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

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This letter is a sort of anchor to windward you know, and besides, I may find it profitable to invest it in orangs. If I telegraph you "Plenty orangs " or "Grand success" then go on and rob the Savings Bank and send me the proceeds. I shall not telegraph you for less than six </u big > orangs, or ten big and little ones. Remember there is a </u small kind > there. The proboscis monkeys we are </u sure > of & you may depend I shall get a big lot, skins skeletons & skulls. </u May > spend a </u month > after them alone. So now lookout. More soon.

                            ? W. T. H.

[upside down - </s suegorw Staudy Suebosoad >

    Send money to Martin Dyce & Co. They expect

it to reach them while I am in Borneo.