Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-08-10)

"was going to take him till Fall to get that hair stuck on" discour- aged him a good deal, and I have had to pat him on the back ever since to keep him up to the mark.

    If you still want that small orang

stuffed, send us a telegram to that effect, & Mr Bailey or Marten's or </u Webster > will have to do it. My reason for saying "If you still want" it done, is because you said, "Have Wm stick that hair on first, so that if there is not time to spare the young one can be left out. " It will keep us both </u busy > till Friday to get the group fully done, for there are </u so many > little things to be done one after another before all, 4 specimens are </u perfect >,

    Brooks (of the </u Union >) goes away for

2 weeks next Saturday, & he is very anxious to see the orangs before he goes. I told him that I < /u thought > you would want all the reporters to come up the same day so that there would be so unpleasantness in any quarter. Of course that cannot be until you are here. But Brooks is a master hand (for a reporter) at writing up such a thing, & very anxious to do