only
clinch my previous opinions tighter than ever. if
anything is done, now is the time to act, </u before > the
beginning of the next fiscal year.- July 1st.
</p>
<pre> But I will stop here. In three weeks we will
</pre>
<p>be settled & ready & anxious to entertain you for an
indefinite time. Hoping to hear from you when
you get time for side issues I remain
Yours as always
Truly & Sincerely
Wm T. Hornaday.
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1882-03-19
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Rochester, N. Y. March 19th 1882
</p>
<pre> " 26
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof Ward:-
[drawing of man waving at a clipper ship]
This is a ship.
It is a ship for me.
It sailed in today.
It is not a big ship.
But it does first rate.
I will take it in out of the wet !
</p>
<pre> Yes, it has really come, even though it does not bring
</pre>
<p>a fortune in silver bricks. Mr Goode has written for me
to come on at once if I like, and they will give me
$125, per month. As before, they declare they cannot
promise farther than the end of the fiscal year - July -
and say that if Congress cuts down their appropriation
very much they cannot say what will be the result
except that the Museum force will have to be lessened,
&e. &e. but I am not afraid. I have told them
I will cast my lot in with the M. S. N. M. and
take it "for better, for worse." I will go to Washington
next Saturday and report for duty Monday, the 27th.
</u Fortunately > my pieces here are all done even up, and
there is nothing to hinder my going, in as much as
</u you > have consented to it and lent such valuable
assistance toward my taking off.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>& Now that the time has actually come for me to
"pull up stakes' and move on from my cosy corner
in the Large Museum, and leave all the boys and the
shops I feel like a boy leaving home and starting
out in the world to strike for him self. Here all my
failings and weaknesses have been charitably "condoned"
in one way or another, and I have lived in a
kind of home-like security which can never be
found elsewhere. I have come to look upon the estab-
lishment as a part of myself, and it will seem very
strange to cut loose from it entirely . I wish I
could hold a mortgage upon my present interest
in it that I might foreclose and take possession
of ^it^ when I chose !
</p>
<pre> I am </u very > sorry my book is not to come out while
</pre>
<p>I am here, but after all I can with more force
and </u effect > dedicate it from Washington to the
</u "Founder of Ward's Natural Science Establishment ". > I shall
go right on with it by working nights and Sundays
at it until it is done, and if I can do it without
breaking down I will </s get > ^ yet^ get it out in time for the
next holiday.
</p>
<pre> I wish you were here that I might have at least
</pre>
<p></u one > good long talk with you before I go, but I will
</u hope > that you will need to go to Washington during the
early summer. If you do you won't have any board to
pay </u there > ! I want to have a talk with you about
the future of taxidermy, but it will have to lie over at
present. Now that I am going you </u surely >
can let poor Tennent come can't you ? He will
be devoted your interests I think if you only
give him a chance, and as a cheap taxidermist he would
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</pre>
<p>be likely to pay the Establishment. I am sorry
such adverse reports were sent you about ^lack of profit on ^ my work
and I was beginning to think it time for me to quit
the business. The greatest satisfaction I have found in
working for you is that you have always wanted </u the
very best > work a man could do, without stinting him
for time. I think I have during the last two
years worked steadily while in the shop, and as fast
as I could without slighting my work - a thing </u very >
easy and simple to do - and I have striven to turn
out the best pieces in my line. When it was made known
that my work paid the poorest </s it > I was brought
face to face with the question "Shall I </u slight > my
work or quit the business entirely ? " I had made up
my mind to take the latter course if either was forced
upon me. Work which is done hurriedly and </u slighted >
looks well enough mostly - until it gets away from
the taxidermist. Then its faults begin to show fearfully.
</p>
<pre> As I said before I will continue to do all I can
</pre>
<p>for the </u Bulletin > and will try to do some good.
</p>
<pre> I would like to take your Tennents "Ceylon" to
</pre>
<p>Washington with me for use while I write on my
book. I will scrupulously return all your other books
which I have borrowed. </u Perhaps > I will have to
come on here in July to pack and ship my
household goods. Am waiting anxiously to hear
that you have sold everything in Frisco. No more this
time. Please address next to the Smithsonian.
Yours, the same as heretofore
World without end.
Wm T. Hornaday
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1882-03-14
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1882-03-11
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Rochester, New York
March 11 th 1882
</p>
<pre> " 20
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> I send you today two envelopes full
</pre>
<p>full of matter submitted for the next Bulletin. if you
throw out either or both of my poor little editorials, you
</u must > give me something to supply their place. We must
have at least two articles of a purely editorial nature,
and this is the best I can do. My article on "Prices
for Taxidermy Work " is designed to go under the head of
Taxidermy, and without submitting it to you first I
would not dare to put it in. Shall we not raise the
prices for ^mounting^ deer heads with shield, to $20. to $25. ? Were I
working on my own hook I </u know > I could get it. I en-
close proof of my Elephant article. Mr Lucas has set
his heart on <.u not > having any cut of Elephant, and
</s can > in short oppose the idea violently. What shall I do ? If
you want the thing carried through send me your
photo, of el. for it is </u impossible > to get another here
in less than six months ! How would you like to put
in a cut of Gorillla instead of elephant ? If you decide
to do it telegraph me & I will send photo to N. Y. to have
picture drawn and engraved. Photo has just now
been taken by Monroe, too rainy & dark yesterday
& day before.
</p>
<pre> Lucas disapproves </s the > your plan concerning the
</pre>
<p>"Owl Critic ". I think myself the cuts are rather
large & take up a good deal of ^valuable^ space. Why not
print the "British Ass" this time ? We need it
</u badly >. Lucas don't like it but I think it is good.
If you get any half column review of a two
dollar book intended for the Bulletin I hope
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>you will think about what </u space > is worth in the
Bulletin. We have no room for lengthy book notices
or reviews except under very exceptional circumstances.
Next issue we put Preston's name in the list of
Contributors. Please return this matter</u as soon
as possible >. I have no copies of any of it. And
don't fail to send contributions of your own.
</p>
<pre> Rec'd yours about giraffe. Do you think I could
</pre>
<p>mount it by working forenoons ? If I give up
my afternoons on the book again it is doomed sure.
At present it is going on </u splendidly >. Wouldn't I
profit almost as much by having Baird see a large
specimen mounted by ---- </u some one else > ! Think it
over, give me your decision and I </u will follow your
advice on the matter. > I really do not know what to
do in the case.
</p>
<pre> Good news ! Three weeks ago I sent two short
</pre>
<p>stories to the Youth's Companion. "An Elephant Hunt
in Salangore" and "A Crocodile Hunt in Florida ", and
I have just received for them a draft for $50. ! Now
the book will get on nicely with what I can make
there. They want me to send them </u some more >. Verily
"The night is long that never finds the day  ! "
</p>
<pre> I do not know anything about what Lucas
</pre>
<p>or Staebuer </s had > has written for the </u Bulletin >. I wish
you would make Lucas managing editor ! If you
will I swear I will treat him as such and will
work under his leadership without </u any > jealousy. I
will not constantly try to thwart all his plans
either, nor ignore his position.
</p>
<pre> </u Pray do not bring this letter back with you. >
</pre>
<p>Yours obediently & truly,
Wm. T. Hornaday
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[ upside down at top of page -
Mr Howell saw the criticized Bulletin
you sent me.. He announced a
price of subscription in the
late no. </u I > think that was absolutely
necessary for us to do that for the
sake of </u appearances > and our dignity as a journal. Don't You ? ]
</p><p>Rochester, N. Y.
</p>
<pre> Jan 27th 1882
Feb 28
</pre>
<p>My dear Prof. Ward: -
</p>
<pre> Your welcome letter from Yokohama
</pre>
<p>arrived in due time and was read with great interest.
You will ere this meets you have found a letter from me in the
hands of Mr Clements. I hear that Baker & Lucas have
written you quite volubly of late and I presume I cannot
tell you anything fresh except what concerns myself alone.
</p>
<pre> First about the last </u Bulletin. > Inasmuch as it was gotten
</pre>
<p>out without reference to me or my ideas. I wish to distinctly
distain </u all > responsibility in the matter, of any kind what -
soever. I was given the proof of my own contributions to read
and correct, but </u no more >. I </u saw > other proof sheets but
was not called upon to correct them and did not feel like
intruding my services. My most important articles were
all suppressed and I had no voice in the make-up of
the paper in any way. I wish you to see clearly that </s I > the
</u Bulletin > has been taken completely and bodily out of my
hands. You sent your articles to Mr Lucas and I did not
even see them until they were printed, nor know anything
about your wishes regarding them. I understand that the
Megapod article was not sent to the </u Naturalist. > .Had you
sent your articles to me I think you would have found that
I am still able to obey orders. Where I saw the articles
in print I saw that the Megapodius had been written
with much more care than the one on Hatteria, and your
last letter explains how it happened so, which I did not
know before. When the </u Bulletin > came out I went
through a copy of it carefully and marked the changes &
corrections I would have made had </u I > been editorially re-
sponsible for it., and that copy I sent to you, care of
Mr Clements. If Mr Howell had given me the opportunity
in accordance with your wishes plainly stated to him in my
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>hearing, I would very naturally have made those corrections,
</u before > the paper was printed! Could I have foreseen how
things were going to be managed and both your wishes
and my own thwarted in regard to the paper you may de -
pend </u I > should never have worked to have it issued during
your absence. P. S. If anyone feels inclined to charge me
with having voluntarily dropped work on the Bulletin, I shall
be most happy to answer the charge.
</p>
<pre> There that growl is growled, and pass we to pleasanter
</pre>
<p>topics. The big gorilla is done, up to the end of the
first stage I mean, and is drying nicely. It took me
just 22 days of 9 hours (four of which were spent in
cleaning the skin) and I presume it will take me six
days longer to take him through the last stage. Considering
the state of the skin I am </u almost > satisfied with the
gorilla. I modeled his face line for line after the
fine cast of gorilla you got over in Germany somewhere.
We have had a big discussion over the cast. Lucas & Bailly
swear it is a model, out and out. Hornaday & Webster
swear it was made in a mould taken of a </u dead animal. >
Prevotel has just sworn that he saw the original of this
cast in alcohol, entire in Paris, that he knew when the
mould was made of it, and by whom, in Paris. He said
all this before he knew anything about our dispute, and
volunteered it all. Lucas will not accept Prevotels evidence.
Can </u you > tell us all about the cast ? Mind I do not
refer to that monstrosity from Princeton, which is enough
to scare a </u gorilla > into fits ! Lucas and I do not agree
on the face of my gorilla. I am so dead certain sure I
am right that I don't feel disposed to give in this time,
and I want you to see the big beast before it goes away
& give an opinion upon it. Now I tell you, if you only
had </u this > wonderful animal in your San Francisco
collection he would advertise you as much as a
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Mammoth, and draw an everlasting crowd ! </u Real >
gorillas are scarce you know.
</p>
<pre> Now that the gorilla is done I will begin at once, next
</pre>
<p>Monday, on my book and not stop until it is </u done >.
Will you be willing for me to work every forenoon in the
shop. (for money to live upon !) and work at my book
every afternoon ? This arrangement will </s allow > ^yield> me $9. per
week, not </u quite > enough for bread and butter. If I only
had some important and well paying work in. the shop
you might give me $3.50 per day for my half days.,
which would make me $12. per week, and would enable me
to slide along quite comfortably, until the book is done.
But unfortunately, there is very little work for me at
present, and there is not likely to be any which will
justify such a proceeding as the above.
</p>
<pre> I am at last in a little luck. A bonanza is struck.
</pre>
<p>although it is a very small one. The publication of the
</u Youth's Companion > have just paid me $15. for a little
story, - </u How Ah Kee got Lost in the Jungle, - >, and have
accepted me for a regular contributor saying that if I will
make my stories stirring or even </u thrilling >, they " will pay me
very liberally for them". Of course I am going to do my
level best to make ^ a little^ money & a reputation. . Do you not
think it would be best to </u not > publish in the </u Companion >
my best hunting adventures, but save them for the book ?
I intend to draw largely as possible on my Experiences
in Florida, the W. I. and S. A. because this will not
harm the book.
</p>
<pre> My many thanks for your most unselfish kindness
</pre>
<p>in recommending me to Prof. Baird. It was </u all that I
lacked to clinch matters > with him ! I am now as certain
of receiving that position as anyone can be of a matter
which is not in black and white. I went to Washington
and saw Baird & Goode, had a long and very
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>satisfactory interview with them, & the subject was dis-
cussed in all its bearings. Baird asked me almost the
first thing whether you would be willing for me to go there,
and I told him just how you felt about such things, and
that you make it a point of honor to </u never > stand in the
way of the advancement of any of your young men. B. said
that was certainly very unselfish in you, and ^is^ more than
can be said of most men ! I told him that you would
probably find occasion to write him on the subject before
very long. Of course I did not know then about your letter to
him. Well, you see they are not yet just ready for a
taxidermist, because they are all topsy turvy getting their
economic collections (I </u think > that was the word) into the
new building and getting them into </s t > shape, and they are
not going to tackle the Zoological collections until these
are disposed of. At present those departments drain
all the funds, but when the are disposed of this will
cease, & the money will go to geology. </u Then > they will want
me ! Even were I there now I would be mounting old
pottery on wire stands instead of working on Zoology. The
cases for Zoology will not be ready for four months yet.
I feel absolutely certain of the place because they
</u must > have a mammal man soon. They want the
best, regardless of price, they are satisfied that my
work is the best they have yet seen, and they have
said that next July, when the next fiscal year begins &
they have their next appropriation at their command they
will talk further & more definitely with me about
an engagement." To save my life I co^u^ld </u not > get Baird
to say more than that, because he declared it would be a
misdemeanor for him to promise anything involving
the expenditure of money based upon an expected
appropriation. In spite of that, however, he talked quite
freely about the first animals I would have to mount
when I came & spoke of a certain lot of skins as being </u for me ? >
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</pre>
<p>I told them I should wait until they were ready for
me. They want to see my setter dog however, and I am
going to send it and a few other small things of mine
now very soon. Palmer has been casting dead dogs of
various kinds, and my setter "Coming to the Point" is to
brought in direct comparison with a cast of a setter in
similar attitude ! Rather a firey trial, don't you think ?
But I am not afraid. Indeed it is just what I </u want. >
Baird </u did > lend me the antelope, before I went to see
him too. He had a </u fine > box made for it, and sent it
to Boston by Express ! Of course I paid charges both
ways. Rather more obliging than Agassiz & Allen ! I tried
to get Goode into the notion of buying the "Fight
in the Tree-tops " but he said they had no money given
them to buy anything with, but only for the </u preservation >
of the collections. Declared that in 10 years he did not
think they had </u bought > over $1000 worth pf specimens. Well,
when I get there I mean to go to work to get Congress to
appropriate money with which to </u buy > (of H. A. W. !)
skins of gorillas, orangs, lions, tigers, elephants, &e. &e. each
as the U. S. N. M. will </u never > get in any other way.
If they think I will be satisfied with mounting American
mammals only they make a big mistake.
</p>
<pre> Now let me </u beg > of you to keep my Washington plan
</pre>
<p>an absolute secret from </u everyone > except my own relations.
</u Please > do not, in an unguarded moment, drop a hint to
Mr Howell, or Lucas, or Baker, or Mrs Ward or </u anybody > in
fact that I am even thinking of going to W. You know I
may be kept out of it for a whole year or two yet, &
I do not want my expectations known to anyone save your
self. Lucas only knows that I went to Washington to see
about Mrs Chamberlain's </u pension >. When I know that I
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>am </u surely > going, & </u soon >. I will not care. But at
present, you know how it is yourself. I believe I have
always guarded successfully all the important secrets
you have ever made known to me.
</p>
<pre> Mr Webster is riding an article on </s in > ^the^ Wingless birds
</pre>
<p>of New Zealand - Apteryx, Dinonis, &e. and needs the
volume of Wallace's "geographical Distribution" which
tells the most about them. He cannot afford to buy
the book and wishes me to ask you if you would be
so kind as to send it to him by </u mail >(registered of course)
if he will pay the postage ? He needs it as soon as
he can get ut. Could you have it done up for the
post in a book store, & let him pay the 15 cents it
would cost !
