Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-01-31)

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