Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-02-07)

ybg Singapore. Feb 7th 1879. Dear Prof. Ward:

    t lastyour remittance of Dec 17th

(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