Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1880-07-17)
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my poor little affairs. For once
you have succeeded in scaring me
so thoroughly that I would fain
look elsewhere for a situation to step
into next year, and the oftener I
see Lee Ward around the shops the
more I feel the urgent necessity of
hunting a hole to stick my head
into, and doing it at once too.
In any case I would not want
to leave the Establishment this year
unless fired out, but with matters
as they are with me, with a wife,
and the lord only knows what else
in prospect, it behooves me to
look out well for the future. It
would be ruination for me to be
U suddenly thrown out of employment
with no other situation secured, and
if you do not wish to see this occur,
you must help me now to secure
a position for the future. Your cousin
threatens to make great changes, and
it is pretty certain that when the
lightning does strike it will lay
me out among ^in^ the first set of
corpses.
With a letter from you and