Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-01-14)

we print for him </u at once > a lot of letter paper with a heading which announced, "Exhibition to be held in Armory Hall. Dec 4 - 16th ". </u Studer> I protested against that vigorously, but he simply </u would have it >. Who said to me in answer to my protestations against intimating what was not true. "I tell you H. there is always ^got to be^ a </u great deal of humbug > about anything of this kind." I have two witnesses to prove that it was </u Studer >. And more than that, he tried his level best to persuade Lucas and I to meet in the Museum, & then announce in the papers that a </u meeting of the Society > </s of > had been held in Washing- ton. &e. We compromised matters by saying the Executive Committee met, but we knew it was not the square thing exactly, & our only excuse was the pressure for </u time.>. Never before meeting Studer have I ever </u consented > that there should be anything like humbug about the Society, and had I stood out for </u my > principles there would not have been this time. Studer knew </u all about > the Armory Hall matter. I told him that you had proposed to get Dr Holders assistance and procure room for a free show. Then Studer declared that we must assume it had been offered us, & by that means we would be more certain of getting it. We let him engineer </u the whole thing. > except for one or two checks we put on.. and he had everything his own way except </s not > in the