Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1881-08-19)

ybg Ward's Natural Science Establishment, No. 2 College Avenue, (opposite University.) </em Rochester N. Y., Aug 19th 1881

                                   Nov 27

Dear Prof Ward;

    At last I have the pleasure of being able to

acknowledge the receipt of a letter from you. I do not think it at all strange that you have not heard from me direct. In the first place I noticed that you never asked me to write </s now > you, and by your writing about fifty letters to those immediately around me and never a line to me I came to conclude you did not care whether you heard from me or not ? As I told you in a letter a month ago Messrs Baker, Lucas, Howell, Ward et al, are very careful to keep me from knowing anything about you or what you are doing save as I now & then extract a passing remark from some of them. When I get a letter from one abroad who is known to a friend here my first impulse is to show it at once, a habit I may say I acquired from you.. Now I know that no one about here is more interested in your Australian travels than I, because I came so near going there myself, and for these fellows, who knew this, to be so darned hoggish about your letters and ^all^ particulars about you, and for you to write again & again to everybody else but me, why it don't suit me worth a cent. That is the whole story. Now I can go ahead with my letter.

    Undoubtedly I am to blame for not sending you proof -