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

declares I could not be in better hands. I'm very glad I gave Mr Campbell the crocodile skin, only I wish I had given him a bigger one, that's all.

    Now I must close. May add a P. S.

before posting. Major Studer is going to give me a good lift in Town, and he de- flares that the State of Iowa </u must > buy the H. Collection. He is thick with Clark- son the editor of the Down State Register., and if you watch the files of that paper after the receipt of this you may perhaps see some mention of your illustrious collector and agent, and Ward's Nat. Sci. Establishment.

  Major S is going to work all the wires he

can to favor my designs on the state of Iowa. When he was in Des Moines last winter they proposed to run him for Congress, but like Col. Sellers, he declined the honor. With out my knowing </s this > ^it^, the Major wrote up to Capt Douglas at Klang, thanking him for his courtesy to me.He keeps a </s short > ^faithful^ record of all the good and ill turns that are done to Americans out here, and endeavors to give measure for measure both ways. I tell you Prof. the state of Iowa will by the H. Collection. Will you wake it up?

    I am reconciling myself to the idea of

going home after Borneo, but for the love of heaven, let me go via San Francisco at all events, if not by Australia as well. Yours very Sincerely, Wm. T. Hornaday. Aug. '78