Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1878-08-01)

are somewhat irregular.

    The shipping of the boxes is in abeyance

as the agts of the Glamis Castle say she is full, but Mr Campbell is trying to get the shipment squeezed in anyhow. If the G. C. cannot take it, then M. D. & Co. will alter the Consular Invoice and send the goods in their next vessel which touches here. At all events the boxes will go in a few days, though not quite so promptly as I wrote you in my last letter. M. D. & Co. have my letter to Tice & Lynch open, and when it is settled will enclose bill of lading, ins. policy & the Consular Invoice in good shape. We have insured the shipment for $1000. against total loss of part or all.

    Why old Malay man who hunts up

new corals, shells &e for me, brought me yesterday a dozen </u big > chunks of red coral, just arrived by boat, </s and > but it was all so very imperfect, so dingy, broken and ill shaped that I took none of it atall.

    If you send any money, be sure to

send it either in care of Martin, Dyce, & Co. or else in letters addressed to them. Or if you like, you might as well make out drafts in their favor. It was Prof Steere, of Ann Arbor, Mich whom Mr Campbell assisted when no one else in Singapore would let him have a dollar, so Maj. Studer says. The </s J > Major says Mr Campbell is one of the noblest men in Singapore, a fine man every way, and