New Haven, Nov. 26, 1880.
My Dear Dr. Ward,
Please let me know whether you desire to have your proposed communication on “The Later Discoveries of Hittite Inscriptions” treated as presented, and to furnish an abstract of it, or whether you will prefer to put it over to the next meeting-- or what still otherwise, if you think of a third alternative, more agreeable to you.
I think of preparing for you a ___ paper presently, on Ellis’s new proposed system.
I don’t know whether to infer that you regarded my request about binding the paper presumptuous, or whether you overlooked it.
Yours truly,
W.D. Whitney
Sanskrit scholar
