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from you if such a thing is at all likely to be advantageous to 

 all parties. — We leave this on Saturday for Leeds and I will 

 be glad to hear from you then — I have a confounded steel 

 pen that scratches abominably. — Present Mrs Audubon's kind 

 regards to your good Lady & accept Yourself our united good 

 wishes, 



your friend 



John J. Audubon. 

 Address to the care of 



Thos Fowler Esq. 

 Bookseller 

 Aug 22nd 1830 Manchester. 



[Superscribed] Wm Swainson Esq. 



Tittenhanger Green 

 Nr 

 St Albans, 

 Herts. 



In Swainson's clear and candid reply, 9 which fol- 

 lowed at once, all was figured "to a nicety"; he would 

 supply his share of the matter at the rate of three dollars 

 and seventy-eight cents per printed page, with an extra 

 charge for corrections; he would follow his own ideas, 

 but strive to avoid any conflict of opinion, and would 

 expect his name to stand on the title. 



William Swainson to Audubon 



[between August ££ and 28, 1830] 

 Thursday 



My dear Mr. Audubon. 



I received your letter yesterday, and hasten to reply to 

 it. By some mistake or other, of Havell's, he has not sent the 

 birds to which you allude, and I did not of course know that 

 you had left them with him, now to your two propositions. 



"First published by Ruthven Deane (Bibl. No. 217), The Auk, vol. 

 xxii, p. 31 (1905). 