</p>
<pre> The new year card you sent caused much amusement,
</pre>
<p>and I was chaffed unmercifully about the </s too > two </u un-
hatched > eggs remaining in the nest ! Thanks for your
good wishes all. Our baby is a perfect jewel, handsome,
wholesome and </u good > as the day is long. I never saw
a more patient child, nor a more lively one for her
age. We have changed her name to Helen </u Ross, in re-
membrane of our pleasant English friends.
</p>
<pre> Many thanks for your having troubled yourself to get
</pre>
<p>the piece of Chinese embroidery. I have described that
style of work about 57 times in the last two years &
my friends are the tip-toe of expectation. As soon as I
learn you are safe in Frisco, I will send you a $2. bill.
Am almost sorry it did not cost more. Had I known
for sure you were going to China I would have given you
$10. to invest for me.
</p>
<pre> There, this is as usual too long. I hope you have
</pre>
<p>not had to come steerage with 600 Chinamen from Hong Kong
to Frisco. i have thought of you a hundred times during the last
two weeks, & in my mind have followed you everyday. I fear
you have had a cold, windy, rolling & generally disagreeable
passage. How was it ? What line did your steamer belong to ?
Yours faithfully & truly.
W. T. Hornaday
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Rochester, N. Y. Dec. 25th 1881
</p>
<pre> Feb. 28 '82
</pre>
<p>My dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> You </u surely > must by this time have
</pre>
<p>received at least one or two of the five letters I have
sent you within the last six months. If not I shall have
to give up in despair, for I suppose this will follow the fate
of the rest. Mr Baker has just told me that at least two of
his letters never reached you. - all of which is discouraging.
Well, I will trust - to Clements hanging to this till you are in
reach of him. Your letter from Singapore came a
few days ago & its contents read with devouring interest.
It is delightful to get the news from all the fellows out
there at once. & to know that you have met </u all > my old
Straits Settlements acquaintances save poor Mr Campbell &
A. R. Houghton. So John Ah Kee comes once more to
the fore for Ward's Nat. Sci. Establishment! Am glad he
gave Major Studer such satisfaction. </u but > I regret to
say he was rather an indifferent hand at skinning and
skeletonizing, & he never skinned a </u bird > in his life as far as I
know. But Syers will keep an eye on the other Chinaman.
</p>
<pre> If </u anybody > out there spoke well of me it is more than
</pre>
<p>I had a right to expect from the fact that I have
neglected </u all > my former correspondents out there, and
have not written to any of them except Syers for more
than a year and a half! Well, I am glad they are
charitable. Am </u very > glad you went to Sarawak, for
I know you </u must > have enjoyed it very much. Wonder if yo
you saw Harold Everett, the artist-. & Rajah Brooke!
Who is a Resident of Sarawak Proper now in place of Crocker?
St John </u ought > to be I know. Well really : your going over
all that ground is next ^to^ going over it again myself and
quite stirs me up. When you return I will have a thousand
questions to ask, and a </u few > to have answered.
</p>
<pre> You certainly had wonderful luck in striking Spore
</pre>
<p>when the Zoological market was fairly glutted! Why
when I was there I could not get hold of even </u one > skin
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>of Argus pheasant or stuffable bird of paradise, and
only </u one > Neptune's cup in all the time I was in the
Straits Settlements. Bur it was just as well, better so in
fact, for I never had money enough to spend much in
buying costly specimens, even though ever so cheap, and
had I found such a stock for sale as you have it
would have broken me up </s and > up to have found myself
unable to purchase. You see for my whole Straits
& Borneo campaign I had </u less > than $1500 in cash.
A great part of the time in the jungles I had far
from enough to eat simply because I could not afford
to buy it. And what would you think of starting out
from Singapore to go to Australia , collect there profitably
and get to San Francisco </u all on $450.? > This was the
task set for me, and which I would have been foolish
enough to have entered upon had I had enough money
to have paid my fare to Brisbane! The Lord only knows
what entanglements I would have got into!
</p>
<pre> Well, I rejoice with you that you have done, and
</pre>
<p>done thoroughly the ^Far^ East, for to my mind there is no
country like it elsewhere in all the world. It seems
to me now like a dream of fairy land. But now I want
you to go to </u India > next, and see still another world.
Go the Neilghenies, the loveliest spot on the whole
earth. - perhaps I cannot write even the names of
those places without a quickening of the pulse.
</p>
<pre> By-the-bye, the boxes from Theobald arrived about a
</pre>
<p>month ago in good order. The skins are very good. I sold
one tiger skin to Webster for $50. good only for a rug, of
course. There is in the lot one fine large skin which
is fit to mount, having been prepared by Theobald.
The entire skeleton accompanies it. Besides that there
are 4 other tiger skins & 4 leopards.
</p>
<pre> Well, the second annual Exhibition of the S. A. T.
</pre>
<p>is over & gone, & we returned from Boston yesterday
morning. Financially it was not a success, In fact
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>we came about $250. short of expenses , which is of
course a grief to all the family. This loss will fall on
about five of us, Scott, Lucas, Webster & I. We had a </u fine >
exhibition which, which press & visitors praised to the skies, we
advertised </u liberally > & effectively, the papers treated us
well. And so did </u everyone > we came in contact with, but
somehow the attendance was too light. Of course now that
it is over many wise reasons are given for the financial
failure, but three weeks ago the "I-told-you-sos" were
as confident of our success as the most sanguine of us.
We had a </u splendid > hall, & the work displayed was </u fully>
25% better in quality than that of last year. I really
think you would have been proud of your "boys" had you
only seen the fine exhibits they made. Critchley did nobly,
so did Lucas, so did Bailly & Hornday & Webster best of
all . His exhibit was elegant, and I was pleased to note
that very few visitors failed to learn that the most of the
work in the exhibition was done by the men belonging to
"that great Scientific Establishment in Rochester", and
also that most visitors put the question "Is Webster working
for himself or does he belong to </u "Ward's Establishment?" >
I was surprised to find that so many people seemed to
know all about our place.
</p>
<pre> We took the two big orangs. - and what do you think!
</pre>
<p>J C. Beard, one of our Judges is getting up a fine illustrated
article for the Century magazine (Scribner's, you know) about
the Society, and he is going to put in a picture of the
"Fight in the Tree-tops!" Which ought to be worth </u something >
to the Establishment. Unless I am </u much > mistaken your
Estab. & its men will get such an advertisement in that
magazine as </u Foote > would give $500 for were it of his.
Beard had 27 pieces photographed in the Ex. from which
to select fifteen best suited for illustrations, and he wants
me to help him write the </u text > or letter press.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>He had pictures taken of the flamingo's, my monkey which
took the prize & Webster's tern (Frank Ward's); An owl of
Percy Aldrich's; Lucas' group of hawks; a deer head, an
antelope head, and dog head buy the undersigned, and also
my ibis & alligator; Webster's peacock screen, two owls, golden
eagle, Lagothrix, (from U. S. N. M.) two medallions, my </u Balistes. >
& Wobblygang. Fraine's woodcock & young, & plovers ditto, same
of Bailley's frogs & 3 grotesque groups of C. W. Graham's. The
article is </u certain > to appear, for the Century people have
already ordered it. It will be a bif boon for the S. A. T.
& no mistake, and if I have any hand in it the </u friends >
of the Society will not be forgotten. I intend that in
it a handsome acknowledgement shall be made of all the
valuable & costly assistance you have rendered us.
Beard is a good fellow & business to the back bone; a
Jolly good fellow & </u deeply > interested in our Society and
work. I wish he was more interested in that exhibition than
any other exhibition he ever saw of </u any > kind, He stayed
five days in Boston & all he would take for his
expenses was $20. ! He lives in New York you know. He gave
us no end of encouragement, enough to fully counterbalance
our dreadful $25 loss. He says that "if we only </u stick
to it > & keep right on as we have begun in two or three
years our fine work will command fancy prices, the
same as pictures & statues." He says he knows rich
turf men who would quickly give $500 to have a
favorite horse mounted as nearly perfect any dog
is, with all the muscles showing. </u but > before they offer
it they want to </u know > that they will get what they want.
He says we ought to put up a horse in trotting
action for the next Exhibition, and make all his muscles
show right out. I told him we are all (individually) too
poor to stand the expense, which would be heavy. He
says our prices are all too low, that such prices,
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<p>don't give us a fair chance to show what we </u can > do.
Vut this is the </u rub >! When we can get our heads to
mount att $25 instead of $12! then we </u can > make
them like </s of > life, neck and all: but it can't be
done for any $12! </u by any living man >. The deer head
he photographed he declared to be by far the best he ever
saw. It was one I purchased in skin of Baker & mounted
for myself to see what I </u could > do. I spent at least four
days upon it, Sundays and nights, in my kitchen, and
had I taken one more day I could have made the neck
like life as well as the head. As it stands the neck is
a very symmetrical & nicely curving - </u cylinder.
</p>
<pre> The baby elephant was bought by the Boston Society of
</pre>
<p>Natural History for $160. quite a good price don't you
think? </s Co > The m.c.g. took the Wobblygong at $125. and
the big ray (Trygon Sephen) at $75 I think. Came </u very > near
selling Dekempeneus group of crabs, but didn't </s d > quite succeed.
I tried to sell the orangs to Hyatt also, but the society declared
it couldn't possibly raise the money. They wanted them
badly enough. - but Boston is a stingy place. We
sold very little of our salable material, not $400 worth all
told. Fully 4/5 of the exhibition was from Rochester & vicinity.
</p>
<pre> We were </u highly > pleased with our judges & their report was
</pre>
<p>very satisfactory to all. Our artists were </u quite a success. >
</p>
<pre> Prof Baird very kindly loaned me the little antelope
</pre>
<p>I mounted last spring & had it boxed & packed </u very > nicely
& carefully & sent it to me.
</p>
<pre> The </u Bulletin > is now running through the press and you
</pre>
<p>will undoubtedly receive copies of it at the same time as
this letter. Beyond writing a few articles I have been entirely
relieved of all responsibility in connection with this number,
therefore whatever criticizing is </s to > necessary must be done
to Mr Howell & Mr Lucas. I have </u heard > that Lucas recd
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>some articles from you but never saw anything there
until tonight as they were printed in the outside sheet
of the Bulletin. I believe however that Fred did tell
me some time up that he had to rewrite some articles
from you for the paper. Mr Howell thought it not worth
while to have a set of the elephant in the Bulletin, so it
will not appear, this of coarse I told him just what you
wrote. The poem of the British Ase" we will keep for
the third number, having had two pieces of poetry in type
when your letter to me arrived.
</p>
<pre> This will be all for this time. I need not say
</pre>
<p>"welcome back to America?
for I know you must have had a
glorious trip and I am not sure you will be glad to
be welcomed back to the wear and tear and worry of American
life. Nevertheless, I could not be more glad to see the
"pearly gates" of the New Jerusalem than I was to see the
Golden Gate at Frisco after that miserable, wretched,
soul-souring voyage in the stinking steerage with 600
dirty Chinamen on the S. S. Belize commanded by the
meanest officers I ever sailed with, on whom light curses
day by day. I was glad to see Frisco, and on that voyage
I could on one or two occasions have welcomed even a
sunken rock.. It was the most perfectly miserable trip
i ever took on either water or land. Just fancy 600 Chinamen
blowing their noses on the deck all at once! If </u you >
have come over steerage I am sorry for you, and I heartily
welcome your deliverance from such durance vile. We are
all anxious to see you back here once more, but cannot
even conjecture when you will be likely to reach here.
</p>
<pre> Hoping </u this > letter will reach you I remain
</pre>
<p>Yours truly & sincerely,
Wm T. Hornaday
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ybg
Ward's Natural Science Establishment
</em Minerals, Rocks, Fossils, Casts of Fossils, Geological
Relief Maps, Models and Diagrams, and
Archeological Specimens.
WARD & HOWELL.
Skins and Skeletons of Animals, Invertebrates (Crustaceans,
Shells, Corals, etc.) Glass Models of ditto, Anatomical Models,
Human Skeletons, Skulls and Skeletons of Races, etc.,
H. A. WARD, A. M.
Skins and Skeletons of Animals
No. 2 College Avenue, Opposite University
</p>
<pre></em Rochester N. Y., > Nov 10th 1881.
Dec 24
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof Ward;
</p>
<pre> When I received yesterday one of my letters
</pre>
<p>back from Sydney which I sent you last </u July 25th > I was
obliged to "swear a prayer or two", and say I must write again.
Fortunately there was next to nothing of interest in the letter.
Since my last to you nothing of importance has occurred
to me except the birth of Helen Josephine Hornaday @ 12 lbs.
nett. All doing well up to date, & the baby 5 weeks old today,
(I will write in better humor if you will allow me to use a pencil
for once.) We are waiting anxiously for your contributions, ^to^ </s for >
the </u Bulletin, > and I suppose its publication will not be
undertaken until they arrive. As soon as we get what you
have sent we will get our material together and lick the second
number into shape in short order. I am trying to prepare a
stunning editorial (!) on "Natural History in Schools". Were I
sole editor & proprietor of the paper I would make it as full
of spines as a porcupine's back so that if I couldn't make
people notice the paper in one way I might in another. If Mr
Howell will let us we will get up a good number next time,
full of good things. I have written a notice demanding two
thousand subscribers the first year. </u We must offer
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>specimens as premiums for clubs >. By doing this I
believe we can secure 1500 to 2000 paid subscriptions by
the end of the first year. In my opinion the Bulletin
ought to take all the paying advertisements it can get of a
nature that will not be detrimental in any possible way to
the Estab. If we can get $300 to $500 per year for adver-
tisements of scientific books, apparatus, institutions, &e .</u why
not take it, & save money > ? We must get back from the
</u Bulletin > all the money we can, or its cost will be ruinous. If
</u you > were only here we would start that paper off in style.
and in such a way that it will bring back something.
</p>
<pre> When you return I want to propose to you a plan for
</pre>
<p>bringing in desirable custom work in taxidermy, which
plan I think might be made amount to something.
It seems at present that there will soon be very little
ordered work on mammals, and I am planning to take
advantage of the slackness this winter and ^either^ finish my
book - or starve at it. If it is not finished this winter
I shall give it up.
</p>
<pre> Since my last letter I have ^done^ nothing ^about the W plan except^ write a
</pre>
<p>letter to Prof B. which he has not answered yet. I am
doubtful if anything comes of it. If that plan fails I
have thought of starting a little business in New York
to do fine and fancy work in taxidermy. Would
think seriously of it if I could know it would not
interfere with your operations in any way. Would try
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>to set up such a concern as Edwin Ward's in London.
How would it affect you anyhow ? I would not care
to go into business </s as > of this kind anywhere without
the good-will of the Establishment, but with that I
think I could make it pay in N. Y. I would make
a specialty of heads of all kinds, fancy decorative pieces,
mats & rugs, &e, This Establishment has grown to be so
immense and to embrace so many departments that tax-
idermy has become but a mere item of the whole, and
it is my private opinion that a man in New York engaged
in Taxidermy only would have no perceptible effect upon
this business. I would stay in Rochester however on
a salary $300 to $400 or smaller per year than I would want
to move out of it & go </u anywhere > else. Never in my life
have I been so happily settled as now, and nothing but
absolute necessity makes me think of changing base.
</p>
<pre> I don't know whether anyone has told you or not, but
</pre>
<p>Charles has improved greatly during the last four months.
He has grown to be quite agreeable in comparison with
what he used to be, and seems to be outgrowing a great
</s deal > ^many^ of his nonsensical ideas . Last spring he was very
cross and irritable at all times and at times overbearing,
but of late he is much more amiable to everybody. His
troubles over his debt seem to have softened him a good
deal. Aside from his reckless extravagance in dress the
young man seems to be doing ^the best^ </s better than > I have seen of
</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>him for a long time. If he is harassed more on account
of his debt & dunned constantly for a year or so it may
teach him the value of a dollar, which will be a most
valuable lesson to him.
</p>
<pre> Alice is becoming quite a sedate little maiden, and I judge
</pre>
<p>that to her Mother her most trying period has passed. She will
soon be old enough to be reasonable, which is all she lacks.
Our baby is to her a "great living curiosity- "and her
conversation about it </s an > ^is^ enough to make a horse laugh.
She credits it with understanding all that is said to it !!
