84 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 

 land. He wanted to renew and to im- 

 prove about fifty of his drawings. Dur- 

 ing this summer of 1828, he was very busy 

 in London, painting, writing, and super- 

 intending the colouring of his plates. 

 Under date of August 9, he writes in 

 his journal : "I have been at work from 

 four every morning until dark ; I have 

 kept up my large correspondence. My 

 publication goes on well and regularly, 

 and this very day seventy sets have been 

 distributed, yet the number of my sub- 

 scribers has not increased ; on the con- 

 trary, I have lost some." He made the 

 acquaintance of Swainson, and the two 

 men found much companionship in each 

 other, and had many long talks about 

 birds : " Why, Lucy, thou wouldst think 

 that birds were all that we cared for 

 in this world, but thou knowest this is 

 not so." 



Together he and Mr. and Mrs. Swain- 

 son planned a trip to Paris, which they 

 carried out early in September. It 



