2CA Deaxe, Letters from Swainson to Audubon. I Tulv 



myself of your Gigantic book, some day or other ; at present one 

 of my volumes only cost as much as one of your numbers ! 



Let me, as a friend, request you not to decide irrevocably on 

 the subject of your book. I have thought upon it much since I 

 saw you, and I want to find time to write you more fully upon it 

 than I was able to speak, on the first consideration of the matter, 

 particularly as I was then nervous and unwell. 



I hope in 2 or 3 days to write you this, at present I am much 



hurried, and am expecting Sir W. Jardine ' and Mr. Selby 2 every 



day. 



Yours very Faith'ly 



J. J. Audubon Esq. W. Swainson 



43 (Toy shop, corner house) 13 May 1830. 



Great Russell St. 



Bloomsburg ? 



No. 6. 



My dear Mr. Audubon. 



Your letter perfectly surprised me. I thought you were wander- 

 ing about Lancashire ! Have you been and returned or are you 

 going. Why are you so sad ? I would lay ten shillings that old 

 Havell has been disappointing you as he has done me. He is in 

 matters of business a complete dandle — an old woman, and I 

 have done with him. His son I think better of he has a good 

 idea of punctuality in business. Still he also wants an occasional 

 spur. I have been drawing Richardson's Grouse, but have not 

 succeeded to my mind. 



I am terribly hurried in prepairing my first number. Pray 

 desire Havell to hand you a copy, & to supply you every month 

 with it. I am prepairing a few sets of the old Series, and one 

 will be sent to you, our exchange will then be fairly commenced. 



1 wrote very particularly to Pitois s three weeks ago, and am sur- 

 prised at having no answer. I shall come to town some of these 



'Sir William Jardine. Born February 23, 1806, died November 21, 1874. 



2 John Prideaux Selby. English ornithologist. Author of 'British Birds.' 

 Born July 23, 1788, died March 27, 1867. 



3 M. Pitois, Paris, France. Acted as Audubon's Agent on the recommen- 

 dation of Baron Cuvier. 



