Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1881-12-25)

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He had pictures taken of the flamingo's, my monkey which
took the prize & Webster's tern (Frank Ward's); An owl of
Percy Aldrich's; Lucas' group of hawks; a deer head, an
antelope head, and dog head buy the undersigned, and also
my ibis & alligator; Webster's peacock screen, two owls, golden
eagle, Lagothrix, (from U. S. N. M.) two medallions, my 
& Wobblygang. Fraine's woodcock & young, & plovers ditto, same
of Bailley's frogs & 3 grotesque groups of C. W. Graham's. The
article is to appear, for the Century people have
already ordered it. It will be a bif boon for the S. A. T.
& no mistake, and if I have any hand in it the 
of the Society will not be forgotten. I intend that in
it a handsome acknowledgement shall be made of all the
valuable & costly assistance you have rendered us.
Beard is a good fellow & business to the back bone; a
Jolly good fellow & interested in our Society and
work. I wish he was more interested in that exhibition than
any other exhibition he ever saw of kind, He stayed
five days in Boston & all he would take for his
expenses was $20. ! He lives in New York you know. He gave
us no end of encouragement, enough to fully counterbalance
our dreadful $25 loss. He says that "if we only & keep right on as we have begun in two or three
years our fine work will command fancy prices, the
same as pictures & statues." He says he knows rich
turf men who would quickly give $500 to have a
favorite horse mounted as nearly perfect any dog
is, with all the muscles showing. before they offer
it they want to that they will get what they want.
He says we ought to put up a horse in trotting
action for the next Exhibition, and make all his muscles
show right out. I told him we are all (individually) too
poor to stand the expense, which would be heavy. He
says our prices are all too low, that such prices,

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He had pictures taken of the flamingo's, my monkey which took the prize & Webster's tern (Frank Ward's); An owl of Percy Aldrich's; Lucas' group of hawks; a deer head, an antelope head, and dog head buy the undersigned, and also my ibis & alligator; Webster's peacock screen, two owls, golden eagle, Lagothrix, (from U. S. N. M.) two medallions, my & Wobblygang. Fraine's woodcock & young, & plovers ditto, same of Bailley's frogs & 3 grotesque groups of C. W. Graham's. The article is to appear, for the Century people have already ordered it. It will be a bif boon for the S. A. T. & no mistake, and if I have any hand in it the of the Society will not be forgotten. I intend that in it a handsome acknowledgement shall be made of all the valuable & costly assistance you have rendered us. Beard is a good fellow & business to the back bone; a Jolly good fellow & interested in our Society and work. I wish he was more interested in that exhibition than any other exhibition he ever saw of kind, He stayed five days in Boston & all he would take for his expenses was $20. ! He lives in New York you know. He gave us no end of encouragement, enough to fully counterbalance our dreadful $25 loss. He says that "if we only & keep right on as we have begun in two or three years our fine work will command fancy prices, the same as pictures & statues." He says he knows rich turf men who would quickly give $500 to have a favorite horse mounted as nearly perfect any dog is, with all the muscles showing. before they offer it they want to that they will get what they want. He says we ought to put up a horse in trotting action for the next Exhibition, and make all his muscles show right out. I told him we are all (individually) too poor to stand the expense, which would be heavy. He says our prices are all too low, that such prices,