Transcribe Baker, A. B. Letter to Ward, Henry A. (1883-04-08)

[another hand- </u Baker > Apr.'83] Syracuse, April 8, 1883

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[upside down at top of page- If you have no objections to my so doing, I would get "Ward's Nat. Science Estab." printed across some of my cards - as on the one enclosed.] Dear Prof. Ward,

  I received yesterday a line from 

Mr Gilbert saying that Maj, Powell's illness had so delayed matters in the Survey that he (G.) had been unable to make any plans, and did not know how soon he could. This was in reply to a note of inquiry from me. It now seems best for me to await his decision in the West, and I shall go on soon - I hope within two weeks. Work on the Survey will not begin before June or July.

  A large part of the material which I </u might > collect

you, of course, would not want. I have been thinking whether Cornell would not take some such material and credit to me against a course of study, which I hope sometime to take there. They might be willing to take in this way material which they would