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

group if done properly. This group should be sold at once, and would advertise your stock of Orangs far and wide. It seems to me such a group would fetch a fancy price. And all this would also help the Book along to glory i.e. a tenth edition. Now is our time to make a regular stir, or it will be when I get home, and if we lose the opportunity we </s with > ^will^ both lose money, that's all ! I long to see you shake the skeletons of the </u Rajah > & the </u Maharajah > at all Europe & telling them they're both bigger than anything they've got.

    I do think it would be wise to quit

pretty soon now, while the Expedition is as well off as it is. As yet luck has been only </u for > us, and if we go </u too > far we must strike some bad luck and lose money. I offer this as my private Judgment, but at the same time stand ready for anything. If this is the success we have hoped for, we can scarcely hope to go farther & fare better. But judging from your previous letters I fully expect to have to return home from Singapore. Yours very sincerely. W. T. H.