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

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neglect, and so far as I can judge we are just as far from agreeing as we were three weeks ago. I con- sider that I do not deserve any such treatment as I have just received at your hands. If my previous letter was strongly worded it was only so because yours goaded me past all endurance. My mind has not changed in the least since that letter was penned, and to judge by your last you hold the same views now as when you set out. You prefer to make apologies for </u my > strong language rather than for your own, and as usual all the blame is laid at my door. I have no further explanations or arguments to offer in the matter, nor do I expect you will ever be convinced that I am not the only party to blame, so this part of the subject may as well be forever dropped, for all that I can see to the contrary. For my part I have the inward satisfaction of </u knowing > that I acted on the advice of older heads than mine who were on the spot and knew al the circumstances and of </u believing > that I did the best that any man in my place could have done. I think it will be quite useless for us to discuss the matter any farther, either before or after we meet, for evidently our minds are both made up.

    I reason why I thought your welcome home to me

would be insincere is because the following sentence in your letter of April 23rd: "Now I suppose that the only way is to come home. But it is </u too bad >. "(The underscoring is your own.) To me that has not the ring of a sincerely hearty welcome. How does it seem to you by this time ?

    Words fail me utterly when I attempt to tell you

how </s now > deeply. I deplore this </s most > unfortunate and mal apropos difference of opinion, for it came just