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ybg
Rochester, N. Y. Dec. 25th 1881
 Feb. 28 '82
My dear Prof Ward:
 You must by this time have
received at least one or two of the five letters I have
sent you within the last six months. If not I shall have
to give up in despair, for I suppose this will follow the fate
of the rest. Mr Baker has just told me that at least two of
his letters never reached you. - all of which is discouraging.
Well, I will trust - to Clements hanging to this till you are in
reach of him. Your letter from Singapore came a
few days ago & its contents read with devouring interest.
It is delightful to get the news from all the fellows out
there at once. & to know that you have met my old
Straits Settlements acquaintances save poor Mr Campbell &
A. R. Houghton. So John Ah Kee comes once more to
the fore for Ward's Nat. Sci. Establishment! Am glad he
gave Major Studer such satisfaction. I regret to
say he was rather an indifferent hand at skinning and
skeletonizing, & he never skinned a in his life as far as I
know. But Syers will keep an eye on the other Chinaman.
 If out there spoke well of me it is more than
I had a right to expect from the fact that I have
neglected my former correspondents out there, and
have not written to any of them except Syers for more
than a year and a half! Well, I am glad they are
charitable. Am glad you went to Sarawak, for
I know you have enjoyed it very much. Wonder if yo
you saw Harold Everett, the artist-. & Rajah Brooke!
Who is a Resident of Sarawak Proper now in place of Crocker?
St John to be I know. Well really : your going over
all that ground is next ^to^ going over it again myself and
quite stirs me up. When you return I will have a thousand
questions to ask, and a to have answered.
 You certainly had wonderful luck in striking Spore
when the Zoological market was fairly glutted! Why
when I was there I could not get hold of even skin

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ybg Rochester, N. Y. Dec. 25th 1881

                           Feb. 28   '82

My dear Prof Ward:

      You </u surely > must by this time have

received at least one or two of the five letters I have sent you within the last six months. If not I shall have to give up in despair, for I suppose this will follow the fate of the rest. Mr Baker has just told me that at least two of his letters never reached you. - all of which is discouraging. Well, I will trust - to Clements hanging to this till you are in reach of him. Your letter from Singapore came a few days ago & its contents read with devouring interest. It is delightful to get the news from all the fellows out there at once. & to know that you have met my old Straits Settlements acquaintances save poor Mr Campbell & A. R. Houghton. So John Ah Kee comes once more to the fore for Ward's Nat. Sci. Establishment! Am glad he gave Major Studer such satisfaction. I regret to say he was rather an indifferent hand at skinning and skeletonizing, & he never skinned a in his life as far as I know. But Syers will keep an eye on the other Chinaman.

  If </u anybody > out there spoke well of me it is more than

I had a right to expect from the fact that I have neglected my former correspondents out there, and have not written to any of them except Syers for more than a year and a half! Well, I am glad they are charitable. Am glad you went to Sarawak, for I know you have enjoyed it very much. Wonder if yo you saw Harold Everett, the artist-. & Rajah Brooke! Who is a Resident of Sarawak Proper now in place of Crocker? St John to be I know. Well really : your going over all that ground is next ^to^ going over it again myself and quite stirs me up. When you return I will have a thousand questions to ask, and a to have answered.

  You certainly had wonderful luck in striking Spore

when the Zoological market was fairly glutted! Why when I was there I could not get hold of even skin