Transcribe Lucas, Fred A. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-02-13)

</u Lucas > Feb. '83

                           Washington DC. Feb 13 / 83.
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Dear Prof. Ward,

    Your's of the 11th with enclosure is

just at hand and I am greatly obliged. Will keep Mr Chase's letter a day in order to copy his comments. Barrows said he could almost </u smell > the Osteological Room. You </u shall > have the </u Am. Mus. > article for a look over at an early date even if I have to use dynamite to start my brains. But I have a dozen or so foolish pages already written and to-day received from Prof. Bickmore all the Amer. Mus. reports from which I hops to gather a few facts. Whatever I do I do not wish to get anything twisted or miss-stated. By the way if you wish to make Prof. Brickmore perfectly happy you can put in a cut of the arrangement of his lecture room. He will gladly furnish an unlimited number of photos to draw from. By the way what would Mr. Chase have said of Staebron's view? </u I > thought the basement of Miguets' pants a very artistic touch. Is Mr. Chase a "furriner" that he spells midelle and ditails? Perhaps Hornaday telegraphed you as he did me that "Carnegie presents five hundred dollars to the Society". I do not wonder that you often are sorely tempted by the devil to quote profane literature for the benefit of the S.AT. but I hope you may indirectly if not directly derive some benefist in return. You ask what you can expect to which I return the query in just what way?