Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to the Ward, Henry A. (1878-09-28)

preserve the papers, as I shall want to file them.

    Would you not like to furnish a

$5,000 or $10,000 Collection to the S. D. A, College at Battle Creek, Mich ? I am trying to educate them up to the idea, and believe that if the thing is properly taken hold of it can be done. They want me to give them something and in order to get a hold upon their affections I have promised to do so. But ^we^ will </s will > talk that matter over when I get home.

    We have 36 Orangs now.

Yours faithfully, Wm T. Hornaday. P. S. Where is the A. A. A. S. going to meet next year, and when ? And tell me why we should not have a hand in that performance ? I have so many places to work out without loss of time that I </u can > am getting impatient to get home. I am at present laboring under the hallucination that if we lay our heads properly together we can make things hum, at least for a few minutes.

  But you are always skeptical about my

projects for some reason I could never understand. One thing is </u sure. > If that "H. Collection " business is well washed it will pan out in due season. We will simply </u make > it pan out. W. T. H.