Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-04-23)

nwh [page 1] Society of American Taxidermists FOR THE ADVANCEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ART Office of the Executive Committee. Washington, D. C. Apr 23 1883</e U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM " 25 Dear Professor:

       Your telegram of Saturday com-

pletely paralyzed us. How could you have allowed the catalogue to all finished, bound & shipped without ever sending us a page of proof? We had hosts of additions, corrections & substitutions to make which if sent to anyone else would have driven them crazy. And there ^were^ are $35. worth of advertisements to have gone in & been paid for in cash. Gone to the d----l now. And our plate of general view for frontispiece, for which we are to pay $30 this week - useless. Only two Judges names, for when we sent copy we didn't know who the other would be. The package comes here, where it should have gone to New York. I never of anyone but ourselves reading the proof except at the last moment when it seemed the proof would never come. Of course you took the trouble to do it in all kindness, to save us trouble, but we might to have been told before the copies were struck off.

       I send herein P. O. O. for $50. which will