158 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



shop, you can keep us constantly employed; our ideas upon 

 tills subject are in perfect accord, and it would be indeed a 

 pleasure if we could start under the auspices and good advice 

 of Mr. Bakewell here; objects well chosen, favorably bought, 

 and shipped with care, are always sure of meeting a good sale. 

 I venture to hope that the ship La Jeanne, Capt. Sammis, will 

 have arrived in your port, and that the Indigoes shipped by 

 Mr. Bakewell will reach there in time for che sale of this 

 merchandise, of which I have some fears, in view of the sum 

 they have cost him. 



We thank you for the prices current that you have sent 

 us. In one of my last, directed by way of Bordeaux, I begged 

 you to call on Mr. Fleury Emery for a box of seeds, from 

 Martinique and from this country, for you and for my father. 

 This was aboard the ship, the Virginia, Capt. Roberts, from 

 this section. We hope shortly to send you some merchandise, 

 and possibly Mr. Bakewell will profit by an opportunity that 

 we shall have in a few days for your port. A little more than 

 three weeks ago I was at Mill Grove, and I rented it for a 

 year, being unable to do better for the present. Your son, now 

 in Philadelphia, is trying to settle the accounts of my father 

 with Mr. Dacotta [Dacosta], who does not easily forget the 

 role of chicaner. Present, I pray you, my respects and com- 

 pliments to your good family and wife, and believe in me as 

 your devoted and constant 



servant, 

 J. J. Audubon. 

 Have the kindness to deliver the enclosed to my good father. 



The following quaint and charming letter, which 

 young Audubon enclosed with the preceding and un- 

 der separate seal, but which his "good father" may not 

 have received, will be transcribed in full, without the 

 change of a letter or mark. Lieutenant Audubon, who 

 was then in his sixty-third year, was living, as we have 

 seen, at Coueron, the small river town nine miles west of 



