Vol. XXII 

 1905 



Deane, Letters from Swainson to Audubon. 2^1 



good portion of 150 Subscribers to a 200 guinea Book. Think 

 yourself my friend exceedingly well off. 



The amount of sale must be kept silent, it would be a nice nut 

 to crack for V[igors]\ & his friends. 



I shall be able to do without the water birds, if you have not 

 found any. 



I have had a most extraordinary letter from Waterton, 2 which 

 will highly amuse you. The man is mad. — stark, staring, mad. 



Yours very faith'ly 



W. Swainson. 



Can you tell me any safe expeditions made of sending and 

 receiving letters and Parcels from Philadelphia. 



J. J. Audubon Esq. 



79 Newman St. 

 Oxford St. 



No. 4. 



Saturday, 1 May, 1830. 

 Welcome once more, my good friend to merry England : s 

 I had indeed heard from Havell, 4 with the greatest pleasure, 

 that you had safely landed at Liverpool; and I regret very much 

 that you did not reach London before I left it ; for I am now 

 much seldomer in town than formerly, and I know not when I 

 may have the power to do so again. My old and most valued 

 friend Mr. Burchell 5 has also, to my great delight, just returned 



1 Nicholas Aylward Vigors. Born 1787, died 1S40. Naturalist. First 

 Secretary of the Zoological Society of London. 



2 Charles Waterton. Born 1782, died 1S65. For one of his most vindic- 

 tive letters to Swainson, see his ' Essays on Natural History,' iS7i,p. 511. 

 This effusion is bitter from start to finish and contains some four thousand 

 words. 



3 Audubon sailed for America April 1, 1S29 where he remained one year, 

 returning in April, 1830. 



4 Robert Havell. Engrarer of Audubon's plates. Born November 25, 

 1793, died November 11, 1878. 



5 William John Burchell. Explorer and Naturalist, who collected exten- 

 sively in Brazil, Africa, and other countries. Born 1782, died March 3, 

 1863. 



