Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-12-02)

to get to Australia when I had my trunks and boxes packed and was waiting for the Australian steamer, and a draft for £100. by this English mail. The absurd light in which you love to view this cause and manner of my return from Singapore and your bitter burning commends of last spring have taken away all this pleasure I should otherwise have felt in discharging the debt of gratitude I have long owed you, and quite robbed me of all satisfaction I would otherwise leave felt in speaking well and often of your Establishment. And this came just when I was getting into a position to serve you. I shall still endeavor to repay you. sooner or later, for what I owe you aside from our financial relatives. For all that you have ever done for me for which you have as yet had no equivalent. If I do not succeed in repaying it to you, it will go to your children. I owe you still a debt of gratitude which I shall conscientiously repay, but now it will be as a duty rather than this pleasure it would have been but for your letters of last spring