</p>
<pre> Mrs Ward has not been at all well lately, and last week
</pre>
<p>came near having a serious time. Henry I budding a heal-
thy little mustache of which he is more proud than all his
other attainments. As yet I cannot see that he resembles his
father in anything except his stomach. I suppose you
have been told by everybody that poor Joe (Schollick) has lost
his right eye - and I hear also that Mrs S. is again
enciente. Too bad all round.
</p>
<pre> The Rev. Wendall Brine was here two weeks ago, came apparently
</pre>
<p>on purpose to see the Estab. and write it up for his "Observer".
He took copious notes (Mr Stuebuer showed him around be-
cause Lucas was away.) and bought $10. worth of eggs. We will
have some copies of the paper when article is published.
</p>
<pre> Critchley & Forrest are new installed in the Large Museum with Webster
</pre>
<p>& I, & I think all hands work better on account of it. Lee Ward
got a fine $30. stove for the centre of the room, which is a
</u good investment >, economical of coal & efficient.
</p>
<pre> I have lately heard that the Hon L. H. Morgan is not expected
</pre>
<p>to live, - dropsy.
</p>
<pre> The Exhibition of the S. A. T. will be held in Horticultural Hall
</pre>
<p>Boston Dec 15th to 21st We have engaged the hall 10 days for
$400. & intend to make a big strike. The Establishment
boys will fill </u half > the hall, or nearly so. The skins
from Theobald are in N. Y., delayed there fearfully.
</p>
<pre> If you have time, will you please invest about $2. to $3.
</pre>
<p>in a nice tortoise shell brooch for Mrs Chamberlain,
an </u elderly > lady you know.
</p>
<pre> Yours eternally, Wm T. Hornaday.
</pre>
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Ward's Natural Science Establishment,
No. 2 College Avenue, (opposite University.)
</em Rochester N. Y., Aug 19th 1881
</p>
<pre> Nov 27
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof Ward;
</p>
<pre> At last I have the pleasure of being able to
</pre>
<p>acknowledge the receipt of a letter from you. I do not think it at
all strange that you have not heard from me direct. In the first
place I noticed that you never asked me to write </s now > you, and
by your writing about fifty letters to those immediately around
me and never a line to me I came to conclude you did not
care whether you heard from me or not ? As I told you in a letter
a month ago Messrs Baker, Lucas, Howell, Ward et al, are
very careful to keep me from knowing anything about you or
what you are doing save as I now & then extract a passing remark
from some of them. When I get a letter from one abroad who
is known to a friend here my first impulse is to show it at
once, a habit I may say I acquired from you.. Now I know that
no one about here is more interested in your Australian travels
than I, because I came so near going there myself, and for
these fellows, who knew this, to be so darned hoggish about
your letters and ^all^ particulars about you, and for you to write
again & again to everybody else but me, why it don't suit
me worth a cent. That is the whole story. Now I can go
ahead with my letter.
</p>
<pre> Undoubtedly I am to blame for not sending you proof -
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>sheets of the "Bulletin". I thought of it at the very first
but I decided it would not be good policy. The articles were
not arranged until the </u very last > moment, and the proof
would only have misled you & caused disappointment. I thought
you would enjoy the paper better to see it in good shape on the
first introduction to it. Mr Baker sent you some "Bulletins" the
same day the first copy was taken from Andrews office
and you have undoubtedly received them long before this.
</p>
<pre> As I said in my previous letter, the Bulletin was a dis-
</pre>
<p>appointment to me in many ways which was all due to the
fact that my mind is not the same as Mr Howell's on
many points. I consider his dep't of the paper a perfect
botch as far as system and arrangement and general at-
tractiveness are concerned. It would have shown up </u very > differ-
ently had you been here ! At this moment I don't care
what becomes of the paper until you get back here to run it
as it ought to be run. Mr H. talks vaguely of "another number
this year," but I doubt if he does anything more about it.
If he decides to issue again I will of course do all I can,
under his permission of course, to make it readable and
attractive. But we will want a </u number > of articles from
you., and about fifty little items of four to ten lines
each about the countries you are visiting. </u Perhaps > Mr
Howell </s would > ^will^ let me put them in if they are in your hand-
writing. I intend to write up the elephant as you advised
and will try to have in a full page cut, by the Photo -
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</pre>
<p>engraving co. I also have an editorial ready which I will
copy ere long and send to you for your approval - or otherwise.
I am beginning to feel a good deal exercised over the losses
incurred in mounting bad skins, or rather the </u loss of profit. >
which is just the same thing, and I want to write you a letter
as soon as I can all on this subject. Some of my late experiences
have completely stirred me up, and I shall strongly suggest to you
the extreme desirability of charging people - I mean patrons -
according to what specimens </u cost > to mount, and not what they
are expected to cost before we can be aware of their condition.
I should like for one year to have the entire management of a
taxidermy establishment, just to see whether I could not make
it pay, and pay </u well >. I am getting sick of wrestling with
miserable, hard, horny skins which tax all my powers
to get into respectable shape at all and which I </u know >
all the time are eating up the profit which ought to be rec'd
on them.
</p>
<pre> I have lately mounted the following objects; Pronghorn
</pre>
<p>Antelope male, Pronghorn head, a big seal, a monkey, two arma-
dillos, two small deer, a Pteropus, a S. A. fox, and am now
on the little elephant, which will come out well, although I never
yet had such a time to soften a skin The big elephant
came near wearing out both Mr Bailly & I. It was by
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>great odds the hardest job either of us had ever worked upon.
You can form no idea of the back-breaking and body wearing
nature of that work. Of course I stood it a great deal better
than Mr Bailly, for I am young & strong but I many times
felt a real pity for him, and did not greatly begrudge
him the $3. pr week he received more than I.
</p>
<pre> At my home I have mounted a very handsome setter
</pre>
<p>dog with which I will try to keep up the reputation of the
Establishment at Boston next Nov. I consider it the best
piece of work I have yet done. It is my </u ideal > of what a
stuffed animal should be. The skin was in good order
& thoroughly soft. And yet, this pretty piece has taken no longer
to mount, (in which every external muscle shows,) than would
a blasted old capabara dry skin which at the very best
could only be made passably respectable. I tell you there must
be a complete revolution in the manner of preparing skins. There
is where </u all > the trouble lies. The S. A. T. is going to begin at the
beginning & offer a gold medal & $100. for the best treatise
in any language by any body, on the preparation and
preservation of skins in all climates. This proposition
or rather idea, I intend to push at the next general meeting
and if carried out it will certainly be of no small benefit
to W. N. S. E. We hope to get the Smithsonian to back us
on that undertaking. How would it do to have the prize
treatise published as a Bulletin of the National Museum,
provided we could get it done ?
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</pre>
<p>Webster, Lucas, Hornaday, Critchley, Bailly and Wood are
hard at work Sunday's & nights for the next Exhibition, The
Establishment will be </u handsomely > represented, and we do not
intend that Boston, Providence or N. Y. shall take all the best
prizes. I sent you a copy of our Report long ago & hope it
has reached you safely.
</p>
<pre> How does my Book gat along ? Well, it don't get along, seeing
</pre>
<p>that I have no time to write upon it. I </u cannot > work at it
successfully evenings, because it is so hard for me to write at all
and you have not yet said I could have any time from the
shops to devote to it this year. For the last year I have had
everything to hinder and discourage me from finishing the book, &
nothing to encourage me in the least. No I will take that
back. Cap't & Mrs Ross were here during my summer
vacation (3 weeks) and he worked </s nearly > half that time
with me upon the MS you saw, correcting its errors in
fact & figure, correcting faulty English, &e. &e. so that
now the first half of the book is actually ready for the
press ! When I can say as much for the last half is
more than I can say. If You do not level a hand in this
matter some way you will surely miss seeing a handsome
book dedicated to Henry A. Ward. A. M., F. R. S. S. &e.
</p>
<pre> Now that I have a family coming on I am
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>called upon to face the necessity of increasing my in-
come at the earliest possible moment. If I cannot earn
more than </s I > my present. salary here, and as I am now
working I do not see that I can, then I must try for a
place elsewhere or go into some other business. In short
there </u must > be a new deal. I </u know > that I have certain
abilities which would be worth money had I a chance to
bring them into action, but which I cannot use here
at all. I think I am capable of carrying responsibilities
which do not even touch me here, and which would be
worth money to somebody. I must find a wider field of
usefulness. I had hoped that the S. A. T. Exhibitions would
be the means of bringing into the Establishment custom
work of a high class which would by & by enable you to
pay us higher salaries. I still believe this will occur, but
it will not do for me to wait for it..
</p>
<pre> A month ago Theobald shipped two boxes to us containing
</pre>
<p>5 tiger skins, 4 leopard do. (for rugs) various skins of small
mammals - bandicoot rat, squirrels, bats jackal, mungoos, &e.
and 1 skel. of tiger, hyana, & some small mammals. They
ought to arrive in time to allow of making at least 2 rugs for
the Ex. Webster has ordered, at our price, one of the best
tiger skins. Will charge him somewhere between $40. & $50.
for the flat skin, suitable for rug only. Now I must
close. Don't let these boys know I have cared because they
never let me know any about you. I have got over
caring about it, so far as </u they > can hinder it.
Yours faithfully,
Wm T. Hornaday.
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19 Rowley St. Rochester, N. Y.
Nov. 24th 1880.
Dear Prof Ward;
</p>
<pre> Have just finished the ar-
</pre>
<p>title (8 PM) and will post it before 9 o'clock.
It contains about 2100 words which is
the best I can do for length. You will see
that my name occurs too frequently
in the article, and if you can strike it
out anywhere without marring to smooth -
ness, I would be glad to have it done. I
could see no other way to manage so long
an article about my experiences & observa-
tions than to refer to my Saratoga paper
as though the author had taken his
facts from that, Will it do ? I have
put myself in as (Sec. of the Society of
Am. Taxidermists) with the hope of bringing
the Society into notice. Will it do ? I
have left a small space blank for your use
in case you desire to make any remark
upon the quality of the taxidermy. I
have steered clear of </u conception > rack
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>upon which we split in former
times, & awarded to myself the </u execution >,
to which you lately expressed yourself as
having no objection.
</p>
<pre> Please buy for me at least 1 dozen
</pre>
<p>copies of Harper's with the picture, &
if the photos do not cost too much I
would like a few of them. Say 4 or 5.
</p>
<pre> I have a letter from Baird. He says
</pre>
<p>they will not be ready to fill the position
of tax. in the National Museum for a
year, because they cannot spare the funds.
So it seems I am good for another year
in Roch. unless something happens.
</p>
<pre> David Bruce of Brockport has just
</pre>
<p>joined the S. A. T. and promises an exhibit
of </u not less > than 25 cases of birds, sim-
ilar to those in Power's Block . He did those.
</p>
<pre> Tell me how you like the
</pre>
<p>enclosed.
Yours . faithfully
Wm. T. Hornaday.
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Rochester, N. Y.
Nov 5th 1880.
Dear Prof Ward;
</p>
<pre> Yours of the 3rd is here and
</pre>
<p>makes us both glad and sorry. But at
the same time we "hurrah" that the
group is going. We began yesterday morning
to put leaves on twigs and will finish
tomorrow. Will use up all our leaves
but will order 5 gross more to be
delivered to us in N. Y. city, and these
we will put on there. Would have to put
on a certain quantity there (after trees
are in place) anyhow, so it makes no
difference. When I reach there I will
have made leaves for a large <u>orchid</u> &
one or two small ones. Am studying
to find how I can procure or make
some nice Borrean creepers. Will
mange it somehow, altho it puzzles
me just now.
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><pre> It will take me more than 15
</pre>
<p>day in N.Y. to get the group in
perfect ordr. Each branch must be
put on with paper mache mud base,
^&^ a little wax-work must be done in
hanging the pendant pieces of fruit,
which cannot be done until trees
are up for the last time. then the
? & ? must be made. We
will need 6 to 7 days perhaps, altho
we <u>may</u> get through in less. I will
not need William or Gueret to come
there unless one comes anyhow. I
can get along with a man for one
day or at most two, and a cheap
man will answer.
</p>
<pre> We will ship the group Monday
</pre>
<p>if possible (the 8th) and certainly not
later than Tuesday. There will be three
boxes and the pedestal. It will take
about 4 days for the group to reach
N. Y. and then about Thursday or
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Friday (of next week) I can go to
N. Y. You had better arrange for me
to informed by telegraph as soon as
the boxes arrive there & I would start
immediately, thus avoiding the risk of
having to wait for the boxes in N. Y.
</p>
<pre> Be sure to have the case ready
</pre>
<p>to put up the moment the group is
done, to save it from dust and
vandal hands. While putting up the
group we must have a good <u>screen</u>
of some kind, either cloth or paper,
built all round it so no one
save ourselves shall see it before it is
finished. When it is <u>done</u>. Mr Bell
is welcome to every point he can
make against it. We won't take
any discount <s>for</s> on that group for
<u>anybody</u>!
</p>
<pre> Mr James Vick <s>and</s> has offered
</pre>
<p>the Society of American Taxidermists
the use of his "order room" during
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"<u>with no charge for rent</u>." The
underscoring is his own. The room is
immediately over his store,up one flight,
is <u>large</u> and well lighted & stairway is
broad. It saves us great expense
in many ways. Of course we are
all jubilant over this smile of providence.
Yours very truly,
Wm T. Hornaday
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19 Rowley St. Rochester N. Y.
July 17th 1880
Dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> Being very anxious to know
</pre>
<p>the outcome of the negotiations with Bickmore
concerning the orango I write to inquire.
I know you are cusy with important
business letters, but scratch me a line
on the fly-leaf of a book sometime when
you are riding along in a street car or
waiting for some man who is not up to
time. Are the orangs to go or not to go?
that is the question. If they are to go,
hadn't I better pitch right in with a
man to help me & get the group all
ready? It will take <u>a long time,/u> yet to
put in all those leaves, wire the twigs,
and so on.
</p>
<pre> Were you in earnest when you said
</pre>
<p>you would give me a letter of reeommenda
tion which would help me in getting
another situation? If so, please write
it now, while you are away, some day
just after a good dinner and a
glass of something, for when you
get back here ten days hence you
? havve a minutes time to devote to</u>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>a little other help I think I can
secure a good position somewhere
before the year is out - but I must
begin <u>now</u>. Such things move slowly,
& I must begin in time. I have
a strong notion to try the Rajah of
Sarawak since Mr Lucas seems to
have no ambition in that direction,
and I believe by making a
strong effort I can do something
with him. I can count upon the
energetic ambition of nearly all
the Rajah's most prominent officers.
But I do not want to leave the
M. D. unless I am compelled
to.
</p>
<pre> If you could get me into some
</pre>
<p>monied institution, like the ?. C.
Z. (i, e. <u>provided of course that the
Establishment is closed up by &
by) or into any other of the kind, I
might do something for you in
bringing about the purchase (from
you) of a large number of skins to be
mounted. Were I now in the Central
Park museum I should demand the
skin of that elephant at once, before
it is either mounted or sold elsewhere.</u>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>my poor little affairs. For once
you have succeeded in scaring me
so thoroughly that I would fain
look elsewhere for a situation to step
into next year, and the oftener I
see Lee Ward around the shops the
more I feel the urgent necessity of
hunting a hole to stick my head
into, and doing it <u>at once</u> too.
In any case I would not want
to leave the Establishment this year
unless fired out, but with matters
as they are with me, with a wife,
and the lord only knows what else
in prospect, it behooves me to
look out well for the future. It
would be ruination for me to be
<s>U</s> suddenly thrown out of employment
with no other situation secured, and
if you do not wish to see this occur,
you must help me <u>now</u> to secure
a position for the future. Your cousin
threatens to make great changes, and
it is pretty certain that when the
lightning does strike it will lay
me out <s>among</s> ^in^ the first set of
corpses.
</p>
<pre> With a letter from you and
</pre>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Had I but got the Iowa plan
started we might have taken $3000
of skins & skels of you every year.
</p>
<pre> I want a position as <u>head
</pre>
<p>Taxidermist</u> in some big institution
and no other. Don't want to <u>teach
Nat'l History in any way, shape or
form at any price, because I couldn't
possibly do it, & wouldn't like it if I
could. I am slowly going crazy on
the subject of taxidermy, and
that is the hobby I mean to ride.
