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

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.

    And so the matter stands. And I

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