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account of that of The Bartram Sandpiper and of The Spotted 

 Sandpiper — ; probably they have escaped you — let me know 

 so that I may renew these should they be missing — , but I 

 think my Friend Children has them — enquire — 



The Charlotte is not yet in. She had not left Deal on the 

 27th of Nov r — 



Your Dear Mother & John wrote to you this morning and 

 you will probably receive this, and that letter at the same 

 moment — . 



We will keep all the half Bound Copies of Volume 1st. in 

 America where I hope soon to dispose of them — go on and 

 push the Work with care and all will be well — give our best 

 regards to Havell & his wife & family — I had expected the 

 Death of his Father 6 sometimes — remembrances to our good 

 friend Children, Cuthbutton &c, &c. I will be able to arrange 

 100 Drawings of Water Birds, ready, and in that finest of 

 style for Publication — Tell Havell I will write to him in a very 

 few Days, and to keep up a good Heart — I hope we will all 

 meet early in the Spring of 1834 — 



God bless you my Dear Victor: employ your time well and 

 [you] cannot fail being as Happy, at least as it is possible to 

 be, far away from your Dear Mother, John & Your ever 

 affectionate Father & Friend, 



John J. Audubon 

 Send the Gun & Drawing Paper of N — Largest & Middle Size 

 as quick as possible — 

 [Addressed] Victor G. Audubon Esqr., 



Care of 

 Robt. Havell, Esqr., 

 Engraver, 

 77 Oxford Street, 

 London. 



While at Boston in the winter of 1833, Audubon 

 obtained from the proprietor of the New England Mu- 



6 For notice of Robert Havell, Senior, who died in 1832, see Vol. I, p. 382. 



