Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-05-21)

ybg Battle Creek, Mich. May 21st 1879. Dear Prof. Ward:

    On my arrival here last Friday I found

your letter of May 12th , which was perused with much interest. Mine, which you returned I have also re-read with the most careful deliberation, and after finishing both I cannot see that our relative positions have altered from what they were when mine was penned. The situation may be summed up in a few words, about as follows: You started out by assuming that I had omitted Australia from </u choice > and that from choice I travelled "half way round the world collecting nothing." You claim to be "disappointed," - "ashamed to think of it after all the high expectation, &e." - "it is the last thing which you could have expected " and " it seems to you needless and un- wise to a degree almost criminal." You are "ashamed of it, and should think you [I] would be so, </u even if it had been a necessary course to pursue ! >You claim that I have injured you financially and </s des > have made a humiliating termination of it for myself ! </s You > On the other hand you justify Lee Ward for all he did - or rather all he did </u not > do, you justify yourself all through and wind up b finding fault with me because I did not settle down & live when I had got down to my last $100. - or in other words have deliberately ruined the expedition.

    I have endured a good deal first and last for

the sake of that Expedition, and I should not have mur- mured had you never written those two letters of April 20th & 23rd. But now ^you^ </s we > have added the last straw. I say again that you have added insult to injuries and