162 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



disposed to do everything for your interests, and that I shall 

 always seek to merit your approbation. Should you decide 

 to make [us] a consignment for a retail shop, have the kind- 

 ness to follow, point by point, the following bill: 



60 doz. morocco leather powder flasks — green or gray, 

 copper mounted, like those that you sell at the 

 shoj3 for 25 sols [soldos]. 

 60 doz. d. d. of leather, mahogany color, at the same 

 price. 

 100 boxes d. 

 100 music boxes, 16 in prices from 10 to 18 francs, good 



pieces and gay music. 

 100 boxes of seal-wafers, containing 1 gross each, assorted 

 in color [but] more of the red than any other. 

 10 gross of small boxes of seal-wafers. 

 3 boxes of pastels, good, well assorted, and chosen by 

 the sons of M. Belloc ; more would not return us 

 anything. 

 If you could procure us good books in English at Paris, 

 M. Bakewell assures me [that we would realize] a great profit 

 on them, and upon the other articles as given above, if well 

 chosen. We hope to sell Mill Grove, and we will credit you 

 with a great part of the profit in colonial merchandise. It is 

 with impatience that I await some news of the indigo of Mr. 

 B. Bakewell. Have the kindness, I pray you, to forward the 

 enclosed letter to my father as soon as possible, and will you 

 take from the ship Ocean, the carrier of this letter, a little 

 box [sent] to your address for him, and will you send this to 

 him also? Present my respects to your ladies ; accept mine and 

 those of the Bakewell family. Ferdinand is well. I salute you, 

 and I am your devoted friend, 



Audubon. 



Herewith the bill of lading of the box. 

 The captain did not wish to make any 

 charge, and has been perfectly polite. 



ia "Serinettes," the old time music boxes, or bird-organs, of Swiss origin, 