In a few years I mean to beat
Jules Verreaux <u>all to pieces</u>! I want
to get where I can be head taxider-
mist, & have perhaps a corps of men
working under me. I believe I could
organize a good working force and
manage it successfully. I would un-
dertake to be personally responsible
for all work done under me. I
want a place where I can <u>mount
big groups</u>, all I want to !! Would
like to do that alone if I <u>could</u>, and
I think I could develop an entirely
new field in taxidermy.
</p>
<pre> Yours very truly
</pre>
<p>Wm. T. Hornaday
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<p>Dear Prof Ward; Yours of Nov. 30th has just reached me. Mr Baker gave me $20. last Saturday, for which I thank you. I have taken that agate we booked at which you said I might have for $3.50. Have read several letters lately from Mr Bliss, and I am now trying my best to raise $250 for him in which I must succeed somehow: If you know of any way to bring it about do tell me of it at will. I do wish my debts were not all relatives or personal friends so that I might push some of them with a clear conscience. It is very annoying that I with over $3,000 due in today and without even $200. worth of debt. should not be able to borrow a patty $200 for three months. But I suppose genius must always pay for everything in advance. As regards Mr BLiss' letters to you and which he asks for, I must say it would (if possible) be hardly</p>
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<p>the sale of it there. nor do not feel further confidence in me to risk $300 or $400. in it, then of course there is nothing more to be said on the subject. There bottom falls out of the present plan, and it troubles us more. But as sure as the world. if this place is not coming through and this Collection not sold to Des M. it will give me another trip to Judia as certain as fate - a trip for the Iowa State Museum. I mean. I prefer not to attempt - any further "explanation" in regard to my "fiasco as to Australia," for with those who know all about it I am now set just as "right in the matter" as I even care to be. Whenever you are ready to accept that I did not do my whole duty toward you, that you kept me provided with friends wherewith caring and your wishes, that I could have gone to Australia had I wished and that you did your duty by me, then will I explain again, and will produce guidance to justify all of my acts. But until this time comes that we are ready to separate our interests entirely, it will be better for us to have no more "explanations". When that time comes, it if ever does, then we can enter again into the subject of my failure</p>
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<p>for me to with out a testimonial for myself than for you to write on in my favor. I do not know what you could say in my favor since I never knew you to admit that I had ever succeeded in anything in this matter of collecting. Almost any man can be pitiful and a hard worker, and millions of men do their best. I had better luck sometimes than many men would have had in place, and I attribute more than half my success to that. You used to say that some of my letters were interesting, and I daresay it would suit Mr Bliss purpose if you should say so again. And it would also be to my advantage if this public could be inducted to believe that my accounts if jungle experiences are not overdrawn, nor drawn from imagination either. The matter of this Iowa Collection will have to be decided very soon or it will decide itself. Apparently it is no use trying to create an enthusiasm there and keep it up not a</p>
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<p>distance of 100 miles. To do anything some one must be right there to do it. When this time comes for me to move out open my own responsibility you will see me go out there and work a bill through this legislation for this establishment of an Iowa State Museum before anyone will have time to say 'fail' once. Just now I had thought that it would be a good time for you to get $1.000 worth of specimens off your hands and possibly benefit me a little also by beginning operations now, although I am by no means ready to undertake this great plan I have in mind. As I have said before I should be glad to have this H. Collection located in Des Moines, and if it were mine it would be sold there in less than six months, and no such word as fail. If it were mine I would start to Iowa next week as soon as gone, and land that collection right in Des Moines, brought and paid for, within six months. But if you do not care to undertake</p>
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<p>to get to Australia when I had my trunks and boxes packed and was waiting for the Australian steamer, and a draft for £100. by this English mail. The absurd light in which you love to view this cause and manner of my return from Singapore and your bitter burning commends of last spring have taken away all this pleasure I should otherwise have felt in discharging the debt of gratitude I have long owed you, and quite robbed me of all satisfaction I would otherwise leave felt in speaking well and often of your Establishment. And this came just when I was getting into a position to serve you. I shall still endeavor to repay you. sooner or later, for what I owe you aside from our financial relatives. For all that you have ever done for me for which you have as yet had no equivalent. If I do not succeed in repaying it to you, it will go to your children. I owe you still a debt of gratitude which I shall conscientiously repay, but now it will be as a duty rather than this pleasure it would have been but for your letters of last spring</p>
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<p>Whenever you are ready to apologize for your suspicions of my integrity, for your unjust criticisms upon my judgement in coming home as I did, when you admit that I was ready and anxious to go to A. and would have gone had it been in my power, when you admit that in writing to me as you did last spring you were entirely wrong, then I shall be glad to return to our old footing, and enter into your plans as cordially as before I "implored your confidence that you could depend absolutely upon me in an undertaking." Had I not felt entirely conscience-clear all along about Australia, I should have been obliged to confess it to you before now, for I would rather confess a wrong and restore four-fold than have anything weighing upon my conscience. I have never mentioned Australia to you in conversation because I have newer felt sure of my ability to discuss this subject calmly. When I know that I have done right one fair, lowest attempts to prove it to others is all I think it worth while to make. All this above submitted without this least given of ill feeling or grudge, and is but a statement of my settled convictions. Love faithfully, Wm T. Hornaday.</p>
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7 Elm St. Rochester, N. Y.
Nov 24th 1879
Dear Prof. Ward;
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<pre> Thanks for your ad-
</pre>
<p>vice concerning Mr Bliss, which I am
proud to say I have followed, for people
do not often follow advice after asking
it. Have made the proposition to Mr B.
and asked for a distinct understanding
of all points <u>first</u>. Don't know how he
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>am concerned, but nothing has
been done to the pedestal. Have
been writing steadily ever since
completing the orang groups and
once again i find myself down to
hard ?. Could you allow Mr
Baker to spare me about $20, when
he pays the men next Saturday? If
so please write him to do so when
he comes up from the Office with
the bag. I hope to make another
raise soon, but meanwhile we
must live. Would be <u>glad</u> to work
in the shops at my old wages if
I could <u>afford</u> to do it and let
my writing go by the board. You
see Mr Bliss and I am planning
to flood Iowa with "H. circulars,
pamphlets, etc" - about lecturing of
course, and I <u>hope</u> that I may
be able to get out there and
try to get that bill through even
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>though I have to undertake it
<u>& carry it through</u> single handed
and alone. If I had $400, to back
myself up with I <uu know</uu> I could
do it. If I can get out there I
shall <u>try</u> it anyhow. No word
atall from Clarkson, but I enclose
a letter from Mr Mills. If my
book was only <s>in</s> out but I tell you
I could carry that bill through
on the top of the wave. I would
guarrantee to do it. Woe is me!
If I was not so poor I might
do something great! But here am
I asking for $20. and wishing I
may get it. How are <u>you</u> succeeding?
Is your M S S. returned to you as
mine is?
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<pre> We are well. & Mrs H. joins me
</pre>
<p>in enclosing best wishes for your
success.
Yours faithfully
Wm T. Hornaday.
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</u Hornaday >
Aug '79
Rochester, N. Y.
Sunday. Aug 10th 1879.
Dear Prof.
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<pre> The orangs will be done by Friday
</pre>
<p>if we only get the stuff for the leaves in
time. </u But > if the group is to be </u done > by
that time, we cannot put in the
other (small) orang, for the reason that
it could not be stuffed by either William
or myself, and it any case it would
not be dry as soon as the others. The
more I study upon the orang and the place
we have for it, the more I am made to
fear that you would be disappointed in
it anyhow. The female is finished, and
looks </u well > , - much better than I had
expected. William did a good job with
that hair business, as good and as
rapidly., I am sure, as either M. Bailly
or I could have done to have saved our
necks, and if it should occur to you to
give William $2. or $3. as a "reward of
merit" I think he would appreciate it,
& you wouldn't lose anything either in
the long run. Your remark that it
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to get that hair stuck on" discour-
aged him a good deal, and I have had
to pat him on the back ever since to
keep him up to the mark.
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<pre> If you still want that small orang
</pre>
<p>stuffed, send us a telegram to that
effect, & Mr Bailey or Marten's or </u Webster >
will have to do it. My reason for saying
"If you still want" it done, is because
you said, "Have Wm stick that hair on
first, so that if there is not time to spare
the young one can be left out. " It will
keep us both </u busy > till Friday to get the
group fully done, for there are </u so many >
little things to be done one after another
before all, 4 specimens are </u perfect >,
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<pre> Brooks (of the </u Union >) goes away for
</pre>
<p>2 weeks next Saturday, & he is very
anxious to see the orangs before he goes.
I told him that I < /u thought > you would
want all the reporters to come
up the same day so that there would
be so unpleasantness in any quarter.
Of course that cannot be until you
are here. But Brooks is a master
hand (for a reporter) at writing up
such a thing, & very anxious to do
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>both of us same service - as well as
his paper. Now </u would it do >to have
Brooks come up next Friday by himself to
see the group.</s but > write out his account.
let me correct it, </u but > not publish
it until the appointed day? Could
a newspaper man be </u trusted > to keep
back such a Jolly good item to please
somebody else? I </u fear > not, yet Brooks
has always been very square upon such
matters, & I think </u always > keeps his
word. Brooks is one of my </u best > friends
here, & I want him to see the group
</u anyhow >. So please tell me that I may
ask him up Next Friday (for he goes
Saturday) provided he keep his pen still.
</p>
<pre> I sent </s the > an abstract of my
</pre>
<p>Orang paper, title, &e. last Wednesday.,
and asked that it be put on the
program for the 8th day. I had
not intended to be there the 1st day.
unless it should be otherwise necessary,
but Mr Lucas tells me you want the
paper to come on the </u first > day. Very
well, but hadn't </u you > better write a
line to Prof. Putnam about it, as you
are better acquainted? Or if you
think best, I will do so myself.
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<p>by 11, to come in two exactly in the
middle. We could not gain any-
thing to speak of by making the
trees removable; for you know that
the limbs of the two trees on the left
of the group spread pretty widely, &
in two places come out over the
edge of the pedestal a little. When
that half is turned down upon its
</u end > it will pass through any doorway
that is 4 1/2 ft wide, pedestal & all.
& the 2 trees couldn't go through
anything smaller, even were they off
the pedestals. Do you want the pedestal
made broad enough that a glass
case could be built up </u from its edges >
& take in all the limbs? Will it matter
if the left arm of the female projects out
past the edge of the pedestal, thus:?
</p>
<pre> The group will look </u much >
better if it can, & the pedestal
can be made a full </u foot >
shorter. It would need to project perhaps
</pre>
<p>8 inches. As Mr L. & I have planned the
group (Just as you & I did precisely) it looks
</u perfect >, only that </s even > hand sticks over.
If there is any change, the pedestal must
be made </u longer >, for the tree cannot be
moved </u any >.
Yours very truly
Wm T. Hornaday.
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Marcy Strong
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^June '79^
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<pre> Rochester, N. Y.
June 16th 1879.
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof. Ward:
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<pre> Here is a letter from Mrs Maxwell, which blows rather chilly on the H. Collection. No matter, people can be made to change their minds so that they will swear they never said it. Have just replied, telling Mrs M. that you extend to her--through me--a cordial invitation to call here on her way East to inspect the Estate, in general & the H. Coll. in particular. I urged her to do it, as her opinion would have great weight with the Iowa people, &c, &c. Told her to write so that I could know when to meet her at the Depot! Asked her to tell us at once when to expect her. Hope you will be here when she does come. Told her whatever is done <u>must</u> be done between this and March 31st 1880, that I have had
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<pre> Have just written Mr. Des Moines Jackson asking him if he would be willing to come on here provided it can be so arranged that he will lose nothing except his time. Will have a reply by return mail sure.
Will you be here for the lecture on Thursday night? Am devoting all my time & attention to it. Will show tiger's skull, big Prosbytis Jubatus, & a few other things, if Miss Ward says so.
Yours very truly
Wm. T. Hornaday.
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Hong Kong. Feb 24th 1879.
My dear Prof. Ward :
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<pre> I arriced here day - before
</pre>
<p>yesterday (Saturday), nine wretched days from
Singapore, and the Pacific Mail Steamer
</u City of Peking > leaves today for San Francisco,
instead of March 1st as they told me in
Singapore/ By good rights (to you) I ought
to go on today by this vessel, but I have
decided to remain here a fortnight and
take the next steamer. Now that I am
here, and in all probability will never
be here again it would look like criminal
indifference to go away without seeing any-
thing at all of Chine. I ^will^ trust your gener-
osity to hear me out in remaining a fort-
night here and spending $50. of your money
on my own account. Of course every item of
expenditure comes out of my own pocket
now - or will eventually, - and instead of
counting it as so much paid on my
salary, which we have agreed shall be
in arrears, I will, if yoou wish, refund
you the money I </s have > am spending for
myself out of your Expedition funds.
As I before remarked I shall go home
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but forty cannot make him drink. If
I find anyone about the museum who
realizes its utter unworthiness I will try
to sell him an Orang skin or skeleton
for $100. to $125.
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<pre> I shall leave here on March 15th on
</pre>
<p>the Occidental & Oriental S.S. </u Belgie >, touch
at Yokohama about March 22nd and
reach San Francisco on or about April
12th. Have 4 boxes which I shall take
along as </u freight >, addressed to myself,
San F. and as soon as I land will call
on Mr Gilbert Clements 318 Front St.
for letters from you, and all the rest of
my friends. I have now $100. in circular
notes, $45 in cash for expenses & a hundred-
dollar bill to pay my passage to S. F. It
is pretty certain I will not have enough
money to take me through to Rochester
or even Iowa, so if you have not $100. to
$150 to send me at once to S. F. it
must be raised amongst my friends.
If you do not have it, write to my brother
Cal, and see if he has, or to my brother
David Miller and see if </u he > has. I think
I shall need </u at least> $150 as soon as
I get to Frisco, and I leave it to you
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she lacked in guns & armor plates, which
is about the way with our entire navy I
believe. Thank heaven! I have seen an
American war vessel at last. It </s only >
carries 4 small guns & is a side-wheeler
at that, but it is still an American war
vessel, and is the greatest curiosity I have
seen since leaving home. I was afraid
that I was doomed to travel quite around
the world without ever coming within
a thousand miles ^of^ a vessel belonging to the
U.S. navy, but such as it is, here is one at
last. I wish I could add it to my collec-
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<pre> There is a museum here in the Town
</pre>
<p>Hall which I shall visit at the earliest
opportunity. I am told it is not much
of a museum, but I am sure that how-
ever much it may not have it </u will >
have a marble statue of the former Gov-
ernor of Hong Kong and perhaps the Queen
who was so most graciously and serene-
ly pleased to bestow her</s y > own name-
Victoria - upon this city which the
vulgar herd refuse to adopt. Which proves
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$100. My fare from Singapore to here was
$60. I have put up here at the Grand (?)
Oriental Hotel at $1.50 per day. Tomorrow
I am going to run up to Canton (74 miles)
and spend two or three days in seeing the
place.
</p>
<pre> I don't believe there is a thing here in
</pre>
<p>the line of Natural History that is worth
taking, but I hope to turn us something
before I leave. There is plenty of granite,
but it is very common looking stuff., There
is simply next to nothing in the fish
market, and the island of Hong Kong
is as bleak and barren as -as </u Italy >
along the Strait of Messina. This island
& all the islets round about are </s pure-
ly > volcanic, high, rugged & rocky.
As you know the harbor is one of the finest
in the world and there was a big fire
in Hong Kong last Christmas. And Wash-
ington's birthday was duly honored last
Saturday by all the Man-of-war in the
harbor, which embraced the U. S. China
squdron consisting of one small side-
wheel gun-boat called the </u Ashuelot. >
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</pre>
<p>to say how it shall be </s got > obtained
& forwarded. Better get it of my friends
I suppose, for I have spent too much
of your money already, and I have no
doubt you are utterly weary of my re-
peated "calls". But we will begin to harp
on another thing now very soon, and
unless I am </u much > mistaken the bread
we have been so long casting upon the
waters will return to us 40, 60, and 100
fold.
</p>
<pre> You see I wrote home (to Mr Auten)
</pre>
<p>for $100. to spend in Singapore for myself
if necessary, but it seems he has put all
his money and all mine also into his coal
mine - and there it is! And don't we wish
we may get it !
