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I have no wish to sell my Gun but wish to give it him as his 

 ow[n] in Fee Simple, as soon as he deserves it -from thy own 

 Hands. May God bless him! if all continues well with me 

 Victor and him may rise to eminence and therefore try Johny's 

 Spunk, do beg or make him draw all kinds of Limbs of Trees 

 or Flowers for me and whenever he kills a bird of any kind tell 

 him to measure the Guts particularly and make a regular list 

 of the names of the Birds, length and thickness of those Guts 

 and their contents 19 



I wrote a long letter to each Victor and N. Berthoud on 

 the 27 February, but not a word from either of them as yet 

 reached me. I was quite shocked to see thy last letter of the 

 8 th of January without the print of thy new Seals, I am quite 

 frightened at thy watch not having reach d thee, yet I hope every 

 new Letter will bring me better tidings. I now collecting Let- 

 ters from all my Friends here and will have God knows enough 

 of them. I only hope I may soon be in a regular way of making 

 a comfortable living for ourselves all: 



All the papers and books I send thee mention my name. My 

 work is look d upon as unrivalled in any Country, I will soon 

 know how it will pay. I can only add that I will write to thee 

 from all the places I visit=Let Victor have a copy of this= 

 Collect all kinds of Curiosities whatever try to send or bring 

 with thee but send first if Possible Live Birds of hardy kinds 

 such as Blue Jays by THEMSELVES. Red Birds D. red wing d 

 Starling D, Partridges & c &9 present my humble respects to 

 M & M^ Johnsons an remembrances to good Friend bourgeat 

 try to send me an account of the growing of Cotton from 

 A to Z, written by an able Planter I wish thee to make regu- 

 lar memorandums thyself respecting all about Habits & Lo- 

 calities & c &=thou wilst scarce believe that this day there 

 [are] in many places 16 feet of snow, the weather has been 

 tremendous yet with all this no Invitation is ever laid aside 



"John Woodhouse Audubon at this time was in his fifteenth year, and 

 this injunction regarding the internal anatomy of birds, to which ornitholo- 

 gists had hitherto paid but little attention, was given three years before 

 his father made the acquaintance of MacGillivray. (See Chapter XXX.) 



