Transcribe Ward, Henry L. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-06-02)

ybg </u Henry > June '83 San Francisco. June 2 /83

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Dear Father:

    Last night I telegraphed

you in regard to Sea Lions. I have been all over this blessed town interviewing people who know or were suppose to know anything about sea lions. It is very late in the season so they all tell me. The first week in May would have been the right time if I could have been here. Now there is left but one vessel that ^is^ going after them ( I wrote you and grandfather that it was </u impossible > to obtain permiss- ion to shoot on the Farallons); and they propose to charge me $50. apiece for sea lions - if I agree to take about six. This will, of course, give me