</p>
<pre> I enclose some stamps for the folks at
</pre>
<p>the "Office" and remain
</p>
<pre> Yours to the bitter end,
</pre>
<p>Wm T. Hornaday.
P. S. Remember my brother's address is
David V. Miller, Indianapolis, Ind.
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Ho:naday,
Feb.'79. Singapore (Last Time)
</p>
<pre> Feb 11th 1879.
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof Ward:
</p>
<pre> Today came a telegram
</pre>
<p>saying "Transfer impossible. Draw
sixty pounds." So I went to Mr. Camp-
bell and arranged to draw of them
Sixty-</u five > pounds, which will get
me home, Steerage, and allow me a
small margin to land upon in San-
Francisco. There is </u no way > ^open^ for me but
to go home. I fear you will be greatly
disappointed at my not going to Aus-
tralia. but I am bound to say that
under the circumstance it is not only
impractible to go there, but </u impossible >
and you know that I do not stick at
trifles, particularly when it is in trying
to accomplish an object on which my
heart has long been set. I see </u plainly >
that there is practically </u no > money for
Australia, and if you still think that I
ought to go anyhow I will tell you that
no one will advance me any money
to go anywhere but </u home > straight, &
</u only > Robert Campbell will do that !
Lucky for me that he will do even that
much, considering my past ^financial^ record.
I am going home via China &
Japan because I think I can go
</u cheaper > that way. If it turns out
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Gilbert Clements in San Francisco
for letters and advices as to any-
thing you may want me to do on
the Pacific Coast. Will also send
a telegram when I arrive (i.e. a
telegram to Rochester. Do you think
I ought to show myself to the right
parties as I go through Iowa and be
</u Interviewed > perhaps, for the sake of
the H. collection? If so, tell me
just what you want me to do, and
</u all about it >. Major Studer will
give me hearty letters to a number of
people in Des Moines. Clarkson of the
</u State Register > for one, and it might be
as well for me to see him, and also
to run up to Ames to see Prof. Bessey
(I shall count </u much > on him), and the
Pres't of the I. S. A. C. Let me know as
soon as you possibly can about it.
Sorry we did not think of this con-
tingency long ago, but going home like
this hardly entered my mind until
the last fortnight.
</p>
<pre> I will stop a week in Iowa (or
</pre>
<p>ten days at most) and a week in
Battle Creek - or </s return > ^longer^ if necessary.
and will probably fetch up in
Rochester about May 1st ready
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of course I will pay the difference.
I am going to squeeze through to
San F. from here for $160. -(Steerage,
of course). I leave tomorrow for
Hong Kong on a trading Str. the
</u "Ulysses" .> will arrive there about
Feb 20th and will have to wait
until Feb 30., for a Pacific Mail
Steamer. </u Of course > I will in the
interval collect (to the extent of my
purse only !) whatever there is to be
had in our line. I have not money
to warrant a stay of a fortnight in
Japan, consequently can have only
one day in Yokohama. It is simply
</u no use > to think about collecting
on a grand scale any longer. If I
should undertake it I should soon
be busted again by expenses. If the
good Lord will let me get home
all right I will be satisfied.
</p>
<pre> This draft is drawn on you at
</pre>
<p>30 days sight and will be pre-
sented by Martin, Dyce & Cos. New
York agents.
</p>
<pre> I have with me 3 boxes of spec-
</pre>
<p>imens, two trunks, and the outfit
chest, and will have the usual
amount of freight & other expenses
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out of debt. I expect to land
in S. F. about April 1st and will
send you a telegram at once.
</p>
<pre> Of course we need not tell
</pre>
<p>outsiders that it was intended for
me to go to Australia at all, and
then we will not be credited with
a failure.
</p>
<pre> Health still good.
</pre>
<p>Yours to the bitter end,
Wm T. Hornaday.
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Singapore Feb 11th 1879.
Dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> Your cable message
</pre>
<p>advising me to "draw Sixty
pounds" was received yesterday.
</u Messrs Martin Dyce & Co > have
offeered to accept a draft upon
you, and I have hereby drawn
a Bill @ 30 days sight, upon
you, for </u Seventy pounds Sty.>
I have drawn Ten pounds
above your advices to make
sure of having funds suf-
ficient & to provide against
accidents.
</p>
<pre> This bill will be presented
</pre>
<p>by Ira Busby, Esq. of South
Street, N. Y. who is the Agent
for Messrs Martin Dyce & Co.
</p>
<pre> Of course I hold myself
</pre>
<p>personally responsible for
the amt. which I now
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mentioned in your advices.
</p>
<pre> Through the unswearied
</pre>
<p>kindness & generosity of
Messrs M. D. & Co. I am able
to start for San Francisco
tomorrow, the 12th inst. with -
out further loss of time and
funds.
</p>
<pre> This Bill will probably be
</pre>
<p>presented for payment before
I reach home.
Yours faithfully
Wm T. Hornaday.
Hornaday
Feb. '79
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Singapore. Feb 7th 1879.
Dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> t lastyour remittance of Dec 17th
</pre>
<p>(A </u week > later than your telegram saying it had
been sent) has arrived - and its Sixty pounds
instead of a hundred - which checkmates me
very effectually. You might suggest to Tice &
Lynch that it is better, on some account,s to date
a letter containing a money remittance, unless
they intended to keep the date from being known.
But the letter was postmarked Dec 17th. Well, I've
simply played my last card in this hand &
haven't taken a single trick. So I retire from
the game. The matter stands simply as fol-
lows, & is easy to understand: I was in debt
$200. when I went to Borneo. I got from M. D. &
Co. $100. more while there. I came back here
indebted to the Steamer. freight & passages $48.
Wages to my servants, unpaid $60. and other unpaid
debts to Borneo about $26.- in all about $435.
To liquidate that acct, you sent 40 pounds - i.e. $215.
and 50. pounds in Oct - $270 un= expecting me to
have $200. (40 pounds) left to buy shells with and
ship my boxes. Instead of 40 pounds. I had about </s $40. > $30.
and you hope that on this I have made a
trip to Banca for babinessa (where there
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>so I do not ask him. In fact he has clearly
made up his mind not to, or he would not
have advised me to spend nearly $50. in tele-
graphing. He expresses his willingness to pay
me 60. pounds if any American banker telegraphs
him to do so, and leaves it to be inferred that
otherwise he will not. Major Studer has no money,
and I would become a vagrant before I would
ask him to help me out. If I do not receive
60. pounds by telegram </u at once > I am in a worse
pickle than ever. If I get it I shall go
home steerage ($200) to San Fransisco at
once. If I don't get it, I shall have to sell
out all my personal effects, for a man </u must >
live - unless he shoots himself, of course.
</p>
<pre> I did not send the Borneo Collection in two
</pre>
<p>separate lots, and I wish now I had not
spent $38. in getting it insured. I have
sold one drum of methylated spirits for $12.
and shall try to sell the remainder. Am also
offering my gun for sale and hope to find a
buyer soon. My watch next, I suppose.
</p>
<pre> A. H. Jamrach is coming down here
</pre>
<p>from Calcutta in two or three weeks. He will
probably go to Borneo to see Croker about
Orangutans. Mr Wm Davison, A. O.
Hume's traveling collecter is here with
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>ave none) - a trip which would have cost
$300. and 2 months time - and you also hope
that I have collected a </u fine > assortment of
invertebrates - all on $40. Your telegram
came saying "100 pounds sent" and I thought that
</u of course you would not go so far back as to
count the last 40 pounds. you sent, which I already
had. I anticipated my present situation and
have not bought a single shell - nor any other
specimen except that lot from Syers - $30.
I have been obliged to spend quite a little
sum on clothes, for I landed from Borneo fairly
barefooted and out at every elbow & knee. My
living costs $50. pr month. Shipping the
boxes, about $50. I have been here now nearly
</u two months > waiting for that money. If this
last 60. pounds had come two months ago I would
now be in Australia. - Well, in spite of all
I could do I have incurred a lot of little
expenses here which while they were per-
fectly unavoidable, still foot up far too much.
But I don't think I have been anyways ex-
travagant. At least you will have an oppor-
tunity to judge from my account book.
</p>
<pre> Well, after the Australian (month;y) mail
</pre>
<p>steamer left, comes - Sixty pounds, and
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- when the </u next > steamer goes - get to Australia
and collect a host of specimens, besides
getting ready for home. - you promise $200.
more you know. Well, it will square up my
bills here, & leave a little over (if I get away
from here </u soon >) but it won't pay my passage
to anywhere. With this state of things I shall
not try to go to Australia, nor anywhere else but
home, and I'll be glad if I accomplish even that.
</p>
<pre> Day before yesterday ( </u 3 > days after date) came
</pre>
<p>a London Telegram, of Jan 31st saying "Sixty
pounds sent Brisbane." Sorry of it. Then I tel-
egraphed to Rochester ($30.60) "Telegraph Sixty
pounds passage home. Imperative necessity."
</u Very > stupidly indeed they telegraphed back "Six-
ty pounds sent December seventeenth," as though
I </s tic > did not know that already, and as though
it hadn't already been 50 days on the road, &
at last reached me. Then I telegraphed again
"Insolvent. Obey instructions". And since that
they are silent. All this time I have advised
with Mr Campbell at every step, and I can
tell you he is heartily sick and tired of me.
He don't offer to lend me any more money -
and I wouldn't if I were in his place - &
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</pre>
<p>nine assistants, collecting </u birds> only. They
will visit Salangore but </u not > Borneo. Davison
says they have plenty of birds eggs and will
soon be ready to sell duplicates. If some of your
energetic assistants had sent me your Catalogue
of Foreign Birds Eggs I might now come to
an arrangement with Davison for getting as
many eggs as you want at your own price.
But since my instructions merly say "Pay 1/5
prices in the Catalogue "and I haven't the Cat-
alogue - (& neither has Dr Dennys.) I am not
likely to do much with eggs.
</p>
<pre> Davison says "A naturalist" in London
</pre>
<p>wrote to him last year offering 10. pounds each for
10 large Skeletons of </u Gavialis Gaugeticus >. but
he won't tell me the fellow's name. I never
sent any skeletons. Davison is very much
impressed with the magnitude of your estab-
lishment, but I don't know whether or not
he knows how often I have borrowed money of
strangers. I am quite pleased to hear
that M. Bailey has an opportunity to make
$4. or $5. pr day once more, and that he
will after all succeed in making his pile
of $10,000 out of the "God-damned - blue-
belly - Yawkey!" I have no doubt he
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Feb '79
is quite happy again now that he can
once more abuse you and your Establishment
and make big wages out you at the same
time. - say, two men's wages for one man's
work. Yes, I am highly gratified to learn
that Bailey is back, for he has always
been </u so devoted > to your interests.
</p>
<pre> I did not save any mias nests, and
</pre>
<p>don't think I would if I had another chance.
I can make a pile of green boughs in
a crotch as well as any mias and defy
anybody to tell the difference between the
fraud & the original. When the branches are
</u dead > & the leaves dried up and gone it is
a mias nest no </s long > longer and would
not answer for one. We must make one
with artificial leaves or not at all.
</p>
<pre> I hope I shall receive 60. pounds by telegraph
</pre>
<p>and be able to start home (Steerage) within
3 or 4 days. You will know by the time
this reaches you whether I have or not.
Yours very truly
Wm T. Hornaday.
Hornaday
Feb. '79
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Hornaday.
Jan '79
</u Still Singapore, Jan 31st '79
Dear Professor Ward:
</p>
<pre> Matters are becoming highly
</pre>
<p>interesting with the H. Expedition at the
present moment. No hundred pounds
yet, though I still live in hope, and the
monthly Australian Steamer leaves next
Monday,the 3rd of Feb. Next steamer is
March 3rd of course. Of course I cannot
think of running off to Austrtalia before
that hundred pounds arrives, to say nothing
of the "advices". Well, I have done some
careful figuring today </u If > I had that 100 pounds
</u now > I would have exactly $262.75 to
</s get to > get to Australia with & go ahead
with when there. Fare to Brisbane (no 2nd
class) $150. leaving $112.75. I have advised
with Major Studer (a "Western man") and
Mr Robert Campbell, and they advise me
to not to strike out on such small capital,
"not to run any more risks," - not to
"go to work and get myself in pickle" -
not to "deliberately walk into any more
difficulties among strangers." I quite agree
with them, and have made up my
mind not to strike for Australia with
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>only $112. to travel upon live upon, work
upon for the Lord knows how long. </u It
won't do. > Prof., do you think it will? Well,
I'm going to wait until your remittance
comes & will see what you say. If there
is no prospect of more </u immediately >
upon my arrival in Australia. I shall
send you a telegram telling you that my game
is blocked, that I must have a </u credit >
somewhere before I can go on, </u or go home > .
I </s fr > will have $262. left. The fare to
San Francisco, steerage, is $200. barring
accidents. </u If > you telegraph money to
me at once I </s am > will gladly go on to
Australia and do what you want done
there. - or I can go home, which is the
most probable. I shall hate </u terribly > to
give up Australia, for I have had my
heart set upon it next to Borneo; but I don't
intend to make a fool of myself, much as
I would like to. Besides, I see plainly
that with "$800 for Australia & home" I
can do </u nothing > toward making a col-
lection, simply nothing, for want of
1st the money, 2nd the time. I do not
think that if you could this moment
know the circumstances you would want
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>me to undertake Australia atall, as mat-
ters now stand. My expenditures up here
have far exceeded your estimate - and mine
also for that matter. Unless you telegraph
me more money at once, we </u must > give
up Australia, because there is simply
</u no other way >. Then I must get home &
the quickest & cheapest route is via
</s clu > Hong Kong & Yokohama. </u If > you do
not telegraph me funds I shall have to
go home </u steerage > with a margin of </u less >
than $50. - which is not a pleasant look-
out for a good deal. In fact it </u couldn't > be
much worse. There is no 2nd class. no
happy medium between the very good and
the infernally bad. First class is $400
from here to San Francisco, but I am per-
fectly assured I will never have that
much money in my hands between this
and Rochester.
</p>
<pre> And so the matter stands. And I
</pre>
<p>sincerely wish I was </u home > this minute,
which is the first time I have wished
that wish since leaving home. I wish
now that some one else would step into my
shoes for the next two months. I have
no reason to hope you are in a position
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>to send me any money by telegraph,
and I have not enough on hand to
either advance or retreat with:
</p>
<pre> But I daresay I will know more
</pre>
<p>by next mail. I recd by last mail
your letter of Nov 24th enclosing Bob
Ingersoll's </s letter > ^lecture^ on Hell instead of a
draft as I expected. You say you will
get Mr Lee Ward to "Advance $800. more
for </s your > Australia & to reach Rochester
via San Francisco." My dear Prof. thats
exactly </u half > enough to accomplish that,
even at the closest calculation I can make.
That gives $300. to add to the $262. I
will have left here, so you see what folly
it would be for me to undertake to do
Australia & </s be > get home on $562 No, its
not to be thought of badly as I want to
shoot kangaroos & skin dugongs. And
besides the Steamer goes next Monday.
</p>
<pre> Well, I shall try to get on one way or
</pre>
<p>another. I've done the best I can, and I
think you have done the same, so now
if we must come down a peg lets do it
gracefully and without any grumbling.
But I'd give a thousand dollars out of my
own pocket to be able to go to Australia &
make a big collection.
Yours doggedly
Wm T. Hornaday.
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Singapore, Jan. 22nd 1879.
My dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> I have nothing whatever to
</pre>
<p>write unless it be to remark that I ^have^
not ^received^ your hundred pounds and am in
debt to everybody it seems. Have not
even had a letter from you for three
mails now, and the last told me
nothing atall about money matters.
I have got down now to the "eating
sleeping and waiting", and so far as
enjoying it is concerned I think I would
-other things being equal - rather be
living. Am not collecting a </u thing >, not
the least thing, and don't spend a
cent because - well, </u because. >Would you
like to know where my watch is
just now? I'll tell you if you'll get
it and bring it to me. Why don't
I borrow of M. D. & Co? Well I have
borrowed of them - $50. - and I'll be
hanged rather than go to them again.
