Transcribe Hornaday, W. T. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-06-10)

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your </u Manual. > although I cannot for the life of me see how I can do anything for it without sacrificing my treatise. I don't like to do anything by halves </u for a friend >, and if I do for your book what my conscience would dictate I </s would > ^will^ lay my work out a cold corpse for the next ten years. However, if the book will be </u your personal enterprise. >, and not an affair of "the office" I will help you with it right along, and </u all I can >. But if it is to benefit </u anyone > else than H. A. W. I will not touch it, not for for $500. If the thing is to make money for </u</u you > and </u yours> , I will help you with it willingly & vigorously, and what I do shall be a </u free gift. >

    </u Why don't you > write that zoology for the

Appletons ? With you to write it and J. C. Beard to illustrate it, </s it > could Appleton's to bring it out </u in their series > it would certainly bring you in a snug justice to </u yourself > you ought to do it. You have buried your mind long enough in </u commercial > natural history.

   Yes you might sell 1000 copies of your Manual

the first year, </u but not 500 a year after that ! > The denied for such a work will always be limited in this country.

    Many thanks for your opinion of my elephant.

Such an expression from </u you > is worth more than whole columns of ordinary newspaper puffing. I have been thinking very seriously about not competing again with my work, and while I have no further desire to compete I don't see how I can avoid it,