Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1882-01-27)

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am going, & . I will not care. But at
present, you know how it is yourself. I believe I have
always guarded successfully all the important secrets
you have ever made known to me.
 Mr Webster is riding an article on </s in > ^the^ Wingless birds
of New Zealand - Apteryx, Dinonis, &e. and needs the
volume of Wallace's "geographical Distribution" which
tells the most about them. He cannot afford to buy
the book and wishes me to ask you if you would be
so kind as to send it to him by (registered of course)
if he will pay the postage ? He needs it as soon as
he can get ut. Could you have it done up for the
post in a book store, & let him pay the 15 cents it
would cost !
 The new year card you sent caused much amusement,
and I was chaffed unmercifully about the </s too > two eggs remaining in the nest ! Thanks for your
good wishes all. Our baby is a perfect jewel, handsome,
wholesome and as the day is long. I never saw
a more patient child, nor a more lively one for her
age. We have changed her name to Helen </u Ross, in re-
membrane of our pleasant English friends.
 Many thanks for your having troubled yourself to get
the piece of Chinese embroidery. I have described that
style of work about 57 times in the last two years &
my friends are the tip-toe of expectation. As soon as I
learn you are safe in Frisco, I will send you a $2. bill.
Am almost sorry it did not cost more. Had I known
for sure you were going to China I would have given you
$10. to invest for me.
 There, this is as usual too long. I hope you have
not had to come steerage with 600 Chinamen from Hong Kong
to Frisco. i have thought of you a hundred times during the last
two weeks, & in my mind have followed you everyday. I fear
you have had a cold, windy, rolling & generally disagreeable
passage. How was it ? What line did your steamer belong to ?
Yours faithfully & truly.
W. T. Hornaday

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      Mr Webster is riding an article on </s in > ^the^ Wingless birds

of New Zealand - Apteryx, Dinonis, &e. and needs the volume of Wallace's "geographical Distribution" which tells the most about them. He cannot afford to buy the book and wishes me to ask you if you would be so kind as to send it to him by (registered of course) if he will pay the postage ? He needs it as soon as he can get ut. Could you have it done up for the post in a book store, & let him pay the 15 cents it would cost !

  The new year card you sent caused much amusement,

and I was chaffed unmercifully about the </s too > two eggs remaining in the nest ! Thanks for your good wishes all. Our baby is a perfect jewel, handsome, wholesome and as the day is long. I never saw a more patient child, nor a more lively one for her age. We have changed her name to Helen </u Ross, in re- membrane of our pleasant English friends.

     Many thanks for your having troubled yourself to get

the piece of Chinese embroidery. I have described that style of work about 57 times in the last two years & my friends are the tip-toe of expectation. As soon as I learn you are safe in Frisco, I will send you a $2. bill. Am almost sorry it did not cost more. Had I known for sure you were going to China I would have given you $10. to invest for me.

    There, this is as usual too long. I hope you have

not had to come steerage with 600 Chinamen from Hong Kong to Frisco. i have thought of you a hundred times during the last two weeks, & in my mind have followed you everyday. I fear you have had a cold, windy, rolling & generally disagreeable passage. How was it ? What line did your steamer belong to ? Yours faithfully & truly. W. T. Hornaday