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in your letter to Mess Rob 1 . Kinder & C°. under date the 21 st . 



$ 

 of Nov r . last. I cannot tell what error you allude to of 93 . 

 I suppose it is the amount of commission returned $93. 94) / 100 

 which you will perceive is duly at your C r . in the a/c. I am 

 sorry to say that the tobacco is still unsold & that there is no 

 prospect of selling it so as to cover the balance of your a/c 

 Mess rs R. Kinder & C°. request me to say that they wish the 

 yarn mentioned in their letter of the [word omitted] to be made 

 of water rotted Hemp & that they will write you p r next post 

 with their account against you as requested by you — 



I remain Gent n 

 with Your m°. ob*. Serv*. 



Tho s . Bakewell 

 for the assignees of my 



Father's estate — 



Give my love to M rs . A. my aunt a rec d . hers last night — 

 S. & is much as usual — she remains very sick yet. 



T B 

 [Superscribed] Mess rs . Audubon & Rozler 



Merchants 

 Louisville 

 Kentucky 



Audubon fraternized with the sporting men of his 

 district, who gladly sent him every rare bird that fell to 

 their guns. At Shippingport also, then an independent 

 center below the falls or rapids, he found a sympathetic 

 spirit in Doctor W. C. Gait, a local botanist, as well as 

 in Nicholas Berthoud, who had become his wife's 

 brother-in-law, and who was a friend on whom he could 

 always rely. The spirit of hospitality so manifest in 

 all these new friends won the heart of Audubon and of 

 his attractive wife, to whom the door of a neighbor's 

 house was sure to open whenever business or adventure 



