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

to send me any money by telegraph, and I have not enough on hand to either advance or retreat with:

    But I daresay I will know more

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.

    Well, I shall try to get on one way or

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.