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Havell, Junior, it is new born and brought to successful 



completion eleven years later. 

 Summer. — Affairs at a crisis ; resorts to painting and canvasses 



the larger cities. 

 December. — Five parts, or twenty-five plates, of The Birds of 



America completed. 



1828 



March. — Visits Cambridge and Oxford Universities ; though 

 well received, is disappointed at the number of subscribers 

 secured, especially at Oxford. 



September 1. — To Paris with William Swainson ; remains eight 

 weeks, and obtains 13 subscribers ; his work is eulogized by 

 Cuvier before the Academy of Natural Sciences, and he re- 

 ceives the personal subscription, as well as private commis- 

 sions, from the Duke of Orleans, afterwards known as 

 Louis Philippe. 



1829 



April 1. — Sails from Portsmouth on his first return to America 

 from England, for New York, where he lands on May 1. 



Summer. — Drawing birds at Great Egg Harbor, New Jersey. 



September. — To Mauch Chunk, and paints for six weeks at a 

 lumberman's cottage in the Great Pine Woods. 



October. — Down the Ohio to Louisville, where he meets his two 

 sons, one of whom he had not seen for five years ; thence 

 to St. Francisville, Bayou Sara, where he joins his wife, 

 from whom he had been absent nearly three years. 



1830 



January 1. — Starts with his wife for Europe, first visiting New 

 Orleans, Louisville, Cincinnati, Baltimore, and Washing- 

 ton, where he meets the President, Andrew Jackson, and is 

 befriended by Edward Everett, who becomes one of his first 

 American subscribers. 



April 1. — Sails with Mrs. Audubon from New York for Liver- 

 pool. Settles in London ; takes his seat in the Royal Soci- 



