JOHN JAMES AUDUBON 109 

 and not a farthing more ! 7 Bepresenta- 

 tions were made to him of the magnifi- 

 cence and expense of the work, and how 

 pleased his Baroness and wealthy chil- 

 dren would be to have a copy ; but the 

 great financier was unrelenting. The 

 copy of the work was actually sent 

 back to Mr. HavelPs shop, and as I found 

 that instituting legal proceedings against 

 him would cost more than it would come 

 to, I kept the work, and afterwards sold 

 it to a man with less money but a nobler 

 heart. What a distance there is between 

 two such men as the Baron Eothschild 

 of London, and the merchant of Savan- 

 nah!" 



Audubon remained in London during 

 the summer of 1834, and in the fall re- 

 moved to Edinburgh, where he hired a 

 house and spent a year and a half at 

 work on his " Ornithological Biogra- 

 phy," the second and third volumes of 

 which were published during that time. 



In the summer of 1836, he returned 



