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

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Honestly and seriously - and you may smile as broadly aa you wish at this - I </s examine > ^ have, three days ago, ^ examined the Bulletin illus- tration of the "Taxidermists at work" to see if it was good enough for my book, and also thé general view of the Estab, to see whether it could be successfully reduced. Hang it all, I'm going to write such a book as no other taxidermist ever even </u dreamed > of. The subject is worth it, and ^was not^ the Establishment was the cradle of the </u Reinnersance > in this country.-(Provided it is spelt right) ? If I don't give the place the best advertisement it ever had - in spite of my firm resolve to benefit no one there but my friends - you my sue the printer for damages.

    Why can't </u you > become my publisher

and help me to scoop all these small manuals right in? But then, I </s be > remem- ber now you think there is no profit in a large book, but something in a small one. Well, perhaps you are right. Well, if the profits of the small work are to be </u yours > , let us go ahead with it </u at once >. Yours faithfully & truly, W. T. Hornaday.