</p>
<pre> This makes the eleventh time I have
</pre>
<p>run clean out of money since leaving
home. You keep telling me to "save
30 or 40. pounds to </u wait > on". Refinement of
sarcasm. I wish God I could get
enough money ahead once to pay all
my debts and leave me that much
to "wait on."
</p>
<pre> Well, I'm getting tired of this thing;
</pre>
<p>how is it with you? I never felt
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>more ready to go home than I do
at this time, and I doubt if I ever
</s do > will. It takes every bit of life
& spirit out of a fellow, and I don't
care two cents whether I ever see Australia
or not. When I do get there I know
it will be just as it has been here &
in Ceylon, and there'll be no Robert
Campbell down there either.
</p>
<pre> You </s make > ^may^ think I'm making the
</pre>
<p>money fly right & left, but the fig-
ures I send you herewith will show
you that my expenses fall below $150. pr.
month on the average. Let me see,
there's 100. pounds coming, about $550. I
owe now all told Just about $280. which
leaves $320. Well, I </u may > get to Aus-
tralia with $150. to begin a campaign
there, and by the time this reaches
you I will no doubt be writing
another letter to match this. There is
not a doubt of it unless I get some-
thing soon after I get to Australia.
</p>
<pre> That 100. pounds is now overdue. You tel-
</pre>
<p>agraphed on Dec 10th that it had been
"sent". We have New York dates up to
Dec. 13th. I hope it has not been
sent to another. W. F. Housley instead
of to me. If it don't arrive by </u next >
mail I don't know what I shall
do.
</p>
<pre> My health continues very good
</pre>
<p>I'm happy to say I have skinned
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inches long, & a beauty. Syers has sent
down a lot of specimens from Salan-
gore, dry skins, alcoholics, and a Malay
Skull. I will have to give him between
$20 & $30 for the lot.
Yours very sincerely
Wm T. Hornaday.
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<p>Camp in the Forest, Anamallay Hills Saturday, Sept 1st 1877 Dear Prof Ward: At last I have the opportunity to write you again, though under considerable difficulties. Sorry that I cannot yet report an Elephant slain, but still I leave not given up. Suring the first half of the month I hunted constantly for them rain or shine, and it was nearly always rain. In 11 days hunting for Elephants I got two fair shots, fired exactly as I had been told and both times was astonished to see my victims (?) go off with the herd. I had good shots, but my gun failed to kill. Well, that discouraged me somewhat, for I had done my best. Then Theobald said, “hold on, and in two weeks I will be with you, and I give you my promise that we will bag one, sure.” And so I concluded to hold on, give the elephants a rest, and hunt smaller game for the two weeks. I had two more doses of fever during the first half of the month but they only kept me down a few days at a time. While hunting elephants we had no chance to shoot smaller game save enough deer to eat, as all our time & attention was occupied by the elephant hunting, which by-the-way was very laborious indeed, & taxed every energy to the utmost. So you can see it is only a few days that I have had a chance to collect small specimens. At last I have the pleasure to inform you that I have killed a splendid Tiger for you as you directed some months ago. I bagged this within a mile of my hut, and directly between me and the settlement. He was evidently trying to cut off my retreat. And the best of all is that I did it with my little Maynard rifle, with two shots. It was last Monday, that I was out with two men and a boy, trying to kill a deer, as we were out of meat. I had my rifle and the boy carried a shot-gun loaded with No 5. shot. So you see we didn’t have a very heavy battery as all old Indian hunters do “of two-grooved Pundy No 12. and Westly Richards No 12 double rifle” etc. etc. Well, we came upon the tracks of a huge tiger in the sandy bed of a little marry creek, where the old fellow had been mooning along down the stream walking sometimes in the water</p>
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<p>and sometimes out. His tracks were just about as big around as a saucer I think, and they looked appalling. The men (natives of course) asked me if I would dare to shoot at a tiger if we saw one; with that small rifle. I said “Yes, of course”. I was determined not yet to say “No” when there was no likelihood of our even seeing a tiger, would you? Well, we went on down the little stream, when suddenly the man in advance of me – the shikance – grasped my arm awfully hard and pointed through a clump of [brimboos] that we were standing behind. Great Caesar! There un the bed of the creek, thirty yards away, standing broadside, was old Stripes in all his glory. It was a beautiful, clear day, and if he didn’t look gorgeous I never saw anything that did. He seemed as big as an ox. Well, I had my plan all studied out long, long ago how I tho’t I could kill a tiger with my little rifle, so I knew just what I wanted to try to do. I waited about, a half minute until the beast looked full in my direction and then blazed away, aiming for his eye. Then I reloaded in an awful hurry. When I looked again he was in the same spot, turning slowly round & round in his tracks. When he came round just right I fired at his neck, aiming to hit the spinal chord, and at that shot he instantly fell. Reloading we went cautiously toward him – for my two men & boy had not bolted, as I supposed they would – and stood up on the bank watching his last agonies. He was hit very hard – couldn’t have been hit-harder – and in three minutes was stone dead. My first shot hit him exactly in the left eye and the second broke his neck in a most gratifying way. But wasn’t he an old rouser? He measured 9ft 8 ½ in as he lay, and he weighed 495 lbs, by the scales. The largest tigers do not exceed ten feet my more than 4 to six inches, and the average tiger is 8ft 4inches. So you see this one is first class. People may call me a fool for shooting at him on foot, with such a small, single barreled rifle and nothing to back it up, but you see I had him. Just exactly as I wanted him, and knew what the rifle could do. The first was the prettiest shot I ever made, considering everything, and just when it was most necessary. Carry the</p>
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<p>news to Hiram! I have always advocated small rifles and accurate shooting rather than such thundering big guns. For instance, Col Beddome shot a tiger up here, also on foot, distance 20 yds, with a No 12. double rifle and hardened balls; but it took ten shots to kill his tiger, and the skin was a sight to see. (I was exactly 30 yds from my tiger). I’m having a hard fight for it with the weather but I’m going to send you the finest tiger skin you ever saw. It’s rained ever since the skin was hung out to dry, and I have had to watch over it as if it were a sick child, but alum & salt will win the day. It is safe now, but I have to keep it hanging inside my hut. I will take it to bed with me but what I save it. It does my hungry eyes good to look at it, for I have tried so long and hard for tiger skins without success. Of course I have saved all the skeleton. Yes, and last week I got a fresh Tiger skeleton, too. Col Beddome (mentioned above) shot his tiger 5 miles beyond Theobald’s on the very day that I had gone down to T’s. So of course I stopped to see what I could get. Col B. is a big swell, and of course wouldn’t let me have the skin; altho’ I tried hard to buy it of him; but I got the entire skeleton, all but the head, and Theobald has one he is going to let me have. The body is badly shot up, scapulae totally smashed. The length of the tiger was 8 ft 4 ½ inches. I will just substitute this entire body, & scapulae – so that it will after all be a perfect skeleton, and a very fine one too. These two tigers encourage me not a little. I had not dared hope for such good luck as to ever meet one myself, and you must pardon me for having dilated on the subject and blown my horn and swung my hat for your edification. Mr Theobald is ready to join me for the elephant hunt, and would have been here yesterday, but the heavy rains have prevented his coming. The way it rains now is something awful. But it will stop & clear up by-and-by.</p>
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<p>When T. comes we are going to move off into another locality, where elephants are more plentiful, and where we will be pretty sure to bag one. I am only trying for a skeleton, as a skin could never be got out of here to the roads. I enclose my list for Aug. and also expense A/C. Have kept 5 men the greater part of the month, but lately only 3 and 4. Have not been able to bag any sambur old enough for specimens this month. Am trying all the time. I have about 125 Rs. in cash remaining. Have written Lee Hedges & Co. to send any letters or money they may have rec’d for me, but have no reply yet. My expenses of late have been about $1. per day, everything included, so I am in no great hurry to leave. And yet I am really anxious to get that elephant and take the Str. of Sept 15th for Ceylon, but cannot hope to do it. This month I have lost 7 days by fever, which makes my working month (and 2nd quarter) end on Sept 2nd, and the 2nd of every month instead of the 26th. I have your letter of June 24th, and shall try to carry out all your wishes expressed therein. The “Herald” came also – many thanks, they (“heralds”) will be very acceptable I assure you. Please do not send this to Mr Jackson, as I wish to write him myself about the tiger. But you can send this to Mr Auten if you like. I can hardly see why you waited to ask me to describe Mr Rutledge before you wrote him regarding the Platymista. It is certainly a dead loss of time, for he expected you would write him at once. He is an Eurasian, to begin with, and is black as a man dare be: Is decidedly native in his tastes – wears rings in his ears, & a great mass of jewelry all over himself. Is very languid and listless in his manner of doing business, seems to not care a [kin] whether he sells to you or not. You must do all the talking & proposing, and simply lead him on. He can be pretty easily talked into a thing. De don’t like to take trouble himself, and hates to be bothered with a dead animal or a bad smell. He would not prepare the Platymista at his establishment, but would send them to</p>
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<p>the native who prepares the skins & skels of his dead orangs for him (10 Rs each). He would simply pay this party to prepare the Platymista. He won’t take any trouble about shipping boxes. Sykes & Co must do all that. He could give no idea of what he would change for the P. skins & skeletons, as he never did anything with such things. Had no idea what it would cost to get them. There is a party – H. Meyer & Co – who can furnish good methylated spirits by the cask at “very cheap rates,” so they saudm but were then unable to tell me the exact rate. He could get spirits of them. It costs 11 Rs. per doz qts at retail. There seem to be several parties trying for P. gangetica in Calcutta, and they are very hard to get. The fisherman said they were offered 25 Rs. each. Well, now I must close. We must get an elephant now within ten days, – unless we get a fresh dose of the fever. If so I will throw up the sponge. Am very glad you write me as often as you do. Any memo relating to the progress of the Establishment is always of the greatest interest to me. But tell me. From Singapore do you want me to go to Borneo or Sumatra? You have mentioned my going to S. several times of late, which surprised me as I had thought all along I was to go to Borneo. The books I want are “Sherman’s Memoirs” (if it does not cost too much) The illustrated edition of Tennyson, such as Mr Lucas has, Longfellow, same style, & “Morals of Abou Ben Adhem”. Also 30 brass cartridge-cases for Maynard Rifle “1873”, No. 40. Oh how I wish I had known it in time; I would have had you send me a barrel of beans and a barrel of dried apples by Capt Lucas to Madras. They would be worth their weight in Rupees to me in Borneo. But it’s too late now. I don’t know the parties in Singapore to whom the spirits was sent. Have written Howards to find out. This leaves me in reasonable health. Love to all the family, Very sincerely yours Wm T. Hornaday</p>
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Melissa Mead
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Dear Prof Ward:
I had determined not to write you until I had a change of luck, but I will write on other matters and say nothing about my luck, only that I am contending against odds for elephants, and circumstances have not yet overpowered me. But its a hard fight.
I have your letters of June 4th and May 18, together. I wrote you in a previous letter; unless I made a great blunder in failing to do so - that I told Mr. Will Rutledge you would write him what you could give him for Platyanista skeletons and skins of certain lengths, and that you would tell him how to prepare them. I am sure I wrote you that in my last Calcutta letter (mailed at Madres), although I might have forgotten it. If so it was a very unpardonable piece of forgetfulness. My Calcutta boxes will reach you during this month, and I would like a full report on the condition in which they arrive. I think they will be pretty free from dermestes, and slip rats too. I packed the 2 best Orang skins and 1 Skel in a box as tight as a coffin.
I beg to remind you that it now by your direct that I slipped direct by sailing vessel from Calcutta, thought I should have done so anyhow if left to my own judgement. The difference in freight (and commission +c ) was about $60. at the lowest. Sykes and Co are our agents in Calcutta, and Mr. Rutledge desires to transact bruisers, - money, shipping, +c- through them. I gave them 4 or 5 labels of each kind. The Sheffield knives as a lot, work well,
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>especially the small ones. Some of the large ones that I have tried are not worth shucks, and 1 or 2 small ones the same. But it is so with every lot of knives. These do very well after they get worn down into the good steel by use. The new edge is nearly always bad. They suit me very well, and stand hard usage. Some are very good, of the small ones.
Jackson is bent and determined on Nat'l History, and he has got to have an outlet somewhere for his enthusiasm. No, to tell you honestly, much as I dislike to do so, I do not think he, nor anyone you could send to Sumatra from America could do as much for you as I could do alone with the additional amount of money his expenses would foot up. It's because I am already on the ground, and a collector may at all times consider himself very successful if he can find as many specimens as he can take care of alone. I have come to the conclusion by slow degrees, that where labor is cheap, as in all the Oriental hopies, two collectors together can only make it pay when collecting large animals, such as I am up to now. The expenses of traveling and living are so great in spite of everything. Send Jackson straight to Dutch Guiana have interest each, for 20 Manatee. He will fetch these another time, for now all his blood is boiling. Before it was a drag with him, for he had had enough of it before going to Suriname. He knows just how to do it now. Send him for Manatee only, and he'll fetch them, for the
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>knows just where they are and how to get and much as I would love to have his aid and company in the Malay Archipelago, I know it would not pay you to send him so far.
I much regret to say that I lost my account-book the other day, just before the last of July. It is not a serious loss as I have sent its entire contents to you, month by month, for all but July. Yesterday I sat down and by sheer force of memory recalled every item for July. and on testing it by the cash I began with and cash in hand forward that I came written 3 Rupees of being exactly correct. But will you please send me the monthly totals of both our yes.
I have now 190 Rs. cash in hand. and that is all. Will spend very little this month I think. Will write Lee and Hedges for the £18. and cash it somehow when go to Madras.
It has rained very heavily for the last 5 days (it is now the 5th of Aug) hereby stopping on know at a time. My health is pretty fair, but I am liable to be caught by fever at any time when I exert myself a little too much. Am saving myself carefully, I tell you, for elephants when the men find a tail.
Hoping to hear from you as often as I write I remain
Yours very sincerely,
Will T. Hornaday
P.S. Mr Theobald is a "trump," - one of the best fellows I ever met. He does everything he can for me but is tied up in his house poor fellow, unable to go out, Dysintry. I am about 12 miles from him. AM very short of envelopes. so I enclose a [?] to Mr [Bnoas?].
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Melissa Mead
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Ward Project Team
University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2015
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written permission from the University of Rochester.
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Coimbatoor, Sunday, July 1st '77
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<pre> Aug 23
</pre>
<p>Dear Prof. Ward:
</p>
<pre> I arrived here this afternoon,
</pre>
<p>on my way to the Anamullays, which is
just half way from Ooty. I walked from
Ooty to the R.R. thereby saving </u 30 > Rupees instead
of 13 as I had thought. It proved that I am
quite myself again, although I did have another
2 days fever after I last wrote you. It came
just as I was getting ready to start here, but
I took quinine & brandy pretty strong, went
on working & </u eating > with my pulse at 110. &
so the fever could do nothing else but leave
me. This hot weather brings the sweat out
of me profusely, and I feel that the heat
is good for me. I enjoy dry heat, and it agrees
with me.
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<pre> I find here a late letter from Theobald.,
</pre>
<p>and prospects are brighter still. He says
"I have sent again to my friend the Rajah,
asking him to give me permission to shoot
elephants free. I have every hope of his doing
so, but he will expect, -like all, lives - a
favor in return. So I have sent word to him
that I will send him a good present if
any elephants are shot. After you </s go to Madras >
have bagged the two you want, you can
get him a watch, gun, or such thing not
exceeding 80 or 100 Rs. at the very most."
So I am going with that understanding,
am going to buy the two elephants, and
send him a 70 or 80 Rupee gun from
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Madras. I shall simply look upon it
as a debt, and discharge it then & there
though it bust me on the spot. And the
amt.. - whatever it is - I will simply put
down in the cost of the skeletons. I am
sure such chance will never come to you
again, and I am going to strike while the
iron is hot. The way elephants are in
Ceylon, even if I permission, I am
sure from what I know that 2 skels. could
not be got for less than 35 Lbs or 40 Lbs.
I hope I am carrying out your ideas
& principles in the movement, and after study-
ing it in all points carefully, I think I am.
If I should leave without success in the
Anamullays, my visit to Southern India
would be a bad failure. The Neilgherries
were a failure, and I defy any man to
get into my boots and prove them other-
wise. Everything is so awfully dear up there -
natives, food, conveyance, supplies, - every-
thing in fact. I wish I had not gone there,
but on paper & in books it is a sportsman's
& naturalists paradise. It takes too long
to get a little, and one has to run over
too much country.
