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

of mine (which I have not thrown away !) send it. on at my expense & oblige. Somehow or other my beloved old black-walnut iron-bound outfit chest which I took all around & which you afterwards gave me in full, is missing. Was not sent with the rest of my goods. </s If > It is incomprehensible now, but was in my attic at 33 Prince St when </u I > left. If you hear of it anywhere, ^please^ send by freight after I write again.

    When I get my pay next week I will send you the

$50.00 which you were so good as to lend Josephine. Am obliged to spend a good deal just now for some more carpets & furniture, </s for > or I would have sent it before. Wife tells me you gave her the embroidery ^$2.^ without money & without price. I really expected to pay for it. </u Muchos gracias. > It will hereafter be numbered with our household goods. </u Come and visit us .>We are almost settled now. Wife and baby are in excellent health. We expect Lucas tomorrow. - wish we were expecting you also.

     Thanks for the skin scraper. Enter the price on

the "requisition" which was sent you and return it which will be all that is necessary. Do it at once and it will be paid the first of June.

    Item. The Bureau of Ethnology has gotten out an elegant

Report (for 1879 & 80) which you ought to have. If you apply for it without letting all your "boys" know you may get a copy. You know they forestalled you on Elliotts Monograph of the Seal Islands. Those who had no use for it got it. and ^I^ had hard work to get a copy even after I came here.

    Kindest regards to Mr Ward, Mrs Ward, Henry & Alice,

and all others who care for us.

    Yours, for better or for worse.

Wm. T. Hornaday.