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Armstrong's, where I formerly boarded"; he asked 

 Harris to send him "a pair of fine woodchucks," as he 

 wished to secure a drawing of those animals. 



It is interesting to notice that while Audubon had 

 been absent in Florida, his friend Bachman had busied 

 himself in his behalf and eventually succeeded in placing 

 three copies of The Birds of America in public institu- 

 tions in Charleston. On December 23, 1831, he wrote 

 to Audubon, who was then at St. Augustine: 



I arrived in Columbia, S. C, almost too late, for the 

 "House" had just resolved that the State was too poor to 

 subscribe for Audubon's work. I felt that it would be a dis- 

 grace to the State ; and, for the first time in my life, I turned 

 to electioneering. And now, behold me among the back coun- 

 trymen, spinning long yarns. The thing however, took, and 

 your book is subscribed for. ... I read what was said in 

 your favor with regard to the "Rattlesnake Story," and thus 

 far, they have not found a wrong twist in your yarn ; but be 

 careful in describing the wonders of the South and West. 



Audubon wrote to Bachman from Philadelphia, July 

 1, 1832 : "G. Ord has caused a most violent attack on 

 my veracity to be inserted in a London journal; how 

 will he stand mine eye, on Tuesday next at the Society, 

 is more than I can at present tell. . . . Mr. Berthoud 

 will ship you 3 volumes of the Birds of America, and 

 the succeeding numbers ; he will send a bill of sale of 

 those." 



His plan was now to visit Boston and Maine, and 

 he left Philadelphia with his family in early August; 

 they traveled by stage to New York, but upon finding 

 that the city was then suffering from a periodic scourge 

 of the cholera, tarried but a day and hastened on. The 

 following letter which Richard Harlan sent after his 