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<pre> But the Anamullays are not shot over
</pre>
<p></u atall >, and I hope to find the game much
thicker. Tomorrow I lay in supplies. The
Drs tell me it is absolutely necessary to
drink brandy there, so I shall take some
& charge it with other stores, as you
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<p>know I never drink liquor unless I
have a fair show without it. Shall go
expecting to stay a good solid month, am
prepared to do good work & lots of it. Mr
Theobald will take me under his protecting
wing & use his authority for me. He seems
very glad that I am coming.
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<pre> I don't see why the 18. Lbs don't come
</pre>
<p>along from Mr Gregory. The news of it
was very acceptable "but you omitted one
very </u important > item", viz, the museum
in which it ^was^ to ^have^ been sent. I do not know
in what form to expect it. If it does not
reach me at Madras I shall be embarass-
ed there, for by that time my funds will
be very low. I hope you have sent
me something more before this, so when
I get out of cash I have no means of
raising more at this end of the string.
Will report progress in the A's as I
have time & opportunity.
Very sincerely yours
Wm T. Hornaday.
Mr Dawson wished me to say that the
Rs 300. salary pr month </u includes > all help.
as he will furnish his own staff of assistants
throughout.
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<p>Dear Prof Ward: No doubt you expect elephants in this letter, but I am obliged to disappoint you for this time. The reason is that I have had another bout with the fever, which last me 9 days time. The fever I broke in 4 days without much trouble, but it left me too weak to do anything. As soon as I was able I had the men carry me back to Mr. Theobalds bungalow for better air, water and house, and I am still here. He is just recovering from a severe attack of this much-dreaded dysentery, which he barely escaped. SO we have been getting well together. Yesterday I went out hunting for a half day with the gang. Just to see if I could stand it. I saw that I could, and on returning I immediately started the gang off to the elephant grounds, then miles away, to build me a hut. I have the Rajales permission now, - to shoot 2 elephants, the gang will return tomorrow, and then we will move out to the hut forth-with, and begin hunting for elephants,. I think that with care I can keep well now. and make a successful campaign against the elephants. You see the measures this year, that should have</p>
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<p>set in heavily in the middle of January is a total failure so far all over India. Consequently the country everywhere is unusually unhealthy, cholera and fevers are on the increase, and these Hills, almost derived of rain in any quantity are not healthy as if heavy rains were falling. Fevers here are not rare now, which is a new thing for this time of the year, and wholly contrary to programme. So I've had a touch of it, and last 9 days time all told, which makes my working months end on the 26th of each month instead of the 17th as heretofore. The more I think of it the more I am convinced that by the terms of our agreement I am laboring against great odds on this sickness question. When I am sick my time stops, medicine and doctors bills accumulate, and my long trip is lengthened by just so much. I am told, however, not to new any risks that endanger my health. I had thought with you that this could be done, but experience shows me that it is simply impossible. If I collect anything I must go into the forests. On the plains there is simply nothing. Theobold says, "I defy any man to come to India and do anything in the forests without getting sick more or less." By keeping out of the forests I could help my health. But</p>
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<p>what would I collect? Just nothing. I have taken every precaution I could think of, or have been told of, to preserve my health, and have been just as careful as I know how to be. But still came down. When any European employed in the Forest Department is prostrated by sickness his salary continued right along. The same is the regulation in the army. They recognize the fact that India is preeminently the country of diseases, and admit that their servants who are exposed to them on account of their duties must be braced up when they do fall sick. I have kept the gang out hunting every day during my sickness and convalescence, but they don't have much luck when I am not along. All they have brought in has been ♀ hog, (skel) [line is cut off]. But then there is not much to be had in the vicinity of their camp, as we have shot over the ground before pretty thoroughly. I regret very much that I have been knocked down for 9 days, as I had my heart set on sending you a good, long list of specimens for this month. Now it will be sadly shortened. I have just written Mr. Wildeboer a letter which I think will move him</p>
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<p>a little when it comes to hand. In two days more we shall be busting elephants. "The the fun begins." Yours very truly Wm T. Hornaday</p>
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Dear Prof. Ward:
I research the hills two days ago, and met Mr. Theobald, who received me very cordially. Stayed a short time with him and then moved off to better hunting grounds. Am now comfortably settled in my own hut in the forest at the camp where the Gav't Elephants are, have a good native hunter and gang of 5 coolies from this Hill tribe - the Muleeen. Up to yesterday the weather had been dry and fine ever since my animal but now the rains have set in again. U have not yet got the Rajulis unqualified permissions to start the elephants, so I have been devoting myself vigorously to smaller game. During the ten days I have been in the hills, I have bagged the following: 1 ♀ Bison, (skel), 1 Sambar, (skin), 1 "ibex", or Neil glerry wild goat, of Jerdon, (skin), 2 Muntjac (skin and skel), a Neil glerry Lauguns, 1 ♂ Axis deer (skin, very fine), and this morning a fine old Ursus laliatus. of which I think we will take the skull as soon as the coolies arrive with it. These names are all from Jerdon, as I go by him altogether. Have had his work all along. Don't you think the above is pretty fair for ten days work? The forest is full of game, and I am going to send you the finest assorted collection of mammals from here you ever received, and it won;t be a small lot either. You may depend. I also killed a ♀ Sambar deer this a.m. but it was too young for either skin skel or skull. Tomorrow I go out upon an Elephant to hunt Axis deer, then. And so this work goes on. I am greatly pleased to find game really so plentiful, though it takes hard work to kill it.
Mr. Theobald is now in the lowlands, and a letter from him today says he will return next Wednesday and bring the "permission" with him. He has been to see the Rajah [penarally?], per day each and I give the slikarce I As, my expenses are none
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>Dear Prof. Ward:
I research the hills two days ago, and met Mr. Theobald, who received me very cordially. Stayed a short time with him and then moved off to better hunting grounds. Am now comfortably settled in my own hut in the forest at the camp where the Gav't Elephants are, have a good native hunter and gang of 5 coolies from this Hill tribe - the Muleeen. Up to yesterday the weather had been dry and fine ever since my animal but now the rains have set in again. U have not yet got the Rajulis unqualified permissions to start the elephants, so I have been devoting myself vigorously to smaller game. During the ten days I have been in the hills, I have bagged the following: 1 ♀ Bison, (skel), 1 Sambar, (skin), 1 "ibex", or Neil glerry wild goat, of Jerdon, (skin), 2 Muntjac (skin and skel), a Neil glerry Lauguns, 1 ♂ Axis deer (skin, very fine), and this morning a fine old Ursus laliatus. of which I think we will take the skull as soon as the coolies arrive with it. These names are all from Jerdon, as I go by him altogether. Have had his work all along. Don't you think the above is pretty fair for ten days work? The forest is full of game, and I am going to send you the finest assorted collection of mammals from here you ever received, and it won;t be a small lot either. You may depend. I also killed a ♀ Sambar deer this a.m. but it was too young for either skin skel or skull. Tomorrow I go out upon an Elephant to hunt Axis deer, then. And so this work goes on. I am greatly pleased to find game really so plentiful, though it takes hard work to kill it.
Mr. Theobald is now in the lowlands, and a letter from him today says he will return next Wednesday and bring the "permission" with him. He has been to see the Rajah [penarally?], per day each and I give the slikarce I As, my expenses are none
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<div class="mw-parser-output"><p>very light, and I shall stay in these Hills until I am satisfied with my collection, - or at least as long as I do as well as at present.
I shall write Mr. Wildeboer a stirring letter in another day or two. I cannot think he is willfully disappointing us.- he must be ill or dead. I send in this the expense a/e for June, the last on the Neil glerries, and yet it could not have been helped, for Mr. Theobald said that had I come here a week earlier I would have been too soon. I had to be somewhere. But we will more than make it up here. No news of this £18.2. from Mr. Gregory. Am present have ample funds. Of course I can't till when I see Madras, or make a shipment. I also enclose in this my list of specimens for June. It is from memory as this memorandum I made at packing them I have lost. The Sambar skin I think will throw away, as I find by other specimens it is rather young. I have just read your's and Freds letter of May 20. glad you leave at least heard of the Garial campaign. Please excuse my itemized list of expenses this time, as it was made out some days ago. I shall be only to glad to condense hereafter. I hope will write me often. Your letters always affect some of my movements directly, and what are - to you - insignificant items, are often to me of great importance. Instance, the elephant feet and tails, - just in time to save them.
There the bear has arrived, and I must stop and go for it. My breath is pretty fair, but I fear the effect of too much rain. Kind remembrances to all the family.
Very sincerely yours,
Wm T. Hornaday
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University of Rochester
University of Rochester
500 Joseph C. Wilson Boulevard
Rochester, NY 14627
2015
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at http://library.rochester.edu.
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<p>Cotacamund, Neilgherry Hills Monday, June 25th 1877</p>
<p>Dear Prof Ward:</p>
<p>Well, the die is cast, and I am going to the Annamallies just as soon as I can geta way from here, which will be about day after tomorrow. I recd a letter from Theobald last night, which decided me at once to visit his locality. He assures me that I will not be disappointed in the Annamallies, and promises *two elephants* anyhow. I am to shoot the elephants over in the neighboring Rajalis territory, and the Rajah is willing *but* there is a bug-bear in the way at present. Theobald says the Rajah wants a fee of *£10* for each elephant shot, as he evidently thinks I want them for the ivory, which would be worth at least that much if not considerable [sic] more. But T. writes that he will try to beat the Rajah down from this fee, and thinks he can succeed in doing it. *I am going* anyhow, and between us I think we shall be able to fetch the Rajah down to our side. I will run the risk of his proving generous and go right on. The Annimallies are 80 miles S. of Coimbatore, which you will see is almost in my way to Mardras, as I should have to go to Coimbatore anyhow, I will go prepared to stay a month and to bring out 2 elephant skeletons as well as all the good smaller mammalia &c I can pick up. T. assures me that the entire cost of getting out the 2 skels will not be more than £20, or £25. You have been vainly offering £25 *each* for skels, so you see why I am so anxious to go to the Annimallies. I think this chance should not be let slip, under any account. If I find the Rajah insists on his £10 fee for each elephant I will get out as quickly & cheaply as I can, and strike for Ceylon. But he *must* give in on that fee. I have just sent my last circular note (for £25) to Madras to be cashed to meet the expenses of the expedition to the Annimallies. Besides that I have about Ro 150 in cash by me, which I intend shall go a good ways. I take a bullock cart from Coimbatore to the Hills at about Ro 6, and I intend to walk from here to the R.R. to save Ro 13 that a horse would cost.</p>
<p>Since mailing my last letter to you I have been cooped up in the house all the week. Last week it rained for *six* days</p>
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<p>Ootacamund, Neilgherry Hills, Saturday June 18th 1877</p>
<p>Dear Prof. Ward:</p>
<p>Well, I am back from my trip to Muddi Mullai Forest that I expected would turn out so well, and I am sorry to say it was almost a failure. We had a hard time getting there, and when we did get there found the natives very unkind & disobliging.</p>
<p>My companion, Scott, soon turned out to be a regular dead beat in every respect, brought no money with him, and as it proved, precious little provisions, he and his man expecting to live on me, as they did the other time. He was too lazy to do anything, and so under the above circumstances I soon made it so hot for him that he picked up and came home, leaving me alone in my glory. We built a sort of [??] to live in of nights, as we could not get even a roof to shelter us when it rained from the miserable natives, and there were no Europeans in the country. Well, every day I took a native & went out hunting, and killed 2 gaur and 1 [male] Rusa Aristotelus. Took a skin & skel of the former, skin of latter. It rained *every* day I believe, and it was a *dead drag* right along. I got on good terms with the natives at last</p>
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<p>and then they assisted me a little more. I had just my Madras servant with me only. I got 1 Cervulus Aureus. [male] skin, 1 Rusa Aristotelus, [male] skin. 2 Gavatus Gaurus, [male], 1 skin, 1 skel. 3 Presbytis priamus, 1 skin, 2 skels. 3 Sciurus Malabaricus, skins and 1 Pteroniys petaurista, skin. It was an unhealthy place, and the natives warned us to get out. Though not at all satisfied I prepared to get out-- after a stay of 13 days-- and while we were packing our things the fever caught me. I tried my best to fight it off but the way it took the life out of me from the first was something fearful.</p>
<p>Well, by desperate work my servant & I reached Ooty at the end of the 2nd day, the subscriber feeling more dead than alive. But we left the bullock cart behind 12 miles., at the foot of the Ghant to get on as fast as possible. As soon as we arrived my servant dropped down, also sick with fever. I came up the Ghant on a gentleman's horse. Capt Campbell came along, found me lying loosely at the roadside with no way to get on, so he kindly dismounted & put me on his horse,</p>
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<p>and so brought me to my hotel. Then I had a Dr., and in three days he told me the fever was gone from me, for good and all. This morning I started out regularly for business, but am very weak & light headed. I never was so fearfully weakened in so short a time. The fever itself did not amount to anything, it was the weakness. Yesterday my servant prayed me in the name of my God, to send him home to Madras, or else he would die of the fever here. This morning he came at me again, and when I gave him his R.R. fare and told him to git out lively, the heathen actually went down on his marrow-bones to thank me.</p>
<p>Well, the man with the cart & our things was delayed on the road, got sick, and the evening of the 4th day from the time we left him he fetched up here, nearly dead with *Cholera*. The load had been rained on and soaking wet nearly all that time, and the big Gaur skin-- that was killed only 2 days before we started home-- was totally ruined. Before starting I dosed it heavily with salt & alum, and it was in beautiful condition, but the steady wetting it got ruined it.</p>
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<p>If I had been well, it would have been saved, that's *certain*. I regret it very much, but could not have helped it, to have saved my own skin. The rest are saved in good order, having been dry before starting. The skin with the hair all coming off I have sold to a tanner here, together with another skin from a young [female] gaur too young for either skin or skel. (I kept the skulls of both).</p>
<p>I had planned a return trip to Muddi Mullai Forest especially for Elephants, immediately after this, but the fever has spoiled it all, and the Dr. tells me I must not go back there. While hunting there I one day saw *2 herds of elephants*, and stalked an old tusker to within *thirty feet*. There were 2 [male], 3 [female], adult, and 2 young ones in the herd. I at one time was within fifteen yards of the entire herd., the elephants feeding quietly in a semicircle round me. Oh! What a temptation! What an *aggravation*! I had no license to kill an elephant, and the fine is Ro 250 for each one. How *easily* I could</p>
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<p>have put a couple of big balls into one of those broad foreheads. I stalked that old *tusker* six or eight times with perfect success, to within 8 or 10 yards, I could *easily* have gone up & caught hold his tail. Well, I planned to go back there & bring back his skeleton and one other so cheaply that you would be astonished. But alas! for us both, the fever caught me. The Dr. said it was fortunate for me my constitution is so good, or I would not get rid of it for a long time. I took *every care* of myself down there that I could think of, & felt *jolly* until the fever came. It was the awful water, of which I *had* to drink some.</p>
<p>Well, I don't know how you feel about it Prof, but I'm pretty nigh disheartened over the last months operations and expenses. I enclose my expense a/c for May, and the total is simply terrific, especially since there is nothing to show for it. I feel like I ought to explain something, but I don't know what. I've been as economical as I know *how* to be without going to extremes, and I've been hard at work all the time. Those two trips off hunting both disappointed me, and yet I</p>
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<p>am told I did *very well* on this last one. Well now the question is, *what next*? I have a letter from Theobald, who is in the Annamallies. He says come to him, that his locality is the best in all Southern India for game, i.e. for a collector. Kindly offers me every assistance, & says he will promise to get permission for me to shoot 2 elephants in the adjoining Rajalis territory, as he *knows* the Madras Gov't will not give me permission to shoot elephants in the Gov't Forests. *But*, he says I will run the risk of catching the jungle fever if I go now. Now if the fever were out of the question my mind would be made up in ten minutes as to "what next." I have consulted my physician on the subject-- who is appointed here by Gov't, & draws Ro 2000 per month salary-- and he says "You must not go into any of the low forests now. The Annamallies are feverish just now, but in three weeks, or a month they will not be, owing to the Monsoon. I think you can go down there in safety in three weeks or a month." That's the Dr. on it.</p>
