A MEETING OF RIVALS 



shopkeepers board in taverns also boatmen, land-specu- 

 laters, merchants &c.] Xo naturalist to keep me company. 



March 21. Went out shooting this afternoon with Mr. A. Saw 

 a number of Sandhill Cranes. Pigeons numerous. 



March 28. 



March 23. Packed up my things which I left in the care of a 

 merchant here, to be sent on to Lexington ; and having 

 parted with great regret, with my paroquet, to the gen- 

 tleman of the tavern, I bade adieu to Louisville, to which 

 place I had four letters of recommendation, and was taught 

 to expect much of even-thing there, but neither received 

 one act of civility from those to whom I was recommended, 

 one subscriber, nor one new bird; though I delivered my 

 letters, ransacked the woods repeatedly, and visited all the 

 characters likely to subscribe. Science or literature has 

 not one friend in this place. [Everyone is so intent on 

 making money, that they can talk of nothing else ; and they 

 absolutely devour their meals, that they may return sooner 

 to their business. Their manners correspond with their 

 features.] 



In this fuller record we learn that Wilson spent five 

 days in Louisville ; he examined Audubon's drawings on 

 Monday, March 19, hunted alone on the 20th, went out 

 shooting with Audubon on the 21st, and finally left 

 Louisville on the morning of the 23d; no record was 

 admitted by Ord for Sunday, the 18th, or for the 22d, 

 a Thursday. Wilson noticed the drawings of two new 

 Motacillae, or Warblers, in Audubon's collection, and 

 it would have been only natural that he should have felt 

 a strong desire to copy them, yet not a word was said 

 about the loan of drawings to which Audubon refers; 

 Wilson merely stated that from those to whom he was 

 recommended he had received not "one act of civility, 

 one subscriber, nor one new bird." Audubon was evi- 



