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by your letter that I hear of my work (& d) being in London: 

 I have not yet seen a copy myself nor did I know positively that 

 it had been published. You must surely have received one 

 from myself at all events, for I directed Messrs Gay & Lea to 

 let you have one of the very first out. Let me know whether 

 you have it & your opinion about it. I think you are right in 

 going to Russia, especially as in giving them the American 

 Birds you will probably give us the Russians, some of which 

 are hardly known. Try to get for me Pyrrhula longicauda, P. 

 rosea & Scalopax thalina, the latter especially. I shall not 

 loose sight of the portrait, but it will be still more difficult to get 

 the signature. I will however endeavor from some of my rela- 

 tions. You were right in supposing me "dans les bras de la 

 paix & le bonheur d'un heureux pere de f amille" but greatly mis- 

 taken to think I was taking "le plaisir des sciences". Settling 

 and other cursed worldly affairs have so much taken up my 

 time, that I have not looked a specimen or a book since I am 

 in Rome . . . my small library itself & my Cabinet have not 

 even been arranged & I tremble to find all my birds destroyed 

 when the happy day will come to look into them. In the mean 

 time an addition has been made six weeks ago to my small fam- 

 ily. I have another son who has received the names of Lucien 

 Louis Joseph Napoleon & better than that who is the porthrait 

 of health itself. I am sure you will divide my happiness & 

 excuse my delay in answering you principally on that account. 

 I am in debt with half the scientific world & this has been the 

 first letter I scratched since I am in Rome! ... I hope to be 

 more regular & less in a hurry in future . . . though God 

 knows! ... I will not however close this letter without men- 

 tionaing the pleasure I had the other day in getting you a 

 new subscriber & that among the English themselves. ! The 

 Earl of Shrewsbury & his good Lady highly admired your work 

 the other day at my house & were so pleased with it that they 

 said they would write immediately to add their name to the list. 

 The Earl of Shrewsbury is as you know the first Earl of Great 

 Britain a catholic & what is more to you a man of great taste. 

 His not having heard of your work shows that you have not 



