172 The Wilson Bulletin— No. Go. 



On the 21st, Wilson set out to visit the Eastern States "as 

 far as the District of Maine," by stage coach, on a canvassing 

 tour. His plan upon entering a town, was to write a note 

 enclosing prospectus to every one at all likely to subscribe, and 

 shortly afterward to call at each address. Visiting Princeton, 

 New Brunswick, Elizabeth and Newark ; he arrived at New 

 York, where he met with a brother Scotchman, also a Wilson 

 and a Professor in .Columbia College, who seemed to feel all 

 the pride of national partiality so common to his countrymen 

 and offered to do any favor in his power. On October 2nd, 

 he took a packet for New Haven, where he was received with 

 politeness and respect ; thence up the Connecticut valley, in 

 which he doubtless discovered his first Connecticut Warbler ; 

 through Middletown and Hartford, to Springfield ; and then 

 via Worcester to Boston, arriving about the 9th 



Compliments were received in abundance, but $120., the 

 price of the proposed set of volumes, was another matter. He 

 writes from the latter place under the date of October 10th : 

 "If I have been mistaken in publishing a work too good for 

 the country, it is a fault not likely to be repeated, and will 

 pretty severely correct itself." 



In a week he continued to Salem and Newburyport, and 

 through a portion of New Hampshire to Portland, Maine. 

 From this place he steered across the country for the northern 

 parts of Vermont, among barren, savage, pine-covered moun- 

 tains ; calling on the president of Dartmouth College at Han- 

 over, who subscribed as did all the college heads visited in 

 Niew England ; and writes from Windsor om October 26th 

 that he expected to be in Albany in five days. While he was 

 well received at all seats of learning and mingled on terms of 

 equality with some of the best men of the day, it appears from 

 his Albany letter of November 3rd, that he did not average a 

 subscription a day. A most discouraging failure to^ one less 

 determined than himself. Daniel D. Tompkins, then Gover- 

 nor oi New York and afterward twice Vice President of the 

 United States ; after turning over a few pages and looking at 

 a picture or two, upon learning the price, closed the book and 



