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who was twenty years younger, survived her sister but a short 
time and the family is now without a living representative. 
Miss Lawson writes of her father’s distinguished visitors with 
an artist’s love of detail and all the frankness of an impressionable 
child. How well she recalls a little act of kindness by good old 
William Bartram, and her description of the personal appearance 
of Alexander Wilson ought to set to rest the talk of his absolute 
poverty and especially that of his “fingers stiffened by toil and 
manual labor.” It has been said that Wilson owed little to his 
engraver, but it is shown here that he sometimes made only an 
outline drawing leaving Lawson to fill in the details directly from 
the specimen; and this must be true since drawings of this nature 
are still in existence. 
Miss Lawson’s analysis of the character of George Ord can 
scarcely be excelled. Ord, admirable in many ways, was insanely 
intolerant of any opposition and was the instigator of the persecu- 
tion of John J. Audubon by Waterton and others. The only 
pleasing feature of this attack 1s the refusal of “Good Charles” 
Bonaparte to allow his judgment to be swayed by the prejudice 
of his friends. But we shall let Miss Lawson tell of these things 
in herown way. Of Bartram she writes, “When a child I saw Mr. 
Bartram. He was a very charming old gentleman and he gave me 
a very double yellow rose, a great rarity at that time, and every 
summer we made more than one excursion to the garden.” 
“The article on the death of [Governor Meriwether| Lewis,”’ 
she writes, “recalled to my mind hearing my father speak of him as 
being one of the most proud and sensitive of human beings. The 
neglect of the Government to ratify the arrangements he had made 
in good faith, seemed to madden him. He was rather small and 
dark, in strong contrast to Clark his companion. My father 
engraved the new Antelope they discovered, and the Horned Sheep 
of the Rocky Mountains. They certainly were the first animals 
(mammals) fit to be looked at that were ever PEN in this 
country.” The Wilson matter follows: 
“T do not feel certain whether the profile likeness (of Wilson) 
drawn by Barralet, was taken before or after death. My father 
said it did not do him justice although it gave some idea of him. 
Barralet had been a teacher of drawing in England and Ireland, 
