Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1881-09-18)

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let me have it. I have mounted the baby elephant for Cambridge, and it is a very nice little fellow. Said to be a better elephant than the large one. Visitors are invariably quite taken with its grave. demure appearance. May I have this to put into the exhibition as "Loaned by Prof. Henry A. Ward" before it is delivered to Cambridge? If it is delivered to them now, they will not lend it, for they refused last year, & say their rule is to never lend anything to be exhibited. It is very important to the Exhibition & the Advertisements that we have the baby elephant, (It is about 3 ft. high) and I hope you will be able to let me exhibit it.

    We have five </u good > men to elect members at

the next meeting, and the prospects of the Society were never so bright as now. The </u Bulletin > is doing a great deal for us.

  My dissatisfaction with my salary here, so far

as the Establishment is concerned, I assure you was only momentary, nothing more than an incidental remark in comparison with Mr Bailly & myself. As I have often said to you, I do not see how the Est. could afford to pay any taxidermist more than I now receive. I do not see how it is ever likely to do so, and that is just what worries me. Were I in your place I should pay no more than you do, as conditions are at present. I have </u never > claimed that the Establishment ever had any service, direct or indirect, from me which it did not pay for promptly. I do not consider that I have </u any > claim upon the Establishment for special favors, and, in my opinion, both Messrs Bailly & Lucas, </s et al. > have always been paid full value for everything they have ever done for you. I utterly refuse to entertain the idea that either