Transcribe Steele, M. R. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-05-02)

                  Steele,
                 May '83
            Decorah, May 2d 1883.

Prof. H. A. Ward. ^June 16^

            Dear Sir.
                  Having ascertained by postal cards that you are not very far from Rochester, not in Australia or New Zealand, I shall write you a rambling letter, in which you may find something of interest, if nothing valuable to you as a scientist. Since you called on me in Canandaigua, in 1876, we have exchanged occasional letters, one of which you found time to write from a foreign post. Your last card was in answer to my inquiry from Newtonville, Mass., as to prices. You wrote ^me Jan. 14th^ that they were mainly ^about 1/3 less than^ those in your catalogue for 1876, which