Vol. XXIII Deane, Letters from Swainson to Audubon. 2A.Q 



1905 J J ^y 



on such occasions, perhaps you would smile, but so it is that we 

 never ask any one, from whom we have the least idea of a refusal. 

 Now, did I not believe you to be a sincere friend, do you imagine 

 I should have told you I was in want of Money much less have 

 asked you to lend me some. The fact is, I have suffered a severe 

 loss during my being in Paris, what little I had on hand, has been 

 spent there and in making preparations for the publication of my 

 Zool. Illustrations. Two or three months however, hard work will 

 bring me round again & repay you. 



Let me see your letter to the President of Zool. Soc. 1 before it 

 goes, and you shall see mine. 



I shall be most thankful for the Grouse. I send 2 drawings to 

 Havell to be engraved spur him on for I want to have every thing 

 ready before the new year. 



Yours most sincerely 

 W. Swainson. 

 John J. Aububon Esq. 

 79 Newman St. 



No. 2. 



Friday. 

 [No date given, probably 1828]. 

 My dear Audubon, 



I am rejoiced to hear you are safe and well, & I answer 

 your letter immediately, for I have no prospect of going to London, 

 for some weeks, nor could I expect on a matter of urgent neces- 

 sity, for I am to have my first volume or " Preliminary Discourse " 

 ready the first week in June under a penalty of 500 £. 



As I cannot come to you, pray write me some few of the many 

 things you want to say to me. When once this volume is done 

 I shall have time to breath. You will find I have put your friend 

 V.[igors] hors de combat} 



1 Audubon was elected an original member of the Zoological Society of 

 London, February 24, 182S. 



8 While in Paris in 182S Swainson entered into a lively controversy with 

 Vigors, and as Dr. Theodore Gill writes "a great fire was kindled from a very 

 little flame." For a detailed account see ' Osprey,' Vol. V, No. 3, and subse- 

 quent numbers. 



