Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-07-05)

cast of our little 5 1/2 ft manatee to good account. for it </s is > was a perfect "daisy" in the flesh.

    I have found it an utter </u impossibility > to get

the Extermination of Mammals. With time enough I can get an interesting article out of it, but it cannot be done by main strength! I collected all the statistics I could - got just enough to see what a pity it would be to botch such a subject,

    As to the Guacharo Bird I am in doubt. I have

the whole thing, written out for the A. A. A. S. in 1876. but if it is published in the Bulletin I can't have it for the Companion, which will lose me $25!

    I enclose however in lieu of the above "Capybara

Hunting in the Orinoco" which may be useful, & again very not? If so take it with my blessing. My head is full of my serial story &</u the book > to such an extent I cannot </u think > on any subject the least bit scientific or connected with natural history. But I will not forget you & will send whatever else I can grind out fir to print.

    The elephant's foot may may go to Washington, but

you had better not send it until I first send you something for the Bulletin. I will try my best to do </u something > more, but just now I feel unusually barren & unfruitful of printable ideas. Yours faithfully as ever, W. L. Hornaday Address me care of Box 513, B. Creek. [ybg]