370 AUDUBON, THE NATURALIST 



Audubon to his Wife 



Edinburgh March Wh 1027. 



My Dearest Friend 



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I am now proud that I can announce thee the result of the 

 last meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. I was 

 unanimously elected a Foreign Member of that Institution on 

 the 5* 1 ? Instant and am at last an F. R. S. . — Wilt thou not 

 think it wonderful; to me it is like a dream, and quite as much 

 so when I see the particular attentions paid me by all ranks of 

 the best Society. On the 6^ I received the official Letter from 

 the Secretary with the seal of the Society and the arms of 

 Scotland — this along with my other diplomas and Letters, I 

 assure thee enable me to be respected and well received in any 

 portion of the Civilized World. Sir Walter Scott has also 

 been so kind as to give me a Letter that I may exhibit wherever 

 I may go=I have Two Letters from him very kind=all this I 

 think will afford thee great Pleasure. 



I am now preparing to leave Edinburgh and will do so in 

 a few days, I am now anxious to visit London as soon as I 

 possibly can, and yet want to spend a few days at New Castle, 

 York, Liverpool, Dublin, then back again to England, go by 

 Cambridge and Oxford. — If I meet the success that I expect 

 in that Tour it is very probable that soon after my reaching 

 London, I will write for thee to Come, and when I do so, my 

 Lucy may come without the least Hesitation for I will then be 

 ready to receive her ! 



Since my last of the 22 d of February, I have received thine 

 of the 81* of December, 3 d of January and 8^ of D? this last 

 mostly John's, I am particularly glad that thou hast left the 

 Beech Woods, yet thou might as well have given me at once 

 thy good reasons for doing so. I hope that at this Instant 

 that I am writing, thou art snug and comfortably settled afresh. 



The Trees and Segments have not yet arrived, but I hope 

 to hear soon that they have — I have not a word about the 

 Seeds reaching yet. do my Love always say by what vessel any 

 thing comes, as John as concluded to take Lessons of Music 



