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pedition to the coast of Labrador. Meantime Bachman, 

 who was keenly interested in his success, was urging him 

 to return to Charleston; on October 20, 1832, he wrote: 

 "A month in your society would afford me greater pleas- 

 ure than the highest prize in a lottery. I cannot, I find, 

 feel myself at home with new birds without having the 

 skins to refer to. My cabinet is enlarging every day. 

 Henry Ward now prepares the skins a pair of each. 

 . . . What ducks, that are not likely to be obtained for 

 you in Boston, would you like Maria to draw for you?" 

 Writing again on the 26th of October, he said: 5 



I wish to know what you are doing what progress your 

 work is making; and, whilst I feel deeply interested for your 

 fame. ... I feel also a particular interest in your personal 

 welfare, and that of all that belongs to you; . . . Besides, I 

 want to see you once more to ascertain whether you have stuck 

 to your good resolutions, viz., never to swear (which is a vul- 

 gar practice for one who is conversant with the most beauti- 

 ful of God's works, the feathered race), and never to work on 

 Sundays. However, you are now under the tutorage of your 

 good wife, and, I doubt not, you are as obedient to her in 

 these things, as you ought to be. ... You say new birds are 

 scarce. So they are, and yet, in my opinion, we will occasion- 

 ally find them for half a century to come. (November 11) 

 Maria has figured for you the "White Hibiscus," and, also, a 

 red one, both natives and beautiful; a Euonymus in seed, in 

 which our Sylvia is placed; the white Nondescript Rose; the 

 Gordonica, a Begonia. . . . She is prepared to send them to 

 you; shall she ship them at once to Boston? . . . Your resolu- 

 tion to publish the 3 rd. Vol. of Water Birds, you will recol- 

 lect was partly entered into here, and from that moment, my 

 mind was at ease. It will give you four or five years in ad- 

 vance, and will enable you, in a 5th. Vol., to add all recent 



C. L. Bachman, John Bachman, D.D., LL.D., Ph.D. (Bibl. No. 191). 



