Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1882-05-27)

</s to > If you wouldn't like to have Zuni, and why they couldn't make another </s mo > cast of it for you, or sell you the moulds make. If you wanted it I think they would willingly trade it to you for that tiger skin from Theobald. Prof. Goode would be glad to get that if they have any - thing which you would </u accept > in exchange for it. (If the museum had the money to buy with I think they would buy the "Fight in the Tree Tops".) It occurs to me that if you had a cast of Zuni you might be able to sell it at a good figure in Boston, for you know the Bostonians tumbled to Cushing and his Zuni Indians and raised a lot of money to pay the expense of bringing the Indians on here. If you should want Zuni, or any of these pueblos, now is the time to get them.

    Now about Theobald's matter. Of course I will be glad

to send Theobald the $116. I have to send him a box of things at once. In addition to this amt. you will owe T. for a very large mountable skin of male tiger, in excellent condition, but without bones. (The </u skull> must accompany the skin if you trade it to us.) The skin was made last year by Theobald for me to mount into a prize piece for our Exhibition but came too late, and owing to your absence I could do nothing to it or with it. I suppose you will want to allow him $50. or so for it. It is with the other skins up in the L. M. Attic. Look at it. Theobald paid all freight on his boxes to N.Y. and from there I paid $7.25 (or </u about > that in cents.)

    The  tiger and  leopard skins we were to work up and

sell and divide the expenses and profits. I have just sold one of these skins rec'd from you by Ex. for $35.00 I sold one to Webster for $50. but the hair all came