Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-04-12)

are we are doing a philanthropic work which will bear </u good fruit >, and in our day, too. You are now experiencing just the anxiety and worry over the Society which I have continually, almost, ever since its organization. I regard what I have done for it as the best work of my life, and only regret that I am not able to do ten times as much. I think the end justifies the means, and if we are not </s able > willing to sacrifice something in a good cause we ought to be. I am sorry it is bearing so </u heavily > upon you just now, but I assure you it is also a strain on all who are going to make large exhibits. It will be years before we have another so large an Exhibition, even if we ever do, & therefore I feel like straining every nerve to make this a telling success. I think that after this we can afford to wait a few years for </u results >, don't you?

    Of course your specimens shall all be grouped

together in the Hall, and the finer show they make the better I shall be pleased. We have entered your bird skins all in the Honorary Class, and the others are entered in their respective Sections as "Exhibited by Ward's Nat. Sci. Est." & If this is not as you wish, change it, but it was what we supposed you would like.

    Better not send the male moose if it requires a

flat car. We have left it out.

    We have secured no more subscriptions, but I am

sure we will be able to get along </s without more than > ^with about^ $100. more than Mr Ca's $500. We are determined to