Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-01-24)

[page 2] give it me, which I feel sure he will, ------ and, armed with these I will go with confidence. I will ask Mr Carnegie to place his the fund he advances in your hands, & will have a written memorandum all ready & signed stating the money advanced shall be repaid at the close of the Ex. from the receipts, or as much of it as the receipts will cover, pro rate to both parties.

       As you know well by this time I am sick

and tired of Studer, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to give him the grand bounce. Let him resign and -----, now. Since any where. If we get the money from Mr C. I would not have Studer have a finger in the pie for the world. If we can't get it, well, I doubt if Studer would pay a dollar out for freights, especially return freights! Suppose you let Studer sweat now for awhile. He wrote Lucas that unless he was "vested with full powers of the 1st prox." he would publicly resign (or withdraw, whichever it was) and the contemptible polt? compared the society to a bursted bank in that it had failed to meet its agreements with him. Think of that after the Astor House meeting. I think Studer dishonest, and therefore I would only conset to his continuance at the head of