AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Passage to Missingsat should I determine on going 

 there — 



Wrote to My Wife, N. Berthoud, Henry Clay, D^ 

 Drake, on the i6^^ forwarded all by S.B.* Paragon — 



Dined at Governor Robertson, Polite reception, 

 promessed Me a recommendatory letter to M^^ Monroe 



No news from M'^ Berthoud yet. — 



17*^ May 1 82 1 

 begun lessons with Young M"- Bollin ©1.50 per Lesson 



Miss Perry 2.00 



Miss Dimitry 2.00 



New Orleans May 20*^ 1821 



Sent a few hnes to My Wife by the S.B.*- Tamer- 

 lane — Last Week I Rec^ a letter from M"^ J. Hawkins 

 and one from M"^ Robertson the Governor for the 

 President of the U. States — favors from Men of High 

 Stations are favors indeed — 



The Governor a Man of Strong Information ex- 

 tremely Polite — 



Since So long without any news from my familly. 

 My Spirits have failed me, and it is With Dificulty 

 that I sit to Write at all — My Journal Suffers through 

 the same Cause that afifects me — attention — 



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