Transcribe Evans, Mary. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1879-10-20)

-pliances more imperatively needed, and when we have a suitably arranged hall and can afford shelves, may as- -pire to ^have^ your College series of ^casts of^ fossils like that placed in the Natural History Building of Mt. Holyoke Semi -nary, the cost of which ^series^ is $1000. Some other things must be done before we can move in this direction, but we shall not cease to look towards it and it was with this is mind that I wrote for the catalogue of your casts. Please consider us as possible buyers in a future, not very remote. We are a Mt. Holyoke School, and wish to be liberally supplied with what each department needs, and we are also straightened no means as such schools are likely to be.

  I wish to apologize for not writing

immediately upon my return, though you were, then, about leaving Pitts- burgh. I was called away from Painesville almost at once, again and am only now able to attend to letters. Yours truly Miss Mary Evans. [ybg]