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me to say to you that, having a right at least to the interest 

 accrued, she begs you to have that money paid to her with the 

 least possible delay. 



The following letter concerning D'Orbigny's affairs 

 was also written by Gabriel du Puigaudeau to J. Cornet 

 of Esnaudes, on June 26, 1819: 



Gabriel du Puigaudeau to J. Cornet 



Your honored [letter] of the sixteenth was duly received. 

 It is impossible to be more grateful to you than I am for the 

 information that you have been kind enough to give me about 

 Mile. Bouffard 4 as well as about M. Delouche. I will use it to 

 my profit. As to the question that you put to me concerning 

 M. d'Orbigny, I have the honor to tell you that he has lived 

 in the commune of Vue in this department, and was highly 

 esteemed and regretted when he left to come here. He lived 

 here fifteen years without any one having cause to reproach 

 him in any way. He has always been very well regarded and 

 received by the best society here, and he carried from Vue the 

 regrets of all. He left us to take part in a manufactory of 

 soda, established at Noismoutiers, in the department of La 

 Vendee. 



I have had no news of him since. As to his pecuniary re- 

 sources, I know him to have but one. His wife had a house, 

 at Paimboeuf in this department, which was sold three years 

 ago to satisfy the holders of mortgages. This is all that I can 

 tell you about them; he owes my mother-in-law about fifteen 

 hundred francs (money received at different times from my 

 late father-in-law), for which we have his notes, but God only 

 knows when we shall be paid. 



As early as the autumn of 1805, if not before, plans 

 were laid for getting young Audubon again safely out 

 of France, for fear, no doubt, that the remorseless con- 



4 A daughter of Catharine Bouffard, regarding whom see Vol. I, p. 56. 



