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With sincere and affectionate wishes for your happiness and 

 that of the family 

 I remain as ever 



Dear Sir 



Your much obliged friend 



Alex. Wilson. 

 Mr. Bartram 



P. S. The yellow bird has been coloured with a too dull yellow 

 and the breast of the hanging bird may be more of a vermilion. 



II. Wilson to Messrs. Bradford & Inskeep. 



New York, Oct. 2d, 1807. 

 Dear Sir 



I have visited the whole Booksellers of New York distributed 

 your letters and exhibited the specimens of the Ornithology, called 

 on a number of gentlemen to whom I had been recommended and 

 having done everything here for both works that I have been able 

 I shall leave New York tomorrow and pass slowly through N. 

 Jersey so as to be home some time early next week 



Messrs. Brisbane and Brannan declined engaging for any num- 

 ber of copies of the Ornithology but reserved their offers until 

 the first number should be published. The specimens attracted 

 general admiration and few or no subscribers. When I called 

 on Dr. Miller there were two other gentlemen of the faculty with 

 him who desired me to put down one subscription for the College 

 and two or three other gentlemen have subscribed. I have called 

 on Dr. Mitchell three different times but have not yet seen him, 

 Dr. Miller however with whom I breakfasted yesterday has pro- 

 mised to make respectful mention of the Ornithology in the Medi- 

 cal Journal. As soon as the steam boat returned from Albany 

 I called on Mr. Fulton and mentioned some particulars in the 

 article Canal which I was anxious he should see before its publica- 

 tion, gave him your address and presented him with a specimen 

 of the Ornithology letter press &c. with which he was much pleased 

 and will call on you sometime next week to examine what they 

 have said of himself under "Canal'' etc and if not too late to add 

 what observations may seem necessary. This steam boat which 



