Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-08-30)

ybg 404 Spruce St. Washington. Aug 30th 1883.

Oct 28

My dear Professor: -

    Yours of the 26th is just here.

Many thanks for the promised orang hair & Aptenyx cut. I don't know when Professor Baird is expected here. Mr True says Prof. Goode is expected to return about the middle of Sept. I daresay no one knows ^more^ definitely when he will be here,

    Now, I await </u your > instructions in

regard to the case of birds. If you think of anything we have which is available for exchange, which you would take in exchange, name it, and I will set to work </u at once > to get it. If you can think of nothing, and want the case back, then back it shall go. I am truly </u sorry > we are so poor in specimens fit for exchange. I hope it will not always be so.

    Well, the book. What I meant

was this: You know you have projected a small manual (of say 150 pages), and I an elaborate, </u unabridged > treatise (!) on the subject, </s of > the pages of which