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no opportunity of doing any thing toward procuring 

 Work — Strong thoughts of returning to Natchez Saw 

 Cap" Penniston who rec^ me very Pohtely 



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Spent the Day Walking about trying to find some 

 work Shewed My Drawings to M-^ Gordon & the British 

 Consul M-^ Davisson — spoke good of the Pubhcation — 

 the former raised My Expectations of their value — 



Remarked in Market, Blue Cranes, great Many 

 Coots Caldwall Ducks, some Geese, Keeldeers — i 

 White Crane — or Herons and one Sand Hill Crane — 



Was sometime with M^ Prentice who gave me a 

 letter to Doctor Hunter, whom I wished to see, to 

 procure the Information I so much Need about the 

 Red River, What hfe &^^oseph Employed in Mak- 

 ing Enquiries about the Lost Port Folio from every 

 Boat Landing from Natchez— No Work yet— rain. 

 Warm, the Frogs all piping — 



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Early this Morning I Met an Italian, painter at the 

 Theatre. I took him to N. B'^ Room and Shewed me 

 the Drawing of the White Headed Eagle, he was much 

 pleased, took me to his painting appartement at the 

 Theatre, then to the Directors who very roughly 

 offered me ioo$ per Month to paint with Mons 

 LTtalian. 



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