26 Audubon's Western Journal 



attended to most of the business details, partly in 

 England and partly in America, while my father 

 and grandfather searched the woods, and in 1836 

 went as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. It was 

 at the beginning of this trip that, passing through 

 Charleston, a visit was paid to the home of Dr. 

 John Bachman, and the attachment began between 

 my father and Maria Bachman, which resulted in 

 their marriage in 1837. 



Shortly after John and his young wife went to 

 pEngland, where his father had again gone to super- 

 intend the continued publication of the plates in 

 London, and here their first child, Lucy, was born. 

 Six months later, John with his wife and child 

 returned to America. The next two years were 

 spent partly in New York, partly in the south, in 

 the vain hope of finding health and strength for the 

 delicate young mother, but all was unavailing, and 

 she died leaving two little daughters, one an infant. 

 Later John Audubon married an English lady, 

 Caroline Hall, and to them seven children were 

 born, five of whom lived to maturity. 



At this time the country place on the Hudson 

 river near New York City, which had been bought 

 in 1840, was built upon. Today it is well nigh 

 lost in the rapidly advancing streets and avenues, 

 but at this time it was almost primitive forest, and 

 here for some years lived the naturalist and his 

 wife, with the two sons and their respective fam- 



