AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Osage Mission — Coll Breasly Indian agent & Governor 

 Miller — 



I Will give You here the Copy of the Letters I Re- 

 ceived from the Honorable Henry Clay to the one I 

 Wrote from Cincinnati the Copy of Which is annexed 

 at the Beginning of the Part of My Journal 



Sir— 



I received your letter of the 12th inst and now do 

 myself the pleasure to transmit to you inclosed such 

 a letter as I presume you want — I suppose a general 

 letter would answer all the purposes of special intro- 

 duction, which I should have been at a loss to give as 

 I do not know the particular points which you may 

 Visit— and even if I did, I might not have there any 

 personal acquaintances — 



Will it not be well for you before you commit your- 

 self to any great Expense in the preperation and 

 pubhcation of your Contemplated Work to ascertain 

 the success which attended a similar undertaking of 

 Mr Wilson? 



With Great Respect 

 I am Yours 

 H. Clay 



Lexington — 25 Augt 1820 

 I have had the satisfaction of a personal acquaint- 

 ance with Mr. John J. Audubon; and I have learnd 

 from others who have Known him longer and better, 



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