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

bring it out as soon as yours has had its day. My object in writing it is to give to the world the best book ever written on taxidermy in any language, to have the honor of the authorship, and make all the money out of it I can. I have </s since > risen in my restricted profession as high as I can go until I write a book that will make me </u generally > known. I have but one little string to my bow, - it begins with a </u t > - and if I am to be heard I must play loudly on it !

    Another thing that makes me want

to hasten things. Both ^Prof^ Goode and Mr True have already spoken to me about writing up a manual on collecting to be published as a Bulletin of the U. S. N. M. Many, heaven forbid, un- less they will give me $1000. to do it. which they would not. "Correspondents" are bothering us continually for "instruc- tions" and "directions ". & I know what is bound to come. Well, when they crowd me to the wall I will have to tell them that "I am already engaged upon a </u "complete hand-book" > of the