Transcribe Ward, Henry A. Letter to Orton, James (1855-09-26)

As to a loan ? I refer you to my first letter. ? bring $500. independent of your ? money & when you get here, try to make last you a year. I think you will succeed. I mentioned in my last some books which i wished you to bring for me. Please also bring me one or two of Your Scientific Americans, & two more of your likenesses. If you should not come please send these & Pres. Hopkins Baccalaureates by mail enveloped but not covered (so as to pay letter postage). If you don't come please answer my letter of July more fully. Once more, if you come, bring me a good sized hunk of N. J. ? core (granular) & some Beryls from your collection, & also when you are in N. B. ^visit^ go (if you have time) to the collection of Wm Olande Bourne No. 13 Vandam St. & buy me one or two first rated (large) specimens of serpentine with veins of Amianthus of which he ^(at a price of from $2 to $5 each)^ has a quantity from N. Jersey. I wish these minerals to exchange for a very extensive work on the Siberian fossils of Bohemia. I fear I am troubling you too much, Orton, but I will try to do as much for you. Anticipate no difficulty at Harvee, neither in finding me at Paris. I could give you whole sheets of directions but they would not all probably be worth more than this. viz. to come directly from Harve to Paris ^2nd class^ and (at that latter city) seek me at the Hotel des Mines. No. 39 Rue J.' Enfer. If I should be out they will give you my key & you will find a large scientifc library at your disposal (!). But I must close my letter hoping that it will get to America to late to find you there. Yours sincerely. H. A. Ward P. S. Remember me with best regards to our old friend A. O. Clark. Direct letters to <u>H. A. Ward care of Green & Co. Bankers, Paris, France.