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through which it was hoped that a competent successor 

 might be secured for the duties of the position which 

 Mrs. Audubon had so ably rilled: 



Audubon to Robert HaveU 



Beech Grove, Louisiana 

 Deer 16th 1829 



My Dear Mr Havele. — 



I received yesterday from New York your letter of the 

 29th. Sept. which must have reached Philadelphia 3 days after 

 my departure for home= 



I am sorry that Bartley should have made you suffer a 

 moment by sending you the intelligence of the failure of the 

 several subscribers you mention in your favor — it cannot be 

 helped — there is none of your fault and / must repair these 

 matters when I reach England again = 



I am considerably more sorry and much vexed that Sowler 

 should have failed in his written promise to accept your Dfts. — 

 even in a case of the diminution of subscribers he could cer- 

 tainly have sent you a progressional amount — I am now almost 

 sure that Pitois has failed or acted the Rogue= 



We are making all preparations in our power to leave 

 Louisiana on the 5 or 10th. of Jan.y and we will proceed as 

 fast as Steam Boats, Coaches and the weather will admit of 

 and we will sail for England from New York with all possible 

 dispatch. I have made a shipment of Forest trees to England 

 that I hope will turn to good account as they are to be presents 

 to Public Institutions &c and that I think it necessary to 

 be remembered myself. — 



We are both well — our sons are at Louisville, Kentucky 

 where we will see them about the 20th. of next month. — I sent 

 you in my letter a proposal for your sister and should you 

 not have received it I send it you again here in Mrs A.'s. hand 

 writing. — I would advise your sister to come if the money is 

 an object. — I think that besides she will be comfortable with 

 the familly Johnson — if she thinks fit to wait untill we see 

 her, we can tell her all about it.= 