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<p>He says I had better stick to the hills like other people for at least 3 wks more, as its at its hottest on the plains below. Now, I will write again to Theobald, and ask him if it is true that there is no (or little) fever there a month from this date. It is curious but there are times when the deadliest forests are clear of fever for a few months at a time. [Climate?] changes.</p>
<p>I am *very* anxious to go to the Annamallies, mainly because I have failed here, because it costs almost nothing to go there from the Coimbatore; because Theobald says it is the best place; and that I can do my work there cheaper than anywhere else; and especially do I want to go there to get out 2 elephant skeletons for you *cheap*. I *know* that if I went & kept my health I could bring out 2 skels at figures that would surprise you. I should make them a specialty & care little if I got nothing else. I feel it is my *duty* to get you those skels, myself, and not leave it for some one ot do here after at a high profit on you. How would you like to have *2* at Madras for £30-- one a tusker? Well, I could do just that provided I kept my health. Is it not worth the trial? Your letter</p>
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<p>saying the Maley skeleton cost £50 makes me feverish to try my hand at them. From studying the ground I am sure it will be vastly easier to get at them here than in Ceylon. Well, we will see. In the meantime I will stop here, and busy myself with Black Monkeys, Porcupines, Ribfaced Deer, Jackal, &c &c. I *must* keep to the hills for a time, and will try to make good use of it. Am now sending out native hunters all over the hills, and they are sure to keep me supplied with work when they get fairly started.</p>
<p>Don't talk of Singapore yet. I have my hands full to work out of this part of India without making a total failure of it. But I will do it if I can get elephants in the Annamallies. But I know I will not be able to reach Singapore "with several $100", bad luck to me.</p>
<p>Well, we will see. Another letter from Theobald may cause me to throw up the sponge & go to Ceylon right off.</p>
<p>I will leave a correspondence for you here.-- Mr. G. A. R. Dawson, Naturalist & Taxidermist, who says he can send you anything. But I'll tell you all about him in my next.</p>
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<p>I have your letter written from Moville. Am always eagerly anxious for letters from you, for each letter never fails to settle some important points in my mind. For instance, you said "You *may* be able to get Elephants on the Neilgherries," also "You are now in the Neilgherries"-- which convinces me that I did right in coming here &c &c.</p>
<p>In my last letter I wrote about the matter of my writing too much. It occurs to me now that I may have put it too strong, as I wrote about as I felt. But you must remember that according to the terms of our agreement I am running a great risk in this enterprise as well as yourself. If I get badly sick it is simply my ruination financially, even supposing I get well in the course of time. A very little sickness would knock my years work into nothing or even less. This time I lost four days from my work, and will count off four Sundays on which I worked against it, which I think is fair. I would never leave counted the Sundays except for that.</p>
<p>[Crossed off: I enclose a letter from Don Alfredo Dally Costa.]</p>
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<p>Thanks for the nice photo of the Mammoth. it is very interesting. I will make up all my notes in shape & send you soon.</p>
<p>This letter has spun out to great length, but I can't talk sensibly and condense much. I believe I wrote you to please pay Mr. Lucas $25 plus interest for me.</p>
<p>With best wishes for the success of the Establishment I remain</p>
<p>Yours very sincerely</p>
<p>Wm T. Hornaday</p>
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Melissa Mead
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Ward Project Team
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Memoranda of an Agreement Between Henry A. Ward and Wm T. Hornaday. Oct. 1876<br />It is hereby agreed that Wm T. Hornaday shall travel from Rochester, N.Y. to<br />Europe, Africa, India, Eastern Archipelago, China, Japan, Australia and<br />Sandwich Islands, one, more or all, and home for the purpose of making<br />natural history collections and obtaining information in the interest of<br />Prof Henry A. Ward or Wards Nat'l Science Establishment). Mr H. agrees to<br />visit all the localities that may be designated by Prof. W. unless<br />subsequent developments render it decidedly unadvisable, when it shall be<br />proper for Mr H. to use his best judgment. In all cases where Prof. W's<br />directions can be obtained they shall be followed, otherwise Mr H. is to<br />exercise his best judgment according to circumstances and act accordingly.<br />Mr Hornaday is to collect such natural history material, and in such<br />quantities and conditions as may be directed by Prof. Ward from time to<br />time, as far as is at all consistent with the time and means at command. Mr<br />H. agrees to give his entire time and attention to the matter of collecting,<br />with the exception of such as may be occupied at odd times in the writing of<br />notes, letters, journals, &c and matters of like character. But it is<br />hereby understood that such matters of private interest shall in no case be<br />allowed to interfere with the regular work of the expedition. Prof. War<br />agrees to pay the entire travelling expenses of Mr H. from the time of his<br />leaving Rochester until his return to the same, and to defray all necessary<br />expenses of the expedition. He further promises that, after Mr H. shall have<br />reached Ceylon he shall receive the sum of Eight Hundred ($800) in American<br />currency per year for his services over and above his travelling expenses. A<br />year shall be considered 365 days which allows Mr H. the usual Sunday to<br />himself. This salary is to be continued from the time Ceylon is reached<br />until Mr H. shall finally leave Australia, or some other point for home<br />direct, and in case after thus leaving, a stop for collecting be made at any<br />point by the way, the salary is to be renewed & continued during such<br />collecting. The salary of Mr Hornaday is to be paid tri-monthly to his<br />financial agent, Mr Benn Autere, or to such other party as Mr H. may<br />subsequently designate.
Prof. Ward further offers to furnish to Mr Hornaday such<br />articles of clothing as shall be peculiarly necessary to the matter of<br />hunting and working in the unusual climates and localities visited, but<br />beyond this Mr H. pays his own clothing expenses. All the natural history<br />collections of the trip are to belong to Prof. Ward. All information<br />obtained is for him also, i.e. such information as pertains especially to<br />his business and aims, and Mr H. promises to jealously guard and reserve all<br />information regarding correspondents, localities, &c. by which others<br />might be enabled to take advantage to the detriment of Prof. Wards interest.<br />Mr H. agrees to not revisit the same localities for the purpose of<br />collecting unless it be for his own Museum (in which case Prof. W. shall<br />have the option
of taking a half interest in the trip & collections.) or if in the interest<br />of other parties it shall be with the full and free consent of Prof Ward.<br />Prof Ward will offer no objection to Mr Hornaday in case the latter should<br />see fit to publish an account of his travels and observations on his return.<br />Should Mr H. be incapacitated by sickness or accident, the time thus lost<br />shall be either made up or deducted, but his expenses shall be continued as<br />if well, and on the same basis, he -(Mr H.) bearing all extraordinary<br />expenses involved by such sickness or accident. Should serious or permanent<br />sickness or accident imperatively require Mr Hornaday's abandonment of the<br />expedition and return to America, he shall himself bear 1/2 of the expenses<br />of said return provided that the same shall occur within one year of his<br />arrival at Ceylon, or 1/4 of said expenses in the event that the same shall<br />occur during the second year after his arrival at Ceylon, and if after the<br />second year as above stated, Mr H. shall bear such expenses as will be<br />incurred over and above the ordinary travelling expenses by reason of such<br />sickness. It is agreed that the time Mr H. shall spend in collecting shall<br />in no case exceed two years (i.e. from the date of his reaching Ceylon until<br />the day of his definite departure for home). Prof Ward agrees to keep Mr H.<br />so supplied with funds that the movements of the latter will never be<br />delayed or embarrassed by a deficiency.
Hornaday W. T. + Ward H. A. Mem. of Agreement Oct. 76. Mr Hornaday promises<br />to be strictly economical in matters of time and money, to keep accounts of<br />all expenditures, and to use his best judgment and put forth his best<br />efforts always in the interest of the expedition. He will send to Prof Ward<br />monthly returns of expenditures incurred and collections made. [signatures]<br />Henry A. Ward Wm T. Hornaday.
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<p>Memoranda of an Agreement Between Henry A. Ward and Wm T. Hornaday.</p>
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<pre> It is hereby agreed that Wm T. Hornaday shall travel from Rochester, N.Y. to Europe, Africa, India, Eastern Archipelago, China, Japan, Australia and Sandwich Islands, one, more or all, and home for the purpose of making natural history collections and obtaining information in the interest of Prof Henry A. Ward or Wards Nat'l Science Establishment). Mr H. agrees to visit all the localities that may be designated by Prof. W. unless subsequent developments render it decidedly unadvisable, when it shall be proper for Mr H. to use his best judgment. In all cases where Prof. W's directions can be obtained they shall be followed, otherwise Mr H. is to exercise his best judgment according to circumstances and act accordingly.
Mr Hornaday is to collect such natural history material, and in such quantities and conditions as may be directed by Prof. Ward from time to time, as far as is at all consistent with the time and means at command. Mr H. agrees to give his entire time and attention to the matter of collecting, with the exception of such as may be occupied at odd times in the writing of notes, letters, journals, &c and matters of like character. But it is hereby understood that such matters of private interest shall in no case be allowed to interfere with the regular work of the expedition.
Prof. War agrees to pay the entire travelling expenses of Mr H. from the time of his leaving Rochester until his return to the same, and to defray all necessary expenses of the expedition. He further promises that, after Mr H. shall have reached
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<p>Ceylon he shall receive the sum of Eight Hundred ($800) in American currency per year for his services over and above his travelling expenses. A year shall be considered 365 days which allows Mr H. the usual Sunday to himself. This salary is to be continued from the time Ceylon is reached until Mr H. shall finally leave Australia, or some other point for home direct, and in case after thus leaving, a stop for collecting be made at any point by the way, the salary is to be renewed & continued during such collecting. The salary of Mr Hornaday is to be paid tri-monthly to his financial agent, Mr Benn Autere, or to such other party as Mr H. may subsequently designate.</p>
<pre> Prof. Ward further offers to furnish to Mr Hornaday such articles of clothing as shall be peculiarly necessary to the matter of hunting and working in the unusual climates and localities visited, but beyond this Mr H. pays his own clothing expenses.
All the natural history collections of the trip are to belong to Prof. Ward. All information obtained is for him also, i.e. such information as pertains especially to his business and aims, and Mr H. promises to jealously guard and reserve all information regarding correspondents, localities, &c. by which others might be enabled to take advantage to the detriment of Prof. Wards interest. Mr H. agrees to not revisit the same localities for the purpose of collecting unless it be for his own Museum (in which case Prof. W. shall have the option
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<p>of taking a half interest in the trip & collections.) or in the interest of other parties it shall be with the full and free consent of Prof Ward.</p>
<pre> Prof Ward will offer no objection to Mr Hornaday in case the latter should see fit to publish an account of his travels and observations on his return.
Should Mr H. be incapacitated by sickness or accident, the time thus lost shall be either made up or deducted, but his expenses shall be continued as if well, and on the same basis, he -(Mr H.) bearing all extraordinary expenses involved by such sickness or accident.
Should serious or permanent sickness or accident imperatively require Mr Hornaday's abandonment of the expedition and return to America, he shall himself bear 1/2 of the expenses of said return provided that the same shall occur within one year of his arrival at Ceylon, or 1/4 of said expenses in the event that the same shall occur during the second year after his arrival at Ceylon, and if after the second year as above stated, Mr H. shall bear such expenses as will be incurred over and above the ordinary travelling expenses by reason of such sickness.
It is agreed that the time Mr H. shall spend in collecting shall in no case exceed two years (i.e. from the date of his reaching Ceylon until the day of his definite departure for home). Prof Ward agrees to keep Mr H. so supplied with funds that the movements of the latter will never be delayed or embarrassed by a deficiency.
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<p>Hornaday W. T. + Ward H. A. Mem. of Agreement Oct. 76.</p>
<pre> Mr Hornaday promises to be strictly economical in matters of time and money, to keep accounts of all expenditures, and to use his best judgment and put forth his best efforts always in the interest of the expedition. He will send to Prof Ward monthly returns of expenditures incurred and collections made.
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<p>[signatures] Henry A. Ward Wm T. Hornaday.</p>
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Memoranda of an Agreement Between Henry A. Ward and Wm T. Hornaday. Oct. 1876
It is hereby agreed that Wm T. Hornaday shall travel from Rochester, N.Y. to
Europe, Africa, India, Eastern Archipelago, China, Japan, Australia and
Sandwich Islands, one, more or all, and home for the purpose of making
natural history collections and obtaining information in the interest of
Prof Henry A. Ward or Wards Nat'l Science Establishment). Mr H. agrees to
visit all the localities that may be designated by Prof. W. unless
subsequent developments render it decidedly unadvisable, when it shall be
proper for Mr H. to use his best judgment. In all cases where Prof. W's
directions can be obtained they shall be followed, otherwise Mr H. is to
exercise his best judgment according to circumstances and act accordingly.
Mr Hornaday is to collect such natural history material, and in such
quantities and conditions as may be directed by Prof. Ward from time to
time, as far as is at all consistent with the time and means at command. Mr
H. agrees to give his entire time and attention to the matter of collecting,
with the exception of such as may be occupied at odd times in the writing of
notes, letters, journals, &c and matters of like character. But it is
hereby understood that such matters of private interest shall in no case be
allowed to interfere with the regular work of the expedition. Prof. War
agrees to pay the entire travelling expenses of Mr H. from the time of his
leaving Rochester until his return to the same, and to defray all necessary
expenses of the expedition. He further promises that, after Mr H. shall have
reached Ceylon he shall receive the sum of Eight Hundred ($800) in American
currency per year for his services over and above his travelling expenses. A
year shall be considered 365 days which allows Mr H. the usual Sunday to
himself. This salary is to be continued from the time Ceylon is reached
until Mr H. shall finally leave Australia, or some other point for home
direct, and in case after thus leaving, a stop for collecting be made at any
point by the way, the salary is to be renewed & continued during such
collecting. The salary of Mr Hornaday is to be paid tri-monthly to his
financial agent, Mr Benn Autere, or to such other party as Mr H. may
subsequently designate.
Prof. Ward further offers to furnish to Mr Hornaday such
articles of clothing as shall be peculiarly necessary to the matter of
hunting and working in the unusual climates and localities visited, but
beyond this Mr H. pays his own clothing expenses. All the natural history
collections of the trip are to belong to Prof. Ward. All information
obtained is for him also, i.e. such information as pertains especially to
his business and aims, and Mr H. promises to jealously guard and reserve all
information regarding correspondents, localities, &c. by which others
might be enabled to take advantage to the detriment of Prof. Wards interest.
Mr H. agrees to not revisit the same localities for the purpose of
collecting unless it be for his own Museum (in which case Prof. W. shall
have the option
of taking a half interest in the trip & collections.) or if in the interest
of other parties it shall be with the full and free consent of Prof Ward.
Prof Ward will offer no objection to Mr Hornaday in case the latter should
see fit to publish an account of his travels and observations on his return.
Should Mr H. be incapacitated by sickness or accident, the time thus lost
shall be either made up or deducted, but his expenses shall be continued as
if well, and on the same basis, he -(Mr H.) bearing all extraordinary
expenses involved by such sickness or accident. Should serious or permanent
sickness or accident imperatively require Mr Hornaday's abandonment of the
expedition and return to America, he shall himself bear 1/2 of the expenses
of said return provided that the same shall occur within one year of his
arrival at Ceylon, or 1/4 of said expenses in the event that the same shall
occur during the second year after his arrival at Ceylon, and if after the
second year as above stated, Mr H. shall bear such expenses as will be
incurred over and above the ordinary travelling expenses by reason of such
sickness. It is agreed that the time Mr H. shall spend in collecting shall
in no case exceed two years (i.e. from the date of his reaching Ceylon until
the day of his definite departure for home). Prof Ward agrees to keep Mr H.
so supplied with funds that the movements of the latter will never be
delayed or embarrassed by a deficiency.
Hornaday W. T. + Ward H. A. Mem. of Agreement Oct. 76. Mr Hornaday promises
to be strictly economical in matters of time and money, to keep accounts of
all expenditures, and to use his best judgment and put forth his best
efforts always in the interest of the expedition. He will send to Prof Ward
monthly returns of expenditures incurred and collections made. [signatures]
Henry A. Ward Wm T. Hornaday.
Hornaday, William T.
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